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Uber-disembodied black and white photos of lipsticked manheads, a wave of random staff notes, a combination of script and print, and a designer Tonette, geez, I don't have to hear it to love it, it's music for the eyes, a symphony of sight, a memory of before it ever happens.

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I was using the admittedly hype-y liner notes to the Columbia Storyville LP as a source. In regards to "Don't Worry About Me' being hear on the LP for the third time, somebody (Avakian?) writes: Now, such a 45 does exist, but is it really a third take that has more or less escaped general detection to this point, or was Columbia just making shit up? I mean, I could believe either scenario, http://www.davebrubeckjazz.com/Recordings/Detail/Columbia-~-"Priceless-Edition"-series/00348#info

A "stinkhorn mushroom" sounds like a Gentillic hygene issue, although either way, when your partner says "I ain't putting THAT in my mouth", you gotta recognize and assent. If you don't hey, get with the times, bucko, this ain't the Frontier Days no more.

Is the soda in the same fridge as the milk-that-never-expired? Nah, that one's in the house. The one with the random soda-freezings in the garage. I guess it's what you'd call a "beer fridge", except I don't really drink beer these days. so it's full of sodas, produce for later in the week, stuff that doesn't need to be in main inside fridge (which, really, I can't stand, very inefficient use of space, imo, but who listens to me about that until they figure it out themselves, which is after we've already bought the damn thing and used it for over a year? But your milk can have eternal life, or close to it, so there's that.). What puzzles me is that there's no discernible pattern to the freezings, not in chronology, not in where they are on the shelf, nor where they are inside the carton. I've tried adjusting the temperature, it's one of those cheapo models where fridge and freezer temperatures are controlled by the same setting, and a pretty wide variance of acceptable-for-both settings doesn't alter anything. And it's just diet sodas, which of course suggest different freezing points due to the ingredients/chemical mixture, but doesn't explain why the randomness, especially between individual cans. Or why some cans just bulge at the ends, and others split wide open and leave frosty frozeness all over the place, and others remain deliciously chilly and drinkalicious. You'd think that if one can would freeze, they all would. But no, this thing must have a trickster freeze-lazer that does what it does when it feels like it. I'm stumped. Worse places to be, sure, but still, stumped. And yeah, I know, diet sodas are poison, etc., but one problem at a time, ok?

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Too bad that Steve wasn't Eddie, then you could've had Eddie & Edye. Steve could've found a Stevie, Steve & Stevie, Eddie & Edye, let's call the whole thing off, pain and suffering mitigated fully and timely. But I'd still have some damn random soda-freezing.

Mine is that I keep having random cans in a 12-pack of diet soda freeze and then expand to the point of either distending, unseaming, or splitting open the individual can. Not all cans in the 12-pack, and not all 12-packs. Just random cans in random 12 packs. Of diet soda, not regular. So hey bub, excuse me if I'm a little sour, what's it to you anyway?

I'd be exponentially more inclined to buy a live box than I would the Studio one.

Does this mean there's a piece of potentially great Desmond/Brubeck early-Columbia live work floating around that's never seen air except for this limited release 45?

Cole Hamels is getting scratched because he has a sore groin. Slim Harpo didn't dream big enough.

No, do not give up all hopes, just look for records in your spare time. Shit turns up in some unlikely places sometimes, I swear it does. I mean, if it's not fun, don't do it, but if you can have fun looking for unlikely stuff in all kinds of places, be ready to carpe diem and have a coke and a smile, all that. And when it doesn't, have some ice cream, no need to have a bad day, ya' know? A few very reasonable LP prices on Pat's thing there: http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?master_id=759431&ev=mb CD version here http://www.amazon.com/Do-It-Now-Pat-Peterson/dp/B00070FUT4

Good luck on Naima. Best as I can tell it was only released as a Japan-Only Direct-To-Disc 12" 45. And if you're curious about the Soulmasters record, good, you should be. But don't pay big for it, becuase appearances are not deceiving, it really is a locally recorded recording of a local R&B band, albeit a very good one. Something else to be on the lookout for at not too much price is Introducing Pat Peterson on Enja. Pat is Hannibal's sister, an incredibly gifted vocalist who's spent the last few decades singing backgrounds for John Cougar, but before deciding to have that career had eyes to do what is now called "spiritual jazz" - and was damn good at it. Hannibal produced the record, and Pat freely admitted that it was a rush kind of thing and she wasn't fully comfortable, but...I like it anyway, it feels good to me. The band is Hannibal, Fathead, Scofield, T.M. Stevens, & Billy Hart, and the material is all Pat's.

Yeah, if it's anything less than a brainy post-modern neo-psychedlic blaxploitation masterpiece, I'll consider the ball to have been inexcusably and unforgivably dropped. Time, place, story,e tc. Did y'all see Cheadle's Petey Green?

That must be why Flying Lotus got the DJ gig on Why? with Hannibal Burris, they're going for the white crowd who thinks that black culture is cool. Comedy Central, playing that race magnet card again, like they did with Dave Chapelle. I've got to think that at least some black folks think that every time they enjoy other black folks for being other black folks doing something that they all enjoy turning into some reverse-racism hand-wringing is probably a burden that they didn't sign up for, above and beyond the other ones, and one that they will gladly and effortlessly toss on to the Fuck You, Seriously? burn pile, you'd be surprised how tall that thing's getting, anybody got a match?

First side is pretty much too plowed to listen to more than once (and I'm got a high tolerance for that kind of thing, but the second side is more than easy enough to listen to, and that's where the meat is, for my money. Desmond's working of the Stravinsky quote on "When You're Smiling" is the kind of thing that could be merely clever if not for the macro-contexting of it that he does while he's going along, the quotes are never the object of the line, they're just a part of it, there's still this whole other thing going on. Sweet.

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Apparently a take of "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" was released on the Columbia promotional series that is a different take than the one found on either Jazz Goes To College or Storyville: 1954, this one being made around the same time, but at University of Cincinnati. Has this take seen further reissue, legitimate or otherwise? Desmond seemed to be finding things in this tune during this time, and I'd like to hear this if it's out there.

Desmond... As well, the opening notes to "Le Souck" still seem to shift everything up and over to a slightly different vibrational plane.

It's been blogged, and it might have been P-Vined. It's good.

These ladies sholuld have an agent! Have they placed the order with Lowe"s? Hell yeah, get an agent!

Definitely worth getying. at that price. It's a fine record, and as always, Billy is strong.