Teasing the Korean

No, we used a prefab skillet gnocchi for this dish, as I wanted to see how everything went overall the first time. I've never tried to make gnocchi. I gather from your response that it's not easy!

It is also available for purchase as a lossless download from Qobuz. Thanks!

Yes, I look like a character in Fellini's Satyricon.

Does anyone else do this, and if so, have you had any success? This past weekend, Ms. TTK and I recreated a gnocchi dish with wild mushrooms, spinach, and roasted squash. It was in a white creamy sauce that I think was mostly mushrooms, onions, and cream. In addition to the usual salt, pepper, onion, and garlic (mild), the main spice was sage, which I sautéed separately in butter until it was crispy, and then added to main sauté pan. The squash was partially roasted in advance, and cooked the rest of the way with everything else. When served, the dish was topped sparingly with crumbled feta. I got the flavors pretty close; the consistency, not so much. Anyway, the butter and sage give this dish an autumnal quality. It may become my signature Thanksgiving dish. It also may work well as a side dish without the gnocchi, but I will have to give this some additional thought.

I just ate a handful of Concord grapes, my first of the season. White seedless grapes have been flavorless for decades. But Concord grapes never disappoint. Plus, they pair nicely with jazz.

You mean Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man?"

The Sound of Feeling - Spleen (Limelight, overpriced 180G hipster reissue)

The twins were in a Star Trek episode! When they perfect time travel, just visit Florida in the 1990s, and you can find both albums for a dollar each!

It's a crazy album, especially the Sound of Feeling side. Stay tuned for their masterpiece follow-up, Spleen.

Leonard Feather presents The Sound of Feeling, with Oliver Nelson (Verve, mono promo) Side 1 is The Sound of Feeling. Side 2 is Oliver Nelson. It's kind of like a Crown LP in that regard.

Thank you! I should have thought of that!

Baltimore and Ohio make turntables? Since you're in Santa Fe, why not a ATSF turntable? Seriously, sorry about your turntable. That must have been a linear tracking model, correct?

Anyone know which John Williams is on piano here? https://www.discogs.com/release/7146129-Bob-Brookmeyer-Featuring-Red-Mitchell-John-Williams-Bob-Brookmeyer-Featuring-John-Williams-Red-Mitch

The coda of "Roll on the Left Side" is a riot.

Herbie Hancock - Warner Bros. Years, 2-CD set.

So it sounds like your experience may have been similar to mine during the 1990s. I was buying CDs at that time also, but I was going absolutely bonkers over the availability of all the cheap LPs during that decade. I felt like a 5-year-old being dropped off at the candy store with a twenty dollar bill.

Alain Delon: Morricone - The Sicilian Clan (CAM) Eric Demarsan - Le Cercle Rouge (Universal France)

Thanks for the replies. It is interesting that my vinyl buying substantially increased when others were switching to CD. I guess that's why those LPs were dirt cheap at the time!

In my lifetime, the vinyl LP has gone from being the industry standard music medium, to a relic of a bygone era, to an overpriced hipster display item. I would be interested in hearing how and when folks with very large LP collections managed to accumulate them. Was is it a slow and steady process over many decades, or were there significant stretches of feast and famine along the way? I began buying LPs as a little kid. By the late 1980s, when I was in my mid-20s, I had hundreds of albums. But the real spike in buying for me occurred from the early 1990s to maybe around 2005 or 2010. In the cities where I lived or visited during these 15 or 20 years, cheap LPs were everywhere, including very clean copies of desirable titles. While I'd been buying jazz LPs since I was in junior high, I lugged home a ton of jazz albums during this period. I have not bought much vinyl in about 10 years. I no longer have the patience to look for it, and the second-hand market has all but dried up around these parts. And contemporary vinyl IMO is not worth it. It is overpriced, and there are too many issues with warpage, off-center pressings, inner-groove distortion, and sibilance. Not sure how I'm defining a "large" collection - I am thinking at least 1,000, but maybe more like 2,500 or more. Whichever, I don't want to leave anyone out of the discussion. So what was your experience like?

My copy is undated, and I can't find a date on Discogs either. The fact that it is mono may provide a clue. Also, I have not looked into other releases on this label. That may help also.

Glad you found a copy!

The kid's got a point.

I sense about 10,000 blues tunes coming up...

The one with the golf clubs and the amazing cardigan? I've got that one too.

Interesting mix of tunes on that album. I knew about half of them. The song "Welcome to the Club" should have been better known. Do you know other versions of it? It would have been great for Dino.