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Here's a YT upload, if you'd like to give it a listen:

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Was not familiar with 'The Horizon Beyond', but it looks great!

👍- as CD on my shelf ...

Also, someone should reissue it! NP: Kenny Burrell - Live at the Village Vanguard (Muse, 1980) with Sherman Ferguson and Larry Gales

Attila Zoller - Memories of Pannonia (Enja, 1986) with Michael Formanek and Daniel Humair Terrific.

I just ordered Dream Bells from philadelphiamusic on Discogs -- along with Zoller's The Horizon Beyond. 🙂

I was listening to Zoller's 'Dream Bells' album yesterday. The first side of that one is awesome.

On Sat. I saw a late Naruse film called Daughters, Wives and a Mother, which I thought was very interesting. Today I managed to get out (between shifts of shovelling snow) and saw One Battle After Another. I didn't care for this at all, for multiple reasons, which I'd rather not get into now. Assuming the city is moving and not shut down, I'm planning on seeing Belle du Jour on Tues. TIFF is hosting a Bunuel retrospective, in Jan/Feb, though this screening isn't part of it. I'll see about getting to a few of them, but TIFF actually makes it quite hard for non-members to get tickets to the classics. And planning seeing Galaxy Quest on Wed, which will be fun!

As an aside, I always thought "youse" or "yous" was a Philly thing, based on my regular visits and living in the area between 2008-2023 (and still visiting regularly). Is it a upstate/non-NYC thing as well, and I simply never heard it up there?

About a foot or more of snow and the drifts are up to my knees. I've shovelled twice and you can barely tell. It's still coming down hard, so it's definitely going to be work from home tomorrow...

Tropicale?

😂 he is and was quite an incredible guitarist, certainly very underrated as well.

Yessir.

I wonder whether any of the contributors to this thread could help me with a potentially silly question (I thought it best to park it mid-thread rather than to create its own). Is there a name for the era of Latin music between the 1950s and 1960s around the Spanish speaking Caribbean but outside of the obvious Latin music hotspots of Cuba and New York? This seems to have been a period of flourishing local bands in territories like Venezuela, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Columbia, playing in conjunto or big band format, releasing records with covers that have a colour photograph of the band dressed in tuxedos outside in a park area or doing a group activity like washing a car. Musically the records tend to be quite stylistically diverse, maybe with a focus on pre-salsa son styles, mambo or guaracha, but with local styles like bomba, merengue, cumbia or plena in the mix, and maybe one guaguanco or boogaloo track. Examples of records might be Cortijo Y Su Combo Con Ismael Rivera – Bueno, Que...? from Puerto Rico Orquesta Porfi Jimenez – Porfin Porfi from Venezuela it is a very specific period of music, with a unified aesthetic and similar approach to diversity of styles. I am not looking to over define things but I wondered whether there is an acknowledged way to refer to this era, similar to other non-metropolitan musical booms like the Territory swing and R&B bands of the 1940s or Garage Rock in the 1960s. Is this a recognised era? Or is it just called pre-salsa tropical music or something?

Here in RI looks like about 10 inches so far. Starting snowing around 9:00 am. The temp is up to 21 degrees from single digits this morning. The snow is very fluffy.

Youse guys in Northern NY are supposed to get it the worst of all . Don't go out! Here in Queens it's already turned to sleet. I don't know how many inches we got, because as Phil Woods once said to an empty room at the Half Note, "I'm getting snow blind from the table cloths!"

As Howard McGhee introduced him to a group of confused rock guitarists back in the early 70s at a Jazz Interactions classroom in NYC: "Here's Attila the Hun!".

Clint has said what a huge jazz fan he is.

This one mentioned above may be my favorite album by Elvin as a leader. While I very much enjoy many (but not all) of his performances as sideman, The majority of his albums as leader are not to my taste.

Yeah, huge fear if the power cuts out, then I can't watch the football conference championships.

Attlia Zoller was a superb guitarist/musician. I've been on a Zoller kick for the last few weeks, and I've thoroughly enjoyed everything I've heard by him!