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Now spinning on my 'table: Buddy Tate - Swinging Like Tate (Felsted UK, stereo, 1958) Hooray for Buddy Tate! The man could PLAY.

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins, Arnett Cobb - Very Saxy (Prestige, 1959) with Shirley Scott, George Duvivier, and Arthur Edgehill Love this blowing session.

Now listening to: Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (No. 2, revised ed.) -- performed by Sir John Barbirolli & the Hallé Orchestra This is Dutton Laboratories' "Barbirolli Society" reissue of the 1957 mono recording originally issue on Pye (in UK) and Vanguard (in the US). One some days, this is my favorite recording of RVW's London Symphony. On other days, it's Boult's second recording for HMV/EMI. They're very different, but I think both are tremendous.

More by The Dutch Nightingale: Elly Ameling - Vol. 3: The Early Recordings (DHM) Lieder by Brahms (tracks: 1-18) and Schumann (tracks: 19-27) with accompanists Norman Shetler (Brahms) & Jörg Demus (Schumann) Incredible singing.

Elly Ameling - Soirée Française (Philips, 1986) with Rudolf Jansen

Yeesh. He's filthy rich -- but he'd rather break the law than pay his taxes. And for what? Is there even any practical difference in how you live when you're at the very tippy-top of the wealth pyramid? He's made billions. Literally! How much is enough?!?!

Disc 3

Now listening to: Dave Liebman Group - Voyage (Evidence, 1996) with Vic Juris (g), Phil Markowitz (p, kybd), Tony Marino (b), Jamey Haddad (d, perc, vo), Café (perc, vo; 3 cuts only)

Sounds like I'm in the minority, but I've only got about 50% of the music in this Hubbard set. (I've always preferred his CTI stuff.) So it might actually make sense for me to pull the trigger on it.

More Ravel:

Yeah, I think the only driver who's currently driving for an F1 team who has also done these sorts of endurance races is Fernando Alonso. He's won the F1 championship twice, and I know that he's also won the 24-Hours of Le Mans twice (2018 & 2019).

Now playing: Disc 1

Earlier this evening: Bu Pleasant - Ms. Bu (Muse, 1974)

You'll get no argument from me on that. That Ferrari is gorgeous. All those curves. Yowza.

Excellent. The next one, Machaca, is good too. It's odd. Fischer made a bunch of outstanding Latin Jazz records in the 70s, as a leader & sideman with Cal Tjader (Guarabe) and Poncho Sanchez (Poncho). But his Latin Jazz records from the 1980s onward are... not good. Of course, this is just my opinion. Fischer himself may have loved the stuff. Who knows.

Now: Earlier: I dig it too.

Now: Yusef Lateef - Hush 'N' Thunder (Atlantic, 1972) More powerful and strange (in the best sense) than I remember from previous listens. It's hittin' me hard today. Up next, more YL: Yusef Lateef - The Doctor Is In ... and Out (Atlantic, 1976) You could probably say the same thing about these Lateef albums from the Seventies. But that's all finally being re-assessed and re-contextualized, I think. Like my 20-something year-old son says, most (interesting) music today is postmodern and "post-genre." So the old boundary lines that folks used to get hung up on mean even less now than they did then.

Yes, I think that's correct. I'm fairly sure that Concord owns the Craft imprint plus: - Prestige/Riverside/Fantasy/Galaxy/Swingville/Moodsville (all the OJC stuff), - Savoy, - Denon, - Muse, - Concord/Concord Picante, - Tico/Vaya, and - Fania. They have the MOTHERLODE.

Best wishes and positive vibes flowing your way, Allen.

I know what you're talking about -- with the public tracks -- but my only childhood recollections are of the sets that you set up in your house. Given my age (b. '68), they likely would've been HO-scale cars.

I never had one of those sets, but I always thought they were cool. As kids, we referred to them as "slot car racers." (I assume that's the same as what you're talking about.) OTOH, I had plenty of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars.

R.I.P. Thanks for sharing this info, Clifford.

TtK, I just had to Google Rat Fink to know what you were talking about. No, I don't think there's much overlap there.