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I don't know about "judged by", but I love his playing on that date. As I have said before...

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There's this one, which Emerald released on CD only: I'm wanting to say that the Emerald LP material made it to CD on some bootleg label, but I'm not really sure about that. Or maybe it's that this one was later released on some other label? Either way, the Silveto/Emerald catalog should be of interest to any serious Silver collector, not just as music, but as an expression of Horace's philosophy self-reliance, not just spiritually, but materially as well. Philosophical/lyrical reservations aside, the music is good, and the players are top-shelf all the way. Plenty of unplugged Eddie Harris! https://www.discogs.com/label/374096-Silveto-Records And besides the two Emerald releases of Silver live, there's a Clark Terry gig there as well: https://www.discogs.com/Clark-Terry-Live-1964/release/4739853 I have yet to either see or hear this one: https://www.discogs.com/Horace-Silver-Los-Angeles-Modern-String-Orchestra-The-Continuity-Of-Spirit/release/5814321

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/arts/music/rose-hamlin-dead-sang-angel-baby.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront Rosalie Hamlin was born in Klamath Falls, Ore., on July 21, 1945. Her family moved to Alaska when she was a child and then to Southern California. Ms. Hamlin also wrote about her pride in being included in an exhibit about one-hit wonders at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. She said she was the first Latina on such a list, as well as the first to appear on Dick Clark’s television show “American Bandstand.”

Ruben Amaro Sr., Infielder for Star-Crossed ’64 Phillies, Dies at 81 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/sports/baseball/ruben-amaro-sr-dead-philadelphia-phillies.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=sectionfront Amaro was also a first-base coach, for the Phillies. It was in that role that he finally made it to a World Series with the team, in 1980, under Dallas Green, who died on March 22. The Phillies prevailed, beating the Kansas City Royals, four games to two, to win their first championship.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/arts/music/lonnie-brooks-dead-chicago-blues-singer-guitarist.html?ref=todayspaper Lonnie Brooks was born Lee Baker Jr. in Dubuisson, La., on Dec. 18, 1933, and began playing music professionally in Port Arthur, Tex., in the early 1950s. He played guitar with the zydeco singer and accordionist Clifton Chenier before going out on his own under the name Guitar Junior. Almost 60 years ago the singer Sam Cooke, with whom he was touring, suggested he move to Chicago. When he learned that there was already a blues guitarist there known as Guitar Junior, he changed his professional name to Lonnie Brooks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/arts/television/joe-harris-dead-created-underdog-trix-rabbit.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0 In the 1950s Mr. Harris worked at the advertising firm Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, drawing cartoon mascots and storyboards to sell products like General Mills cereals and Bounty paper towels. In the late 1950s he created a floppy-eared white cartoon rabbit to sell Trix, a fruit-flavored, multicolored version of General Mills’s more popular Kix. He also drew a storyboard and wrote ad copy, including “Silly rabbit! Trix are for kids,” words that became synonymous with the cereal. After seeing Mr. Harris’s ideas in 1959, Chet Stover, who was creative director on the Trix account, wrote a memo to the company that said, “In a business where the only thing we have to sell are ideas, it is of first importance the credit is given where credit belongs — and Joe gets all the credit for this one.” Mr. Harris joined Mr. Stover; W. Watts Biggers, an account manager at Dancer; and Treadwell Covington, who worked at a direct-mail agency, to form Total TeleVision, a company that would make Saturday morning cartoons to compete for General Mills’s business with cartoons by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, who created a show centering on the characters Rocky & Bullwinkle. Mr. Stover and Mr. Biggers were the main writers; Mr. Covington handled audio recording; Mr. Harris drew storyboards and designed characters like King Leonardo, Klondike Kat and Tennessee Tuxedo. The best known of these characters was Underdog, who was transformed from a canine version of a shoeshiner into a superhero, usually when the reporter Sweet Polly Purebred was threatened by villains, including the evil scientist Simon Bar Sinister and the natty wolf gangster Riff Raff. He said interest in the “Underdog” show remained high, even decades after the last episode ran. As he told The Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina in 2007, “Anytime I’m out in public, people always say, ‘Here’s a piece of paper, draw Underdog for me, will you?’ ”

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Same here.

The composer prefers D Minor!

Your friends have done good work, imo/fwiw. We're watching, like 2-3 episodes a day, mini-binging on them. Almost through Season 4 and keep finding little things that keep it fresh. It really looks good in HD, too. No idea how "authentic" any of it really is, but I keep getting beguiled by the details of the colors and shapes of everything. The men's ties and the women's hats, the wallpapers, the house paints...amazing, shade of blue, purple, and yellow I had thought were extinct!!!!

But on a serious note... The "digital reality" has changed the collective "us", none of us has to change but good luck in stopping it. At some point, it's either adapt or withdraw. Either way you die in the end. But if you're an attempting to be an enabler of knowledge rather than an enforcer of rules, you will find a way to engage, even if it diminishes - or reinforces - or both! - the certainty of your dogma.

Drum machines not part of the "tradition of black music"? Gotta protect dat natchal rittim y'all! Keep away from dem machines, they EVIL!!!!!!

