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Also Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors, where he wrote all the songs. Has Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, Bobby Jaspar, Idrees Sulieman, Webster Young, Paul Chambers, Art Taylor. 1957, Prestige.

Of the early Mal Waldron Trio albums I like Impressions and 4 a lot. Then later, Mal Waldron and Jackie McLean Left Alone '86.

That clip was hilarious! Ben was such a good character. I guess Aubrey Plaza saw the Laura character on Dr. Katz. So hostile! Do you remember the character Lydia on The Andy Griffith Show? She was the one Barney set up Andy with on a blind date. They were all discussing what to do on their date and she didn't like anything anyone proposed. Barney suggested Andy play the guitar and she said "I don't mind clarinet or saxophone but I hate the guitar." Take a walk? "I can't go outside, it gives me the herpes." How about a joy ride? "I can't go for a drive. I get car sick." Why don't we just stay here on Thelma Lou's couch and talk? "I hate chit chat. I don't mind real conversation but I don't like small talk." Just as deadpan as Laura and Aubrey. I watch too much TV from the past! LOL!

I've heard a lot of good things about Better Call Saul! Maybe I will do the YouTube clip route with it? I recently went that route with Curb Your Enthusiasm. I had no idea of all the stars who were either regular characters or playing themselves! The silly theme song, which David called Italian circus music, reminded me of the silly recurring music in Mr. Hulot's Holiday! Maybe it was a good candidate for clip viewing? I loved it. I also saw whole episodes of News Radio with Dave Foley, Phil Hartman, Stephen Root, Andy Dick, Maura Tierney, and Joe Rogan, of all people! What a series! Some kind of algorithm is at work calling me up episodes of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, which was a hilarious showcase for stand up comics and deadpan comedy by Jonathan Katz, Jon Benjamin, Laura Silverman. YouTube knows me! I mentioned on Facebook seeing Ray Romano on it before his popular TV series and he (or somebody representing him) liked that. He and Dom Irrera were my favorites on Dr. Katz. I recently went and searched for Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) on it and saw him do a hilarious routine about shoot 'em up video games. Now they say he's going to STAR in an action movie, and he talked about it like it is the pinnacle of popularity today. No Country for People Like Me, I guess! LOL!

Breaking Bad. I completely missed the original run but now I am seeing A LOT of YouTube clips of the show, discussions of it with Vince Gilligan, the creator, and interviews with the main actors. I have a mixed impression of it. I appreciate the acting and the production, the music, etc., but I am not sure what to think of the themes. It doesn't seem believable to me, or even something to hold on to or care about. I guess I prefer to see moral issues handled in a different way. I guess I am watching it more out of curiosity over it, asking what's all the buzz about it. That was the way I approached watching The Sopranos YEARS after it ran on TV. I got way more into it than Breaking Bad. Don't know why.

Loved his music! He played the loudest concert I ever went to, at the Warehouse on Tchoupitoulas Street in New Orleans ~1975. What an artist!

I just recently revisited Really the Blues and Turn Me Loose White Man! Learned a lot. Thanks for your work on that! A friend called me an expert on roots music and I was so embarrassed after having worked my way through those 2 collections! He has no idea.

I understand that the health care system in Pittsburgh is very good, maybe better than the DC area. My brother in law moved there just before the covid pandemic and he's happy with it. He previously lived in a Maryland suburb of DC and was born and raised here. He was tired of the suburban life and wanted to live in a city with good health care, was walkable, had big city availability of arts and culture (though I bet DC has a better arts and culture scene). He likes the ethnic neighborhoods and the blue collar vibe. It's more affordable than DC and Maryland. He's moved a couple of times already because gentrification has resulted in raising his rent. My wife and I have visited twice to catch baseball games at the wonderful MLB stadium. We were surprised that there's not much of a nightlife or restaurants in that downtown area. There was a fun foodie scene in an area of town called The Strip -- an area that used to be the warehouse district for meat and produce but has gentrified over the years and is now the hot spot of the foodie scene. I can't speak to the music scene. My brother in law mostly likes roots music -- blues, old country, rockabilly, ethnic music like Irish and Ukrainian. I don't believe he's very knowledgeable about jazz. Hope this helps!

