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Just Wondering

What mildly annoying curse do you wish you could curse people with?

What is the ugliest vegetable to your way of thinking?

I know it's casting a wide net, but what is the absolute worst movie you have ever seen?

Robbie Basho - Priest Spring Jazz

Via : https://davesmusictank.livejournal.com/4818046.html

Awesome melancholy folk song from American acoustic guitarist, pianist and singer Robbie Basho
(born Daniel R. Robinson, Jr., August 31, 1940 – February 28, 1986)

In the 1970s and 1980s, Basho's contribution to acoustic steel string guitar was eclipsed early by
John Fahey, founder of Takoma Records, and the appearance of Windham Hill Records and its roster of musicians.
https://cargorecordsdirect.co.uk/products/robbie-basho-song-of-the-avatars-the-lost-master-tapes

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Robbie Basho's finger-picked guitar technique was influenced heavily by sarod playing,
and his studies with the Indian virtuoso Ali Akbar Khan.

dr. π (pi)

♫

enjoy!

❤️

Robbie Basho - Twilight Peaks (1984)

I am sooo loving this guitar music Jazzy D just turned me onto..

01 Twilight Peaks. - 00:00:00​
02 Nice Enough for Love. - 00:03:29​
03 Afternoon and Evening. - 00:09:00​
04 Where Butterflies in Winter Go. - 00:12:44​
05 Japan Idyll. - 00:16:58​
06 Camelot II. - 00:22:32​
07 Golden Dragon. - 00:28:22​
08 Lament For the Earth. - 00:32:53

dr. π (pi)

♫

enjoy!

❤️

Wes Montgomery - California Dreaming (1965)

Sweet swinging jazz for a busy mixed up day..

A1 California Dreamin' 3:08
Written-By – J. Phillips*
Written-By – J. Phillips*

A2 Sun Down 6:00
Written-By – W. Montgomery*
Written-By – W. Montgomery*

A3 Oh You Crazy Moon 3:40
Written-By – J. Burke-J. Van Heusen*
Written-By – J. Burke-J. Van Heusen*

A4 More, More Amor 2:50
Written-By – S. Lake*
Written-By – S. Lake*

A5 Without You 3:00
Written-By – Marino*, Myers*
Written-By – Marino*, Myers*

B1 Winds Of Barcelona 3:07
Written-By – S. Lake*
Written-By – S. Lake*

B2 Sunny 4:00
Written-By – B. Hebb*
Written-By – B. Hebb*

B3 Green Peppers 2:25
Written-By – S. Lake*
Written-By – S. Lake*

B4 Mr. Walker 3:35
Written-By – W. Montgomery*
Written-By – W. Montgomery*

B5 South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way) 3:15 - I believe this last song is missing from the YT file...
Written-By – J. Kennedy*, M. Carr*
Written-By – J. Kennedy*, M. Carr*

South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way) · Wes Montgomery

Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, English Horn, Clarinet – Stan Webb*
Alto Saxophone, Flute, Piccolo Flute – Ray Beckenstein
Bass – Richard Davis (2)
Bassoon, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone – Walter Kane*
Design [Cover] – Acy R. Lehman*
French Horn – Jim Buffington
Guitar – Al Casamenti, Bucky Pizzarelli, Wes Montgomery
Mastered By – VAN GELDER*
Percussion – Grady Tate, Ray Barretto
Photography By [Cover] – Ken Whitmore
Piano – Herbie Hancock
Trombone – Bill Watrous, John Messner, Wayne Andre
Trumpet – Bernie Glow, James Nottingham*, Mel Davis
Tuba – Don Butterfield
Vibraphone [Vibes], Castanets, Performer [Scratcher] – Jack Jennings
https://www.discogs.com/Wes-Montgomery-California-Dreaming/release/2929295

dr. π (pi)

♫

enjoy!

