WFMU: The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from December 17, 2023

Listener comments!
	5:29pm DJ Peter: To all Clockwatchers: are you traveling for the Holidays? In your travels, if you spot a dial clock (especially in public) and have time to snap a pic that you'd be willing to share with me, that would be awesome! If I use your photo I will credit you (or not if that's your preference), and I will strip metadata from all photos before posting. The clock does not have to be centered in the photo (you may have noticed that in most of my photos the clock is NOT at center).
	7:02pm northguineahills: not quite time to clock out!
	7:03pm Listener Gregory: Good evening, Peter and all clockfaces.
	7:04pm Listener Gregory: If you aren’t part of the problem, I wonder if you are even trying.
	7:06pm Listener Gregory: The song is Invitation, no?
	7:06pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:04 That's true. it takes almost no effort to be part of the problem. it takes negative effort, I believe.
	7:06pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:06 It is indeed! I'll fix that glitch. Hey northguineahills!
	7:12pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @5:29 Yes!!! I’m taking a epic sola road trip from TX to Utah… I was supposed to be packing today but I’ve just been jacking around in the GTDR Sunday chats. So far I’ve only secured snacks. This will be fun game. But please don’t strip my metadata… how will my weirdos find me?
	7:15pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @7:12 Mountain Zone clocks! Awesome! And I think the weirdos will always sense your presence, HCF. I just don't want the Bezos/Musk/Google etc. to know where you are.
	7:15pm coelacanth∅: 'evening Peter, y'all
	7:15pm Jeff g. via app: I never meta data I couldn’t strip. -Kip Hanrahan, probably. Hello there.
	7:16pm fred: ↳ Hill Country Fox @7:12 We'll find you. You should scheme losing us instead
	7:16pm DJ Peter: Hey coelacanthø! I spent an enjoyable little while last week browsing around on the internet with Mrs. DJP thanks to your tip, looking at tricked out Beetles and such.
	7:18pm DJ Peter: Jeff! Fred! thanks for showing your digits! Jeff: Kip H. seems to be in the ether? I've got him cued up for my New Year's Eve show.
	7:22pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "Natural Essence" by "Tyrone Washington" I'm not a first pressing collector type, but this is (as far as I can determine) my only Blue Note first pressing. Supposedly stereo but a pretty centered mix. (Only on CD from Japan)
	7:38pm Listener Gregory: Who is the tenor player here? Nice balladic performance.
	7:39pm northguineahills: not this is holiday music in which i can abide...
	7:39pm DJ Peter: Joe Henderson! Stay tuned for a Mal Waldron solo!
	7:39pm northguineahills: ↳ northguineahills @7:39 err, now this is holiday music in which i can abide (preview is your friend)
	7:39pm coelacanth∅: ↳ DJ Peter @7:16 ha, i don't remember what i said but glad it was enjoyable! if you want more there's a vw show in germany with more variety than most people know exists (like this vw avatar) if you image search "hessisch-oldendorf-vw-show" or variations on that ...although maybe no wrought iron bugs!
	7:41pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:39 Yeah, it was the wrought iron photo... I googled the license plate and that led me to the artist's site and lots more photos. and then other "automobile artists"
	7:41pm DJ Peter: ↳ northguineahills @7:39 I cannot abide autocorrect (yet I do)
	7:43pm coelacanth∅: i saved one of those iron beetles a few years ago in my desktop images folder, but when i recently went to find a better shot of it was surprised how many others there were. some amazing; others also amazing!
	7:45pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:43 the first one you posted (by the riverside) is i think the best
	🕰 7:49pm Listener Gregory: My favorite jazz Christmas album is an anthology of (I think) original recordings called God Rest Ye Merry, Jazzmen. Performances by Dexter Gordon, MyCoy Tyner (killing it), Arthur Blythe, The Heath Bros, Paquito d'Rivera, and Wynton Marsalis. It's all good, though Wynton's piece is more abstract than Christmassy.
	7:49pm coelacanth∅: - of course you could also go the carbon-based route: external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	7:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:49 There are so many. Literally four brand new ones are on my office floor right now, all sent to me for radio consideration
	7:51pm Jeff g. via app: There are so many Christmas albums out there I’m a little surprised we don’t each have our own such release.
	7:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:49 Wood! Gorgeous!
	7:52pm coelacanth∅: whoa... external-content.duckduckgo.com... man i wish i had more time. this is something i could do. slowly, meticulously. such beautiful work.