Hadn't heard Undercurrents by Bill Evans & Jim Hall in years and couldn't believe how much I enjoyed it this week! Made me feel so good!

The Reddit poster, simplehuman, is my nephew, it turns out! LOL!

Could be.

Yes!

Sorry, y'all! NOT ADT. ATR Magnetics! See what Google AI says about it. It's supposed to be something of quality between original master tapes that the recording engineer would have and high grade audiophile recordings. My nephew's image explaining it is too big to post here. I can ask him to resize it.

Thank you, jazzbo and Kevin, for your helpful responses! I will look further into what ADT means and post here what I find.

My nephew came upon ADT recordings when clearing out a storage facility and wishes to know if there is a market for them. I told him I would ask here and see if there is any interest. Dexter Gordon, One Flight Up Thelonious Monk, Monk's Dream Herbie Hancock, Takin' Off There are numbers for each one but I don't know what they mean. Numbers like 15IPS IEC R2 NEW He has the ADT equipment too. Please let me know if you have any information or better yet any interest in purchasing them and I can put the two of you in contact. He is not a member of this discussion group. Thank you!

Jack, did you ever know Sweet Pete?

Great music! Haven't stopped playing if for days! Note that cd 3 didn't have metadata, at least for me. Had to enter all info for iTunes and burning it to flac on my hard drive.

I am just glad no one suggested they start a Home Run Derby in the top of the 10th! About as half-baked!

I've never seen mayonnaise ON french fries, but in Belgian restaurants I see that pommes frites come with a container of mayo (aoli) on the side and you DIP one fry at a time into it. Just a little. It's not SPREAD over a pile of fries like ketchup. Maybe some places spread it over but I haven't seen that. I''m kinda surprised gumbo hasn't been mentioned. Wikipedia will usually says it's a soup or stew. I disagree. It's its own thing. I fix chicken soup, chicken stew, and chicken gumbo and they are all very different from one another. Well, chicken stew is closer to chicken gumbo than chicken soup is. But we call it chicken fricassee. Cajuns may state forcefully that gumbo has NO tomatoes in it. That's New Orleans style. I disagree with that too. I grew up in Vermilion parish which is one of the most Cajun parishes there is., Even when I went to school the cafeteria ladies fixed okra and shrimp gumbo and it DID have a little bit, not a lot, of tomato in it. It was definitely NOT a New Orleans recipe. I doubt those cafeteria ladies knew any New Orleans recipes! My mother used a little and so do I when I make it. How do you dress your hamburgers? I put ketchup on the bottom bun and mayo on the top bun. Lettuce and tomato and top of the patty. For steamed or boiled shrimp or crawfish a lot of Cajuns fix their own sauce at the table -- a mixture of ketchup, mayo, and worcestershire sauce. For oysters you vary that with a little bit of horseradish. Restaurants used to put all those ingredients on the table and you fixed your own sauce at the table. I don't know why but in English we don't say make something, we say fix something. But in French we DO say fait (make or do). Even in A Confederacy of Dunces, set in New Orleans, the characters say "Fix me a weenie" (Make me a hot dog) to the Lucky Dog representative. I guess it's both Cajun English and Yat.

I agree with Alan's remarks about her some time back. A much underrated jazz singer with a great voice and phrasing. We were lucky to have had her.

My all time favorite basketball player. It's good to know how respected he was.

Happy Happy!

Terrifying!

Funny! I know of a Cajun fiddler from Lake Charles named Nookie Martin. Meanings changed over time, I suppose! I remember Puggy Moity closer to my home. That man would run for more than one office at a time! He was supposedly a Private I who dug up the dirt on popular Edwin Edwards, using nicknames for Edwards like Tweety Bird, Chanel Number 5, etc. (If inappropriate just delete, don't ban me! ha!)

Thanks for all the birthday wishes!