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IIRC, the Buck Hammer/Mary Ann Jackson duets we're the inspiration for the Mary Lou Williams/Cecil Taylor concert?

Yeah, it looks like a Bobby Sherman lunch box for jazz geeks. Inner City did better when they just stuck with the OG covers of the stuff the leased (of which there were buttloads!).

Not from him, anyway...

The Ike Quebec 45s were a heart-stopping announcement. As was the Cecil Taylor Candid. And then the unedited Mingus Columbias. And....on and on and on. And now, the Bill Barron set!!!!!

I like the OG RCA cover on that one. Misses being a late 60s Prestige Don Schlitten cover by just that much!

Concord Syndrome = a sound that has the "oomph" removed. The symptoms are, you know, you're liking the record well enough, but it just needs a little more "oomph". It's not necessarily the players, although Concord has plenty of records where they don't help it along any. I don't know how they did it, wish I did, wish everybody did, so they wouldn't do it themselves.

was that on Galaxy?

It suffers from Concord Syndrome, but Tabackin himself is on point.

Little Jimmy Maynard - Blues In The Backyard You can hear the neighbor's lawn mower, just enough to add that outdoor ambiance. A stroke of genius by producer Don Bootz.

After you get it, then you can tell! And/but seriously, it's a supremely rewarding collection of musics, with packaging to match. One of those things that if you even halfway think it's for you, it 100% is. and vice-versa.

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Received as a gift. Maynard had some excellent players and writers then, and the band definitely enjoys playing with their own spirit and flayvor. I still enjoy it also, on occasion. It's been such an occasion the last few days.

I'd take a paid endorsement deal for Ambien. It's worked for me for a loooong time. There was a learning curve, like, yeah, there's a zone og high-ness you go into before actually falling asleep, and that zone is NOT for eating or other high-type behavior, it's to real, don't do anything, go ahead, finish the job and fall asleep. "Ambien tripping" is a vry real thing, and I had to work that thing out. but it's like anything else, know your objective and eliminate any obstacles that are under your control. The objective here is sleep, and getting out of be to send emails that are nothing but font and layout experiments...that's an obstacle to falling asleep. That's where having a Pandoro thing helps. Last night it was the Arditti Quartet and related music, and although not particularly "relaxing" it zoned really nicely, and that's what I need. Just a zone to go to while the medicine does its job.

Indeed. Enjoy often!

A noble creature indeed.

I want one of those hawks.

Yeah, I'm a leech on society, obviously. Actually....I have come to hate squirrels in their living state, they are destructive and invasive creatures, so getting a gun and killing then and then consulting a you tube to see how to dress them is not at all an unappealing idea for me.

I've never not liked Zeitlin. I just stayed away from the records for the reason of past experiences. When I fell asleep, I was always liking the music well enough. So it was like, ok, let me wake up and try it again. Same thing. So I figure maybe the guys trying to hypnotize me or something, you know, doing that shrink thing, which would be cool if mutual consent was involved.

Oh, squirrel is bony, no doubt. But the way my uncle did it was to just section the things and then cook them in the stew like that. The meat literally fell off the bone in the stew. The odd bits that it didn't, the bones could easily be sucked clean. Not saying that I've sought out any more squirrel stew, but I didn't exactly dread going over to eat it either.

Back in the day, those Denny Zeitlin Columbia records used to put me to sleep before one side was over, and quite unintentionally so. That's the main reason I didn't spring for the select, actually, the memories of them inducing an involuntarily somnambulistic state.

One of my uncles is an old-school outdoorsman (the good kind, respects nature and never shoots or catches anything other than what he will eat or feed others with), and we used to have family get-togethers featuring his squirrel stew. Very tasty. But gumbo? Hmmm, I guess, if that's what you're into? Sounds like a type of cultural cross-pollination I've not yet encountered, or, for that matter, one that I would go looking for...

Outstanding! And hopefully a reliable source of income! There was/is this organist here who also works as a piano teach, cat named Eric Scortia.

10,000 is strong for local, but to get all out there, most stations that did that were 50,000 watts. Being the wonk that I was, I spent too many nights cruising the AM dial literally from top to bottom. Not saying that I got WCFL, but if I did, it didn't jump out if I did. I kept an ear open for "distant" stations, that was a fun thing for me. Maybe they reduced power after sunset. KLIF (the legendary Mighty 1190 of Gordan McLendon fame) did that. Dallas was 120 miles away, but at 50,000 watts, we got it loud and clear until they lowered the power for evening hours and then POOF, you couldn't hear it at all. And then around 7 AM or so, they flipped a switch and there it was again.

But did they drop the power down at sunset? Most AM stations did, but not all. That "clear channel" thing was for real.