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39 minutes ago, Matthew said:
Sending goods thoughts out about your father. May all be well.
Yes, hoping for the best.
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The first video with Laibach’s interpretation is suitably pretentious. https://www.youtube.com/embed/mM90X-9m_Zc
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5 hours ago, ghost of miles said:
Ade, believe it or not, is still celebrated here by Indiana history nerds for his Hoosier heritage. I haven’t ever gotten around to reading him, but I’ll add Chicago Stories to my list. Always happy to read anything well-written about Chicago.
If you haven't read Stuart Dybek then you will want to take a look at his short story collections. I personally prefer The Coast of Chicago but I Sailed with Magellan also has some strong stories.
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Haven't read this piece yet. I will say that the Toronto Symphony Orchestra has pivoted to very, very tiny on-line offerings - usually a 5-10 minute duet. I find it far too depressing to bother with. Of course, given the strict lockdown Toronto is under at the moment, it is not possible for larger ensembles to perform with or without an audience.
Up until recently, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra was performing slightly shorter evenings (60-75 minute performances) with a slightly scaled back orchestra (in an empty hall) and then putting these on line. Given that BC is ramping up its restrictions, this may be coming to a halt as well. At any rate, I am subscribing to the VSO on-line season whereas the TSO just is not worth it at the moment.
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On 2020-11-29 at 10:58 PM, kh1958 said:
A fabulous set by the Bandwagon tonight. Heavy on the Monk and Fats Waller.
Sorry I missed it. I listened to the Friday concert and it was good but didn't exactly blow me away (and I was fairly busy on Sat, so I didn't follow up with the rebroadcast of the 2nd set.).
I've seen the Bandwagon in a concert hall (Chicago Symphony Center), which isn't really the ideal setting. I believe I also saw them at Jazz Showcase (wondering whether they would do something somewhat rap-inspired after Joe Segal's introduction
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On 2020-09-28 at 11:08 AM, bertrand said:
Jack Walrath recently confirmed on Facebook that the titles for Cell Block F and Rockefeller were flipped, i.e., the first song on Changes One in Cell Block F. Both tunes are on the Bremen set. Will this be corrected?
This may just go down as an unfortunate historical accident, but it seems a bit late in the day to try to get people to mentally switch over if the labelling on the Changes CDs is incorrect (and no one is seriously talking about repressing these with new titles...). At any rate, I was just listening, and "Free Cell Block F" matches the first song on Changes Two, which is also titled (apparently incorrectly) "Free Cell Block F."
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Maybe too much of a stretch but "All The Gin Is Gone" by Jimmy Forrest.
Buddy Rich "Bloody Mary" on The Driver.
And "Vodka" on Cattin' With Coltrane And Quinichette
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I have had a few where there was clearly some problem with the mastering of the last track (crazy digital artifacts and skipping). Fairly common particularly with PD labels releasing CDs with 75+ minutes of music.
Astonishingly enough, once in a while these problems persist even when streaming on iTunes, so did they actually just rip their own CDs to create the version stored on iTunes? Completely baffling.
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Make sure you are one of first 200 in line. Price goes up after that...
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2 hours ago, mjazzg said:
I need some sunshine, I must catch up with it
About halfway through dusk sets in but you have a solid hour of music in the sun.
Thanks for pointing us in the right direction in the first place.
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Listened to most of the Turkish jazz set. Quite interesting and I was definitely jealous of the weather (the performances were all shot outdoors on the Istanbul waterfront).
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I listened to the Tom Harrell Friday evening set at the Village Vanguard. I'm still debating whether I will listen on Sat. (tonight). It looks like it is Jason Moran and Bandwagon next weekend, and I'll probably tune in on one of those sets.
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It might not have made much difference in the end, but certainly some people are arguing that Ontario really started spiralling back out of control a week or two after Canadian Thanksgiving (because so many people couldn't resist going off and meeting relatives and mingling with people outside their bubbles). I can only imagine what will happen in the States.
At any rate, it looks like Toronto (and Peel and York) are heading towards a pretty strict lockdown this weekend. I'm glad I ran off to the hardware store and got some extra supplies, as we may be back to on-line shopping for a while.
