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A1 Amazonas 0:00 A2 Kee-Ka-Roo 2:15 A3 Canto De Ossanha 5:07 A4 Take A Chance With Me 7:50 A5 Music To Watch Girls By 10:22 A6 Errinho Atoa 13:30 B1 Samboa 16:08 B2 The Bobo 18:38 B3 Wait Until Dark 21:30 B4 Menino Das Laranjas 24:18 B5 Sebato Sera 26:43 B6 Sensuous 30:25 Credits Bass – Jose Marino Drums – Dom Um Romao Engineer – Val Valentin Flute – Jerome Richardson (tracks: A1, A6 to B5) Guitar – John "Bucky" Pizzarelli Organ, Electric Piano – Walter Wanderley Percussion, Vibraphone – Bobby Rosengarden (tracks: A1 to A5, B6) Producer – Esmond Edwards Trumpet – Alfonso De Paula (tracks: A1 to A5, B6)

"That's right, Louis. The guy who requested "Saints" is right over there!"

Admittedly, I dozed off at a couple of points while watching this, but I think I saw enough of it to give it a fair shot. What at first seemed like a gorgeously filmed adaptation of a third rate, contractual obligation story by James M. Cain is instead grossly surreal when one realizes it is a tale of a man who begins a love affair with an older woman only to later fall in love with her step-daughter. WTF?!?!? If the creative idea file is so thin nowadays that Mr. Allen has to cannibalize/fictionalize some of the more sordid features of his private life for movie ideas, then perhaps it is time to walk away from the camera. Or as some one else once said, "Have you no sense of decency,sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" That said, Kate Winslet was very, very good. Jim Belushi seemed to be attempting to show us his version of "Acting", or else he was trying to do a poor John Goodman impersonation. Either way, one is willing to indulge him up to a point, but then one simply must insist it stop!

Oh, yeah, that's the stuff. Just press play and I guarantee you'll feel a whole lot groovier about the world in general in just 35 minutes! Happy Cinco de Groovy, everybody!

Two real good ones. It's still hard to believe Kevin Mahogany is gone.

Earlier: Currently:

Earlier, I was listening to Disc 1 from this 3 CD set: Now listening to this:

This song (and scene) just cracks me up:

A good video featuring 3 songs from a perhaps overlooked album. Upon seeing Van Morrison so incomparably rockin' the v-neck sweater in this broadcast, the members of The Cardigans realized they would have to settle for their second choice for their band name.

Currently Amazon has 4 of this excellent 2 CD Les McCann set available for only $7.70.

Ditto this. I only bought one CD from them. Never again.

I enjoyed listening to (most) of this compilation: I could not get into what Con-Funk-Shun was doing on "Mr. T", so I bailed on that track pretty quick. Then I think I just was not up to sitting through all of the downer which is "M o W", so the Staple Singers were put in the unusual position of being given short shrift in my CD player. The rest of the the tracks are all at least "good" and many are "great". Solomon Burke delivers solidly as always, as do Nina Simone, O.V. Wright and The Persuasions. I've never been a big fan of the Neville Brothers, but I liked them on this track. Brook Benton does a kind of Vegas soul lounge spin and it works because -- hey, Brook Benton and when you're Brook Benton, well, I think the title speaks for itself. Patti LaBelle proves disco Dylan could be a viable genre if some one put their creative energy to the task (but don't hurry on my account, guys. I can wait. Really.). Some may call the O'Jays performance on the closing track "over the top"; I'd call it "sublime".

Thanks, soulpope. Now playing:

Today is the 40th anniversary of my 18th birthday, so the first song that came to mind today was: Then, for a picker-upper, I revisited this album: I've played this a couple of times the past few weeks and just love it. For an album I never even knew existed, it has become my favorite solo piano album of the year so far! It's a sheer delight from start to finish.

The video is pretty dark, but that apparently because Leon Redbone insisted that the stage be lit with only a single light bulb. The audio is fine and the video is cued up to a very entertaining segment featuring hand shadow puppets! Maybe if more jazz concerts included hand shadow puppets, jazz would be more popular these days . . .

Hey -- this is my post number 4,444!

Wow! That was great! This was the Louis Armstrong i knew as a kid. I knew nothing about him, but whenever he showed up as a guest on some TV variety show, I was glued to the screen with a huge smile on my face. Funny how the same thing happened again today. Louis is looking sharp and he sounds in good shape both instrumentally and vocally. The video and audio quality is terrific for 50 year old tape; thank you, BBC. I'd never really paid attention to Jewel Brown before. She was good. Whatever became of her?

I seem to recall one track on a Verve/Polygram/Phillips/? Harry James compilation CD that featured Ernie Andrews from his stint with that band. Perhaps it was this disc:

4/20 starts with Satchmo!