	7:52pm DJ Peter: ↳ Jeff g. via app @7:51 HAHAHA! Didn't Andy Warhol say something about that. "In the future we'll all have an EP of Xmas music"
	7:52pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Hypochristmutreefuzz" by "Misha Mengelberg Quartet" i would not have figured this for misha mengelberg!
	7:53pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:52 Wow again!
	7:53pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Hypochristmutreefuzz" by "Misha Mengelberg Quartet" saw him once w/ the ICP orchestra.
	7:53pm DJ Peter: ↳ northguineahills @7:53 Saw him once with this very quartet!
	7:55pm Dean: Saw Clusone at Victo. After the two bands performed, both Gerry Hemingway's trio and Clusone played together.
	7:56pm northguineahills: ok, i'm off to volunteer at the shelter (last sunday for me, next two weeks i'll be holidaying w/ my bros, then i'm moving to nyc) cheers, peter, thanks for the toons!
	7:56pm coelacanth∅: i've got an armload or 2 of xmas albums. nobody wants them, for the most part. i sold a bing crosby one last year for a couple bucks, and an Elvis one. but the ones i actually like nobody seems to care about. no jazz really - unless you wanna call "boots & stockings" jazz. i don't!
	7:56pm DJ Peter: ↳ northguineahills @7:56 Fight the good fight, ngh!
	7:57pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @7:55 Envy!
	7:57pm coelacanth∅: tchau ngh
	7:59pm Axel: Teutonic roots feeling it!
	8:00pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ Song: "Bounce Of The Sugar Plum Fairy" by "The John Kirb... The highlight of my 2023 holiday season was attending the Muttcracker (Sweet!)… the classic tale retold with rescue dogs. Woof.
	8:03pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:00 i'd Love to see/hear that!
	🕰 8:04pm WR: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:00 Hill Country Fox, you have been making a Sunday of it with WFMU drummer stream today it seems (I've had it on all day as well but have only sporadically been on the comments).
	8:06pm Listener Gregory: I think the contrast of sweet vs hot/swing jazz was pretty standard in the 30s or so. Isn’t it a line in Ellington’s “It Don’t Mean a Thing”?
	8:06pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:00 Axel, WR, hello hello!
	8:06pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:00 Pics or it didn't happen!
	8:07pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @8:06 You on insta?
	8:07pm Dean: "Cherokee" is one of those songs I have a hard time enjoying. Duval did a record for CIMP--I think not this one--featuring himself and a vocalist. To my knowledge, it received the worst review ever in Cadence, which otherwise admired his work.
	8:09pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:07 Oh yeah, i'll check! i follow you there
	8:10pm Listener Gregory: That Mengelberg song sounded more like a familiar but super-fast bebop song to me. Could it be their version of the equally strangely named Klactovedsestene (spelling guaranteed to be wrong)?
	8:10pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @8:07 But the lyrics are so progressive! Yeah, we're skipping that one.
	8:10pm Dean: I believe this is the maligned record: https://www.discogs.com/release/3219692-Devorah-Day-Dominic-Duval-Standard
	8:10pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ WR @8:04 It’s classic avoidance… I am leaving for a trip and have tons of writing due and meetings tomorrow. Gulp!
	8:10pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:10 You may be recalling the Eric Dolphy "Last Date" (or is it "Late Date") LP... with Mengelberg & Bennink
	8:12pm Listener Gregory: Makes no difference if that rhythm's sweet or hot Give that rhythm everything, everyhing you got It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing
	8:13pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" by "Mel Tormé with The ... My theory is that some Verve exec said "no hyphens on album covers" and Tormé was like "but the group isn't the Melt Ones! It's the Mel Tones!"
	8:14pm moniker: a heavy Velvety Fog just rolled in !!!
	🕰 8:14pm Listener Gregory: ↳ DJ Peter @8:10 Don't think I know that record. Klactovedsestene is a Parker composition.
	🕰 8:14pm WR: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:10 YIkes, I got about 70% of my tasks for today done. Yes, the day isn't over so I could go for more but for the moment I sipping a post dinner cordial and being cordial with WFMU folks. Oh, and turning up the volume.
	8:14pm DJ Peter: Hi moniker! Thanks for tuning in. Sound the fog horn as necessary
	🕰 8:15pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:10 I will try to investigate this burning issue during the week.
	🕰 8:15pm WR: ↳ moniker @8:14 I actually did not know that Torme nickname until just now.
	8:16pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:14 Oh yeah, there's a resemblance for sure LG
	8:17pm Dean: Yesterday I picked up Mel with George Shearing, an LP, $1. Lovely.
