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Afronaught! Then listen to it and decide what, if anything you like.

That's...not how it works.

Hadley Caliman is a player worth knowing. And his Cadence interview...one of the best.

More dancers, please. Not just more "dancing", but more dancers, like, built into the music. If this keeps happening, eventually you will have a popjazz ballet, and if the dancing and music both drive each other, I don't see how that's a bad thing, really. I'd be lying if I said I didn't see the appeal to this. OTOH, anybody who thinks that this is a thing to do...the earth is overpopulated, so don't expect me to worry about this. Just stop trying to be so "jazz" and get on with the business of going forward. One is interesting, the other can go die off a cliff as far as I'm concerned. People make choices, right?

I was ready to blow off the Freddie, then saw Hadley Caliman was on it.

Liking it more than I did back then, but the sound of John Scofield's comp (here, not in general) is jarring and unpleasant to me.

gut punch

That feels like a joke, flows like a joke, walks and talks like a joke, but I know it's not?

Random Radio 001: Music for Drug Runners, Criminals, Rapists, and Some Good People https://www.mixcloud.com/rostasi/random-radio-001-music-for-drug-runners-criminals-rapists-and-some-good-people/

Wow. I wonder if that's the place waaaaaaayyyyy outside of town that is now some sort of "facility" for mentally gone alcoholics. I did a trust fund gig out there once and it creeped the shit out of me, really. I hope it no longer exists, or at least I hope there's some less creepy place for those people now. As for Lexington, what a difference time makes. I don't think of fertile soil or picturesque location now Nope, that palce in FW was not this: https://medium.com/save-texas-history/things-that-make-you-go-hmmm-texass-narcotic-farm-79b44668358e

Can only listen in short spurts now, sorry. # 4 is intriguing for me, Wurlitzer, not Rhodes, and the tenor player's vocabulary, time, and vibrato all sound very "non-American". I would say African, but that would be such a cliche. #5...what tenor player was that much influenced by the Eddie Harris exercise book. I don't know, but it's interesting to hear that, along with the Caroline Noh Singers at the beginning. Is #6 an Eddie Sauter or Mel Powell chart? I know I've heard it a few times, but not enough to know it by name. Sounds like a Goodman Columbia record. Oh my, strings, never mind! That's a good band, drummer might be a bit on the stiff side, but oh well, right? #8 - Toshiko? Clare Fischer? The writing definitely has a voice. Maybe Don Ellis, doesn't sound like an Ellis band though. But the chart definitely has an Ellis-ian contour to it, even if it ultimately seems to be in 4, when it's not in 6. #10, I was really hoping for a big band to come in.

A refined gentleman of rare distinction, and no better taste in recreational footwear can be found anywhere in North America.

Here's a good 'un:

Twitter? Don't/won't do that either. If they want eyeballs, here they are:

It's a magazine cover now. Politics/obvious biases/POVs aside, I backed into a subscription with the airline miles and have to say it's a very good read, good writing, great design/layout (very easy to navigate, and sensible font sizes as well), everything that I used to like about Time & Newsweek back in the 60s & 70s. A recent article on diet/food/science was the clearest, most levelheaded thing I've read about the subject in quite some time. http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/03/ultimate-conversation-on-healthy-eating-and-nutrition.html This was cool too, I had never paid attention: http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/a-decade-of-steven-spielberg-not-making-up-his-mind.html

I'll still get the odd mail with older stamps. Haven't seen any indication yet that their face value has any kind of an expiration date.

Ok, good to know, thanks. No need to sell the LP, then. Or the CD!

The few times I've been to/through Lexington, it's blown my mind that this was the place they chose to do that. What's the history about that?

If he's like me, he'll find it incredible, and also beautifully recorded.

Is that Art Pepper on the first selection?

Somebody remind me - did the GRP impulse! CD reissue of Queen Of The Organ contain everything that was on that 2LP set? No matter the format, essential Scott and essential Turrentine, imo!