WFMU: The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from November 12, 2023

Listener comments!
	11/10 9:55pm DJ Peter: DJP: give me a title for a radio show about music inspired by the old west ChatGPT: How about "Frontier Melodies: Saddle Up for Sounds of the Old West"? DJP: can you make the title more enigmatic ChatGPT: Sure thing! How about "Whispers from the Dusty Trail: Echoes of Frontier Tunes"? DJP: that's better! but no subtitle ChatGPT: Absolutely, keeping it mysterious. How about just "Whispers from the Dusty Trail"? DJP: can you hint at jazz ChatGPT: Certainly! How about "Jazzed Trails: Whispers from the Dusty Frontier"? DJP: but that has a subtitle ChatGPT: Apologies for that oversight. How about "Jazzed Whispers: Echoes from the Dusty Frontier"? DJP: no subtitle please ChatGPT: Got it! How about "Jazzed Trails: Secrets of the Dusty Frontier"? DJP: how about bringing in something about myth ChatGPT: Sure thing! How about "Mythic Echoes: Jazzed Trails of the Dusty Frontier"?
	7:05pm Doug Schulkind: Giddyap, Cowboy Peter!
	7:05pm chresti: Hi Peter and clock faces!
	7:07pm DJ Peter: Welcome chresti Come on along, Li'l Dougie. Your misfortune ain't none of mine own!
	7:07pm Hill Country Fox: Holy moley... I am so excited and appreciative that you are highlighting Anthony Davis!!!! This opera and his work in general are so important to me!!!!! I could use so many more exclamation points!
	7:10pm DJ Peter: Holy moley Hilly Country Foxy! How's it going? I still know "X" best (of his operas) but I have a real soft spot for "Tania" (the Pattie Hearst opera), that recording punched me in the gut.
	7:11pm DJ Peter: Maybe I'll play something from that soon.
	7:11pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @9:55 RIP... I just read this. I am dead. LOLOLOLOLOL
	7:12pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @7:11 Verbatim. I swear!
	7:13pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @7:10 If you are interested in digging in, I would recommend the book "Black Opera" (2018) by Naomi Andre.
	7:14pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @7:13 Oh wow I don't know of that! Definitely will check it out. Maybe put it on my holiday wishlist...
	7:18pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @7:14 It is not just focused on Davis' work, the book digs into sticky work like Porgy and Bess, as well as Davis contemporaries, so it will hopefully hip you to other peeps you will like as well. I might need to dig it out for a re-read. ;)
	7:22pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @7:18 Very cool. I would def be interested in a critical perspective on "Porgy." Any chance you're in striking distance of NYC? I've got tickets to see "X" next Saturday at 1pm!
	7:22pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @9:55 Peter, I humbly submit this title for your consideration: Intones of Dust and Wind
	7:23pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @7:22 No subtitle! Excellent!
	7:27pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @7:22 Hmmmmm, this is v tempting. I am currently untethered from the drudgery of gainful employment at present, so I could make this happen. Send me details: difabbio@gmail.com!!!!!! (wow, even more e marks. I knew I had a few more in me.)
	7:27pm doctorjazz: Hey DJ Peter and clock watchers! Quick hi, will have to catch the show in the archives. Went to see Abdullah Ibrahim, NJPAC, chamber jazz trio show.
	7:29pm DJ Peter: Hey Doc: Awesome, thanks for waving hello!
	7:43pm adamdoesit: Hi DJ Peter, clockers, and jazz whisperers of the dusty frontier!
	7:44pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @7:43 Hi adamdoesit! Thanks for keeping it enigmatic!
	7:46pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ adamdoesit @7:43 Absolutely, keeping it mysterious...
	7:47pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @7:46 Hahahahaha
	7:50pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @7:44 Don't thank me, thank the mythic echoes off yonder mesa.
	7:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @7:50 ...mesa.... mesa...... mesa ...... mesa.....
