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The Stories of J. F. Powers

Dr. John, The Night Tripper: Gris-Gris Love that compilation!

Just want to say that The Memory Room was one of the best novels I’ve read in a long time, a story of survival of childhood abuse, told in a creative manner. Highly recommended.

Sad news, his Duke Elegant cd was great, as were so many other albums of his. RIP to the good Doctor.

Angel Hernandez, just doing his thing...

Cannonball Adderley: Cannonball Takes Charge

I took a class at UC San Diego (way, way, back when) by a prof who actually wrote a book on "The Man Without Qualities", despite his best efforts, I still don't get the "Theory of Essayism" as a way to live a life. Even he admitted that the book falls apart at the end. Now Reading: The Memory Room by Mary Rakow. Intense read.

Classic African American Gospel From Smithsonian Folkways

Nighthawks: Live In Hamburg

Nighthawks: 707

San Francisco Nighthawks S/T Shoutout to HutchFan for the inspiration, haven't listened to this one in ages.

I was wondering about the movies, there's no way from what I've been reading that you can get three movies out of the book. I bought the first part of the Hobbit trilogy, it was on sale at Amazon Prime for $4.99, probably skip the second part, and wait for the third movie to come on sale.

Mark-Almond Band S/T. One of those albums, that the minute you hear it, it places you in the 1970s

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. I was beginning the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but decided to backtrack and begin at the beginning. First time I've read it, and finding it very enjoyable.

CTI Records -- The Cool Revolution

Benny Carter: New Jazz Sounds - The Urbane Sessions

Nicholas Payton: Sonic Trance. There's actually a very old thread about this album, from the mist of history. I still like it a lot.

I always looked upon The Harper Brothers as one of those "what if" situations. In the liners to either this album or their first, they said they wanted to be this generation's Cannonball Adderley Quintet, and wanted to be together for years (at least that's what I remember), but after the above lp, they were no more. It was disappointing, as I thought they were very good and had great promise for the future, but like so much of 1990s jazz, it was not meant to be.

Been listening to a lot of scruffy live recordings lately

I've always loved this mix

I desperately need to stop checking this topic, I see all these books I want to read, and not enough time!

That does seem too young, and the poor guy suffered a lot because of his illness, and of just one play in his career. I was a red-hot Dodger fan back in the day, and remember him with the Dodgers, and he was good, in 108 games when he was 21. Though, in today's game, he would be looked upon as not so good, the wrong kind of stats, but it was a different game back when dinosaurs ruled the earth. RIP to a very good player.

I get what you're saying. Spike Lee made the Knicks unwatchable for me. At least Jack Nicholson is chill about things, of course, there's not too much there to get excited about now.