Well, hell, it's a TV mystery series. That's what's supposed to happen! And always does! I find the very droll delivery and the almost deadpan camera work that accompanies it very entertaining/amusing/etc. Maybe it's another one of those things that isn't supposed to be "funny", but Brenda and I both "get it", and when it comes to what makes us laugh, that doesn't happen all that much. And George Crabtree is one of the better comic foils I've seen on television in quite a while. Another thing I love is the colors. I'm used to seeing Victorian-type stuff either in black and white or else faded. They got that shit popping, and it treats my eyes well, as do many of the women they have in supporting roles, apparently all Canadian. Nicely done, Canadiennes! Also find the notion of a smart guy finding himself surrounded by all the scientific/mechanical inventions of the times to be of sustaining interest.

Exactly - sound has meaning as sound. "We" should not even be giving this a second thought, especially since those second thoughts too often end up being in search of negation of reality instead of better understanding it. But round and round and round we go....that's how a rut get dug, I believe. I mean, geez, Cathy, hire a fucking band, ok? Real instruments and shit.

Not just how could you do this with a "real drummer" (no you couldn't "real drums" are entirely too "big" to fit into this space. Believe me, I've heard it tried in clubs too many times, they got a live band and the people want to hear that kind of beat, so the drummer plays "that" and...no, it's not that), why would you want to even try? And that then goes to why do you want to do this? Consider the physical feeling of a given sound in a given physical space, Sometimes a crowd feels right, sometimes elevation above/extrication out of the crowd feels even better. Especially when the crowd you're separating from is one you never really wanted there in the first place. Oh, feelings get hurt? Where? Means to an end. How many times has "The Beauty Of Black Music" been destroyed?

Not you. It was the implied conclusion of the one guy's statement that the drum machine has destroyed the beauty of Black Music forever. I'm like, ok, no more beauty, what's left? "Pretty", I guess? Maybe?

My wife happened upon this show on Netflix, and now we are hooked. Are you? My name is Detective William Murdoch of the Toronto Constabulary. Oh HELL yeah!

So,,,Black Music is forevermore ugly? I guess Black People will be too, unless they make something besides Black Music? Otherwise, I can't trust any American "jazz fan" who doesn't have any Marvin Gaye records, not even What's Going On (which does not have drum machines). That's just weird. I would say it's just wrong, but you know, that's not done these days.

Sucked to be Stephen Piscotti last night. Ouch! http://m.mlb.com/news/article/222424314/stephen-piscotty-ok-after-painful-inning/

"real drummer"....a drum machine is not a "fake drummer", it's a whole other thing. Those who use it or hear it as a "substitute" drummer are not using the imaginative part of their music-self. That's a lot of people, including some big names, but the opposite of "real drummer" is not necessarily "drum machine". Find me a "real drummer" who can get that "Planet Rock" thing, the whole thing, the sound and everything.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/arts/music/ikutaro-kakeshashi-roland-808-drum-machine-dead.html?action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront The impact of 808 was loud and lasting. Roland claims it is heard on more hit records than any other drum machine, including tracks by Michael Jackson, Prince, Marvin Gaye — whose 1982 song “Sexual Healing” was largely constructed with an 808 — and Kanye West, whose album “808s and Heartbreak” was named after it. Beyoncé, Madonna and Eminem, among many others, have mentioned the 808 in lyrics. The 808 was widely embraced in hip-hop, particularly after the release of “Planet Rock” by Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force in 1982. In “808,” a 2015 documentary about the device by Alex Dunn, Public Enemy’s producer Hank Shocklee said, “It’s not hip-hop without that sound.” Introduced in 1980 and discontinued in 1983, the TR-808 — TR stands for “transistor rhythm”— was an analog device that made frankly artificial drum and percussion sounds: tinny handclaps, hissing high-hats, a dinky cowbell. But it was portable and could be programmed by untrained musicians, and with circuits that included the specific defective transistor, the 808’s bass drum sound held thunderous low frequencies that could shake up clubs. With the tone and decay controls on the 808, the bass drum sounds could also be sustained and broadened to suggest subterranean melodies. The sounds of the 808 continue to be heard in R&B, pop and electronic dance music, and they are starkly in the foreground in the current production style called trap. Those 808 sounds, however, are likely to be sampled rather than generated by an original machine. Only 12,000 TR-808 Rhythm Composer units were made, because as semiconductor manufacturing improved, the distinctively defective transistor became unavailable.

Roy Sievers, Slugging Washington Senator in the ’50s, Dies at 90 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/sports/baseball/roy-sievers-dead-slugger-with-washington-senators.html?_r=0 Playing for the Senators from 1954 to 1959, Sievers was a favorite of Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who was master of ceremonies at a night for him in September 1957. In 1959, after Nixon’s so-called Kitchen Debate with the Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev over the merits of capitalism versus communism at a model kitchen in an American national exhibition in Moscow, Sievers was among those at Nixon’s welcome-home party at a Washington airport. At the time, the Senators were in the midst of a losing streak, and when he greeted Nixon, Sievers recalled, “The first thing he said was, ‘What in the hell is wrong with the Senators?’ “And I said, ‘Mr. Vice President, we’re just not hitting good, the pitching’s not good.’ He said, ‘I’ll be out the next night.’ Usually, when he came out we’d win the ballgame. But we lost.” The Senators went on to drop 18 straight games. Beyond the ballpark, Sievers was part of the Singing Senators, organized by the team’s broadcaster Bob Wolff. One day in June 1958, Wolff, playing the ukulele, appeared on the Washington Mall with Sievers, his fellow outfielders Jim Lemon and Albie Pearson and a couple of Senators pitchers and joined them in song for the NBC-TV “Today” program, hosted by Dave Garroway.