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forgot about that one. Just now discovering Cage's early works. Have to admit, I'm more than a little stunned at the visceralness of them, how rhythmically driven they are. The "connections" I get to things from 20-30 years later (from Cecil - 88 tuned drums, indeed) to Max's melodic drum solos to Herbie's electronic music to Brian Wilson's drugged-out deadened piano & reverbs to the AACM's "space" pieces, and that's just for starters) are really startling to confront, to say nothing of the impact of the music strictly as its own self. Are there any more empathetic performances of this material that those of Kirtsein here? Hard for me to imagine that there are, but I don't know enough to imagine that with any true confidence.

The Raiders Station experiment continues, and the results, although pleasant, have been discouraging. I've had to start disliking songs that I really like just because they don't go fit what I'm looking for. This things seems to think, ok, this user doesn't like THIS song, let's send him another one just like it. I mean, a thumbs up to "Great Airplane Strike" and the next tune is "Monday Monday"? Thumbdown that one, and up comes "Love Potion #9" by the freakin'; SEARCHERS???? C'mon Musical Genome, either you are bad science or stupid science, which is ultimately the same thing, really. Or, most likely, just old marketing ideas (i.e. - hopes) applied to newer technology. The Art Ensemble station, though, is showing prose. Last night it threw me Cecil's Live In Bologna as one (nearly) 70 minute "song" , and I not only thumbupped it, but listen to it all. Wanted to see if the logic took the hint and came back with something else equally pleasantly surprising. Well, no. It gave me back a Willaim Parker cut for the 4th time this week, and an AEC cut for the 3rd. Pandora seriously needs a way for the user to set their profile to "get deep cuts" or "don't play the same song more than X times in Y time frame" and "play less p[popular artists first", something like that. Because it looks like it's currently set up to be an online "mainstream" record store - plenty of familiar variety for most people, but if you want anything else, look for your nearest specialty shop, and take your complaints there, please, we're doing ok as we are, thank you. Oh, by the way, are there any Beatles records you'd like to add to your collection? No sense leaving empty-handed, is there, don't want the trip to be a total waste of time now, do we?

whoa....

Holy shit Charlie Palmieri, holy shit.

Outside your time frame just a little, but there's two early 70s Eddie Palmieri albums that frequently are "big band" through the use of overdubbing of horn parts - The Sun Of Latin Music & Unfinished Masterpiece. IMO, these are "essentials" for anybody interested in "Latin Music" over any stripe, but especially a more arrangement-focused approach to the horns A the opening cuts from each from each: Anotehr thing for consideration - when it comes to Latin big bands of the American-based type, if you see the name Rene Hernandez in the credits as arranger, proceed without hesitation.

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HA! Probably not the original, that guy probably existed before recorded time, but definitely a worthy successor! This guy, though...how big of a void is it before there's no void to be devoid of?

MG, you might have some fun hanging out and browsing this site: http://www.descarga.com/cgi-bin/db Prices aren't always the "best", but selection and general annotation is pretty much unbeatable (at least in my experience).

Good one! Yeah, my then-girlfriend/now-wife experienced the same thing when we saw Sinatra at Caesar's in 1982. Like, WHOA, this shit is real, isn't it!!!!! Probably not gonna have the chance to see McCartney, but I probably would if I could, just for that reason. The music (which in Sinatra's case waaaay more than met admittedly lower expectations going into it) is only part of it. There's the whole sociological thing too, and probably, for right now, any way, that's the real importance of being there if/when you can. Someday it will all be "history", and then it's a bunch of people trying to tell you what you know you saw for yourself.

Ok, I need/want to know/learn this - I've gleamished the most basic origins of "High Society" the composition, but what documentation of it is there in its original form, which I guess was a march or a rag? And who was Porter Steele?

Only saw this once before, on local TV ca. 1978, at about 6:17 AM, as filler for when the late shows ran short. It would never happen today. The circumstances were too surreal to go into now, but as surreal as this? About that, I dare/care not to speculate. But Duke Ellington? The literalist approach does not apply except in the world of a severly stunted madman. This cat...good luck on ever figuring all of that out. Ever.

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World gone wrong if you are... World gone wrong anyway, but not THAT wrong, not yet.

Carlos Barberia. I only have the one Panart record, but the other stuff on You Tube like this is dandy too. I have never seen that record. But I do have this one, and if you see it, carpe disco.

So, did Bob Hammer even have kids?

Two words, dude - Tito Rodriguez. That is one bad motherfucker right there.

Well, not too short apparently! Set up the Raiders station lat night and played it this morning, with remarkably consistent results (mostly high energy mid-late 60s commercial garage-y-ish pop). Didn't "like" anything, and only "rejected" a rare handful (Herman's Hermits (yuck), The Vogues (dubble yuck), The Hollies "Long Cool Woman" (nope, too late in their game for me), and "Get Together" by the Youngbloods (not on THIS station)) and only skipped one - a 70s Guess Who cut that was ok, but too "modern" in recording/production. Biggest surprises - as much Eric Burdon/Animals as Paul Revere, and plenty of "raw" DC5. Biggest worry - just hits so far. Afraid to "like" for fear of that damned "musical genome" thing getting all mutational with unpleasant results, but maybe that's how the Pandora math works? Looking for some deeper cuts, some "Nuggets" type gems. Will they be there? In the meantime, The Turtles are starting to pop in. A good 60s singles band will alwys not get rejected/skipped in this experiment. Alos getting the inevitable Beatles/Beach Boys tandem, but not really in quantity. Yet. Fingers crossed. Anyways - sound quality? This is transistor radio/jukebox 45 music. What kind of sound quality is there to worry about? And for the more serious/focused/intentioned listening, hey, that's not what I;m looking at my phone to provide.

http://blogs.wfmt.com/relevanttones/2014/07/19/finding-the-bridge/ All of this is new to me, nothing sounded cheap or "easy", so....always fun to have those doors opened, or at least to know that they're there. Also, there is a discrepance in the posted playlist and they braodcast content. No Jennifer Higdon (who I do know!), Peter Lieberson instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8bsPAPsn9w This is not the one reissued by Dusty Groove, but a follow-up that to the best of my knowledge has not been reissued. http://www.discogs.com/Bill-Cosby-Presents-Badfoot-Brown-And-Bunions-Bradford-Funeral-Marching-Band-Bill-Cosby-Presents-Bad/release/915213 Joe's solo sounds kinda splicedy, but hey, this ain't the kind of thing to worry about that on, imo. But Bobby Jones?!?! 1972, Cosby MC-ed the Mingus Carnegie Hall gig, but this is an L.A. date all the way, so...god, musicbusinessisweird.#com/

I caught the tail end of underground/free-form radio (and grew up in the heyday of good/true Top 40), so radio itself has always been something I enjoyed when it was good, and kinda felt "betrayed" by when it wasn't. The notion of having somebody play all these hip records on the radio for you while you worked/studied/read/whatever is something that can still give me the beginnings of an experiential chubby just as quickly as the notion of people skullfucking you with corporate brainwashing/ed vomitradio can make it go away. Not sure if this streaming services thing (or anything, really) is ever going to be that again, but one can hope in one hand, piss in the other, and see which one fills up first, I suppose.

You mean we're not already?

Did you by any chance have any of the Parlophone 78s that were issued in India? I would miss a day's pay to hear one of those in good condition on a proper player.