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Dude...I signed up for them and was stoked, no minimum, no obligation, records for dirt cheap, and then I get my first bunch in, Blind Faith, Time/Peace, Transition, Burnt Weenie Sandwich, I forget what else, and they all have this sticker on them about manufactured especially for Record Club Of America, something like that, and I was like, fuck this, this shit is bogus, and never ordered again. But they kept me on their mailing list for another 3-4 years, and you know me, loneliness ends at the mailbox, so there was that. I also wonder if this new Columbia House will charge the items off against the artist as promo copies, exempt from all artist compensation. That was a neat little rick that I never knew about until a few years ago, when it was mentioned here.

Cal Worthington Mystery Shopper Tour Guide

Can Capitol & RCA be far behind? There's some Hollyridge Strings & Eddy Arnold records I need to catch up on.

Walk Tall In A Silent Way Dr. Honoris Causa Boogie Woogie Waltz A Remark You Made Birdland Young & Fine (I've even heard beboppers play this one!) Some of these may be "victims of fashion" right now, but all were widely embraced in their time, remain readily identifiable to most public and most players, and should fashion favor that type of music again, will again be widely played for indiscriminate general consumption. And if not, they once were.

The Folks Who Live On The Hill The Fool On The Hill Jack & Jill, who were no real match at all for the Folks and The Fool, were they now.

The Mike Gibbs tunes, no. They were in there due to the Gary Burton Berklee origins of the book. The Holland tunes did get played by the more adventurous students for a while in the 70s, they're great heads and lend themselves good to jamming, But then that whole "other thing" happened and then it was like, oh, not really jazz. But I think you can find a few people here and there who could still play them if needed. Not at all a new or recent insight, but with the shifted emphasis towards wholly original material, the emphasis on a shared "standard" repertoire has morphed quite a bit. I look at it like anything post-1975 or so that a few people in a few places know and have at their disposal to play is about as "standard" as you're gonna get. That really doesn't bother me, but when the inevitable snarkfest (which I don't see happening here, mind you, thankfully) about "well, if these music is so "universal", why are there no standards coming out of it" is irksome, because "standards" apply more to overall mindset than they do fixed materials. Quite apart from that, though, Zawinul. Exception to all kinds of rules. Any other non-American, a distant second, at least in this very specific category.

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Yeah, that's not a record I really "like", but I definitely love it. What Gordon Jenkins does with "Bang Bang" is pretty chilling too, I think..."It Was A Very Good Year", etc, yeah, I see how you you get there from those songs. But how you get there from THIS song, how the hell does that happen? Vision beyond those of most, definitely. I'm not the biggest Gordon Jenkins fan, but when the guy was in his zone, it could get dark. I'll make a halfass weak case for L.A. Is My Lady being a far better record that the title cut suggests, and I have a VHS of the "sessions" that is pretty cool for what it is, but, you know, She Shot Me Down got a freakin' raveass review in Rolling Stone on it's issue, and, you know, yeah, right, but still, it was not wrong, that review, the "young people" finally recognizing that, hey, life is drunk sometimes, not high, but drunk, and not a happy drunk, and whoa, this guy, I get it now. But find a really cheap copy of that VHS...it's as phony as it is real, which is to say, hey, no illusions, have a drink. The origins of the mic drop?

The Trinity Trini Lopez Pezband

He told you that you were a liar? Like not only was he 100%+ sure about the accuracy of his story, but equally certain about you saying something that you knew was false in every way, that he knew this as well? Whoa... I never knew that that cover was - or that those cuts were - originally on a Fantasy EP until today. There's got to be a story there. Was Fantasy at all initially nervous about Bruce?

Did not know that was originally a Fantasy EP, cover and all. Just knew it from the first Lenny Bruce LP. Is there a reason how that happened? The World Pacific album...ever reissued on CD?

Ryan Leaf The Ryans (and their Hope) Ryan Costa (and HIS Hope: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2BMJKGBCZUDPE

And lest I lie unnecessarily, let me correct myself - it was fall of 1970 that I saw Richard Nixon lie in person, in an airplane hanger in Longview. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2776 The Mature Sensitive Motherfucker will never lie to you. They may bullshit you 24/7, but they will never lie to you!

