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Little known fact: His father, Bill Steig, was the creator of Shrek!

Sretan rođendan, Chuck!

A very good transition done in a timely manner. Love both of those labels and I hope the sharing continues.

Billy Paul

The stuff he did on Fraternity was pretty incredible and influenced a lot of key players later on.

the hits keep on coming... LONNIE MACK, JULY 18, 1941 - APRIL 21, 2016

Richard Lyons, Negativland Founder, Dead at 57

Music Icon Prince Dead At 57

Not an answer, but you may want to see this. Apparently, he's done an album with Charles Kuralt.

Is Franz Lisztkhatia Buniatishvili the best transgendered classical pianist around?

Cyber-Miles. I like it because of the sources it draws from (though I'm not that familiar with the literary ones). I can't shake the young Leonard Nimoy/Zachary Quinto-like narration from Kurt Elling. It works, but is a bit disorientating. Maybe I don't really need to shake it. If you're a fan of the 70's style Miles ambient-like "moods," this could easily draw you inside it's chambers.

smells unsavory.

Gato, Pharoah, and Braxton - were the ultimate triumvirate of players for me in those days. You could always hear that searing sax out of my bedroom or out of my "workshop" that I used for practice in the early 70's. A favorite thing I used to do as a DJ then was play Gato's Tupac Amaru and immediately follow it with Astral Traveling from Pharoah's album Thembi - one ending and the other beginning with those suspended Rhodes chords. You start Astral Traveling up (on the video) as soon as the last note is played by Gato and it works together in a lovely way.

This one got constant play at our house back then:

Ambient Sci-fi Sleep Sounds Playlist

Will this be put out on the Umami label?

musta been the fiber

yeah, my wife showed me this story yesterday about his true biological father being a guy who was temporarily subletting Duke's apartment. Sean Astin said that he basically has 4 men he calls "father."

one of a kind

Her obituary may one day save your life.

latest issue:

that's too bad. i listen to her xmas record at times. strange to think: Patty Duke + Gomez = Samwise!

Remembering Josef Anton Riedl. I went thru many copies of this album over the past five decades.

Keith Emerson & Oscar Peterson - Honky Tonk Train Blues ("with a heavily disguised Carl Palmer on drums") Oscar Peterson's Piano Party 1976