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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.

Greetings my good people! Was wondering if anyone here owns the Artie Shaw Mosaic box that would be willing to sell me a cdr copy of disc seven which is missing from the box?? Many thanks

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.

I dialed up the Resonance 3CD set to listen to Iron Man via Pandora on my iPhone (on earbuds) on a walk recently — and I’d forgotten it was mono, which I’m not at all a stickler about (or so I thought). But then looking for the Illinois Concert to listen to next, on a whim I decided to listen to some random earlier reissue of Iron Man, which happened to be in stereo — and the difference between the mono and stereo was absolutely stark — something I was surprised I even cared about (but maybe it was partially my hearing it thru earbuds?). Somewhere in a box of discs I eventually plan to trade off one of these days, I’ve got my 1986 US ‘Celluloid’ reissue of Iron Man (which appears to have been the album’s very first CD reissue) — and one of the first 20 jazz CD’s I ever owned (I found it used around 1990, iirc). Any thoughts on the mono-vs-stereo aspects of the Resonance set? I probably don’t care about the entire set being in mono — but “Iron Man” in particular, and the Iron Man album a little more generally — is just about my favorite Dolphy ever. (So maybe I’ll dig out my old ‘Celluloid’ cd and keep it after all.)

I'm talking about in real life

Well, yes, but - isn't this a jazz forum, and isn't jazz some kind of music? 😎

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A long while back, I make a rule not to discuss music with anybody unless I know that they know what they're getting into. And that's most people. We can talk about other stuff and we can still be friends.