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Aha, thanks!!

MMO?? https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mmo abbreviation, Digital Technology. 1. Massively Multiplayer Online game: any online video game in which a player interacts with a large number of other players.

She went to KU, and they’re her favorite team across any and all sports, by a mile!m When we lived back in KC, every year she would kick me out of the house during the Big 12 and Final Four — and I would systematically hit every used CD store for 50 miles and go through their stock A-Z, each store — jazz, rock, and classical. Probably a quarter of my used CD purchases for a decade there were those 5-6 weeks in the spring every year, like clockwork! 😄

1-2 hrs of NPR every morning in our household, 7 days a week (usually closer to 2 hrs). My wife also listens online to a Kansas City sports talk radio station a LOT during college basketball season, and in recent years recently when The Chiefs were/are doing so well.

Reminds me, one of the very best working sax players back in KC was (presumably still is) Rich Wheeler — who was all of 5’4” (maybe 5’5” at most). Also one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. http://www.kcjazzambassadors.org/post/rich-wheeler-working-hard-and-loving-it Tenor was his main axe, and I used to joke he had an extra set of lungs in his legs, as powerful as his tone was — generally came out of the Joe Henderson camp (which I probably why I loved his playing so much). Not sure if I can post a picture here via my phone, let’s see…

Wasn’t Tina Brooks short too? (From Brooke’ Wikipedia entry: The nickname "Tina", pronounced Teena, was a variation of "Teeny", a childhood moniker.) At least I always assumed he was short anyway.

TIL: Heath was the father of R&B songwriter/musician James Mtume. (‘TIL’ is short for “Today I learned…” — a Reddit thing, far as I know.)

Mine from Dusty was (or, rather, will be) just $9.99, plus probably about $1 in shipping — if I get 4 other discs — and I always have stuff sent media mail, cuz I’m cheap!

I’ve had my eye out for a CD copy of “In The Idiom” for about a dozen or more years — at least at a decent price ($15 or less) — and only just found one about 48 hours ago(!) at Dusty Groove. So I jumped on it, starting a new 10-day open order, which I’ll add too (like I always do) if anything else comes into their stock for the next week or so. Full confession, it’s the Joe Henderson quotient that’s probably my primary draw — but I liked what I heard of the album back in KC when I borrowed a copy from a friend back in the ‘late 20-teens’.

Ah, right -- didn't notice that Vol 4 was hardcover when I looked this morning on my phone. Maybe I'll try and track that one down. Actually, if it didn't break the bank too badly -- I'd love to have all of vols 1-4 too -- but I suspect that'd set me back more than I'm really interested in doing.

Thanks for that photo, Chuck. I have vols 5-8 (aka just the hardcover ones), but never knew vols 1-4 were smaller and paperback.

This is a Euro Public-Domain issue, right? (The visual style of the release is of the type I associate with PD releases.)

“Walter’s Walk” from the 1982 odds-and-ends collection Coda — started as an instrumental from 1972, with various overdubs in 1982 — including vocals that are all Plant’s 1982 voice. And I think pretty clearly so too — when compared with Plant’s first solo album (also from 1982). I’m not a big Zeppelin fanatic (far, far from it), but I do like this song better than most, in large measure because I specifically like Plant’s (1982) vocals better here. I think I already said up-thread that I am quite fond of Plant’s early solo work (his first 3-4 solo albums especially). But AFAIK, “Walter’s Walk” is the only Zep tune that Plant overdubbed his vocals on post-1981 (but I’d love to know if there are any others).

Or cut-n-past the Japanese title and past the Japanese into the Google search bar — and add ‘Discogs’ to the search key too. Google is actually really good about searching for titles and names in foreign languages (even Japanese, and Chinese, etc). Then you might need to switch the results to an image search, and that might make it easier to match.

My wife and I are debating going to see them at Wolftrap here outside of DC, June or July, I forget which. We have both their duo CD’s, and they’re both lovely. I’ve half followed Plant’s solo career about 10x more than I ever listen to any Zeppelin any more (and haven’t for 20-25 years). I appreciate Plant charting his own course apart from the Zeppelin legacy, and have always said ‘more power to him!’ every year he’s turned down opportunities to reunite as Zeppelin. His voice is (imho) infinitely more pleasing post-Zep too. Even his first several solo albums in the 80’s are preferable (to me) over most of his LZ output — and I’ve probably listened to his first 2-3 solo albums more in the last 25 years, than I have any Zeppelin. Not everyone has to agree about any of this either — to be clear, I’m not saying I’m ‘right’ about any of these preferences.)

