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The droning tones in that track remind me of an earlier piece of yours, “S II Examples.” But your playing is always developing. When Mr. Fei’s electronics get intense midway through, you respond with some ferocious timbres. It sounds like you’re searching for a new articulation, on every single note. Absolutely. I was once in the car, listening to this radio show, and then all of a sudden this saxophone player came on and I was thinking, like: Wait, every note is different. Every articulation is different. And then at the end they said: “That was [the saxophone great] Benny Carter.” I was so relieved, I didn’t know what to do. With the “S II Examples,” I had that curved soprano saxophone. I went through all the different possible fingering patterns, and then put together multiphonics, quarter tones, and so on and so forth. I can take that to another place, now that I’ve learned how to circular-breathe.

Pete Flynn, Mets Groundskeeper for Almost 50 Years, Dies at 79 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/sports/baseball/obituary-pete-flynn-dead-mets-groundskeeper.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront Pete Flynn was a New York Met longer than Ed Kranepool, Keith Hernandez and Bud Harrelson combined. He stayed with the team as it went from National League punch line to World Series champion, and as it moved from the Polo Grounds to Shea Stadium and then to Citi Field. Mr. Flynn did more than maintain a fairway-trim field in the middle of Queens; he also welcomed visiting dignitaries and celebrities. After the Beatles played their historic Shea Stadium show in 1965, he drove John, Paul, George and Ringo from center stage to the center-field fence, where an armored car waited to help them escape nearly 56,000 screaming fans. Peter George Flynn was born on Feb. 12, 1938, in County Leitrim, Ireland. His parents, Peter Flynn and the former Mary Kate McGovern, had a farm. Mr. Flynn immigrated to Canada in 1960 and to New York City the next year. He got a job as a handyman for the Mets and moved to groundskeeping after he told them that he had landscaping experience. His daughter said that he had known nothing about baseball before working for the team, but that he grew to love the game.

and here! with liner notes by Stanley Dance!

Amazon told me today that my CD is about to ship, but I can stream it beginning now.

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?how the hell did that happen? There's a suggested tune list given out there, but, nope, I don't think so.

Kimmie, almost done. one more.

No arguments about Friedman, but I'd ask for consideration of Now He Sings, Now He Sobs for inclusion in The Most Modal Piano Trio Album Ever Hall Of Fame.

b/w I need both to keep on keeping the faith.Baby.

Also got this Mighty Quinn issue at the same time as the Hall. Listened to it about 5X today, wasn't really "pulled in" at first, but Rex Stewart wasn't taking "ehhh..." for an answer, and before you knew it, everybody had come in the house and made themselves to home (led, per usual, by Bud Freeman, who for all his tweed jackets, sounds like a guy who's had his drawers down quite a few times even with the jacket on, winkwinknudgenudge #theeelinessofyou). Don't know how much CondonMusic I really want relative to how much all of it there is, that's just me, but I'm not regretting this purchase at all. Kinda prefer to WP cover, though:

Got this as kind of a "what the hell" from the recent Mosaic Quasi-Liquidation Sale, and am finding it very satisfying. Nobody's phoning it in, not even a little. Fine, fine, fine!

Been to New Braunfels often enough, never heard of Corbyn. Apparently an unincorporated community that now exists in name only. There's plenty of those here, little groups where people settled in, never got bigger, and never formed an actual legal town. Some still have people, some don't, but the location still has a name. Why? Because they do, I suppose. Trust this, if you can (and I don't know if you can, but there's still dome fun pics in the slideshow): https://mapcarta.com/21712256

Oh good! A lively discussion about Mosaic emails! Nobody said progress would be without its frictions!

Would probably love to meet him, just as long as there was an easy exit.

Now that's a guy I would have like to have heard/seen live.

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All vocal arrangements by The Temptations. Ok, I'm a sucker for this song damn near every time, melody, harmony, lyrics, but this is basically a magnificently enveloping transcendence of earthy bounds. Temptations doing it, layers upon layers, no matter where you listen, there is something going on, top, bottom, middle, everywhere. Hell yeah, Richard Perry and OH heel yeah, Temptations. Gracias MUCH beaucoup to kinuta for spotlighting this record. Count me in, dude!

Listening to this album now...pretty radical, defiant music in the approach they take to the songs, revising the melodies and changes to fit their ethos. When everybody else was/is making "Great American songbook" retro-crap albums, the Temptations take the same type songs and make a Temptations album, period. As for the production, like him or not, Richard Perry is a master of doing what he does. It's definitely a "For Lovers" record, but lord, nobody makes "for lovers" records like this anymore, nobody wants to have the patience for love, if you know what I mean. Everybody wants to just straight to the sweat and the bang and then call all that drama "love". This is music for people who know what "take your time" really means. Y'all are still out there, aren't you? Special indeed!

I can tell you that that label released a lot of Boris rose airchecks, and that iirc, this would be that. Milestone(?) did a two-fer LP of Navarro/Dameron airshots, no idea if this is that, but I don't recall Jazz Anthology issuing "fake" stuff.

I had no idea who he was or what the music was going to be, but I'm liking it well enough, actually. Thank Dusty Groove Screwup!

Sent in error by Dusty Groove, but what the hell?

still a mover, still a groover, perfect for cubicle dancing in Quietland.