I'm in, for awhile tonight, box.

But my freak flag is pretty small, dontcha know. :-)

Gil Evans. Now, you're talkin', box.

Good to see you, paul. I hope I'll play some stuff you enjoy (I've got a little surprise about this Gil Evans song, though).

So far (the first two are repeated from last time):
Max Roach - Triptych (Prayer, Protest, Peace) (a duet with vocalist Abbey Lincoln, from We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, 1960)
The Gil Evans Orchestra - Pots (Wanna hear a funny story? Half the songs on this album, 1961's Into the Hot, have nothing to do with Gil Evans whatsoever--they're the Cecil Taylor Septet, with, among others, Roswell Rudd, Archie Shepp and Sunny Murray. This is one of the Taylor songs.)

more jazz! yay!

I was all ready to park myself in front of the TV and procrastinate, but now that I've got music, I'm going to settle in with my beads and make my sister some birthday jewelry. :)

i wish we had the tricked out radio page again.
How long are you going to be on and how was the fair?
Did you win prizes?

Thelonious Monk - Body and Soul (Retake 2) (from 1962's Monk's Dream, this solo piano track gives a good impression of Monk's style in this era.)
Herbie Hancock - The Egg (from 1964's Empyrean Isles, this is some of the stuff that Hancock was playing at the same time that he was in the second great Miles Davis quintet. This is still post-bop, but by now many Blue Note artists (and others) were stretching the limits of the genre.)

I'm not sure yet how long I'll be on. The fair was pretty okay, all in all. Handed out a bunch of flyers and pamphlets and calendars and magnets and pencils, did a bunch of 'networking' with their school librarian, drank some punch, ate a cookie, like that. I thought one of the teachers was kind of a cutie, but then changed my mind when I found out she taught PE. I didn't win anything, though they gave away a bunch of books, and some cakes.

So it was like a fair... speaking of which, i thought you were one of the many taken.

Blizzardy warnings until morning lightish. i wonder who gets snow days.

Tony Williams - Memory (Williams was the drummer in that Herbie Hancock quartet, and his first album as a leader is 1964's Life Time. He was 18 when he made this record. This particular song is free improvisation from Williams, Hancock and Bobby Hutcherson, one of my favorites, on the vibes.)
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue (It's the title track from Hutcherson's 1964 debut as a leader, a new-thing high water mark.)

It wasn't so much like a fair. The principal gave a little speech, which included many introductions, data about test scores and a detailed recounting of the schedule for the night's festivities, and then he rang a bell, and the parents went to see their kids' teachers, while Janie (coworker) and I chitchatted. Then the parents came back, and some of 'em talked to us, and then they went for a second round of teacher visits, and then everybody came back for the 'cake walk,' which is like a combination of a raffle and musical chairs. Then everybody trickled out.

People don't get snow days when, and where, snow is something that could be reasonably expected. That's not quite what I mean, but it's close.

The exception to that being when Buffalo, or Colorado or Minneapolis or someplace, gets a, y'know, bonafide winter weather disaster.

So, Bobby Hutcherson, then. Well, 45 minutes into Dialogue, I've had a chance to build a fresh drink (Perfect Rob Roy), and eat a ham/avocado/ripe olive salad.

Interesting, box.

Archie Shepp, Yasmina.

There's a massive snowstorm system movie across the midwest northeast that i can't find a pretty picture of.
Usually if places haven't had a snowday yet, they might just decide to, and large chunks the storms have moved through have already decided to go for it, businesses factories, etc.

i wish we had a way to record and replay. Sometimes i have a jazz mood but not the jazz to go with it, and the inverse and variations of the same with different music.

Since the last posting, box has played Pharoh Sanders, and now, Bobby Hutcherson again. This set is a great example of why Radio Metachat works, when it does. Here's a person with a major interest in music, sharing tracks of historic importance, legally.

It sounds great, it's from a person we know, whose musical tastes we've come to know, it's social, it's free, it's commercial free, and it's even, possibly, educational. What's not to like?

(I had a phone call, haven't written comments, moving into the '70s)

Pharoah Sanders - Colors
Bobby Hutcherson - The Creators
Charles Earland - More Today Than Yesterday
The Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass - Theme de Yo-Yo
Demon Fuzz - Fuzz Oriental Blues

Brute Force - Do It Right Now (A crate-digger favorite from 1970. Produced by Herbie Mann, and Sonny Sharrock plays guitar.)
Eugene McDaniels - Jagger the Dagger (Another sample source, a big Mick Jagger dis and sometimes called the first rap song (by people who are almost certainly mistaken), from 1970's Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse)

eth, suffice it to say that there are programs which can rip streams. Streamrippers, if you will.

Yep, it's all part of my slow technological musical progress. i'll get up to currency someday but i have been making glacial progress with a sudden ice shelf falling here and there, but i just means something else gets put on the backburner in its stead.
For ever ice shelf is a passel of polar bears and i do so love polar bears.
They look so peaceful floating backward, especially the underwater part.

i should finish up stuff and pass out or eat something, should being the optimal word.

Archie Shepp - Attica Blues, The Cry of My People (These are the title songs from two large-ensemble albums that Shepp released in 1972, both of which combine political protest, soulful, funky avant-garde playing and a deep sense of the history of African(-American) music.)

This is the last song for now. Thanks for listening.

that was great box - merci buckets.