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Truthfully, I think the horizon LP is not the best of the lot. There were two furhter releases (on on Artuist house, I forget who did the other one) that were superior, imo. But yeah, I cape diemed on this one. Sometimes you wait for Last Chance, sometimes you figure that the First will be the Last, something like that in the Bible, right?

What's not really making sense for me yet is having groceries delivered...although, I thought was gonna cop on Blueberry Acai Diet Coke by doing that from a chain I don't usually use, but to get the order up enough to qualify for delivery, I added two things of coffee and 4 jars of queso dip just for grins - and they ended up being the only things I got...grrrrrr.....but it was a good experience in terms of turnaround time and delivery experience, very prompt, items packaged well, driver just dropped, rang and booked (almost too quickly for me to give him his tip!). Good to know, just in case. So apparently, quiet as its kept...there's a shortage of THIS stuff now? Hopefully just regionally? Zesty Blood Orange I could go the rest of my life without, but those others...waiting for their return to circulation. That Strawberry Guava is a real sleeper! oh, I can be very picky about fruit, but it looks like farmer's markets and roadside stands are off the table right now, and once you go to settling for supermarket fruit, hey...

Yeah, I like how you can just let one sink in for a while, or get right back into it, or just entirely skip over the side where Bobbi Humphrey has too much room, shit like that. LP-style flexibility of experience options.

Slowly but steadily working my way through Schitt's Creek, and having a blast so doing.

We've yet to do without anything we've needed. Have had to explore multiple avenues for some things before finding them, but, you know, use your imagination and if you can't get one box of Sleepy Time Extra at Kroger, buy a "case" from Amazon and get it delivered before sundown the same day. And then you have something you use everyday on hand for the next 4 months instead of 10 days without the bother of Costco or some such. I swear to gawd, I'm never going back to looking at online shopping for dry goods as a diversion or backup ever again, at least I hope not. This shit is just better for that, all the way around. And really, for groceries too, produce and meat, usually. So far anyway. If the pandemic moves that along, good for the pandemic. Silver lining of this cloud, perhaps. Then again, Brenda loves her them little bunches of flowers from Kroger, and I really don't like ordering those, those i need to see. But a fucking head of lettuce? The point where I need to see that before buying has not yet arrived.

Well, another part of the reality might be that once we know who all has actually had it that statistically, the death rate per capita might actually go down as a % of infections. Numbers properly collected and crunched are funny that way. And another thing I'm not seeing data on, at least not publicly, is what the %s are as far as severity of symptoms. So once again, it might be that the % of people what get "really sick" is not as high as we had feared. same thing with "kinda sick". But we don't know. We just don't know. And we need to know, because this is the kind of shit you need to know in order to move forward in any even remotely sensible way. This is a failure. This is America at its worst. This is Capitalism at its worst. This is just everything at its worst, the motherfucking HUBRIS of a species and a culture of that species that has lost all of its humility about what it can and can't do or should be able to do, because we're not looking at getting, never mind using, real, hard data. Objective data to use to take whatever comes out, agenda-neutral. So we're left to roll the dice and play with perceptions and play "odds" we have no idea are anything other that :hope", And please remember that hope it not a strategy, it was true then, and it's just as true now. What we DO know, unequivocally know, is that, yes, it's still out there, yes, you can get still it, and if you get it you might get really sick, and yes, you might even die. Past that, we know nothing because there's no coordinated effort being made to just get ALL that data and crunch ALL those numbers. This is total bullshit, and if economies collapse, if families are destroyed, hey - too fucking bad. If small business are ruined, too bad. If arts and culture die, too bad. We are failing this test, and failure has consequences. Sorry about that, but them's the rules of life. I don't make the rules. Hell, I've hard a hard enough time figuring them out. Well, I do make one rule, sorta - I cleaned up one batch of political exchanges this morning, and not more than a few hours later, they start back up again. So - thread closed. Again. Third time's a charm, maybe?

Yep. And imo this Morgan record works a lot better as an LP than as a CD.

This is the one I've always liked: It doesn't begin with just one guy. The greatest anybody can be is just as great as what has come before... In other words (imo), the bar is pretty damn high, so don't think you're going to raise it, much less hurdle it. Just worry about getting there, that's a life's work in and of itself.

Done.

Well, at least this time there won't be a Woodstock to go with it!

Political diversions removed from thread rather than closing it. Let's see how that works.

One of the formative voices of so much of the world's music. RIP, iconic.

I'd have liked the program better with fewer standards in the mix, but oh well. Now having said that.. Oh no!

Whatever happened to cash reserves out the wazoo? Remember when not having that was looked at as reckless behavior when practiced by people of wealth?

Is there anything in the dead wax? It almost sounds "local", maybe youthful even, like a local bunch of striving/aspirational beboppers, quite possible young-ish,. There's SO many horns, and the heads are pretty sloppy in points. And the bari player...I can't think of anybody "name" of the time who played bari in such an overtly Prez-ian manner, especially in terms of tone. Whoever it is, though, they're closer to being there than not! I wonder how far-removed in spirit (or location?!?!?!) it is from that George Davis thing? That was a trip!

Am I wrong in thinking that Dance Mania was actually a bit (or more>) of a "crossover" hit? Seems like RCA kept it in print on LP for a longer time than they did any other Puente record? When I started going into (primarily) Spanish-language record stores on total wild-ass exploratory runs, just to see what was in there (which around here was mostly Mexican or what is now called Tejano in origin), it seems like if there was anything Tito Puente, it was always Dance Mania. Perez Prado, it was usually repackaged compilations, but Tito Puente, Dance Mania. Always. My copy is on RCA Carino, purchased ca. 1978 or so: The cover is in Spanish, but the liners are still English, and reference the album's "classic" status, and reference what I seemed to experience as well.:

Who's the bari player? And what's the red # at the top of the acetate's label?

Seriously, if Palermo wants his records to sound like that, why doesn't he just do a reverse Toshiko and relocate to LA? https://www.ebay.com/c/3517929

I'm thinking chillax, historically, NJF bounces back: https://www.newportri.com/news/20180705/looking-back-1960-newport-jazz-festival-riot and especially: https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/05/archives/newport-closes-festival-early-last-2-days-canceled-after-youths.html

My recent Mobley order was, like, flashback good. Had me wondering about the whole "your whole life flashes in from of you right before you die" thing, but so far, so good. Maybe it's Mosaic's life that is flashing before our eyes right before it dies, but I can't do anything about that, just get me my records.

Hell, I've owned it since then. And I STILL didn't get it here!!!! Gotta say, though, that at the time it seemed a little "anti-climactic" so, I've yet to revisit. Might do that again soon.

I've evolved (or deteriorated, as the case may be) into thinking that dancing is really just a whole-being conversation with time/space (and those who we choose to allow in there with us). Body movement, speech, all this stuff, none of it is an entirely isolated-from-itself activity (unless some sort of spectrum-y dynamic is involved, and that I don't know too much about). But especially as it pertains to what is "generally" thought of as "African-American" music...the "European" paradigms of hyper-measurement-through micro-separation of/into increasingly specific elements...at some point I'm not sure if that gets us to a better understanding of where we started from or just into a totally illusory place of confirmation bias. (deteriorated, most likely, but oh well...)

Yep! All of his straight-8ths things. Check him out on, if nothing else, "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy". What could have been a basic pattern/best was discreetly yet constantly broken up into conversational-type accents and interjections. I think that more than anything this speaks to how some people didn't feel a fundamental difference between "grooves" or whatever than did other people. They pretty much played how they played regardless, music was just music, lots of way to be yourself.