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"How did you find this?" Oh... Oh My Soul: Armenian and Turkish Language Music from the Parsekian Label in New Jersey ca. 1923-26

There’s always this: We have a station here called KNTU that elicits surprise comments both from the broadcasters and the listeners!

Oh, that sounds like me (but not the lucrative part).

Johnny Ventura and Dusty Hill died today, so I'm listening to these:

The J&J isn't an mRNA vac, is it? I thought it was a viral vector type. If that's the case, it may make sense that a booster isn't needed, but I guess that was decided before the latest variants, so who knows now. Developed countries don't have an issue with your situation.

What's the monthly charge?

We had a guy here in Dallas named Chris Douridas that went on to do that show. Yup. When I got promos from Fantasy in the mid-70s, that record came into the studio and I was immediately drawn to it. My mother played it constantly as well.

About 20% of my vinyl wall...

Our Finnegans Wake reading group decided to go back to meeting together in the back of a restaurant that we used to meet at monthly. I said, "Nope." I'm not sitting in a restaurant (or any public place, actually) again until, maybe, late October when we are planning on our first short trip in two years.

Good to hear that. I hope a good job is done with the original tapes. The albums were those kinds where you could "hear" the music before it actually played. I remember too that some of the references in Kiswahili were hard to understand, so I set out to learn the language. The hope was extended to learning the nomenclature so I could "translate" the language of the era that I was experiencing more and more often - especially in music (often on albums from, for instance, Bartz' NTU Troop). In the early 70s, The Chicago Tribune used to have a service where you could, with a subscription, have a package arrive every month with a 10" language-learning record inside. My choice was Kiswahili and they spurred an interest in actually finding proper dictionaries in this language (and increased my black studies library by quite a bit as well).

Funny how some of those older covers can spur memories associated with them. Alkebu-Lan, for me, has the most impact. In '72, I had a blackboard on a wall that was adjacent to my music practice room and that opening four-minute invocation from that album was something that I not only had memorized, but had written in full on that attached blackboard for many months - much to the chagrin of family. I think I have, at least, three copies of that. A passion for Black Unity Trio as well.

Yes, some great music here! Especially like the Dicky Wells four-bone lineup. Dicky Wells – trombone; Vic Dickenson, George Matthews, Benny Morton – trombone; Skip Hall – piano, organ; Everett Barksdale – guitar, electric bass; Kenny Burrell – guitar (# 1-4); Major Holley – bass (# 5-7); Herbie Lovelle – drums

Disc 23 (62 tracks of Satie) Skipping around thru this tonight...

You can still want and enjoy the taste of flesh foods without having to succumb to the horrifics of their creation. Also, I've found it humorous that often there's this weird idea that people who are veg are somehow all striving for some kind of flesh standard. Being "as good as the real thing" really means "this resembles what I already know" to someone who's not veg.

Detroit Black Journal Presents: Detroit Jazz: Ancient to the Future, a 1981 one hour special about Detroit jazz musicians, the special examines how modern day jazz grow out of traditional African art forms such as dance, storytelling and music. Guests on the broadcast include Marcus Belgrave, Hal McKinney, Leon Thomas, Betty Carter, Donald Washington, Faruq Z. Bey, J.C. Heard, Dave Wilborn, Count Basie, Howard Sims, Chuck Green, Jimmy Wilkins, Barry Harris, Donald Byrd, Robert McCabe, Ken Cox, Roy Brooks, Ed Nelson, Spencer Barefield, Ernie Rogers, Archie Shepp.

Reels by Matthew Shipp/Whit Dickey

Julius Eastman: Stay On It

Trevor Watts - leader, alto & sop saxophones Nana Tsiboe - African percussion, mbira, voice Nana Appiah - African percussion, bass mbira, conch, wea flute, voice Jojo Yates - African percussion, mbira, voice Nee Daku Patato - African percussion, congas, mbira, voice Paapa J Mensah - kit drums, bongos, voice Colin McKenzie - bass guitar