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Hyperion With Higgins is a really good record.

Like a scaled-down gatefold LP with a cardboard inner sleeve. The liner notes take up both sides of the inside + both sides of that inner sleeve.

Words fail, this doesn't:

Solitude has a verse? Who knew? Dinah also has a verse? I did not know that! That's Melissa Aldana playing "Solitude", not sure that's what I want to hear, but outstanding command of the instrument across all registers! Definitely Ben doing "Single Petal..." originally released on an impulse! sampler, a "leftover" (HA!) form the See You at The Fair album.

I remember the architecture math better than I do keys alone, so it works for me, just how my mind works. Bridge = 1/2 step up/IV/back to to the 1/2 step up m7/down a major third to a dominant. Some people can play Giant Steps in any key because they get the architecture. I can't play it in ANY key, but I can do that on the Ipanema bridge! I feel blessed? One thing that helped in the fun was that functionality of F#m7 and D7 is one thing, but an altogether other thing is that in terms of basic chord structure is that its the same notes in both chords with the critical/fun difference that the C# in the F# minor chord can be moved, must be moved, either a half-step up or down when you get to D7, that's where the pivot is in terms of a melodic improvisation, that change. Not the chord/scale, just that one note. You can even keep the G# in there, it's a nifty (if cliched) #11 over the D7, no problem if that's what you want. But the key is to move that C# out of there completely, that thing is gone now. It's one of those things, imo, where if you think in terms of melody first, the theory kinda fixes itself. Or maybe it's the other way around. Either way, it's math, architecture.

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So, it's escaped to the wild, then. Excellent!

The "trick" I used to learn the bridge was that after the first four bars, which is just a basic I-IV (albeit a half-step up from where you just were) that m7 chords always went down a major 3rd to a dominant7 that was actually the V chord for the next m7 chord...it's a lot easier to internalize than it is to verbalize…but knowing that the "thirdy" movement was just getting you to a simple V chord made the math really easy for me, for whatever reason. F#m7 to a D7 is easy once you realize in advance that even though the root movement is a major 3rd, that D7 is just going to go to a Gm7, V-i, easy, right? Don't think of getting to the D7 from the F#m7, that's "weird". Think about getting from the D7 to the Gm7, that's "easy"! And then, if you want to, you can break it up/down more. But first, get it easy. I got confused thinking that the dominants were landing points instead of pivot points. DUH! It's the placement of it, the internal symmetry, the way the "shock" "relaxes", that is genius.

yeah...too forced an effort, with no certainty of successful execution., imo. Clownshow in the making, like so much else in America right now, where "defense" and "surrender" have become synonymous. Throw in what I suspect (but only suspect) are leveraged debt/cash flow issues in some/many franchises (because that's just the way America does business these days) and you have games being played as part of a "season" that may or may not get compelted, with new rules put into place that can only be described as Five Card STUD EVERYTHING WILD!!!!!!, and the whole thing, to me, just reeks of a tepidly sordid stew of desperation, cynicism, and cluelessness. In other words, the same old MLB, only worse. i got other shit to watch on tv, when I watch tv at all, that is. Although, Prime has unexpectedly dropped The Real McCoys, and that's a TRUE bummer, no longer being able to look back in amazement at ALL of that....

yep. And they still exist outside of Amazon, although I think they show more inventory on Amazon, tbh. https://cadnor.com/

Amazon seller CADNor (which is surely Cadence) has been knocking it out of the park lately!

What kind of unpredictable, potentially fatal contagious disease caused the strike-shortened season?

Not a good idea when teams get shut down for a day or more, makes limited time even more limited. Plus, rule changes are beyond inane. Clownshow. Not a real season, ball game in a leper colony comedy skit.

This is not a statistically meaningful season except in a way that is arbitrarily imposed, "because we say so" doesn't cut it for me. This is playing a "season" because nobody has a good idea about what to do, much less a better one.

I was unaware of the "cultural significance" of playing it in Db vs F. I do recall one jam session decades ago in Albuquerque where it was called in Db, but there were no Brazillian people within miles, and I thought they were doing it just to be all psyche-out the new guy in town. Fortunately for me, I had already figured out the math/formula for the bridge, which was where people start looking at you to see ok, what's gonna happen NOW.... I do hate what has happened to the melody, though, I guess between the Real Book and Astrud's English lyrics....the Brazillian lyrics make for a much more...musical melody..

Yep.

Sure it is!

Still the Exhibition Season, correct?

Yeah, we can lose those idiots too. Lose all the idiots!

Who was the Herman McCoy Swing Choir? Isn't Herman McCoy that guy that just died of Covid? Or was that Amos McCoy, he was in California too. It's hard to keep up with the news these days.

How about "Hey, Al"?

I bought that J.R. lp. found it on the Progressive label. Liking it a lot. Speaking of Sauer, have you heard his earlier work with Mangelsdorff? Equally strong, and the context of time/place there helps to sort out what actually might have been brought in from Shepp and what was there all along. Always a strong voice.

and it's deep, too!