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I never really cared for her, she didn't have her words under control, I thought, vowels and consonants, beginnings and ending, they just kinda came out in a very undistinguished, borderline amateur fashion. That clip shows she's been dealing with that, and much respect to her for so doing. She's still got that nannying vibrato that I don't like, and I really don't hear the level of "depth" that I prefer, but it's always heartening to see somebody not settle for what got them over in the first place. Who knows, she can continue to deal with these things and really come together at some point. Plenty of reasons why that wouldn't happen, but no reasons why they couldn't.

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The Portal Of Thomness, please, although I advise in front that personal time is in a very unpredictable state right now.

I don't know if she sounds that much better...but definitely improved,

Tecnically A&M/CTI, but still, those are two very deceptively great recrds, Imo, with the first one not available on CD at anything resembling a reasonable price,too bad about that. Don't shy away from Desmond's CTI/CTI albums either, although they are on the whole less "productions" than the A&M ones. What kind of a release was this anyway, "Mayfair", curious about that.

I was having similar thoughts this afternoon while walking the dog, but then got to wondering If the issue was more celebrity deaths or just more celebrities, actual math vs perceptual math.

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/garry-shandling-its-great-that-garry-shandling-is-still-alive RIP to one funnyass motherfucker. MUCH love here.

Sounds better than she used to, if that one clip is any indication.

Oh, I've go no idea whether or not it actually was that, just saying that it looks like it could have been. But your uncle did produce some very open BN dates, like Super Nova.

"Come Sunday" from Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington. I can't begin to recommend that album highly enough. https://youtu.be/huNtEOsN6s4

No, not Earl Hines, although I found the cut I was thinking it might be, and it's a lot closer to what's on here than a causal thought might suggest.

12 = an extract from a longer piece? Part of a medley? Earl Hines? Dave Brubeck?

That bald head protected his life like his body protected the plate! Remembering the vast # of commercials he did for some line of the Chrysler family, Dodge, was it? Probably long forgotten now, but actually a pop culture figure in the 70s, a regular gig on the Today show, the commercials, hosted some parades, iirc, and all those appearances on the Tonight show, with the the piccolo-led "Take Me Out to The Ball Game" play on. RIP.

10 sounds like Chick channeling Bill Evans, but that cannot be it based on your hint.

And that's it? #TontineOfBird

Groove Merchant records were too often too easy to pass over back in the day, mainly due to the nastyass cover designs and slippery production values. But there were some fine records in there, and O'Donel Levey definitely make some of them. RIP.

Time to play the Who Is Left Alive Who Played With Bird? game - Roy Haynes, Mundell Lowe, who else?

My shelves are reaching the breaking point, believe me, and in all basic formats (can I interest you in a buttload full of cassettes?). Believe me, this was not the result of searching for revelations. You don't buy, say, Don Patterson LPs on sight to find revelations, you do that simply because they're so damn good, all of them, and more of the same is more of a good thing. Collection obesity not just embraced, but swallowed whole, with zero intent of ever shitting ANY of it back out. However, in my case, capacity to collect is finite, but capacity to store is not. So now I'm now starting to ask myself before buying more physical product if it's going to be more or less more of the same, or if it's going to be something that will stay off the shelves for a while, stays handy to the player, something that I have to pay the fullest of attentions to. External HDs make that a more practical consideration than ever before, I am not opposed to digital, especially for "more of the same", no matter how good that "same" is. Merely a question of continuing to scratch the same itch or scratching a new one. and it's still a transitional process. Old scratch reflexes die hard, even after the flesh becomes red and raw.

I'm always interested as well, that's why I got it, and enjoyed it. But the more time passes, the more I want to tilt towards revelatory, just where I'm at/heading to...definitely what my remaining available space is demanding.. But by all means, yes, get this one, there is certainly nothing to displease, and much to be pleased by. He sounds like he's working on reorganizing his thinking into more motivic-based thinking, obvious a later-ish Trane-ish thing to do, but at times, it seems to me, gettin' kinda Hank-ish about it as well. Phrases more as "blocks" rather than "lines" might be one way to describe it? Sonny Red seems to have been one of those guys who was always working towards something, and never uninterestingly. Apparently he was often derailed by "personal problems" enough that he perhaps never fully found what he was looking for. But his voice is compelling, always.

I mean, it's a neat docunent, but not particularly revelatory. Sonny Red is interesting in a "hmmmm...interesting" kind of way, and you can never have enough Joe Chambers, but I don't know that you leave this one with more than you come in with except for one more nice CO on your shelves. Imo, etc.

Listened today. It's document-y!

Jacob and Samuel Hawken Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson Alexander McCormick Sturm and William B. Ruger

Whoa! Thanks!

Benny & The Jets Winston Hill Billy the Mountain