	8:04pm Hill Country Fox: Great show thus far. I have to duck out early... so I will catch the rest in the archive. Thx for the 411 on X. Until then!
	8:04pm DJ Peter: Cool, catch you later. I'll email you!
	8:08pm chresti: DJ Peter, did you used to have a DE after your name?
	8:09pm DJ Peter: I still do on Twitter etc. because there are multiple DJ Peters out there. But there's only one here on WFMU so dropped it here! But I am indeed transmitting from Delaware.
	8:12pm coelacanth∅: 'evening Peter and all
	8:15pm chresti: ↳ DJ Peter @8:09 All this time I thought you were from Denmark
	8:16pm chresti: Evening coel!
	🕰 8:16pm WR: ↳ Song: "The Ballad of Deadwood Dick" by "Pan Afrikan Peop... Whst does the old west mean to African-Americans texashistory.unt.edu... they were there too.
	8:19pm DJ Peter: ↳ chresti @8:15 Nope. Nor Deutschland. Nor Des Moines.
	8:20pm Dean: I'm from Cyprus. Yet I've never been there.
	8:21pm coelacanth∅: hi chresti!
	8:22pm DJ Peter: ↳ WR @8:16 Thanks for that link, very cool. Yeah, I get that the "real" west was very multicultural: mixing of Mexican, Chinese, African American, and European immigrant cultures. In L.A. there's a museum named for Gene Autry that includes both movie history and "real" history. I used to think that was weird but now I realize it's very difficult to separate the two. So I guess I'm wondering if Tapscott is a history junkie or if he's signifyin' on pop culture.
	8:23pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @8:12 coelcanthø: good evening! How goes it? Another cool avatar pic btw! Who created that image?
	8:23pm DJ Peter: ↳ DJ Peter @8:22 And indigenous peoples too, duh.
	8:25pm DJ Peter: Hey Dean! Cyprus is a generation or two back, I take it?
	8:26pm Dean: No. Cyprus is a half-life forward. I plan to buy a one-way ticket there. Adios, amigos!
	8:27pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @8:26 Half-life crisis, huh?
	8:28pm coelacanth∅: ↳ DJ Peter @8:23 Thanks! i made that a few years ago when wfmu had a "mascot remix" (?...i forgot what they called it) - Muuro being the first wfmu mascot. made the old-fashioned way with paper, a scissor and glue (and a printer)
	8:29pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "Nobody" by "Bert Williams" Yes, he's in blackface in that photo. For the record, he was Black, from the Bahamas. But performed in blackface. (It was a different time.)
	8:30pm Dean: Yeah. It was either Corvette or Cyprus.
	8:30pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @8:28 Very cool! I dig it!
	8:31pm chresti: Why Cyprus? Isn’t it just a pile of rocks?
	8:32pm coelacanth∅: ↳ DJ Peter @8:29 almost as if he was taking a subtle jab at the convention!
	8:33pm adamdoesit: If I may say so, the Wikipedia entry on Bert Williams is very much worth a read, too subtle and full to take in at a glance.
	8:34pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @8:32 It's possible for sure. Who knows how he performed, if he signaled that he was parodying other performers themselves parodying blackness...
	8:34pm chresti: Corvette? Isn’t that just a pile of metal?
	8:35pm Dean: Let me not merely recommend but insist that you air this record: https://www.discogs.com/master/2272912-Pandit-Shivkumar-Sharma-Zakir-Hussain-Santoor chresti, Cyprus is not a pile of rocks, but it is a space on earth where violence can be imminent. Greeks and Turks lob bombs back and forth now and then. I want to be there, mostly during the times when nobody is lobbing bombs.
	8:36pm Dean: Corvettes are funny little dogs who prance and bark.
	8:36pm coelacanth∅: Fuck those bomblobbers - especially the armeniadenying ones.
