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  1. I don't think you have to be a "jazz intellectual" (whatever that is) to dislike Oscar Peterson's playing. Plenty of people just don't like that kind of thing, period. Back in the day when there were blue collar jazz fans, I knew plenty who liked him, and plenty who didn't. It doesn't take any special gift/capacity/intellect to either like or dislike him. As with Bruce Springsteen, Wynton Marsalis, Ornette Coleman, Donald Trump, Disney Princesses, poodledogs, SUVs, navy blue slacks, you name it, some people just do not like that type of thing, period.
  2. That would be my guess.
  3. Well, let's make the fallacious assumption that they don't. Going from there, an objective analysis of the notes being played (that is to say, what the notes are doing, not simply how many of them there are) showed that although Tatum, like Peterson, had his pet runs and devices used in abundance, many times to excess, he also had at least one or two, maybe even three, higher creative gears that Peterson never did have, especially when it came to harmony. Peterson could take a song and dazzle it into irrelevance. Tatum could take a song and transform it into transcendence. Not that he always did. But he could, and often enough did. Peterson, no. Never. So, that's why. The big difference there is that Donald Trump is still alive.
  4. Sure, he's talented. Lots of talented motherfuckers in the world. Big deal. Those who love him so much, y'all can have my piece, I ain't a-gonna be eatin' it.
  5. It was the latter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anthems_Of_The_World_(album)
  6. I think they're all making a mad rush to stop the diarrhetic mule before any further damage is inflicted on the people you CAN'T see.. Either that, or they're helping with its aim. Cramps like this, baby, the mule's got the runs!
  7. If those were the only choices, I think I'd opt out and take the alternative. I've had neither a particularly great life nor a long one, but it has been good enough and long enough for me to be comfortable with accepting an honorable discharge.
  8. If I'm going to be stranded on a desert island and there's a guy stranded on another desert island and the only CD he's going to be jamming is Springsteen, I pray to all that may or may not be god that our islands are in different oceans.
  9. Nice, very nice.
  10. Exotically chic and undeniably cozy, this crewneck gets the warmth and style jobs done in an on-trend zebra pattern. https://shop.nordstrom.com/s/halogen-zebra-stripe-crewneck-pullover/5373965/full?origin=category-personalizedsort&breadcrumb=Home%2FWomen%2FAll%20Women&color=ivory-%20black%20zebra%20pattern
  11. I don't have an aversion to garbage in and of itself.
  12. I'm kinda of the thought that there can be no bad versions of "96 Tears". I mean, c'mon, it's one of the most glorious pieces of garbage ever, and GIGO! But GLORIOUS!
  13. Check this out, Fania @ Yankee Stadium was a HUGE event. https://www.espn.com/espn/hispanicheritage2008/news/story?id=3596100
  14. The inside skinny, supposedly: http://www.barrykernfeld.com/
  15. Carrot! Revolution!
  16. Yikes! I get why they might need to do that, but still...yikes! What's their return policy, lest you get home - or even to the car - and find something not as it should be in terms of completeness or condition?
  17. Is #4 either Phil Ranelin or Dick Griffin? Also, the drummer on #2 is not Elvin or Roy Haynes, correct?
  18. Here's another one you might get curious about at some point. Let me get that out of your system right now, ok?
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