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Worth bringing this link over to this thread: http://books.google.com/books?id=0TkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=Parabolic+alan+shorter&source=bl&ots=xALUPTOed9&sig=SccN-ktu3SQYSZgKLtuJxiYTU5c&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mAYJVP7zDoGoyAT4gYKwBw&ved=0CFAQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Parabolic%20alan%20shorter&f=false

I very much enjoy his playing. Check him out on Coral Rock. Not a lot of documents to get, but I get all I can, not sure what I don't yet have, maybe just the Brown Fontana date.That will come, eventually. His is a voice that I can always hear clearly and distinctly, instrumentally or compositionally, so yes, I have been drawn into his world, although, perhaps unlike him, it is not a world that I must permanently inhabit.

Not going to say that it doesn't cut it, not by a long shot, simply because inspired music is inspired music, period. However, although personal inspiration is one of those things that shows up anywhere/anytime, the environmental inspiration that can drive it and form it is all over the place in terms of efficiency, intent, etc. Right now, I don't know that anybody's environmental inspiration is exactly exhibiting about-to-burst udder-ness right now, if you know what I mean. Lots of bullshit pretty much everywhere. I'm just delighted to have new pastures to wade through, because bullshit is usually indicative of fertile ground somewhere underneath. Takács, though, no wading through any bullshit to get to that. Pay you money, show up to the hall, sit down, and there it is. Would that more were that direct, at every level. But these are not times in which to either offer or expect honest rewards, and what you get out of that kind a dynamic is what indeed doesn't cut it, except as a noxious looping fart of redundant lifelessness.

...and heeeere's the pitch:

Nope, it's a new session. MPS didn't do much (if any) reissue work. More Milt Buckner to your liking? http://mps-love.blogspot.com/search/label/Milt%20Buckner Lockjaw? http://mps-love.blogspot.com/search/label/Eddie%20Lockjaw%20Davis

I'll say they were a great singles band, and mean it. One of those bands whose "Greatest Hits" hits type albums will be perfectly suited.

[emo]Takács was really good, the type of really good that provokes the realization that one is more likely to run out of life before running out of great music to hear, especially great music played live by great players who can get in the zone and stay there. I myself am wishing that I had 58 more years (at least) to pursue this area of music as rabidly as I have the other musics in my life to this point. That kind of really good[/emo] General admission seating, small 400-ish seat hall (and 2/3 full, at beast), front row center seats elevated only about 2-3 feet above the stage.Might as well have had them in somebody's living room, chamber music indeed. If "awesome" was still and actual word with meaning instead of a cheap verbal emoticon, I would use it. But and oh yeah - Janacek. Freakin' Janacek.

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Try some of this as well:

Seems like it'll be a nice night out either way, a fine quartet playing a good program, and no wedding reception in sight. And bonus win points for there being Janacek!

Have been an O's fan going back to 1966, but Nelson Cruz left a sour taste here with the whole steroid-suspension/refusal to appeal/miss most of the second/half of the season as a result/team really needrd you/free agent/blah-blah-blah, and besides, Royals are a once-proud (and quality) organization back from the grave with a lot of young home grown talent playing their ass off in a smaller market. They've already accomplished what I set their goal to be - reveal the A's and Angels for the frauds they were, so I am giving them my backing from here on out. The Orioles are not frauds, however, and will be tough competition (or not!). However, they built their strength on the backs of a lof of Rangers castoffs, and with Cruz, somebody who destoyed a good piece of fan goodwill with the way he left. When the whole thing started, we were calling the Orioles the ranger's AAAA club, then, as the got better, Rangers East, and now, this year that must never happen again, AL East Champions.I can feel good for them if they win, but...Darren O'Day? Seriously? I can still pull for Orioles against either SF, St.L or LA in the WS, (especially the Satanic Cardinals) but I'd feel better about doing it with the Royals. Memories of Whitey Herzog, Dick Hoswer, Cookie Rojas, Frank White, Willie Wilson, Jerry White, George Brett, Dan Quisenberry, Amos Otis, and so many more still resonate here, and it was just a very few years ago that I had a young resurgent bunch of happy guys playing happy baseball and kinda coming out of nowhere in my backyard, so hey, that's my kind of vibe.

Takács Quartet Monday, October 6, 2014, 8:00PM | at Caruth Auditorium Program: Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat Major, Hob. III:67 Janáček: String Quartet No.2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Beethoven: String Quartet in E minor, Op.59, No.2 http://www.dallascha.../takacsquartet/

Royals sweeping Angels partying it up the rain, beautiful on many levels. Same for Scioscia pulling C. J. Wilson after 2/3 inning. C'mon Royals!

Here's the original Mirror Mirror cover: It was released in America by Pausa.

Here, PBS is offering the whole film: http://m.video.pbs.org/video/2365268839/

Giants & Nats play two games, only get credit for one..hello MLBPA. where is your leadership?

Not exactly the same...the TCB has some odd occasional (and consistently odd) string machine overdubs in spots. Still haven't figured out where, when, or how that happened. Also don't remember for sure, but think the TCB might have put one cout on there by some Ramsey Lewis clone. Not sure about that, though, and not gonna go to the shelves to compare.

Always appreciated the idea of it more than the reality of it (at least what I saw of it), but this stuff is freakin' riveting. How much of that is Balanchine and how much of it is the dancers inspiring Balanchine (and how much of the impact is intensified by kinescope, I always feel kinescope footage very....rawly), I don't know, and at this point neither care nor need to know. I'm still working on the whole Ellington thing for that equation. Until then, hey, this is a groove of it's own, and a beautiful groove it is.

Stumbled into this documentary on Netflix quite accidentally last night, and was just going to wait until LTB fell asleep and then get over to baseball, but no, the vintage performance footages transfixed me at once, and when it was over, I rewatched from the beginning. The whole "tragic life story thing", ok, yeah, tragic life story, that it is, but the footage...holy shit, the footage. http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Afternoon-of-a-Faun-Tanaquil-Le-Clercq/70298351

Just work with singers, lots of singers, some of them not as odd as others. Your own instrument will become that eventually. Trust me on this one.

Original in C Maybe I've worked with too many singers over the years and think that everything's in a weird key now,

I believe it is.?

Royals gettin' it done.

That's funny...when I arranged horn charts for local blues bands, I would sometimes write the 12/8 charts in, well, 12/8. But I soon learned that you could write them in 4, save time and paper by so doing, and they'd get played the same way no matter what, as long as you didn't have studio and/or "jazz" players on the gig, because they would use their eyes first and their ears second. Funny how that clash of cultures might well still exist.