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Ripken is in on it, which I like just on principle. That's what everybody is hoping, but nobody knows. Or if they do, they ain't sayin'.

New owners for the Orioles: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/31/david-rubenstein-baltimore-orioles-cal-ripken

The Murder Steer - Run! Run!! RUN!!!

Palmer Douglas - My Turn

I just didn't like that one. Best I can do about that. OMG, Willene Barton!!! Never heard this record of hers. THANKS!!!! That Blakey thing... it's not listed in the online Blakey discography! I got a copy of both the cartoon and the soundtrack, but it was at least 20 years ago and I would never have remembered it. Neat cut!

These days, a "masterpiece" is whatever you can program to get butts in the seats that wouldn't ordinarily be there. So beware. Especially of the doubly desperate "modern masterpiece". Hype is the enemy of understanding, and it's very good at its job.

Well now, it's George Hunter White!

If it comes to that, sure. But TTK had originally posted the entire article here and I read it here before reading Mark's totally legit request for moderatorial intervention, which was immediately granted. The was nothing in Iverson's piece that stimulated any thoughts that I haven't been having for 45+ years now (longer if you include the intuitive youthful revulsion experienced at whatever time it was), so my interest in jumping the firewall here was all about instanet strategic logistics curiosities, not any quest to redigest the contents. However, Iverson's followup was pretty well-done also. I recommend reading that as well. He's on solid ground here, too. Thank for calling that one out!

That's what Google News offered me, picshurr and all.

The Honk Wilcox/Rex Frame Hornucopia of Jazz - I'm Here, He's Back, Let's Swing!!!

I get multiple daily newsletters from both them and The Athletic that are usually more than adequate for me. But when I do click a link, results are wildly unpredictable. I've seen no pattern, rhyme, or reason to it. So if they let me in, fine. And if not, fine.

That works, but - a link to it showed up on my Google news feed with a direct link to the NYT page, which popped up a subscription offer at the bottom that never went away but still let me read the entire article start to finish.

Rex Frame - Back At Last!!!

And occasionally they get it right!

Honk Wilcox - Take Time To Know Her

I'm not afraid of that, and/but I'm not going to let that stop me!

That out chorus is DANGEROUS!!!!

I bought a ticket (three tickets, actually) to take the Motown Museum tour and bought a $30.00 James Jameson t-shirt in the gift shop, which got me a free copy of Barry Gordy's autobiography). If you're just a tourist, hey, serves you right, but if you know some of the details about what you're seeing, it's money well spent, believe me. I was moved to almost-tears when entering The Snakepit. Good god.... I hope that Claire Daly has done something similar, or else is planing on it. Those records, hell, that music in general) is at least as fundamentally American as the so-called "Great American Songbook".

Try some Cage, maybe? https://www.amazon.com/Cage-Sonatas-Interludes-Prepared-Piano/dp/B000005TXF

Can't argue with that!

Exactly!