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https://www.slideshare.net/atajar/aprendiendo-espaol-con-los-cubanos There's whole series of these, and these sayings. Translation is rough, it appears to be quite idiomatic/colloquial/whatever, but it seems to boil down to The Cuban Is The Baddest Motherfucker alive, which, ok, Tata Guines, you got me there, but otoh, Adrian Beltre no es Cubano, so reconcile that differencee if you need to, I don't. Actually, I think it's talking about how Cuban Spanish is indeed quite idiomatic, and if my extremely small sample size is any indicator, with that I will not disagree. I know the "accent" is completely crazymad it's own thing, percussive and rolling all at once, absolutely beautiful even if you don't understand the words.

You can get to it on the Amazon site, but you have to log in, select a specific order, then do a contact us thing which then turns into couple of steps that then turn into a contact me thing where you leave them a number and they call you, at the bottom of which there is this: Click the "call me now" button to talk to a customer service associate. If your call is disconnected, we may use the number you are contacting us from to call you back immediately. If you prefer, you can also call our general help number. Now, that link does not go to another page, it just opens up an info box that says General Help Number Note: We recommend using the "Call Me Now" feature instead for speedy assistance. We'll be ready to help you right away based on the information you've already provided. If you prefer to call the general help line instead, please note you will need to answer a series of questions to verify your identity. Toll free: 1-888-280-4331 International: 1-206-266-2992 --- charges may apply So...it is there, but you have to really, really want it to find it. Google is a helluva lot easier than any of that. In fairness though, I've tried it both ways and they haved both worked to my satisfaction. But the notion of me asking them to call me kinda rubs me the wrong way from an esthetic standpoint, not that esthetic as I understand them still exist in This Modern World. Google vs. Amazon, ain't that a bitch. At least Wal-Mart's not involved...yet?

https://radio.pastemagazine.com/audio/320/4845178.mp3

https://www.lonestarball.com/2017/7/26/16048594/adrian-beltre-ejected-gerry-davis

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OTOH, I went for decades thinking that Virgo Vibes was Roy Ayers' debut album. So...so much for effective debut album presentation, right? It's like somebody's actual rookie card being some obscure Donruss, something that they made without knowing how the players were going to turn out, just take everybody's picture and throw it on a card, hope that one or two pay off. I think Juan Gonzalez' RC was like that? OTOH, Curtis Amy better than Juan Gonzalez, and either West Coast Vibes or Virgo Vibes beats the hell out of Donruss, so, hey.

It's a good'un. Some early Elvin in spectacular vintage Columbia sound remastered to close enough to perfection such as to make no difference.

I've heard a scant few interviews with her, and my god, stories to tell. And such a gift! RIP and thanks for doing that thing that you did as well as you did for as long as you did it. We were blessed.

Stretching out with this cast on this repertoire might not have preserved the appeal of these performances, imo. I appreciate the unified concept of intent displayed on this record - new artist, debut album, enough familiar (to the target audience) faces, an effective mix of standards and originals programmed in an effective, get in, make a point, and move out, almost 78-ish in a few spots, let's try to please people before we start challenging them. Maybe not the most noble MO, but for a "marketplace" record, not necessarily an ineffective one. And it goes great in the car, especially on a short commute. Between to and fro, I can cover the whole record. Kinda sweet, that is.

I'll give her credit for guts...leading off a debut album with "Tight"...wow. I hope it speaks to future goals rather than current assessment. I'm too old to go back in line for a line that ends up where I already was. That's good, but...I was in front of the tv when this came on: and this, see the lyrics still cohere (and she be dancing!) More juice near death than a roomful of hungry young people, I hope they live long enough and smart enough to realize that you don't get there by going on a road that's already been made, you get there by taking a way that nobody's really taken, then you get there. I know some people don't like Betty Carter all that much, but everybody's wrong about something.

There are all kinds of names in the USA, as cultures evolve and look within for appropriate self-definitions.

Hey Lock! I let this band move in because of the solos, but I got married to it because of the heads, and that's all Jaws. Johnny Griffin certainly needed nobody to play lead for him, but Lock took it anyway, and Griff went right along. That shit is just right!

Clifford Jordan w/BJP, produced by Arif Mardin, how many links of separation is that between Marvin Cabell and Freddy Mercury?

Betty Carter could fuck the melody every possible way and still keep a lyrical coherence. She's not even coming close to doing that here, better in the second chorus than the first, but is that really what's wanted, start weak, then get a little stronger, and then a disposable piano solo? A grimace and then a yawn? As the HOF backhanded compliment goes, I really hear what she's trying to do. But...record date, ok? It's going to be compared to other records, and if you tell me to think about Betty Carter, well, don't do that unless you want me to do that, which I surely as hell will. I don't hear any real intonation problems, I hear harmonic choices, but I'm a lifetime witness to the fact that intention is the receivement of the signal from the catcher and the beginning, just the beginning of, of the windup, Then her comes the pitch (no pun intended, and that's execution. Execution's a bitch. I would also suggest that choices like she's making succeed more when delivered with a timbre that withstands resistance. You can't allow room for somebody to think about Betty Carter, you got to bring something that makes them say oh shit, who the hell is THIS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Let them think about Betty Carter after the shock wear off and they're trying to process what they just heard. Like, if Betty Carter never shocks you, you ain't hearing Betty Carter, ok? Having said all that, I wish her luck, and Courage (as per Dan Rather), and more than anything else, fearless growth.

Three who killed OJ - Minute Maid Sunny D Tang (aka NASA Orange)

Youth does go away, but there is still life to be had! Get your affairs in order and ride like hell until the end, that's my philosophy. Hell, my middle age is starting to slip away. I'm ready for my Old Years, and, maybe, my Elderly Final Act. That last one's the one that worries me, not because of what it represents, but because of all the many ways that things can go wrong. But otoh, if so, so be it.

Loved him on Treme!

Link, please, when available.

Any word on the Goodman?

So, there's your Three(?) Degrees Of Separation between the Clifford Jordan Strata-East Mosaic and Concha Buika . Small world!

indeed!

Vido Musso Marcia Videaux Johnny Bongzilla

Dammit, Larry, I as on the fence about this one until I read "vivid". That pushed my trigger, order placed.

I wonder what people would think about Denardo's drumming on these records if they didn't know it was Denardo? It's never bothered me...