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My wife loves Chet, and just picked this one up from Dusty Groove on-line. 👍

Four years old at this point, but stunning and revelatory: The most jaw-dropping discovery of recent years - magical music with Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp:

Yeah, I'm sure that the deal(s) that they have are ones that regular folk don't know of (unless there's something online about it), but it's, in general, one of the aspects of the "modern" world that we both complain about around here without trying to sound like, "well, back in the good ol' days..." But, we both really miss having our old setup with the big Mitsubishi on wheels that, before 2020, we could just turn on and simply f'ing watch a show - either live or off of a hard drive. For me, easily 80% of the time I'll have some kind of trouble after I've pressed the "on" button - and since I'll turn it on, at most, 2 or 3 times a week, I just can't imagine what it would be like to watch the thing at the rate that most other people do. For my wife, she's often in the middle of some series and one day she'll go to turn it on and it's gone! Oh well, won't know what happened to those folks in that show. Now, she's watching something on Disney that just drops out in the middle of the show. Today, she spent 10 minutes in the middle of some drama unplugging and replugging crap and jumping thru hoops on the remote just to get back to the storyline she was watching. And we saw online that other people are having the same problem with this Disney channel. ...and the only reason we got Disney temporarily is because in order to be able to watch the TV version of Dune a few months ago, we had to buy something else (can't remember the channel), and Disney was part of the total cheap one-time package deal of less than $10 a year, but, you know, you had to buy both or pay full exorbitant price for the thing that you really wanted. Earlier, we talked about Call the Midwife disappearing and all I had to do was go to Netflix, pay them, watch it and then cancel? Well, that's what I did this evening - except before I gave them my money, I did the hunt for the show on their website - finally found it - and the little drop down menu said that they are only showing seasons 1 - 10, so I would've been out of luck if I had just went and signed up for it 'cause I just wanted to see what happened in the final three shows of Season 14. More research said: *nope. you gotta wait until September...* It all just makes my damn head hurt.

Lloyd, Symphonies Nos. 1-6 / Charade "Scenes from the '60s" / Overture "John Socman" George Lloyd, BBC Philharmonic, Albany Symphony Orchestra (Lyrita)

Buenos Aires is the one I've heard

Purchased directly from the merchandise at the concert: 👍Have this sleeve: 👍 One of the great lost finds!

We've been members for a while, just because. Passport comes with membership so hey, no complaints here. But... wouldn't BBC be the ultimate determiner of their international distribution deals? I'm sure that Nextglix is money whipping them, but still, they can always say no, right? Or at least, wait.

Yeah, we had to sign up for their "Passport" service, because the local PBS is notoriously bad when it comes to programming mistakes. It's the first time we've seen a show have such a limited availability after it's shown (unavailable beginning mid-June - just weeks afterward). Usually, they have an expiration of many years when you can watch them. We're thinking that it has to do with a contract they might now have with, in this case, Netflix who will pay PBS bucks for temporary and exclusive access. PBS is probably riding that train because of upcoming idiotic slashing of their funds. I'm considering using a VPN and watching the rest of it on BBC 1.

Teddy takes two (and finishes up with a Tadd Dameron turnaround).

Are you a PBS member? https://www.pbs.org/call-the-midwife/when-to-watch-call-the-midwife

Well so it is!

Continuing enshitification...

Natty Bowlers - Short Fine Legs!!!

Gerald Clayton “Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard” Bllue Note cd Great band on this one. Gerald on piano with: Logan Richardson on alto saxophone, Walter Smith III on tenor saxophone, Joe Sanders on bass, and Marcus Gilmore on drums

Pianist and bassist on #6 both distinctive. Track A6 from here. I own a CD of this. Made a point of seeking it out after enjoying albums by a group including both.

@Mark Stryker You are correct. I do enjoy listening to this band play this music. They maximize the art and minimize the cleverness (surely as much as possible). Especially dig the cello playing. And the intro to the "Dissonance" quartet is damn near otherworldly!

Benches? Junkies? Shades of the Sonny Rollins bio!!!