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Wait... Not everything that LTT reports on is accurate... I'm shock, Shocked I say...

RIP Brian Wilson - 82

Martha Argerich plays Beethoven - Conductor Ion Marin - ARTE Concert full of goodness.

^^ this. I had it high in my queue and your post pushed it forward. Not an easy listen. Not that it is not really good. It is pretty great. But it is not for the faint of heart. There are a lot of notes, and they are not in the order that I would expect. But listening deeply there are themes and phrases that emerge that are very rewarding. And some tunes that are absolutely beautiful. Well recorded and minimizes the Jarrett mumble. Side note - last week when I had a friend visiting, I tried to explain - The Köln Concert - It was hard with someone that does not listen to jazz and had never heard of it before.

Personal History by Mary Chapin Carpenter (2025) https://album.link/gtnmzvcxr3szp Example: Warm and sometimes brooding. A set of tunes from one that seems to know who they are and where they are in their life.

Yeah Yeah another Rick Video - but I had never heard the isolated tracks before - pretty darn cool.

https://youtu.be/o4qbnQAsC-8?si=eobRwZGPAQeQF-40 "The link could not be embedded because youtu.be does not allow embedding of that video." Anyway - Hania Rani - Nancy Jazz Pulsations 2023 - ARTE concert Just posted a few days ago of the 2023 performance. Worthy as always.

Shazam by The Move (1970) https://album.link/gwvsqbsvnzrxh Example: The short lived but fun 'The Move'.

50yo Wind On The Water by Crosby & Nash (1975) https://album.link/5vnkkwtcmj2vj Example: There were a couple albums of just the duo. Nice set of tunes.

Copland: Our Town Suite, The Red Pony Suite & El Salón México by Aaron Copland (1988) https://album.link/kjqzqbb7js4mt Example: Finally getting back to finish off the trio of CBS Masterworks: Copland v Copland... Like the others, just lovely, maybe not the most audiophile of the recordings out there, but super lush and the performance is unquestionably good. I may poke around a little bit more for other recordings, I have a few others in my queue (Bernstein, MTT, Marriner), but I feel that in the future, I will probably just come back to these.

ew... {begin rant} Well you were right. I didn't have the stomach to watch past a few minutes. As soon as I heard 'Physics Establishment' I knew that it was Crackpot time and I was done. I am sorry I gave it that much time, they probably got credit for a view. I at least was able to give it a thumbs down. There are several vids by Angela Collier about Crackpots - and they are scary people that are mad.... I like Sean Carroll - I read his pop physics books back in the day: From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime I would rather read papers than books aimed for public consumption now. But Sean is a well respected in the industry with over a hundred published research papers. He falls in the camp of Brian Greene for me as a science educator. In some ways I hate that he did this. It raises the status of 'people that yell' that their theory is worthy of debate. {end rant} Back to working on my theory of everything that they cannot handle....

Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works by Yuja Wang (2025) https://album.link/cw0v6b3mzztxf Example: Up to all the standards that one would expect.

Sonny Meets Hawk! by Sonny Rollins (1963) https://album.link/s94wfwvvrgh6z Example: Sonny, Hawk. Hawk, Sonny. Nice to meet you. Good colab. They play with themes and sounds back and forth the entire album. With some experimental things going on as well.

Cheers - happy birthday

Search For The New Land by Lee Morgan (1966) https://album.link/qkcjcfrch3whp Example: Opening with this 16 minute monster, Lee had something to say in '66. With Wayne, Herbie and the boys, just a stellar set. {RVG of course}

50yo Nils Lofgren by Nils Lofgren Band (1975) https://album.link/tfvx4chsvnb0g Example: Some good playing, the songs are okay to me.

^hmmm how would it work with a loaf.... Today's bake, happy with the oven spring this time. Simple country loaf with a bit of oat flower flour added. 36 hour fermentation process wild yeast bread.

concrete!

Because of ^^ ARBORESQUE by Artemis (2025) https://album.link/43rqkf2zqcx6s Example: They deliver the goods, and being on Blue Note does not hurt at all. This will be in rotation for a bit.

Thankful by Natalie Cole (1977) https://album.link/wmxqjwcnt0mcj Example: I didn't know this part of her career. I found her in the late 80s and listened to the late 90s. I have missed a lot. Amazing release in the middle of disco area that is so full of soul and great production.

I seem to be on KEXP algorithm now. Intense looping, but I like it.

People were naysaying Wing ... So he dropped this: DnB!

Cheers Sir Brent... And I was just thinking about you today to get together for a beverage. Happy Birthday! Ooh hey - I added a spoiler - intriguing .. no?