	8:37pm adamdoesit: ↳ chresti @8:34 A Corvette is not just a pile of metal! It is myth! It is dust and wind! It is the product of the soul of the American immigrant experience! Also, the body is fiberglass.
	8:38pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @8:35 Thanks for those words about Cyprus, and also for the record rec. I will seek it out! Can you tell me what brought it to mind?
	8:39pm chresti: ↳ Dean @8:36 Lol
	8:40pm Dean: Yes, certainly. I acquired it recently, and it struck me. I enjoy classical Indian music; this one sticks out as quite special.
	8:40pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @8:40 It's on Bandcamp, so I'll definitely check it out!
	8:41pm chresti: ↳ adamdoesit @8:37 Aha a pile of fiberglass! I knew that in my first quarter life.
	8:44pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @8:37 LOL I'm glad we can laugh at ChatGPT for now. At least until Skynet rises. But I feel better about Skynet not being imminent, seeing how awkward AI is. (Also, rewatched EX MACHINA the other night, really held up)
	8:45pm Dean: Fret not about AI. It has always been stupid. Fret instead about capital. It has always been smart.
	8:49pm Dean: I work one building away from Myra.
	8:49pm chresti: ↳ DJ Peter @8:44 Do you ever listen to techtonic? Skynet has been mentioned there
	8:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ chresti @8:49 Ah, that makes sense. I haven't listened but it looks intriguing. Should I start anywhere or do you have a suggestion of where to start?
	8:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @8:49 ...and from Marx apparently! One building away from where she works, or lives? Awesome in either case.
	8:52pm chresti: ↳ DJ Peter @8:51 Start anywhere
	8:54pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @8:44 Great dance scene! I highly recommend Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan's substack, "AI Snake Oil," for a sober review of what AI is, and isn't.
	8:55pm Dean: From where she works. She joined the Cal faculty when I progressed from law school to the library. It was a good sign to me. The Music building is a building away from Law, where I work.
	8:56pm chresti: www.wfmu.org...
	8:56pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @8:54 The dance scene was amazing! Wow! All the performances, actually. (I saw the actress who plays Kyoko in an indie movie recently -- SHORTCOMINGS -- and wanted to return to that earlier role of hers.
	8:57pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @8:55 Cal means Berkeley, yes?
	8:58pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @8:54 Another Substack to add to my list of Substacks that I don't have time to read... but I will add it and maybe read it!
	8:59pm adamdoesit: Thank you, DJ Peter!
	8:59pm coelacanth∅: how 'bout just "look both ways"?
	8:59pm chresti: Thanks DJ Peter!
	9:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Peter!
	9:00pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @8:59 Ooh... that's not bad!
	9:00pm DJ Peter: Thanks everybody!
	9:01pm coelacanth∅: ↳ DJ Peter @9:00 i'll have my people sign the rights over tomorrow!
	🕰 9:07pm WR: Thank you! Peter!
	11:13am doctorjazz: My Monday Morning Quartebacking (Jets coulda used some help...) Dug the Sanchez Nonet, Amir Elsaffar. Not sure about "X", may have to grow on me. The Frissell was wild-very Zorn, wasn't surprised to hear he was involved. I'm not generally that big a fan of the Pan African Orchestra, but that track was cool (best Tapscott I've heard have Arthur Blythe on them) The Melford was cool! Dug that you did the West theme and avoided the most obvious (Sonny Rollins) to do it. Have a Great week!

