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  1. I have 'em checked each week with one of those machines at the grocery store.
  2. For sheer fun gameplay...I like Vegas Stakes (strictly for the poker, although that's enough), and Warrio's Woods. You can beat Vegas Stakes, although if you're honest(ish) it takes a while, a good while, but Warrio's Woods, that thing goes on forever. I think I had got up to lever 138 or 168 (can't recall) before my daughter accidentally cleared the save out, I think it would go up to Level 999 if you could get it to. But in both games, the "tasks" involved aren't so much chore-specific as they are decision/outcome, if that makes any sense. I don't game any more, but my daughter showed up with a SNES cart that had everything on it, and next thing you know, she had me revisiting those two, which cshe apparently has great childhood memories of watching me play. Tell you what, the graphics and everything else might have improved in the decades since, but for the way I'm wired, I don't think you can improve on the game-play itself of those two. My son still games, and from what I can see...I don't need that much of all of that. But THIS guy, yeah!
  3. If you just want to finish it, there's all sorts of player's guide/cheat sheets anywhere you wanna look. I used to castigate my kids to no end back in the day for using them when they hit a tough spot, but hell, you're an adult, you've had the real-time gamefun, this is just business now, no need or time to think about character and/or intellectual development now, not from an old Zelda game, this is a task to cross of the list once and for all, so by all means, tools available, use them. IMHO, of course.
  4. I think "curator" is a silly word myself, but "promoter" is so run-like-hell these days, I understand why it's being used until all the promoters fuck it up for all the true curators. Lingualistics aside, good luck on the presentations, and keep doing the good work for the good people. And if/when you can't do that, hey, become a promoter...
  5. Have either of the Don Pullen/Milford Graves SRP albums (Live at Yale & Nommo) made it to CD, reasonably or otherwise? Those are two BIG holes in my listening experience.
  6. Would you want to get too contrary to Morris Levy? Another Atlantic/Roulette "share" was Maynard Ferguson & Chris Connor. Who did Atlantic get in the share for Trane?
  7. http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/-/Artist/A025139.html MONDAY MICHIRU & TOSHIKO AKIYOSI JAZZ CONVERSATIONS 2015.07.01 アルバム / VICJ-61740 ¥2,800+税 Victor 01 ロング・イエロー・ロード LONG YELLOW ROAD 02 ファースト・ナイト FIRST NIGHT 03 ラヴ・アンド・ライフ LOVE AND LIFE 04 ワーニング:サクセス・メイ・ビー・ハザダス・トゥ・ユア・ヘルス WARNING:SUCCESS MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH 05 ニュー・ガール・イン・タウン NEW GIRL IN TOWN (WHERE ARE WE?) 06 ブロークン・ドリームス BROKEN DREAMS 07 ドリーミング DREAMING 08 エイント・ゴナ・アスク・ノー・モア AIN'T GONNA ASK NO MORE 09 フロッグ FROG 10 ワン・ノート・サンバ ONE NOTE SAMBA 秋吉敏子 (p), Monday満ちる (vo,fl), ポール・ギル (b), マーク・テイラー (ds)
  8. I had it when it came out, wanted to like it more than I did, eventually dubbed one cut off of it that I DID like (the ballad, a Strayhorn dedication, I think?) to reel-to-reel, traded the album away, then he died and I went for decades thinking' oh, ok, Bobby Jones, he was a player all right, and that was about it, Then a while back, somebody said, you know, you really SHOULD check out Hill Country Suite, so, ok, finally got around to it, heard something truly personal there, and finally got around to rebuying the Cobblestone LP (for not a lot at all) not really to listen to, but to have as a document of somebody who was around a long time more or less as a faceless almost a name, then got a break for a quick minute, then went back into the shadows with only a little more face and a little more name, because, I like to have documents of people like that handy, just in case somebody's over and we get to talking about things like that. people who were there but not "noticeably" "there", if you know what I mean, I like to have documents to back up, or at least break up, my ramblings. Tell you what - there was a good story about Bobby Jones in DB from that quick minute when he was "there", and it tells a lot. But I never really felt like I got how/why he was there, with Mingus, until I read that book of Mingus interviews with further post-then updatings that came out not too many years ago, the one where he talked to this one cat several times over the years. Then, finally, Bobby Jones came alive to me, and I finally felt like I "got" how it all fit together, which up until then, I certainly had not.
  9. Atomic Dog Deputy Dawg Ellen Barkin
  10. Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_Pace and...a Roller Derby-ist! http://www.bankedtrack.info/PlayerTributes/tributes0596.html I can't post a direct link to it here because it would lead you to the kind of links we don't allow here, but here's a tip as to where to begin looking http://big10inchrecord(dot )blogspot (DOT) com Apart from the links, there's all kinds of groovy photos and biographical tidbits about a lot of people not really talked about these days, and a few who are, but not a whole lot. Plenty of value even without the linkages.
  11. Presented here as a public service:
  12. So, then, this thread is a redundancy to an existing conversation, but not a "duplicate thread". If the OP wants to delete this entire thread, that can happen but geez, I appreciate his/her enthusiasm (and their desire to have it cleaned up), and since there are so many redundancies on this board anyway (it being a reflection of life in that regard), this thread and that conversation will be left alone to coexist and the marketplace will be the decider, unless the marketplace decides it wants moderator intervention, in which case, here we are, we got the Moderatonos all strapped on and are ready to go riding with them.
  13. JSngry

