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Many many happy returns!

Hope it was a great one Wes!

Happy birthday you multi-instrumentalist music crazy you!

It's all the same in some sort of weird timewarpy matter: generational reactions to the cultural and technological brew.

That is such an amazing album! Right now Disc 3

Yeah, it's like TV crack, incredibly addictive. This show has both changed and remained consistently good over the last two seasons. I've watched all seasons on broadcast.

Recently I think of Monk as an iconoclast of melody--he seems to attack them and beat them into shape, whip them, distill them, chisel them, assign them to beats and insert vacuums. . . finally they are what they can be and they really can't be anything else. So much work seems to go into all his pieces and then. . . they're finished, resolute.

Ugly beauty!

I highly recommend this one where and when you can find it: https://www.dustygroove.com/item/739818 Other than this I have a few songs here and there, this is the meat and potatos of what I've heard.

Like a good neighbor. . . Grateful Dead is there! 'S a good one!

I like the Emerson. I think the ones I go to most often are the Vegh Quartet.

I'd be surprised if anyone here knew the track listing at this time. The link in the original post says that the material will be released in two cd and three LP editions.

The latest episode of Backstrom, which is the best one yet.

Erwin, one of the ways that I first connected emotionally to stringed instruments in classical music was through Beethoven's String Quartet works, especially the late works which seem to combine both writing that is technically difficult (I imagine, I don't play those type of instruments at all) and appeared to me very emotional. My father on the other hand likes the earliest and doesn't know what to make of the later ones, and he's not a very emotional person or listener. I first related to piano music in classical music, having spent time with pianos and loving the piano in other genres.

I'll wait for the full release on 2 cd. But hell yeah!

I'm really enjoying it. . . I missed a lot by not having cable for a few decades and I'm catching up slowly. I'll move on to Season 4 soon but have decided to take a break by watching Dracula (NBC) on Blu-ray (lovely picture and sound). Also watched the latest episode of Black Sails.

Yes, it's pretty good. Finishing up Season 3 of The Shield. This show is addictive.

Thanks! I have been playing Tempest this year. When first released it didn't really speak to me, but I like it more and more. "Jack Frost" has I think learned to produce quite well.

Thanks Alan. Didn't mean to derail this thread. Listened to "Shadows in the Night" again. Great arrangements. I'm ready for the next album of Dylan songs.

Thanks!

I think it depends who your target audience is. I turned one person on by putting Ballads and Crescent on one cdr. He was just ready for that, had been exploring hardtop and also Coleman Hawkins on Impulse.

Man, those two trio dates are right up there with the Prestige dates to me! Love them! I have this box, remember well the day I scraped enough dollars up to buy it at Tower Austin. I have three quarters of it on individual releases that came out since then (K2, Keepnews, etc.) Love this music! Someone who can should gnab this.

Many happy happy returns!

The last four years or so I've listened to more Dylan than any other time in my life, and it's interesting how some of his lyrics of the last thirty years or so have really resonated with events and feelings in my adult life. Marriage, loss, ambition, travel, mortality, spiritual matters. . . I've found reference points or words that make me ponder in so many songs. A week ago I quoted Dylan at a crucial moment in my life. As I asked my fiancee to marry me I quoted one of the new songs created in the T-Bone Burnett project "Lost on the River." The song is "When I Get My Hands on You." As I put the ring on Lucy's finger I quoted" "Now you know Everywhere on Earth you go You're going to have me as your man." It was exactly what I wanted to say and what she wanted to feel.

Hope it was a darned good one.