The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from November 12, 2023

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Count Basie	M Squad Theme (excerpt)	Basic Basie	MPS	1969			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Red Garland	M Squad Theme "M Squad Theme" by "Red Garland"	Red In Bluesville	Prestige	1969	4/17/1959: Red Garland (p) Sam Jones (b) Art Taylor (d)		0:00:28 (Pop-up)
Amir ElSaffar	Quartal "Quartal" by "Amir ElSaffar"	Alchemy	Pi Recordings		5/25/2013: Amir ElSaffar (tp) Ole Mathisen (ts) John Escreet (p) Francois Moutin (b) Dan Weiss (d)		0:05:56 (Pop-up)
Anthony Davis	Act III, Scene 4: "I have learned so much in Africa."	X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Odyssey Opera & Gil Rose)	BMOP sound	2022	Davóne Tines (Malcolm X)		0:12:00 (Pop-up)
The Angelica Sanchez Nonet	Cloud House	Nighttime Creatures	Pyroclastic Records	2023	August 2021: Sanchez (piano), Michaël Attias (alto sax), Ben Goldberg (contra alto clarinet), John Hébert (bass), Thomas Heberer (quarter-tone trumpet), Sam Ospovat (drums), Chris Speed (tenor sax, clarinet), Omar Tamez (guitar), Kenny Warren (cornet)	*	0:20:48 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Don Pullen	Big Alice (alternate take)	Richard's Tune	Sackville		2014 CD reissue of "Solo Piano Album" with two bonus tracks. Recorded 1975.		0:29:41 (Pop-up)
Bill Frisell	Hard Plains Drifter, or: as I take my last breath and the noose grows tight, the incredible events of the past three days flash before my eyes	Before We Were Born	Elektra Musician		September 1988: Bill Frisell (el-g) Hank Roberts (cello,voice) Kermit Driscoll (el-b) Joey Baron (d,perc,electronics), John Zorn (arranger)		0:34:03 (Pop-up)
Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic	Billy The Kid (parts 1-3)	Copland	CBS Records				0:47:17 (Pop-up)
Ray Davies	Silent Movies "Silent Movies" by "Ray Davies"	Americana	Legacy				0:57:39 (Pop-up)
Ray Davies	Rock 'n' Roll Cowboys "Rock 'n' Roll Cowboys" by "Ray Davies"	Americana	Legacy				0:57:51 (Pop-up)
Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra	The Ballad of Deadwood Dick	60 Years	The Village	2023	6/3/1995: Moers Festival. Jesse Sharps - Soprano Sax. Arthur Blythe - Alto Sax. Michael Session - Tenor Sax. Charles Owens - Tenor Sax. Fundi Legohn - French Horn. William Roper – Tuba. Steve Smith – Trumpet. Thurman Green – Trombone. Nate Morgan – Piano. Horace Tapscott - Piano, Conductor. Roberto Miranda & David Bryant – Bass. Fritz Wise & Sonship Theus - Drums	*	1:02:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mary Lou Williams	Medi I "Medi I" by "Mary Lou Williams"	Zoning	Smithsonian Folkways		1/17/1974, with Bob Cranshaw (bass guitar). DJP remix.		1:12:41 (Pop-up)
Clifford Jordan	Seven Minds "Seven Minds" by "Clifford Jordan"	Magic in Munich	SteepleChase		4/18/1975: Clifford Jordan (ts) Cedar Walton (p) Sam Jones (b) Billy Higgins (d)		1:18:06 (Pop-up)
Bert Williams	Nobody "Nobody" by "Bert Williams"						1:27:28 (Pop-up)
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate	Kansas City Nights	Buck & Buddy	Swingville		12/20/1960: Buck Clayton (tp) Buddy Tate (ts) Sir Charles Thompson (p) Gene Ramey (b) Mousie Alexander (d)		1:30:16 (Pop-up)
Bert Williams	Unlucky Blues "Unlucky Blues" by "Bert Williams"						1:35:53 (Pop-up)
Sam Jones	Sam's Things "Sam's Things" by "Sam Jones"	Changes & Things	Xanadu		9/14/1977: Barry Harris (p) Sam Jones (b) Louis Hayes (d)		1:38:36 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Susie Ibarra Trio	Dreams (Alternate Take)	Radiance	Hopscotch	1999	7/18/1999: Cooper-Moore (p,harp,diddley-bo) Charles Burnham (vln) Susie Ibarra (d,perc)		1:44:31 (Pop-up)
Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet	Hear the Light Singing	Insertion One	RogueArt	2023	11/8/2022: Melford (piano), Ingrid Laubrock (tenor & soprano sax), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Tomeka Reid (cello), Lesley Mok (drums)	*	1:48:25 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Joe Chambers Moving Picture Orchestra	M Squad Theme	Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola	Savant	2012	September 2011. Craig Handy (tenor sax), David Weiss (trumpet), Xavier Davis (piano), Dwayne Burno (bass), Joe Chambers (drums, vibes, arranger), Steve Berrios (percussion), et al.		1:58:08 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	11/10 9:55pm DJ Peter: DJP: give me a title for a radio show about music inspired by the old west ChatGPT: How about "Frontier Melodies: Saddle Up for Sounds of the Old West"? DJP: can you make the title more enigmatic ChatGPT: Sure thing! How about "Whispers from the Dusty Trail: Echoes of Frontier Tunes"? DJP: that's better! but no subtitle ChatGPT: Absolutely, keeping it mysterious. How about just "Whispers from the Dusty Trail"? DJP: can you hint at jazz ChatGPT: Certainly! How about "Jazzed Trails: Whispers from the Dusty Frontier"? DJP: but that has a subtitle ChatGPT: Apologies for that oversight. How about "Jazzed Whispers: Echoes from the Dusty Frontier"? DJP: no subtitle please ChatGPT: Got it! How about "Jazzed Trails: Secrets of the Dusty Frontier"? DJP: how about bringing in something about myth ChatGPT: Sure thing! How about "Mythic Echoes: Jazzed Trails of the Dusty Frontier"?
	7:05pm Doug Schulkind: Giddyap, Cowboy Peter!
	7:05pm chresti: Hi Peter and clock faces!
	7:07pm DJ Peter: Welcome chresti Come on along, Li'l Dougie. Your misfortune ain't none of mine own!
	7:07pm Hill Country Fox: Holy moley... I am so excited and appreciative that you are highlighting Anthony Davis!!!! This opera and his work in general are so important to me!!!!! I could use so many more exclamation points!
	7:10pm DJ Peter: Holy moley Hilly Country Foxy! How's it going? I still know "X" best (of his operas) but I have a real soft spot for "Tania" (the Pattie Hearst opera), that recording punched me in the gut.
	7:11pm DJ Peter: Maybe I'll play something from that soon.
	7:11pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @9:55 RIP... I just read this. I am dead. LOLOLOLOLOL
	7:12pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @7:11 Verbatim. I swear!
	7:13pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @7:10 If you are interested in digging in, I would recommend the book "Black Opera" (2018) by Naomi Andre.
	7:14pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @7:13 Oh wow I don't know of that! Definitely will check it out. Maybe put it on my holiday wishlist...
	7:18pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @7:14 It is not just focused on Davis' work, the book digs into sticky work like Porgy and Bess, as well as Davis contemporaries, so it will hopefully hip you to other peeps you will like as well. I might need to dig it out for a re-read. ;)
	7:22pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @7:18 Very cool. I would def be interested in a critical perspective on "Porgy." Any chance you're in striking distance of NYC? I've got tickets to see "X" next Saturday at 1pm!
	7:22pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @9:55 Peter, I humbly submit this title for your consideration: Intones of Dust and Wind
	7:23pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @7:22 No subtitle! Excellent!
	7:27pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @7:22 Hmmmmm, this is v tempting. I am currently untethered from the drudgery of gainful employment at present, so I could make this happen. Send me details: difabbio@gmail.com!!!!!! (wow, even more e marks. I knew I had a few more in me.)
	7:27pm doctorjazz: Hey DJ Peter and clock watchers! Quick hi, will have to catch the show in the archives. Went to see Abdullah Ibrahim, NJPAC, chamber jazz trio show.
	7:29pm DJ Peter: Hey Doc: Awesome, thanks for waving hello!