"Douche bag" is not in the vocabulary of a True Sensitive Motherfucker. They lie if they claim otherwise. It's not that I have anything against liars, I once heard Richard Nixon lie in person, in an airplane hanger in Longview, fall of 1972. But Richard Nixon was not a Sensitive Motherfucker. Was he a douche bag? I'll leave that for others to decide.

Sorry that somebody died. I'm sure they're in a better place. As for ego and competitiveness and that shit, hey, that's fine by me as long as it remains aboveboard. It's a basic facet of humanity. Maybe not on the Picard version of the Enterprise, but elsewhere, yeah. Where it goes off the tracks for me is when it gets underhanded, backstabbing, intentional hitting below the belt on and off the record and all that, real harm to lives being done. No respect for that. Otherwise, talk is cheap, but cheap can be fun.

Name/Title_______________________________Format__Price____Quantity___Total Bartok/Busoni/Messiaen/Stravinsky ________ LP 4.99 1 4.99 Three Etudes Op 18 Sz 72/Sechs Kurze Stucke Zur Pflege Des Polyphonen Spiels/Quatre Etudes De Rythme/Four Etudes Op 7 -- Paul Jacobs Item: 669559, Condition: Near Mint- (NOTE: Cover has a stain on one corner.) Herbie Mann ______________________________ LP 0.99 1 0.99 Glory Of Love Item: 7752, Condition: Very Good- Nielsen __________________________________ LP 3.99 1 3.99 Symphony No 5 Op 50/Saga Drom Op 39 -- Jascha Horenstein/New Philharmonia Orchestra Item: 661903, Condition: Near Mint-

I thought that "a better place" was where you went when you died?

New releases - Threadgill, Roscoe, Jack's AACM record. That, and "discovering" Matnana Roberts Damn good year.

What is the reference recording for the proven sound of a man having his liver torn out - slowly? I'm curious, and it's Christmas. A gift awaits, surely!

No, see, that's where you fucked up. I get that you're a Sensitive Motherfucker (as are we all, either aspirational or realized), but what is being missed here is that that's a two word phrase - Sensitive and Motherfucker. Let's meditate on that - The Sensitive part goes ahead and respects the woman's needs and desires and puts her pleasure above his own, confident in the knowledge that his consideration will be returned in kind. BUT - The Motherfucker part finds a way to stop that shit from playing ASAP. The ideal way is to knock the needle off the record or otherwise stop it at the source with a choreographed ass-hit against the appropriate part of the sound system, your ass or hers, it matters not, whatever is more Sensitively Correct at the time, but there are other ways, and the fully evolved SM is never at a loss. You can be all sorry and shit, but don't stop being Sensitive - and don't stop being a Motherfucker. Do it at a moment when cessation of activity by your partner is not going to be a need which she has.That way, everybody goes away completely satisfied. I'll allow for your youth allowing you to perform under such dire circumstances, but hopefully the passage of time has made you aware that if you got it up anyway, while this was playing, either Jarrett overrides your common sense, or else you were just a Sensitive Motherfucker in training at the time. I do applaud the vulnerability you show by admitting today that Keith Jarrrett played on without interruption and did not, as the vernacular has it, "fuck with your nature". No doubt, the male subset of Organissimo Community is of a more mature bent, and has totally mastered the Art Of The Sensitive Motherfucker, if not completely, then largely. However, we older SMs have an obligation to our younger successors who might be lurking here to pass along our accumulated lessons and wisdoms whenever possible. Also, keep in mind that ladies (be they girl or be they woman) can - and certainly should be - Sensitive Motherfuckers at least as competently as their male counterparts. The Evolution Imperative all but demands it! This is a universal message for all people, that of The Ways Of The Sensitive Motherfucker. Heed well!

Let's All Go Down To The Footwash (Threadgill/Air). Used to think it was some kind of funny thing, then found out that it's a very real thing, the footwash is. Now, "Spotted Dick Is Pudding", that one speaks for itself.

Is EDM what they more or less now call house? If so, I am shocked about this. SHOCKED, I tell you!

Don't forget to buy those Shirley Scott records!

Always seemed more Patty Waters than Uncle Meat to me. But yeah, if you're looking for that sensitive folky thing, it ain't here!

Dave Holland has a few tunes from Conference Of The Birds in the Real Book, as does Mike Gibbs. The original question had to do with pieces that were not "songs" to begin with, correct? No lyrics in original conception, purely an instrumental construction?