❤️

Good Morning

The Sun - A Poem

That mercurial weather
Continues to stab misconceptions
In our guessing game of dice throws.
Not as strong as the latter day,
Incandescent in the warmth and glow
That still eludes my elan
And supine elusiveness,
I succumb to its equivocating glare
And follow its capricious turns.

Into The Country With Jazzy D and Robbie Basho

Although in a similar vein to Fahey I think Basho has been rather underrated but now he is being discovered more with the recent 5 CD set from Tompkins Square.

Robbie Basho - Visions of the Country (Full Album)

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00:00​ Green River Suite
07:39​ Rodeo
10:09​ Rocky Mountain Raga
17:48​ Variations on Easter
21:45​ Blue Crystal Fire
26:33​ Orphan's Lament
30:20​ Leaf in the Wind
34:59​ Night Way
41:10​ Elk Dreamer's Lament
45:27​ Call on the Wind


Robbie Basho - Song of the Stallion (1971) Full Album

Truly one of his best albums. I have yet to see the full album here on YouTube, let alone a high quality version (it was never released on CD) so here it is in all its glory.

Ripped from a vinyl copy, encoded to 320kbps 48khz AAC before upload.

00:00​ Song of the Stallion
05:11​ A North American Raga
16:48​ The Lady She Is Waiting
22:01​ Roses and Snow
29:57​ California Raga
39:29​ The Hajj
44:50​ Khatum


ENJOY

Thursday Thoughts

I guess it was wrong to think that the good weather would last. It started much colder this morning and the rest of the day remained stultifying with persistence in the greyness of middling clouds was the order of the day. There was a premature exposure of the sun but it did not last long alas, and so I convalesced in my three cans of strong ale today.

Lunch was a fiery chicken curry with pilau rice. I needed the cold ale to dampen the heat of the curry.

CD's I have been listening to is the following -

Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring / Petrushka / Firebird Suite/ Scenes de Ballet: Bernstein, Isreal S.O. (2 x CD )
Ennio Morricone - Crime and Dissonance ( 2 X CD Ipecac)
The Band - Jericho (Sundazed)

Catching up with my telly programmes later.

Book 26 - David Lodge "Therapy"

David Lodge "Therapy" (Penguin)






What a clever book this was, jogging along quite happily with the slightly grumpy narrator venting his spleen about matters ranging from sex to British Rail when suddenly the rug is pulled out from under the reader. Not once but twice. The second section of the book was very very clever.

I couldn’t rid myself of the feeling that the author really wanted to write a book about the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard, but decided for practical reasons to filter this interest through the narrator of a fictional story. The way facts about Kierkegaard meshed with the events in the book was impressive, but I still felt myself stifling yawns each time the philosopher’s name cropped up. The author just pulled back from having him dominate proceedings completely.

I liked the way small details you might have thought insignificant prove to be important later on in proceedings. The book is also instructive as to the ins and outs of producing a sitcom, and the plot strand involving the character who needed to be written out was fascinating. Like all David Lodge’s books, there is humour throughout. I think if you like his others, you will like this one too.

Book 26 - David Lodge "Therapy"

David Lodge "Therapy" (Penguin)






What a clever book this was, jogging along quite happily with the slightly grumpy narrator venting his spleen about matters ranging from sex to British Rail when suddenly the rug is pulled out from under the reader. Not once but twice. The second section of the book was very very clever.

I couldn’t rid myself of the feeling that the author really wanted to write a book about the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard, but decided for practical reasons to filter this interest through the narrator of a fictional story. The way facts about Kierkegaard meshed with the events in the book was impressive, but I still felt myself stifling yawns each time the philosopher’s name cropped up. The author just pulled back from having him dominate proceedings completely.

I liked the way small details you might have thought insignificant prove to be important later on in proceedings. The book is also instructive as to the ins and outs of producing a sitcom, and the plot strand involving the character who needed to be written out was fascinating. Like all David Lodge’s books, there is humour throughout. I think if you like his others, you will like this one too

Good Night