Bingo! Thanks Chuck! http://digital.livingblues.com/publication/?i=718906&article_id=4100630&view=articleBrowser “In 1963, Delmar became Delmark when Selmer, a musical instrument company with its own record label, argued that Delmar was too similar a name in the music.”

Anyone? (See immediate prior post)

Could be very interesting. Abdullah was kind enough to autograph my Purple Night liners the one time I got to see Ra himself with the Arkestra up in Chicago at the Cubby Bear in in Wrigleyville in 1999 (the beginning of my junior year in college, when I was 21). Got June Tyson’s “Jane Hancock” too, along with a couple other Arkestra members — all very gracious and approachable (June especially — an extraordinarily classy woman).

It’s a small crime that, far as I know, there’s never been any sort of multi-artist tribute album to Television and Verlaine. That said, there is this Kronos Quartet arrangement of just the one tune “Marquee Moon” — which is pretty damn good.

So, just last night in a txt-msg exchange with an old friend, I learned that Delmark started, in of all places, my home town (St. Louis) -- and was originally called Delmar Records (named after the prominent street Delmar, north of Forest Park). In fact, the location Delmar Records was 5671 Delmar Blvd. STL (about 6 miles west of the river as the crow flies). Delmar had perhaps 20 releases, at least according to Discogs... https://www.discogs.com/label/221306-Delmar-Records The discogs page (link) also states up at the top (and I quote): "US label, founded 1953 by Robert G. Koester out of his record shop on Delmar Blvd. in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1958 Koester moved to Chicago. The label was renamed to Delmark Records in the early 1960s due to the threat of a lawsuit." QUESTION1: Anyone have any idea what other party was that suing to try and compel this change? I guess, obviously, some other company named "Delmar" - maybe one up in Chicago? My cursory Googling can't seem to turn this up. (Or anything whatsoever about the suit. Surely it wasn't another record company by that same name?) Also, I looked on Google Street View, and the location has a social security building there now, that looks like a sort of 1980's (90's?) plain "neo-deco" sort of thing. QUESTION2: Can anyone turn up a photo of the building that was originally there back in the early-to-mid-50's?? Address again was 5671 Delmar Blvd. My Google-fu isn't bringing up anything relevant. Thanks!!

How in the world did you discover Marquee Moon young? I didn’t even know about the band until maybe 15-16 years ago, when a friend hipped me to their debut (when I was pushin’ 40). I certainly never heard them on commercial AOR radio from the mid-80’s on (across 2-3 different AOR stations in St. Louis — so maybe me being in the Midwest was a factor there). Admittedly, there were a LOT of what are termed now ‘Post-punk’ bands that I missed the first time. (I realize historically Television gets lumped in with Punk — but given what ‘Punk’ means now, ‘Post-punk’ describes Television better stylistically speaking — at least to my way of thinking).

First saw the news online last night — and at 8am was amazed to hear a nice 45-60 second piece on NPR during the 5-minute “news up to the minute” piece during the very top of the hour, complete with a little clip of the song “Marquee Moon” and an short interview soundbite from Patty Smith’s daughter, iirc (I just learned last night that Verlaine and Smith dated for a while at some point — and Smith’s daughter remembered Verlaine as a bit of a father figure to her for a while there, was the gist of the clip). The short piece described him and the band as “influential”, and some other accolades. It was a far more prominent placement in the news than I was expecting. Had to get to work before what I assume was a longer ‘remembrance’-style piece, or maybe that’s still to come this afternoon (or tomorrow morning?) — in any case, my wife and I were both very pleasantly surprised!

(CNN) — Here’s something you don’t see everyday. Pet fish playing a video game in Japan managed to log in to the Nintendo Switch store, change their owner’s avatar, set up a Pay Pal account and rack up a credit card bill — all seemingly livestreamed, in real time, on the internet. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/28/asia/nintendo-switch-pet-fish-credit-card-intl-hnk

Saw Verlaine in 2016 here in DC at the 9:30 B Club, in his more recent configuration of Television — and it was a memorable night. Those first two Television albums are stone classics, and I dig the third (reunion) one too. R.I.P. Pretty sure I read somewhere that Verlaine originally wanted RVG to engineer Television’s debut album, iirc.

I don’t remember the details, and I don’t mean to pile on — but I too have heard all sorts of complaints about the Chambers bio of Miles over the years — fwiw.