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We were at 81 and muggy yesterday, then the sun went down, the cold front moved through and we had a little mini-tornado fest (none in Plano, thankfully), then today it cooled off and started raining like hell, but only in fits and starts, but all day and expected overnight. Right now it's 41, and out to the west and up in the panhandle, they're expecting snow. Not expecting it here, but we will drop below freezing a few nights this week, and truthfully, I'd not be surprised if a few flurries made their way in.

I like his playing with his quintet because it's his band and his material. That's how he thought is should have gone. By then, I think he was looking at it more as a composer playing a part than he was a drummer jamming out. That's pretty much how I like the entirety of that band, actually. Other than Mulgrew Miller, no really "distinctive" soloists in there. But the material, it works. The lack of stronger soloists keeps me from "fully enjoying" those records, but how I do enjoy them is as the output of Tony Williams, composer. And from that view, it's a pretty prodigious output, really. But those drums, they sure were yellow!

Romeo Penque Phil Bodner Harry Klee

Name/Title_______________________________Format______Quantity___ Kahil El' Zabar __________________________ CD 1 Alika Rising -- Kahil El' Zabar's Ritual Trio At Leverkusener Jazztage Item: 779184, New Copy Sessions/Wolpe ___________________________ CD 1 Violin Concerto/Symphony -- Paul Zukofsky/Schuller/Orchestre Philharmonique De L'Office De La Radio Diffusion Television Francaise/Westburg/ Item: 781382, Condition: Used (NOTE: Out of print.) Piston/Ives/Carpenter ____________________ LP 1 Concertino For Piano & Chamber Orchestra/Forth Of July/Concertino For Piano & Orchestra -- Marjorie Mitchell/Strickland/Goteborg Symphony Item: 773557, Condition: Very Good+ (NOTE: Stereo pressing. Cover has some light ringwear and light edge wear.)

Paramahansa Yogananda Alexi Ogando Ganna Duritska

Swingin' New Big Band Big Swing Face A Different Drummer

http://www.forghieri.net/jazz/blind/Davis_3.html June 1964, perhaps the most famous of Miles' BFTs, Miles says he likes Don Cherry, but can't stand either Eric Dolphy or Cecil Taylor. The admission of a liking of Cherry remained constant through Miles' life afaik. At some earlier point Miles said of Ornette himself “Hell, I just listen to what he writes and how he plays. If you’re talking psychologically, the man is all screwed up inside.” -- Miles Davis, reported to Joe Goldberg, “Jazz Masters of the ‘50s”

Johnny Angel Shelley Fabares Nanette Fabray

Robbie Chip Ernie

I've heard the Oscar Peterson that I enjoy enough to post as a recommendation. I'm good now.

Actually know both, and actually...don't like either one too much. What I like about this one is the constant sparseness. And it's funny - I really, as a rule, do not like Peterson at all, but can readily identify him. Touch, time, everything. So when I heard him play the first few notes of this one, I was like, uh-oh, get ready. But it never came, it stayed nice, sparse, mellow, totally in the pocket. And yeah, that was nice.

Shorts and t-shirt here, maybe some AC this afternoon, but Christmas is always and only Christmas. All the best to those who celebrate it as well as to those who don't. Peace on Earth & Goodwill Toward Men, never out of style, never out of place.

Just saying, that one song brought me a level of satisfaction that I appreciated then, and still appreciate today. I really really like the changes and the arrangement, and do not use "hip elevator music" as anything but a compliment. Those of you who know my darker secrets know that I dig hip elevator music.

No idea how it works, but my dealings with them have always been straightforward, if a little atypical in the methodology. And the catalog is rich.

The Odd Couple Odd Squad The Fairly Odd Parents

Peter Bossman Sweet Peter Jeeter Peter Peter, Pumpkin Eater

Yeah, we had furniture stores and a Firestone that sold records, the era of the small town rack jobber, must've been a wild life...In a town of about 7,000, I can think of at least 6 places where you could buy records of one kind or another, some current, some old, some off-brand, but all of them there and ready to be bought, drug stores, dime stores newsstands, grocery stores, seems like you could buy records any time you left the house, go out for a gallon of milk and an Elvis 45, or something like that.

Name/Title_______________________________Format__Price____Quantity___Total Arvo Part ________________________________ CD 3.99 1 3.99 Lamentate/Da Pacem Domine -- Hilliard Ensemble/Alexei Lubimov/Andrey Boreyko/SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Item: 735853, Condition: Used (NOTE: Barcode has a cutout hole.) Pigmeat Markham __________________________ LP 2.99 1 2.99 Tune Me In Item: 46380, Condition: Very Good (NOTE: Blue label pressing.) Schoenberg _______________________________ LP 9.99 1 9.99 Verklarte Nacht/Transfigured Night/String Quartet No 2 -- Ramor Quartet Item: 583032, Condition: Near Mint- (NOTE: Cover has a library stamp, but is otherwise in great shape!)

No doubt, but let's revisit the story from the angle of "record department of the stationary store"...they had that where you grew up, did they? I swear, records used to be everywhere!

She might have been dropping a hint...what time did she get off work?

I don't see any evidence of "Hippodelphia" really being known as anything other than an "album cut" from MercyMerciMersey, but it's a great tune, and Joe Henderson on the Nat Adderley version is oooooh so good, so I'd like to add it to the list, but...can't. Someday, perhaps.

...heard this on the radio while driving around this afternoon and really enjoyed the "hip elevator music" chillout vibe it delivered, very much appreciated while dealing with old white people in SUVs and either a total lack of sentience and/or a total possession of some weird combination of road rage and road entitlement. Some guy pulls out of a parking lot into half of the right turn island and half on the sidewalk, drives up to the light, waits for it to turn green, then swerves over into the straight ahead lane, hey, in the face of that, I willingly say, "thanks, Oscar!".

Oh yeah, pretty much the entire Brubeck/Desmond & Desmond solo catalog, live and studio. Some were better than others (in some cases a lot better than others), but the entire, ongoing experience proved to be illuminating, challenging, and ultimately caused more than one re-evaluation about some looooong held beliefs about that whole thing.

What, are we saying that "middle-age" tops off at 50? Is that a statistic, an opinion, just what, exactly? I see here http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa/life-expectancy-white-male that my life expectancy is, at present, 75.63, so I got, statistically, another 15 or so years left. and yet I am not considered "old" by anything except my back and ankles. Then again, I know I'm not going to live to be 120, so...whose middle? What age? Nobody's expected to live to 100, yet some do. and yet again, most don't. What I want to know is this - Huh? WTF? Smack dab?