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Tack 1 I meant to say. 1 & 13.

It's a mess, an infuriating mess. But it does have value, and I'm glad to have read it in hardcover.

February already? Time for Valentines! TRACK ONE - No idea who this is, but I like it pretty well. Sounds like it's on its way to Mingus' house, put goes to another house on the same street. I like the path and design of the composition, it's going somewhere and gets there with no wasted motion. Credit to all concerned for staying together on their path, It's a good one. I especially like how the tenor play sounds like they're going to break into the usual cliches but never does. TRACK TWO - That's Joni, the Shadows and Light band. I have a VHS of the concert and it's just fine. Not big on Michael Brecker, Wayne would have been better of course, but oh well, this is the band she got and I think it's excellent. I guess that some of her fans don't like this one at all, but I think it's wonderful! TRACK THREE- What a wonderful CHURN!!!! Another well-structured piece with direction and purpose. Trumpet solo lowers the flame just a little bit, but everybody else picks it up and keeps it up, Nice!!! TRACK FOUR - I like this one too. Pretty busy meter-wise, but it sounds like the players have internalized it, and that makes it feel natural. Works for me! TRACK FIVE - Geri Allen is still missed. Greatly. TRACK SIX - Not Ahmad Jamal, but similar in group concept. That left hand is workin it. The longer it goes on, the deeper it gets. No idea who this is, but do let me hear more! TRACK SEVEN - Jeanne & Ran. Unmistakable, indelible, and still unsurpassed. TRACK EIGHT - Lather up, your majesty. TRACK NINE - BC. again, unmistakeable, indelible, and still unsurpassed. I've seen live videos and yes, she led her band. Let it very strongly. Sam her live one time at Blues Alley in DC, had to s it behind the bandstand, but nearly front row, and that turned out to be a revelation, because I get to see her turn around and stare fire into the band to get them to go with her. Hell, it scare ME! But she was a total badass, Betty Carter was. TRACK TEN - Interesting...sounds like bebop thinking, but more...considered, like an evaluation than a statement. Trumpeter sounds a bit like early-ish Miles, but not exactly. Again, interesting. TRACK ELEVEN - That's pretty damn good singing. Kinda reminds be of Miles, the direct attacks. Plus, very controlled and strategic vibrato, That's gotta be Helen Merrill. She is easy to overlook, but impossible to ignore once you get bitten but her voice. So much feeling. Excellent! Ok, that's Clifford Brown. Seals the deal. A classic album of her's. TRACK TWELVE - No idea. I did a skelatal /google searh for soprano saxophone piano and accordion and nothing really came up. Whatever it is, I like it a lot. Sounds like strongly jazz-informed classical (or very well vice-versa), very well executed, and even more well-conceived. I'd like to hear more. TRACK THIRTEEN - Very nice! Again, no idea, but would like to hear more by this band. The changes show a familiarity with some of the more advanced "acid jazz", which is always welcome here, different maths create different worlds. Kinda sounds like the same band on Track 3? A consistently delightful set here. Would I be wrong in saying that these are indeed Valentines of sorts, that all tracks are by women leaders? It's about time!

I think he released it because he felt compelled to make a "statement". Well, good for him! Tell me something I don't already know. Some people may be shocked by what's going up, but I grew up in a part of the country were Fascistic impulses were pretty open and racism was hard-wired into the system. So AFAIC, this is nothing new except that now it's been handed the keys to the government. They're playing for keeps and they now have all the necessary tool at hand to go as far with it as they want to. So forgive me if this piece of...whatever it is, doesn't particularly resonate with me.

I'm just not a fan of manipulation, be it for my side or for the other side. Especially from and by pop stars. This shit is much deeper than that, and so is the thoughts and feelings that are needed to stay strong and to survive. No sense wasting time and energy on drivel. Something stronger?

All I can say is that if some doggerel song is what it takes to get people motivated, then people don't stand a chance. Fascists play for keeps, not for songs

Look at that band!

Good luck on all of that. We will bellow out (really) bad songs. They will shoot to kill. And more. I'm afraid the worst is yet to come, including the "songs".

Salary caps are evil. Value is to be rewarded, not stifled. Lazy ownership and management seems to always be rewarded in some form or fashion. Put a salary cap on them, eh? Then we can talk.

His first name was Grady?!?!! RIP Rev. Wilson.

I was raided in a box set family. Nobody asked me, it was just always there, a headless floating hat in the sky

And the grounds were littered with the dead Fascist bodies?1

It was hi acid album Not sure how "creepy" it is, whatever that means,?

It have done been gotten here it has!

Titans Of The Tenor and they draw two alto players?

Well now! https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-agents-social-media-platform-moltbook-rcna256738

Her rhythm in Shitt's Creek was beyond virtuosic. It almost always was.

Lititz, Pa.

The drawback to a Miles/Keith live set might be the things with Leon Chancler. By his own later admission, he was not yet up to the task at hand.

I would even watch her commercials and smile. A genuine spirit indeed.

Guitars don't kill shit. That's reality.