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Noodling is also quite specifically what jazz sounds like to those who don't get it - either temporarily or just in general... When people don't get Terry Riley or Wagner or Death Metal, they probably don't talk about noodling... Be all that as it may, what matters is that we don't lose further members to stupid discussions that got harsh just out of nothing

Co-sign. I have a brother and a friend who are Milwaukee fans, so I’m pulling for them to ultimately win it all, but I’d be happy to see Seattle come out on top as well. Anybody but the Dodgers.

Last night, Jonathan Fisher Quartet with Shelley Carrol at the Balcony Club.

The Agency on Paramount+. It's one of the more realistic spy shows I've watched, with budgetary implications on everything they do, which is unlike most any other spy show I've ever watched. Sometimes spy/CIA shows like this can get so convoluted, with conspiracies interlaced with more conspiracies topped with double agents to the point you can't figure out the good guys from the bad guys. This one seems a bit different, with those conspiracies and double agents running throughout and yet maintaining a decent story line that seems clear. Of course, I'm not done yet and they could throw a nutty curveball in the next episode. My wife & I like this show. It's better than the original Belgian version, HPI: Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (on Hulu), which seems to have a few of the police personnel being made into caricatures of a modern-day Barney Fife and has the main character do some really dumb things which a brilliant-minded person would probably not do.

Django Reinhardt: Django Reinhardt En Belgique 1942 (Europe's Greatest Contribution To Jazz). Polydor 2344 146 [France 1982]

Listening to disc 1 of this new release from Japan, Miles Davis “Paris Jazz Festval - Salle Pleyel - 10/1/1964” 2 disc hybrid SACD set from Sony. 1200×1200 173 KB Followed by “Carmen McRae” Bethlehem US cd 170×170 10 KB

Definitely go for smallish markets, and or teams that have never won. MIL/SEA

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This looks to be a Spotify version of the Pumpkin LP, "Rifftide". I never could figure out if those Pumpkin LPs were legit. I think I still have the Roy Eldridge/Richie Kamuca LP in the racks.

Really? OK you explain what he means. He says he refuses to talk to anyone about music unless they are up to his standards of music understanding. When it was pointed out that we talk about music here he shifts to oh I meant in the real world. So what does that mean? He's ok with us because he can always turn us off? In what world does it make sense to say I won't talk about music with you unless you are up to my level of understanding but nothing personal against you, I only do that when the person is in front of me? WTF? We are qualitatively different because we are not in close proximity? Please make it make sense. It's nonsense and I am done with it because the conversation keeps getting pulled into Jim's hangups and emotional responses to the word noodling instead of the Plugged Nickel sessions.

I consider myself a serious jazz aficionado, and depending on my mood, there are times when I cannot endure too much "noodling". It is like playing and thinking, "do i really need that many notes?" It is part of jazz, playing licks over the chord changes or whatever. The point is whether it makes sense to the player, or to the listener, are you experimenting - that band certainly did - and so on. I think it comes down to saying you do not like or get something without making negative comments. Talking about music or anything without judging. It is hard, I know. "Noodling" can be such a negative term, unless you use quotation marks.

There’s a bit of sadness in our household that the crisp autumn air complements. It sure is beautiful here in our sylvan neighborhood. Right now starting with disc 2 of the Ike Quebec “Complete 45 Sessions” released last week on Blue Note. Quebec’s sound is so full and enticing, and he has both the spirit of the swing era and the modernism of Rollins–I also really appreciate the A&R work he did for Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff.

You know perfectly well that isn't what he was saying. Total straw man argument. On the other hand, this is totally reasonable and moves the conversation forward.

Just received a 2025 MacArthur Fellows Award for "Improvising Musician and Composer"

The Dream Syndicate – "Medicine Show: I Know What You Like" (Deluxe Edition)

Is it just my imagination or is Ethan Hawke everywhere right now? I don't even know who he is, but is name shows up on every damn non-pharmacuticsl commercial!

Hey, they're in the 51st State. So go Mariners!

***** Before yesterday's win, Edmonton had lost 13 straight to Winnipeg. ***** *****

House Of Guinness - Netflix

I discovered that I really like French TV. Just now I am streaming a series called "The Wagner Method" on PBS Passport. My French language knowledge comes from a brief class I attended in college decades ago in order to pass a test but I find it challenging to follow along in French and puzzle out the dialogue. I find myself admiring the way French women dress and their relative lack of makeup! The Wagner Method is a fairly ordinary police drama but the scripts are quite witty, full of comic relief, and constantly tease with sexual goings-on.

Re his bass playing - I really like the run he plays on “The Story In Your Eyes”. And while I don’t think his songwriting was nearly as good as Justin Hayward’s, “Ride My See Saw” is a banger

What you don't regard us as real people? Last I checked I actually am a real person who lives in the real world. And in that real world I communicate with other jazz fans on this board (whom I strongly suspect are real people too!). When we sell each other cd's they come in the mail in the real world and are real objects. Regarding us as internet phantoms who don't exist in the real world seems odd and very possibly disrespectful to me. As far as your feud with everybody in the in person 'real world' whose jazz expertise is inferior to yours - maybe it's time to take that chip off your shoulder.

The only cities in the U.S. that are larger than Toronto are Los Angeles and New York. I'd say it's not a small market at all. Unless you're talking U.S. eyeballs only, in which case it's probably got the smallest U.S. market.