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I'm old enough to remember his days at UCLA and the culture clash between him and John Wooten. Two greats who were polar opposites in almost every way except for winning basketball games. Those were the days,!

I like coffee without sugar especially when coffee is good BUT with the first coffee in the morning I admit I add a small spoon of cane sugar if the coffe isn’t great. Anyway I am not a caffeine man anymore I get maybe three small coffee per day. Wines were very different at Julius Caesar’s time for sure. Now talking about water I wouldn’t drink a single malt without a fair number of drops of water.

When I was 20 or 21, I saw him at the JFK airport. I was amazed how tall he was; purpusefully, I came close enough to see that the top of my head wasn’t even at his armpit height. I was 6’ then.

Back in my rock days, I always loved the first two Columbia albums, All the Young Dudes and Mott, but I did have at least two of their Atlantic LPs. On her annual Christmas show, Ms. TTK always plays "Death May Be Your Santa Claus."

My wife and in-laws are French press drinkers. We must’ve had to buy three or 4 of them over time; the glass is very thin and it’s only a matter of time when it cracks. porcy62, as you undoubtedly remember, Greeks and Romans wouldn’t drink undiluted wine. I recently read Euripides’s Alcestis, and one of the characters complains that Heracles was a boor: he drank undiluted wine, the savage! I imagine what we call wine and what they drank was probably quite different. I can’t imagine liking coffee without sugar, but I know a few people that do just that. Love espresso or macchiato with a nice lump of cane sugar!

Maybe the best view of the saxophone is at the 0:48 seconds mark of the video.

I find the coffee I press using my Aeropress is more consistent than my regular coffee maker. I heat the water, pour it in, stir for 10 seconds, fill it back up to the top and press quickly. If you don't do that last part - press quickly - you can get a more bitter flavor profile. My favorite coffee in the Aeropress is an Ethiopian Moca Sidama that I buy freshly roasted from a small coffee shop in Salem, NH called Coffee Coffee.

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We picked on up at REI for our daughter who was going off to college. We’ve also used it when camping. Does the job, and is built well.

Obviously the quality of the coffee is very important. Over here we had some great coffee shops that sell high quality stuff. The best coffee I found here is a pure Jamaican Blue Mountain that costs 70 € per kilo when a nice good coffee goes for 25/30 €. Needless to say that add sugar or milk on a great coffee is like add water to great wine.

I think that's an alto? Ira Gitler played alto.

Dee Dee Bridgewater is still in good shape, vocally and otherwise. Saw here at the Detroit Jazz Festival last year and came away impressed, vocally and otherwise. Happy Birthday indeed!

Not on any of the albums I've heard. They were popular on one of the blogs from The Golden Age Of The Blogosphere, but by no means was it complete. Plus, there's singles from St. Louis. https://www.discogs.com/artist/1433721-Quartette-Trés-Bien It was a somewhat interesting group, in a really niche-y kind of way. Commercial, but not stupid. At least not always.

I do appreciate having a Mahler cycle by Abbado + VPO/CSO with a lot of merits .... both Kubelik and Abbado established groundbreaking views on this composer's euvre ....

My wife invested in great expresso and grinding machines. But lately I prefer a simple French Press with a good light roasted Ethiopian coffee. As far as I am concerned, iIt doesn't get any better.

I need to do that. IMO, Kubelik's live M5 and his DLvdE on Audite are recordings for the ages! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

The Perry Robinson 4 – Funk Dumpling ... Japan 1994

Btw worth to compare the studio version with the "live" recording released on Audite ....

I found an album reference stating that the under-recorded alto saxophonist Charles/Charlie/CI Williams worked with the Quartette Tres Bien for two years ... Can anyone shed light on whether he recorded with them? Discogs is no help. Thanks in advance.

☕️☕️☕️ ....

I agree that Kubelik's reading of Mahler's Second is one of the (relatively) weaker links in his cycle -- but I still think it's very good. IMO, it's just not quite on the same EXALTED level as most of the other recordings in Kubelik's cycle. My 2 cents.

I have one of these but found it to finicky to use on a regular basis. And the resulting drink wasn't worth the effort, to me anyway.

Stu Phillips/Harry Revel - Music from Out of Space (MGM) Larry Elgart - Impressions of Outer Space (Brunswick)