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Now reduced to $22.50 Now reduced to $22.50, fwiw.

How neighborly!!

5 new Blue Note cover shirts, direct from BN. Not sure if I’ll spring for any of these, but I’m considering it. https://store.bluenote.com/collections/album-cover-series

I’m 5’10”, currently 230 lbs (so my BMI is 33). My weight has varied from 220-235 the last several years — which is at least better than the 255 I’d ballooned up to ~15 years ago. I’ve never been on Ozempic — but I go back and forth between bouts of higher activity (waking 5-6 miles a day almost every day) — to barely 1-2 miles a day. I’m definitely overweight (38” waist) — but I’m pretty active, and sometimes very active). I’m currently on 26 days in a row walking at least 5 miles every day — and I’ve found the ONLY thing that ever motivates me to try and eat less is high activity, every day, ideally without going back to lower activity. I know I absolutely CAN eat about 30-40% fewer calories most days — without calorie counting (which I hate!) — as long as I can stay motivated to increase my metabolism thru exercise. But, then, I’ll lose 10-15 lbs, maybe even 20 — And get complacent— and I’ll stop walking 5 miles every day — and then the weight always comes back… NOT because I’m burning calories less — but entirely because I’ll loose my willpower to exercise portion control, and I’ll snack more and more — and that lack of exercise tells my brain “what’s the point, just eat”. Today will be 27 days in a row over 5 miles. It’s usually about this time — after a month of high(er) activity — that I’ll suddenly (re)discover the willpower to curb my calories. If only I can keep at it, and be better about walking tons all the time — and not just a month or two. I’ve got my annual physical and visit to the cardiologist in October — so that’s a good motivator too. It’d be great to drop 10-15 lbs by the end of October — which gives me 3 months to loose 5lbs each month — very doable. Trouble is that it’s just as easy (or easier) to not stick with it, and not loose much at all. Unfortunately that “option” seems to always be on the table too.

My mom was definitely a fan, and she had 3-4 of his albums (along with a couple Stan Frebergs, and Bob Newharts). She was born in the eary 30’s, and would have been in her late 20’s when most of them first came out. I definitely remember his albums fondly, and I’m sure I made cassette dubs of all them when I was in junior high, and shared them with a couple geeky friends of mine in 8th grade (and assure you, I was similarly geeky). I also remember Lehrer being popular — or at least certainly known — by half the adults in the community theater I got involved in while I was in high school. They would have been in their 30’s and 40’a then (in the mid-1980’s). I remember Lehrer’s cultural references being both dated and somehow still timely. Then again, since my dad was born in 1927, and my mom in 1934, stuff from the 50’s and 60’s seemed like semi-recent history to me (in the 80’s).

Oh shoot, his book was on Bessie Smith. That’s what I get for answering as I was walking out the door (hence my super short reply). Oops!

(Our own) Chris Albertson’s?

Herbie’s been mostly playing the same 6-7 tunes… mostly for nearly the last decade! Song stats (scroll down just a bit) for everything in setlist.fm for Herbie (all years)… https://www.setlist.fm/stats/herbie-hancock-3d6b557.html And here’s year-by-year stats (again, scroll down slightly) for each of the nearly last 10 years… https://www.setlist.fm/stats/covered/herbie-hancock-3d6b557.html?year=2025 https://www.setlist.fm/stats/herbie-hancock-3d6b557.html?year=2024 https://www.setlist.fm/stats/herbie-hancock-3d6b557.html?year=2023 https://www.setlist.fm/stats/herbie-hancock-3d6b557.html?year=2022 (skipping the two pandemic years) https://www.setlist.fm/stats/herbie-hancock-3d6b557.html?year=2019 https://www.setlist.fm/stats/herbie-hancock-3d6b557.html?year=2018 https://www.setlist.fm/stats/herbie-hancock-3d6b557.html?year=2017

With US RVG’s? (Or Japanese RVG’s?) Asking, because — and I could easily be misremembering — but I thought(?) the Conns and US RVG’s were entirely exclusive of each other (meaning a Venn diagram of Conns, and RVG’s… would result in no overlap). Were any Conns ever re-issued as US Conns?

Never heard of it — but it (or parts of it) appear to be on YouTube… Full details… https://www.discogs.com/release/9804470-Ron-Carter-Empire-Jazz

And what about this?? Carmell, Joe Pass, Charlie Haden, and Mel Lee (drums) https://www.discogs.com/release/12656892-Carmell-Jones-Joe-Pass-Chillin Discogs notes say: “Recorded 11 January 1964 by John William Hardy in Los Angeles, CA”

It’s funny… I always genuinely love listening to Hindemith — yet I can’t cite very many specific works of his that I specifically love. I’ve got a ton of his stuff too, nearly all on CPO (20 years ago I found all three of those unified orchestral CPO mini-box-sets for 50% off list price, brand new and sealed). Just counted, I’ve got a total 26 discs of Hindemith — and the only composers I have more of, are Ives and Henze… and then also Grieg (my wife’s favorite composer). But, strangely, I don’t have more than a handful of specific works by Hindemith that are ‘favorites’. More so, I have specific CD’s of his that overall have a several works that happen to have the same timbres — and degrees of contrapuntal-ism — that I always remember really suit my fancy. Perhaps his ‘dry’ reputation plays into this. If I was giving numeric scores, it’s like ALL of it is a 7/10 minimum — but practically none of it is over 8/10 either. It’s all consistently VERY good, but little of it is quite ‘great’ (but oh so very close).

My only frame of reference — the only Hindemith Quartets I’ve ever heard or owned — is the Danish Quartet’s complete set on CPO (rec. 1995-96). But I have to confess, I’ll bet I’ve only spun it a handful of times in the last 15 years (and I probably picked it up 20 yrs ago). Playlist of the entire thing: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWCKjgcrYR3PVp7Y9xDuV1oRp0xeAZ9ix&si=1i-E-nAjMDyH22ME

Yes, BUT… the two bonus alternate takes still have the missing channel problem — as if it was maybe(?) recorded to 4 tracks, and the track with Tyrone is not audible, except his playing is vaguely audible from having been picked up from other non-tenor mics on the date. But the main album sounds “relatively-phenomenal” by comparison to the previous Black Lion issue — where Tyrone was barely audible on the entire album (not just the alternates). Not thrilled the alts are a bust — but it was amazing to finally hear the main album clearly for the first time in almost a couple decades (I think I picked up the Black Lion of the Cowell back in the early, early 00’s).

Been close to 20 years since I’ve heard “Turkish Women” — and only briefly (must have had a friend spin theirs, I’m guessing — or I sampled it in-store, possibly — and I passed on it). Perhaps I should start an entirely different thread for jazz studio albums that sound noticeably worse than their recording date would suggest they ought to. Live — now that’s a whole different story — and the range of live recordings of every sort of sound quality have been issued (based on the import of the recording, usually). But there can’t be more than a dozen (or perhaps two dozen) studio albums that truly sound way, WAY worse than they ought to. (I mean there’s “not particularly good” — and then there’s “inexplicably bad”.)