    Mundell Lowe

    You'd have to let me hear Lowe playing "Donkey Serenade" if you want me to have an informed agreement or disagreement about that particular assessment.
  14. There was no report to the moderators about that one, sorry, but now merged in chronological order, nothing deleted out of either, so consider this the thread equivalent of a full session tape. Like I tell my dog, we finally got you fixed, now just keep it clean from here on out.
  15. Washington Irving Dee Clark Cee-Lo Green
  16. Am not entranced by Fuller all the time, but when he's in a groove, a ruminative one especially, he gets to me. Does Curtis Fuller have multiple stomachs? I've occasionally let that get to me as well.
  17. Removed the duplications, honest mistakes are never a problem. Onward!
  18. Yeah, is this place looking to be the DFW Dusty Groove? I would not mind that. Not a linkable image, but...hello obsessive jazz compulsists, bring your wallet and/or phone or however you pay for things these days. https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10675710_549343671833639_1544946976819342471_n.jpg?oh=5f182993d94b771bc8363ffd2fd6db77&oe=55D07B54
  19. Yeah, I hear ya' on all counts. But Hank's harmonies on that Dexter date are really surprising sometimes...I recall thinking, oh, THAT'S where Thad picked up all that dense clustery stuff, from his older brother. Probably not true, but still.
  20. Thanks. Had not heard of Josey Lane Records before...any idea from whence they sprang?
  21. Where do you go in DFW to get Record Store Day releases? I found the Larry Young at Josey Lane Records (the last copy they had, it appeared), and the Getz at Dead Wax in Carrolton (they had more copies of both the Young and the Getz and they may well still be there--this is a tiny store near Babe's (right next to a Twisted Root) which otherwise has nothing much of jazz interest). Have not heard of either of those stores, thanks, what other secret DFW stores do you go to?
  22. If it's only five takes total, what format will this be and what price? This is a perfect candidate for a hi-res download-only release, no? Unless there's more that's not been documented. We can hope for that, yes?
  23. JSngry

    Mundell Lowe

    A really nice earlier Lowe chorus on this early 50s BG side: And dig Teddy's bebop turnaround leading into Mundell's solo. Sweet! Heard this cut pretty much all my life, as it was included on the Texaco Swing Into Spring album, but did not find the full sextet album until somewhere into the 80s, and was a little discappointed when the whole session was not this loose and breezy. But this cut is, so if you're out and about and have a choice, choose Swing Into Spring, that's a pretty nifty little LP, it is.
  24. Nose and ear holes, especially ear holes, all the hair that decides to grow in and out of there once a certain age is reached, what's the deal there, eh? Smell not a problem, just hair. Where's the Nair For There?
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