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Doesn't matter. I can't type, period.

Can't say that I feel "good" about going 1-2 against the Dodgers, but all three games were super tight and both deGrin and Mahle showed ace form. No Ohtani, so that, but our bats still haven't arrived from the Big Boy factory, so that too. Still not sure if this team is Teaser or Pleaser, but as they say:

Yeah, interactions with the host are both encouraged and appreciated. It's fun!

I envy people who can type well.

Just for the record, you don't have to do that, but most people do and everybody's happy when they do. 👁️‍🗨️🤠🤩

Hello! Happy to get the music, but what good is documentation that isn't really documentation?

Glad to find out that I was unable to to attend instead of having attended and have now forgotten it. One never knows these days... Pulled We Speak Etruscan for a round of Keep Or Kull, and it's keep. Produced by Marty Ehrlich, which I had not noticed until tonight. Who knew?!?!

One of many amusing evolutions of the Wyn Tang Clan was to watch how the claims went from Jazz Is Black Music That Anybody Can Learn To Play to Jazz Is American Music That People Play All Over The World and next thing you know, Wynton is making a record with Willie Nelson because Jazz and Country both came out of Blues.which is the Real American music etc etc etc. It is all such simplified half- truths that sucked up so much oxygen and impeded so much natural/potential evolutions... Does anybody in the US dig Heinz Sauer? Other than that he was on that ECM record of George Adams'? Adams later expressed ..reservations about that record, but because of Eicher's controlling tendencies, not because of any of the players. But yet and still: A great 21st Century ECM record. Quite great.

I suspect there was a bit of racial paranoia underlying it all, both cultures worrying about being subsumed by the other and some showing their worries more overtly than others. I do think that there are schools of "jazz" all over the world that seem to pride themselves on the eradication of any Black Accents at all, and all I can say about that is...please don't run into me, because I m not looking where you're going. And same for the redundification of those anywhere who willfully shut out any outside currents in the interest of "purity". Do all the work you want, but when you stop work, where do you live?

It's called an Alligator Gar here. It's considered "trash" fish here. But people who know what to do with them can make them tasty, or so I'm told. That's by far and away the biggest one I've ever seen?

Nope, that Getz take was for his own record. Al Haig on piano. https://www.discogs.com/master/1358775-Stan-Getz-Quartet-Pardon-My-Bop-Diaper-Pin?srsltid=AfmBOooHwyIzrPegKEI-TRq0-8WmGj7xsoeXgDOzNRJzKj4EHecw1C0e

Thanks! I'll keep an eye open for it. I very much enjoy her work.

Von sines brightly on this one!

And not just about jazz! "permission to speak freely" used to be something that only military, corporate, and abused people had to worry about getting. Now, it seems to be considered a veritable requirement. But FWIW, Braxton pushed back HARD on that Phil Woods dig over the decades, to the point where Woods offered a semi-apology before he died.

I think that "anxiety over US influence" is not a healthy emotion! I think that desiring a personal identity is a very lofty goal. But having anxiety about what influences you might naturally have is just silly and counter-peoductive. Copying is not good, but embracing your all loves as a part of who you are is beautiful! We had the same thing here during The Wynton Wars, all this, yes, anxiety over "European" influences in the avant-garde. What the fuck is wrong with people?

My limited experience with DeSoto records has been entirely positive. They're now a "buy on sight" label.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/angler-catches-153-pound-alligator-gar-in-texas-with-ultra-light-tackle-likely-setting-a-new-world-record-180986444/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Bertha Hope! How is this one overall?

A quiet manifesto from 1963. Oh, biggest ECM sellers are surely Jarrett and Metheny?

Where's Maynard?

Barry Altschul, 1965.

Isaiah Collier? On #1?