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Bobby Few - More Or Less Few Great record!

I have a grandchild. She has her own house with her parents, who have their own TVs and stuff. I don't want to be there when the flying monkeys sent her screaming from the room.

This is a damn hip record. Sometimes the cratediggers get it fully right!

I recently got a copy of the "legs" cover, and it is a gatefold with all the phots and writings. Not unlike a Limelight thing.

Wizard Of Oz? Geez, that's ANOTHER thing I hope to never do again!

As anybody done a mashup of "Brick..." & "Billie Jean"?

That Peter Gunn clip I posted is cued up to skip the music and go right to the single line or relevant dialogue. I thought it was ROTFLMFAO funny when I was watching the episode. I talked back to the tv, told it "I believe I DO, thank you very much!"

In fairness to the Saturday Dallas audience, I didn't notice any mass defections during intermission. There was some "discomfort" though, which...oh well. At least they stayed. And at the end of the evening, there was some noticeable enthusiasm as well. All in all, if they can afford to do more "approach-avoidance" concerts, I hope they do, although god, I do hope they pre-opt any description that defaults to "here's something you're probably NOT going to want to hear". It's a good thing to go to a symphony concert that presents the prickly. Life is prickly, deal with it!

I would actually appreciate hearing any pre-NY Sam, Boston Sam.

OTOH, you don't listen to it and say, hey. that's from the 1940s or OOOH, gotta be 2019, couldn't have been before then.

So it's not some parody like that guy that that organ player does? Or like Tony Clifton?

I hope the audiences don't get disoriented to find out that the venues are nosier than the records!

An FYI gets followed by a WTF? and that's an issue? BFD. RFD. COD. DDT. XYZ. apart from that - is there really any debate that love does not pay for itself, ever?

But jesus - Nielsen?????? That music is not that fucking hard to follow. Not at all. It's got melodies out the ass for crying out loud! As for the sequencing, yes, of course.http://www.theaterjones.com/ntx/solunainternationalmusicartsfestival2019/20190406155451/2019-04-06/Soluna-Review-Sibelius-Violin-Concerto The Dallas Symphony opened this weekend’s series of approach-avoidance concerts on Thursday night in the Meyerson Symphony Center, kicking off the fifth annual Soluna: International Music & Arts Festival. The hall was packed for the first ”approach” half, Haydn’s “Surprise” symphony and the Sibelius Violin Concerto, but shifted for the second half to the “avoidance” side of the fence, with Carl Nielsen’s bewildering fifth symphony. This was easily observable on Thursday evening as the audience thinned out dramatically during intermission. This vacating effect was somewhat surprising because the music of Carl Nielsen is rarely preformed these days and the fifth symphony appears on programs even less than the rest of his oeuvre. It is, indeed, a difficult symphony to hear and digest with its bizarre structure, modernist harmony, conflicting elements, and lack of an earworm. But apparently, Dallas audiences knew what was coming and fled the hall in droves. I was reminded of a quip of dance impresario Sol Hurok: “When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.” That critic...grrrrrr....that audience....grrrrrrrr....is it any wonder that life in the 21st Century is so dysfunctional? We still don't want to deal with the 20th.... GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

whoa! does it have album art, or is it in just a generic folio?

Really? How much money? Is he paying for source material? Is he paying any royalties out, or anything like that? Does he have significant production costs? I mean, he says he's going to keep doing it no matter what, so it must not cost THAT much. I get that he's turning 70 and his gig is teaching at a community college in Arizona: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bret-primack-5804a44 And I get that the jazz life in any form is not even a feeder road to ran access road to the road to financial security. But it seems that the premise here is not that he needs money to keep the Jazz Video Guy Channel going, it's that he maybe needs money to keep Bret Primack going. And I hope he does keep going, but...seriously? If you're just going to give shit away on the internet as a favor, hey, that's a REALLY poor investment/retirement strategy. If there's a lesson for us here, it's that love does not pay for itself, ever.

Where? At the mall record store, perhaps!

Charts? Based on sales? Like, buying records? In 2119? That will mean something to them? Like the best-selling sheet music of the 19th Century matters to everybody today? Wow, what a future!

I want to know if there is a full session with Oliver Nelson and King Curtis sitting around somewhere. That one cut is very nice. Seems odd to have a big band in place and just cut one single, a B-Side at that.

Last night at the Myerson: JOHN STORGÅRDS CONDUCTS AUGUSTIN HADELICH VIOLIN HAYDN Symphony No. 94, “Surprise” SIBELIUS Violin Concerto NIELSEN Symphony No. 5 The Surprise is anything but. However, there's a reason it keeps getting played, I guess. It's sturdy as fuck, built for the long haul. But still... Hadelich played the shit out of Sibelius, and gave a little lagniappe with a Paganini Caprice 24. My main reason for coming was to hear Nielsen 5 performed live. This were just a teence shaky at the beginning, but pulled together quickly enough, after which, there it was. What a great work! I did notice though, some of the audience seemed a bit, uh...impatient with it as it went along. And opening night it seems that people just left rather than have to even begin to hear it: https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/classical-music/2019/04/05/carl-nielsen-symphony-scared-dallas-symphony-patrons-missed-exciting-performance http://www.theaterjones.com/ntx/solunainternationalmusicartsfestival2019/20190406155451/2019-04-06/Soluna-Review-Sibelius-Violin-Concerto I mean, wtf people? This is not a difficult piece to follow if you just let it do what it do. "Bewildering"? SERIOUSLY? Seems to me that the only "problem" is if you expect music to ask but a few questions, and then for those that do get asked get answered right away. Well, Nielsen pretty much said fuck all that, we're gonna let things stew a little while, things are going to get knottier before they get smoother, and when they do, it's not going to be some sort of "triumph", it's going to be a natural resolutions, what with scars and all that shit. But the materials themselves are not difficult to hear and to follow. If this is all it takes to make people run...one more problem in a world already done gone wrong.

2119 is only 50 years away?