	7:43pm adamdoesit: Hi DJ Peter, clockers, and jazz whisperers of the dusty frontier!
	7:44pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @7:43 Hi adamdoesit! Thanks for keeping it enigmatic!
	7:46pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ adamdoesit @7:43 Absolutely, keeping it mysterious...
	7:47pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @7:46 Hahahahaha
	7:50pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @7:44 Don't thank me, thank the mythic echoes off yonder mesa.
	7:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @7:50 ...mesa.... mesa...... mesa ...... mesa.....
	8:04pm Hill Country Fox: Great show thus far. I have to duck out early... so I will catch the rest in the archive. Thx for the 411 on X. Until then!
	8:04pm DJ Peter: Cool, catch you later. I'll email you!
	8:08pm chresti: DJ Peter, did you used to have a DE after your name?
	8:09pm DJ Peter: I still do on Twitter etc. because there are multiple DJ Peters out there. But there's only one here on WFMU so dropped it here! But I am indeed transmitting from Delaware.
	8:12pm coelacanth∅: 'evening Peter and all
	8:15pm chresti: ↳ DJ Peter @8:09 All this time I thought you were from Denmark
	8:16pm chresti: Evening coel!
	🕰 8:16pm WR: ↳ Song: "The Ballad of Deadwood Dick" by "Pan Afrikan Peop... Whst does the old west mean to African-Americans texashistory.unt.edu... they were there too.
	8:19pm DJ Peter: ↳ chresti @8:15 Nope. Nor Deutschland. Nor Des Moines.
	8:20pm Dean: I'm from Cyprus. Yet I've never been there.
	8:21pm coelacanth∅: hi chresti!
	8:22pm DJ Peter: ↳ WR @8:16 Thanks for that link, very cool. Yeah, I get that the "real" west was very multicultural: mixing of Mexican, Chinese, African American, and European immigrant cultures. In L.A. there's a museum named for Gene Autry that includes both movie history and "real" history. I used to think that was weird but now I realize it's very difficult to separate the two. So I guess I'm wondering if Tapscott is a history junkie or if he's signifyin' on pop culture.
	8:23pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @8:12 coelcanthø: good evening! How goes it? Another cool avatar pic btw! Who created that image?
	8:23pm DJ Peter: ↳ DJ Peter @8:22 And indigenous peoples too, duh.
	8:25pm DJ Peter: Hey Dean! Cyprus is a generation or two back, I take it?
	8:26pm Dean: No. Cyprus is a half-life forward. I plan to buy a one-way ticket there. Adios, amigos!
	8:27pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @8:26 Half-life crisis, huh?
	8:28pm coelacanth∅: ↳ DJ Peter @8:23 Thanks! i made that a few years ago when wfmu had a "mascot remix" (?...i forgot what they called it) - Muuro being the first wfmu mascot. made the old-fashioned way with paper, a scissor and glue (and a printer)
	8:29pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "Nobody" by "Bert Williams" Yes, he's in blackface in that photo. For the record, he was Black, from the Bahamas. But performed in blackface. (It was a different time.)
	8:30pm Dean: Yeah. It was either Corvette or Cyprus.
	8:30pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @8:28 Very cool! I dig it!
	8:31pm chresti: Why Cyprus? Isn’t it just a pile of rocks?
	8:32pm coelacanth∅: ↳ DJ Peter @8:29 almost as if he was taking a subtle jab at the convention!
	8:33pm adamdoesit: If I may say so, the Wikipedia entry on Bert Williams is very much worth a read, too subtle and full to take in at a glance.
	8:34pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @8:32 It's possible for sure. Who knows how he performed, if he signaled that he was parodying other performers themselves parodying blackness...
	8:34pm chresti: Corvette? Isn’t that just a pile of metal?
