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Again, a treat to continue reading this thread, from reading about a promotion on Sun Ra LP's (I'll probably give my wife the tote bag), we saw the Arkestra last spring in Cleveland and she bought me a tote-size bag of goodies, including hats, tees, LP's the works! to digging into the deepest meanings of this music. Really, really interesting to read. Sidenote: From CD shopping at used record stores: Look in the spiritual bin: Found Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity there... Look in the blues bin: Found Horace Silver's Blowin' the Blues Away, along with Tokyo Blues

Diggin' the instrumental samples, but agree I'm not into vocals much, but so glad you were able to put out this product; congrats!

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Merrill Kelly is a pitcher. San Diego offered him a two-year contract for $40 million total. Arizona offered him the same amount, but for three years. He signed with Arizona. ...Explaining his decision, the pitcher told the media that “I don’t think it’s any secret on how much money you get taken out of your pocket when you go to California.” ... https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/california-strikes-out-major-league-pitcher-turns-down-padres-40-million-offer-due For years, I have read that hockey players prefer to play for US teams for the same reason. A Canadian team has not won the Stanley Cup in over 30 years.

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I had that one. It reminded me a lot of Louie, Louie.

Yesterday was the third day in the past six weeks that for me the site was apparently offline. But I see that there were plenty of posters who did not have this problem. Any ideas?

Absolutely no interest in reading Simmons' autobiography. No one's perfect, how about stepping off the high horse.

Good analyses of the various combine drills. https://www.cfl.ca/2026/03/02/cfl-combine-101-the-basics-behind-every-drill-2/ ***** Details of Nathan Rourke's new contract. https://3downnation.com/2026/03/01/exclusive-canadian-qb-nathan-rourkes-cfl-contract-extension-details-with-b-c-lions/ ***** Sask analysis https://pifflespodcast.com/blog/riderville-roundup-march-1-2026/

Revealed! Thanks for the thoughts! #4 does not feature Paul Chambers. But it features players from a city he famously visited. #5 You've IDed the clarinet player. #8 Would agree that the tenor player takes the honor here. The alto player is (or was) a topic of some debate on this board. #9 Trane is not only an influence... there's a label-mate situation (sort of) in play here. #12: totally agree about the brass soloists, but, for me, that's part of the charm. This is from a date that, as far as I know, has been been made available digitally.

My reaction to your clue turned out to be spot on. Sonny Fortune's debut with organist Stan Hunter, Trip on the Strip, track is HFR.

Not Sonny Cox, and not Chicago. The saxophonist's roots run further east (but they don't leave the lower 48). Thanks! 8 is not Mingus, but there are Mingus connections threaded throughout this playlist. Garbarek is a good guess on 11, and most everyone has pegged that this is an ECM recording. But its not a high-profile ECM recording. Bingo on the overall sensibility and orientation of the band on 13. "Pop"... only in a very broad sense. They did have some hits, but they were mostly known for their albums.

These are excellent points. I agree that Sun Ra is not properly speaking "spiritual jazz" at all, but I think that as used on social media and indeed by record labels these days, "spiritual jazz" means must about anything. What interests me is that, when those reissues did start in the 1990s, it was the 1960s records that got reissued first (or at least that attracted attention): Magic City, Atlantis, Heliocentric Worlds, etc.. Not Languidity or Disco 3000. Then I remember the surge of interest in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the 1950s records were re-released and people were confronted with a Sun Ra that was so much more accessible. But it still took a few years for those late 1970s records to come out.

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