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I see a few Ellington (and other) things that look, shall we say, interesting. But is this total POS bootleg, or is there at least a little love in there? Nothing I see has been grey-marketed before to my knowledge, so is this just rips of torrents, or, again, is there a little love in there? And what's up with that (those?) live Wild Bill Davis side(s)?

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The Xenakis works sound a little pedantic to me, but the two Penderecki things are sheer giddiness executed even more giddily. I was alive and almost old enough to know about these type records when they were being made, but not yet in whatever proximity it takes to get ensnared. By the time I was, things like this were certainly heard and made an impression, I mean, these guys were Heroes Of The New Music Scene in the Composition Department, you could not NOT hear them, but the spongemind is not necessarily a discriminating one. Not to say that it has become one, but the gulf that I hear in content between the two composers' works presented here is not one that I believe I would have heard then. But either way - Lukas Foss..I'm beginning to think that Foss is one of those "buy on sight names", because he's been having a higher than usual "in the zone" success rate for me. For comparison, there is this: which, ok, that's some hard shit, and I know it's guts and maybe not glamor, but dammit, the Foss/Buffalo version has a spryness to it in both tempo and execution that puts it in a whole 'nother level of "experience" (and maybe even recorded a few month earlier to boot, the Foss was). Foss has that opening section sounding like the backwards record it might have been meant to sound like. So yeah, Lukas Foss, and yeah, Buffalo Symphony.

Mission:Impossible, Season 1, Episode 26. "A Cube Of Sugar". Score by Don Ellis. Not "great" but I'm begun watching the show in chronological order (and paying close attention to the scores of each show along the way, just for grins) & this one jumped out at me almost immediately as being noticeably different than the ones before it. Of course, it's TV & psychedelic drugs, so there is that, but still, hey, Don Ellis, 1967, and prime-time tv. Best/worst of worlds, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q27JFAgiJJg

Uh...no.

One should never putt a question to Chuck Nessa.

When I watched some Clutch Cargo a few weeks ago, Polynesia was the album that came to mind. Come to find out it was Paul Horn, but there it is.

Ooga-Looga!

Well, here's his chance to get a clue. If he takes advantage of that chance, good for him. If he's still clueless afterwards, not your fault, not unless you got shitfaced drunk (or shitfaced sober, sometimes I swear they end up the same, at least in my experience) and only wanted to talk about old lawn mower motors and shit, which I seriously doubt is what happened. But if it accidentally did, then that's on you, you'll just have to own that one. Hopefully the man at least knows how to spell Tecumseh. Otherwise, hey.

Seems like a good chance to update the Warners set and pass it along to a friend. But maybe not. I got excited about "mono mixes", but they're from Fat Albert Rotunda, and...errrr...not excited. But give me a mono mix of Crossings, and I'd have to hear that, wrong as it would seem/be. Like, remove that third dimension ok, just give me a flattline mix, let's see what THAT does. However, along those lines, the "single mix" of "Water Torture", that's still stereo, so is it just an edited version, or will they have an actual 45 hotass mastermix on there? If so, that's better than nothing! Crossings is, for me, an album that never really hits me, yet knocks me out. One of those subliminal seduction things, perhaps. No matter, when I reach for it, it usually stays reached for for a few days, ongoing.

oooohhhh....I hope this one stays in print for a while, because the ratio of songs I haven't yet tired of hearing with lyrics (the key difference, with lyrics) to the ones I either have or just don't care about, period, is, from a cursory glance at the track list is about 60/40, and if I ever get motivated to really get into those songs at that level again, Rosemary Clooney with this straightforward of a backing seems like a damn good way to do it.

Not to worry. I sent hundreds to the "landfill". A few months ago, we bought a new shredder, one that can turn CDs into confetti. The after-smell is delightfully surreal. Where is the early days of AOL now that I could put it to good use? 100 FREE MINUTES? No - a lifetime of puzzling odor. That's a deal I make every time.

Did not know until yesterday that it was Paul Horn who composed and played the music on Clutch Cargo.

Per Chuck's dead-on comment waaaay up above, if you grow up hearing "country people" and or "Southern people" speak, it's not hard to hear at all. Same thing with any region and it's speech/vocal mannerisms, I suppose. I remember going to Sterling. IL every summer to visit my dad's side of the family, and there were times when I totally missed a word or phrase because I wasn't following the sound, it was not yet acclimated to me. That's why I dig regionality instead of mocking it, there's stories to be told just in sound/timbre/inflection/whatever. "Words" are, sometimes, a crutch for the overly literal-minded. Even when one reads, I believe one hears a voice, or voices, of the words, and it is not some "universal" voice that one is hearing. How could that be, anyway?

I hope to not live long enough to see a box set of the complete AOL promotional CDs.

"Squirm", rhymed with "worm", not "world". "She gets you to squirm"..and it might be "world", but that's one of those blues words that sounds like what it sound like, don't worry about it, you know what it means, no matter, the sounds tells you what it means, and if it really needed a "word", it would be there. Instrumentalists do the same thing with notes.

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Jackie Wilson Brian Wilson Van Dyke Parks

Penderecki — Matrix 5 – Threnody To The Victims Of Hiroshima/ Canticum Canticorum Salomonis/De Natura Sonoris Nos 1 & 2 Martinu — Symphonies – Symphonies Nos 1-5 & 6 (Fantaisies Symphoniques)/ Inventions – Vaclav Neumann/Czeck Philha Cola & Jimmu (Nicole Willis & Jimi Tenor) — I Give To You My Love & Devotion

The Groundhogs Shadow Wilson Van Dyke Parks

A commercial about painful intercourse due to menopause. http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7fjC/osphena The subject, I don't find creepy or disturbing at all. The commercial, otoh...

Probably not a good gift choice, but at some point you both might enjoy some of Judith Bingham's work. The one that really hooked me in was Salt In The Blood. No video on You Tube, but there is this, which is nothing like that, except that there are some harmonic choices made along the way that had me looking like a quizzical dog before changing to looking like a happy dog. But a LOTmore in "Salt..." than here. So, maybe get your friend something else, and get some Judith Bingham for the dog. Then snatch it back for yourself after the dog dies, or whenever else the fair opportunity arises. She's got a good idea why she does what she does too.

My son and his wife have been season ticket holders for FCD two years running now, plus he's part of the team's official "booster club" or whatever it is. At this point in the sport's popularity in this area, it's an affordable proposition for him, and it's affording him the opportunity to interact with the organization on more than a casual spectator level. Don't know what "kops" are, but it sounds like he might be one! I've gone to a few games with him over the years, and look forward to attending a few more in the years ahead. It's a good thing, and definitely not what you see your kids playing on Saturday mornings, to put it mildly!