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Mac & cheese made from scratch is one of the more awesome things in life, especially when you get to playing with multiple/fancier cheeses! Mid you, I have zero insight on how to do that at any level other than just eating it!

Looks like the full Buster Smith essay was included as an insert or something for the LP issue. The Koch CD reprints it in full, though. Not sure how hard to get that one is, but it's a great record, well worth paying a little extra for.

Try to find the whole thing, it's hilarious!

I keep trying to listen to this record when I don't have a 100% undistracted environment. Not a good idea. But in the intervals where there are no distractions, is seems to be really fine. But without the continuity of concentration, it feels like I'm hearing well-spoken snippets of a play in a foreign language that I don't completely understand. DAMMIT!!! I love Carter's music, but, it's not like you can "leave and return at will" in terms of listening concentration, like I did the Bob Brookmeyer Select last week.

I really like the performance of the Novák, with the taffy-pull internal tempos. Again, Supraphon continues to be a label to buy on sight, period.

Just a club date by a working band, probably a lot of it set routines, but dammit, there was nothing routine about Earl Hines, even the routines.

What could possibly go wrong?

See, that's how it goes, Watkins played in Quincy's bands, Quincy got his a record date where the product would be conceivably market-friendly(ish), and everybody got paid, no doubt, as well as some profile. Basic business, survival in the system at hand. No, it does not serve art in the least. But it's not supposed to.

Are you sure it's oregano?

Only yesterday realize that Atavistic was responsible for the Baby Dodds reissue. They should have been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for doing that.

Dude - he did three volumes of The United States of Mind, and never really left those themes behind, ever. I have to think he was not only proud of that, but was adamant about it as being defining of his being. Besides, that cut by itself has one of the best grooves ever! (and really, is it not really just a not-so-distant cousin of "Manteca"?)

Interesting.... Not familiar, but some rummaging on Discogs founf this: Lee/Leroy Levitt IS a name I have in my collection, albiet only within the last few years, and only with this record: It's a nice, "regional" record. Butch Ballard! It's interesting to compare this group to the Dells from a few years later There's a very few other African-American vocal groups of this vintage over the years I've heard doing things like this, so perhaps it was more common in practice than on record. Maybe. Maybe groups who had aspirations to a different level of gigs went about doing this, but those harmonies are not for slackers, ok? What cats were into and capable of doing and what was allowed to come to market,,, let's believe The Dells when they say: Here's another one, from an album on Verve(!):

All extant versions of PERFIDIA.

Damn good record, especially the Honegger side!

I'm glad that TPM is providing their usual good reporting on facts. But it's also unquestionably also a political site. So if this is to be a "No Politics" thread, let's just leave it at pointing to the factual and leave the site-pimping for personal conversations, ok?

For the Groove/Teddy record, let me cut to the chase and give a link to "Pennies From Heaven", the last - and by far best (imo) cut of the album: They save the best for last. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Thankful that records last longer than the people who make them (and the people who buy them and, for that matter, sell them), as well as for the gosdarn internet, which might do it's part to keep those records alive in the market place, all of which has been said in light of last night's very simple Dusty Groove order: Item #1: Item #2: I mean, hell, music, right? It's endless!

It's a Don Schlitten joint. Not the best thing ever, but certainly listenable enough, and for more than one spin, too.

The accompanying CD of this book: