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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.

Formula 1 is a racing series with a set of rules to which all teams and drivers must conform. All of the races are referred to as "Grand Prixs"; however, there are also other racing series that use that same term. Yes, the image of F1 has always been very European and jet-set-y. There are only 20 drivers on 10 teams in all of F1 -- and it's ridiculously expensive to field a team -- and that adds to the aura of exclusivity. The rise of Lewis Hamilton has changed F1's image somewhat, however. (I think Hamilton's impact has been comparable to Tiger Woods' on golf.) They're less likely to play up the champagne and caviar angle now, I think -- but it's still very much part of the sport. There are still plenty of movie stars in the paddock. Also, you're right about F1 being different from NASCAR, although there have been some racers who've done both. The cars are very different, but probably the most meaningful distinction is that NASCAR drivers are largely from the U.S., and F1 drivers are mostly European. (Only two racers from the U.S. have ever won the F1 Championship, and one of them -- Mario Andretti -- was born in Italy and became a U.S. citizen.) Despite their differences, I have a sneaking suspicion that good F1 drivers would make good NASCAR drivers and vice-versa. They're all lunatics for speed. The demographics (and, by extension, the politics) of the F1 and NASCAR audiences are indeed very different. Then again, people are people wherever you go. . . . I think I'll leave it at that.

Yeah, I've heard as much. I'm glad they're no longer running F1. In an odd coincidence, F1 is now owned by Liberty Media, the same company that owns my local baseball team, the Atlanta Braves. I assume it was Liberty who introduced Drive to Survive. Re: your other point: A limited number of teams competing at the top is very much part the sport. I can definitely see why that might bother some folks. I think some of the changes that they've implemented this year have improved things -- like the spending cap -- if only slightly. I love that movie too, watch it every few years.

Lauda is one of the greats, for sure. Coincidentally, I watched a documentary about him last week. A fascinating guy and tough as nails. The fact that he returned to racing so soon after such a horrific accident, burning his head and hands horribly... That ain't normal. dana, I assume you've seen the film Rush -- with the actor Daniel Brühl portraying Lauda and Chris Hemsworth as James Hunt. It's all about the 1976 F1 season when they were competing for a championship and Lauda had his terrible crash. The filmmakers took some liberties with it (of course), but it's still well worth watching.