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I'm pretty much ignoranat about this, but doesn't "ballet" technically refer specifically to the dance? Unless the choreography is the work of the composer of the music (of it the creation of both is done in tandem), shouldn't any piece of music be suited for a ballet, and shouldn't "music for ballet" be used to designate music composed specifically for a ballet? I'm probably all worng about this, so please correct me. I do know that Ellington's "Night Creatures" took on life as a ballet withing a few years after its premier. But I don't know if it was composed with an eye towatds becoming a ballet or not.

Oldies staions and the devolving format might be god's way of telling us that it's time to let it all go and move the hell on.

On the hair/toilet thing, two possibilities spring to mind, and they're not necessarily mutually exclusive: 1} She saw that her actions were making you upset, so she decided to do something to make you happy. 2} She decided to use the toilet as a distraction/redirection away from the shampoo event. Remember - kids this age are discovering their own power in general, and specifially/especially the power of their own independence. All they're experienceing from their perspective is the rush of raw power. They have no context as to what it all means until you provide it for them. That takes time, and that will drain you sometimes, but that's the gig. My spmpathies, best wishes, and congratulations, all as needed. Do you have any idea about why she seems so uptight about shampooing? Did she have a bad experience at some point, like shampoo or water in the eyes? That "no more tears" stuff is true as far as it goes, but that's not nearly as far as they want you to believe... Ways to make it fun - Has she watched you shampoo your hair? Has she seen the Tegrin guy? The Great Gazzoo? Speed Racer? Shampoo suds make for a great helmet, and helmets are fun! If that fails, show her pictures of head lice... Ok, I joke, but hopefully not so much as to obscure the point. Live for today, but get enough rest for tomorrow.

because IF there is an answer i sure would like to know it so that i can sound at least a little like i know what i am talking about when i am talking about music that i enjoy. You'll sound more like you know what you're talking about if you talk more about the actual music than the labels!

Brian Blade Grassella Oliphant Walt Whitman

Julie Andrews John Coltrane Albert Ayler

Blae Edwards Julie Andrews John Coltrane

Do they say which one? I've got an A&M 45 called "Lilly Done The Zampoughi Everytime I Pulled Her Coat Tail" off the album Brer Soul that's got some pretty good playing going on in the background.

The Webster/Hall/Rowles date is mighty fine, whatever coast you want to pin it on. It is nice and mellow, though, so if that's a qaulity you think of as WC, hey, WC it.

Cousin It Crystal Gayle Blue Cheer

If you're ever in Dallas, liste to The Flashback Cafe on KDGE and know that it already is.

Knowing you, I feel safe in suggesting the Clifford Jordan/Cedar Walton/Sam Jones group's recordings. I think you'll be well pleased. And I might be in the minority on this one, but I really dig Higgin's work on Joe Henderson's Mirror Mirror. But that's just the tip of a formidable iceberg. Ain't it grand?

Dude, there's too much to mention! Check it out: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...961o3ep7~1~T40B Seven pages, and you're into 1970 on page two. Even allowing for AMG's quirky dating system (who among us has heard that 1918 RCA date? ), that's a helluva lot of music made after 1969. Dive in!

Rhodes Scholar Rand & McNally Random Axis

That's why they called him Lucky...

Has Motivation been on CD? That one is just nuts!

Real men use 45s.

Seriously, consider this - Pretend that you're a 2 yr old kid. All your live you've been loved and told that you're special (all of which is true). But you've always been dependent, and there's always been boundaries that you can't cross just becuase you don't have the chops to cross them. Well, now you do. You don't yet understand why you shouldn't do something, simply because you have no point of reference. Fuck up the furniture? Sure, why not? You don't know why that's bad, you just know that it's something that you can do all by yourself. And that first rush of freedom & independence after having spent literally an entire lifetime not just not being able to do it, but not even knowing that you can do it, hey, that's gotta be a huge freakin' rush. As ar as you can tell, based on your life experience, there's nothing you can't or shouldn't do. After all, you're loved and you're special, and dammit, you're going to maximize every possible opportunity to do something, anything, just because you finally can. It's a pattern that we all repeat throughout our life, whether it be our first bike, our first car, our first appartment, our first house, our first good job, our first anything that frees us up more than we were before. And the sooner that we learn that with freedom comes responsibility, that actions have consequesnces, that cause and effect is not just a scientific concept but instead is a necessary survival skill, and that most importantly, discipline is rooted in a deep love & not angry revenge, the sooner we hopefully get on track to having as happy and fulfilling a life as is possible. That's a huge part of what parenting is about. It's a tough gig, sometimes the gig from hell, but that is the gig. Just remember to do what you gotta do, to always do it out of love, and that no matter how immediate any situation may appear at the moment, you're actually planting seed that will inescapably gome to fruition later on. Enjoy the gig!

Jim is really Ravi Shankar?

And later in the 60s there was Bob Porter, Cal Lampley, & Don Schlitten. Schlitten might seem like a logical choice, but not necessarily. YEah, he produced Breakthrough on Cobblestone, but that was technically by Artistry In Music, a gorup co-led by Hank & Cedar Walton, with whom Schlitten definitely had a history. Hank had a contract w/BN in the 60s, the label gave him plenty of sidemen dates, so I don't know that he would be somebody to get those type calls from another label. It would be easier to get somebody else who was eitehr not contracted at all, or was contracted w/the same label. After all, that's what BN did.

Prestige's Bob Weinstock might have been that one. Mobley recorded quite a number of session for Prestige in the late '5Os. Besides his two leaders dates, there were the following albums he took part in: - Elmo Hope 'Informal Jazz' - Jackie McLean '4, 5 and 6' - Tenor Conclave - Art Farmer 'Farmer's Market' - All Night Long Yeah, but how many Prestige sessions was Weinstock producing in the 60s?

That's a good strong rec!

Pussy Galore Al Gore Thea Ennen & The Algorhythms

That's wrong, Dude. Love for your kids should be unconditional. The title might take ona new meaning, though, if Zora's eaten a lot of carrots...