	8:35pm Dean: Let me not merely recommend but insist that you air this record: https://www.discogs.com/master/2272912-Pandit-Shivkumar-Sharma-Zakir-Hussain-Santoor chresti, Cyprus is not a pile of rocks, but it is a space on earth where violence can be imminent. Greeks and Turks lob bombs back and forth now and then. I want to be there, mostly during the times when nobody is lobbing bombs.
	8:36pm Dean: Corvettes are funny little dogs who prance and bark.
	8:36pm coelacanth∅: Fuck those bomblobbers - especially the armeniadenying ones.
	8:37pm adamdoesit: ↳ chresti @8:34 A Corvette is not just a pile of metal! It is myth! It is dust and wind! It is the product of the soul of the American immigrant experience! Also, the body is fiberglass.
	8:38pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @8:35 Thanks for those words about Cyprus, and also for the record rec. I will seek it out! Can you tell me what brought it to mind?
	8:39pm chresti: ↳ Dean @8:36 Lol
	8:40pm Dean: Yes, certainly. I acquired it recently, and it struck me. I enjoy classical Indian music; this one sticks out as quite special.
	8:40pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @8:40 It's on Bandcamp, so I'll definitely check it out!
	8:41pm chresti: ↳ adamdoesit @8:37 Aha a pile of fiberglass! I knew that in my first quarter life.
	8:44pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @8:37 LOL I'm glad we can laugh at ChatGPT for now. At least until Skynet rises. But I feel better about Skynet not being imminent, seeing how awkward AI is. (Also, rewatched EX MACHINA the other night, really held up)
	8:45pm Dean: Fret not about AI. It has always been stupid. Fret instead about capital. It has always been smart.
	8:49pm Dean: I work one building away from Myra.
	8:49pm chresti: ↳ DJ Peter @8:44 Do you ever listen to techtonic? Skynet has been mentioned there
	8:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ chresti @8:49 Ah, that makes sense. I haven't listened but it looks intriguing. Should I start anywhere or do you have a suggestion of where to start?
	8:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @8:49 ...and from Marx apparently! One building away from where she works, or lives? Awesome in either case.
	8:52pm chresti: ↳ DJ Peter @8:51 Start anywhere
	8:54pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @8:44 Great dance scene! I highly recommend Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan's substack, "AI Snake Oil," for a sober review of what AI is, and isn't.
	8:55pm Dean: From where she works. She joined the Cal faculty when I progressed from law school to the library. It was a good sign to me. The Music building is a building away from Law, where I work.
	8:56pm chresti: www.wfmu.org...
	8:56pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @8:54 The dance scene was amazing! Wow! All the performances, actually. (I saw the actress who plays Kyoko in an indie movie recently -- SHORTCOMINGS -- and wanted to return to that earlier role of hers.
	8:57pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @8:55 Cal means Berkeley, yes?
	8:58pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @8:54 Another Substack to add to my list of Substacks that I don't have time to read... but I will add it and maybe read it!
	8:59pm adamdoesit: Thank you, DJ Peter!
	8:59pm coelacanth∅: how 'bout just "look both ways"?
	8:59pm chresti: Thanks DJ Peter!
	9:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Peter!
	9:00pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @8:59 Ooh... that's not bad!
	9:00pm DJ Peter: Thanks everybody!
	9:01pm coelacanth∅: ↳ DJ Peter @9:00 i'll have my people sign the rights over tomorrow!
	🕰 9:07pm WR: Thank you! Peter!
	11:13am doctorjazz: My Monday Morning Quartebacking (Jets coulda used some help...) Dug the Sanchez Nonet, Amir Elsaffar. Not sure about "X", may have to grow on me. The Frissell was wild-very Zorn, wasn't surprised to hear he was involved. I'm not generally that big a fan of the Pan African Orchestra, but that track was cool (best Tapscott I've heard have Arthur Blythe on them) The Melford was cool! Dug that you did the West theme and avoided the most obvious (Sonny Rollins) to do it. Have a Great week!

The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from November 12, 2023

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