On a slightly cheerier note, I think it's pretty cool that Dolly Parton's donation helped kickstart one of the successful (so far) vaccines. I imagine at some level her involvement may sway at least some of the vaccine-shy to get the shot when available. At this point, anything will help...
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Watched Life of Brian over the weekend. It holds up quite well. I was reading that there was a huge fuss at the time, which of course made the film profitably almost immediately. I think there was an interview a while back with one or more of the Pythons, indicating that it would be all but impossible to release the film in today's climate.
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Aside from my very slow march through Don Quixote (and Nabokov's lectures on same), I'm mostly reading Canadian literature.
I thought The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis had its moments, but I thought the situations were a bit too pat (like a play in many cases) and it certainly isn't as good as The Free World.
I thought the claustrophobic rural community depicted in Fortier's The Unknown Huntsman was certainly creepy but it was a literary affectation that bore no resemblance to anything in real life (maybe drawing on his memories of watching The Wicker Man or the like). I'm glad it was fairly short as I was getting ready to bail.
I'm starting in on Atwood's The Edible Woman (which I read many, many years ago), and I expect this will hold up better than these other two.
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19 minutes ago, jazzbo said:
... I saw two Q stickers on SUVs, both driven by . ..the stereotypical little old ladies. Just scary and apalling.
Totally off-topic (or is it?) but I watched Goldfinger for the first time in ages last night. As Bond tries to outrun some goons at a checkpoint for Goldfinger's Swiss operations, this sweet old lady hauls out a machine gun and fires away at Bond's car!
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I'm fairly sure (but not 100%) that I read Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. I actually own all of his novels now in LOA editions, but haven't read that many, and it will take a while to remedy that, just because I have so much else I am trying to get through. I just borrowed this graphic novel adaptation from the library and thought it was pretty successful.
In addition to slowly making my way through Don Quixote, I am currently reading books by Quebec authors from QC Fiction (https://qcfiction.com/), including Tatouine and The Electric Baths.
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Will probably follow up with The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles – The Last Transmission
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Just in that kind of mood...
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Gil Scott-Heron Winter in America
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Maybe Childish Gambino's This is America?
But more seriously, I have so soured on America falling so short of its promise that I don't feel even the slightest twinge of patriotism any longer. Even a landslide by the Dems tonight won't really change my underlying feelings.
Feel free to delete, mods...
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From Russia with Love - This was a much stronger outing in my view, clearly the budget had been increased, and we have the appearance of the first spy-rigged suitcase. While all Bond villains talk too much, this one actually appeared ready to kill Bond and was only tripped up a bit by his greed.
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Watched Dr. No last night (for obvious reasons). I don't believe I had seen this one before, which is odd, as I thought I had seen all the Connery and Moore Bonds but only a handful of the others. (I'm essentially taking the position that the Daniel Craig ones don't even exist...)
At the risk of being heretical, it's kind of creaky and not particularly thrilling (all the plot twists are visible a mile away) -- and with a complete absence of interesting spy gadgets. It's actually a bit surprising that they built the franchise from such a beginning.
I found myself more interested in what had been lifted directly from this movie for Austin Powers.
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On 2019-07-19 at 3:13 PM, Brad said:
I can’t seeing buying a set that contains 7 CDs worth of his music. I’m just not that much of a fan of NKC. Perhaps if they eventually do one of their best of CDs, I’d go for that. However, to those who are big fans, I’m sure you will be very happy.
Very late to this discussion, but haven't seen this mentioned in the thread.
On iTunes (and possibly a physical release), there is Straighten Up and Fly Right (Best of Hittin' the Ramp) and Plays the Best of Hollywood, Broadway and the Great American Songbook which is also drawn from Hittin' the Ramp.
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RIP - I imagine there will be a lot of people settling in for a Bond marathon this weekend.
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Decided to try to catch the Sat. Christian McBride Jawn set, though had to watch it out of sync, i.e. this morning. After several weeks of no problems at VV site, I am having terrible buffering/streaming issues.
Will try restarting computer a third time to see if it is on my end, but I think it's them...
Well, perhaps it was just me. Still extremely annoying.