	8:17pm moniker: ↳ WR @8:15 Isn’t it delightful to keep on learning into dotages
	8:18pm Jeff g. via app: This is very satisfying.
	🕰 8:18pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @8:17 They were a great pair.
	8:18pm moniker: ↳ Jeff g. via app @8:18 Until the fracturing began — perhaps now it’s WFMU stamped approved !
	🕰 8:18pm WR: ↳ DJ Peter @8:13 You are correct about the group being the Mel-Tones and not the Meltones but I suspect the lettering on the cover was the decision of an art director, not a rec exec.
	8:20pm DJ Peter: ↳ WR @8:18 I know you're right but these days so many of those dumb things are from some exec's idea and he (yes, almost certainly he) can't be dissuaded
	8:22pm moniker: I ponder 🤔; ya think George wore shearling slippers on a cold winters night, in front of the fire. pal-o-his nearby (pie-aner that is).
	8:24pm Listener Gregory: With all his solo and trio recordings, it’s amazing what a great accompanist Bill Evans was.
	8:24pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ WR @8:14 I call it a “dirty dozen” when I make it from the start of Jeff’s show to the end of Peter’s. And then I turn back into a pumpkin. And it is all lovingly sandwiched with Stork and Lady C (my meatheart)… I did get packed. Peter—you were my lucky charm.
	8:27pm moniker: My 🥩 🫀 is my mode & motif ! - a ‘coat of arms’ so to speak.
	8:31pm moniker: that British Pennies from Heaven with fireplug Bob Hoskins is stellar. (As is the very different USA version!) the soundtracks for both & all the versions are fabulous. See/Hear “The Singing Detective” (British Potter version!)
	8:32pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:24 Travel safe, Madame Fox!
	8:33pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @8:32 www.instagram.com...
	8:33pm DJ Peter: ↳ moniker @8:31 Absotively! I co-sign!
	🕰 8:33pm Listener Gregory: Mary LaRose and Jeff Lederer (who may be personally linked) put on a series of concerts during the late pandemic in a non-music venue in little Brattleboro, VT, and because of the terrible publicity, I only caught one of them, which was great. So far as I can tell, they haven't come back. Arrgghh!
	8:41pm Querying ♾️: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:33 …so Not at the VT Jazz Center led by venerable Eugene Uman? Would you perhaps know the venues name. I’m lack a wanna attendance (fir futures).
	8:43pm Doug Schulkind: What a powerhouse Messengers lineup. Carter Jefferson (who died 30 years and one week ago) was a phenomenal player. And Woody Shaw. Just wow.
	8:43pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ moniker @8:27 Yes!! 🥩🫀
	8:46pm DJ Peter: ↳ Doug Schulkind @8:43 Agreed Doug -- and this period Blakey has been forgotten? I suppose there are many other bands that are quite rightly celebrated, but this line-up w/ Cables or Walton was so great.
	8:50pm Listener Gregory: @Querying, no, I know all about the VJC concerts, which has mailings and a schedule known well in advance. This was at a place called 116 Elliot (or the like… its name is its address).
	8:50pm moniker: I’m partial to our Captain 🍖🫀as well. Btw:your ‘strumpet with a trumpet’🎺photo is to admire and delight. (Other images just as De-Lovely and fun!). FOXY 🦊 !
	8:51pm Listener Gregory: DJP, I think you’re right about this Blakey band getting short shrift. I’d forgotten about it… if I ever knew.
	8:52pm Hill Country Fox: The hot chocolate is heating up and the Godiva liquor is at hand. What a stellar offering tonite of absolute musical gifts. With just the right amount of gold, frankincense, myrrh, and tinsel in there. Thx Peter!! Nite, nite everyone this is where my GTDR train leaves the station.
	8:55pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ moniker @8:50 It’s a cornet… and just wait til I post pics of me with my baritone. :)
	8:55pm Listener Gregory: Cannot listen to Woody Shaw without being depressed by his end.
	8:58pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:55 Yes. Same thing w Phineas Newborn…
	8:59pm Listener Gregory: Also noteworthy is Woody Shaw’s stint with Dexter Gordon.
	8:59pm Listener Gregory: Thanks a lot, Peter!
	🕰 8:59pm WR: Thank you! Peter!
	9:00pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:59 Yeah I had a Dex/Woody track cued up but ran out of time
	9:00pm DJ Peter: Thanks everybody! Happy Holidays, Safe Travels to all!
	9:01pm coelacanth∅: actually a lot of records not salable on discogs -any bootleg is supposed to be blocked from sale but some slip by.
	9:01pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Peter!
	9:01pm moniker: Oh Indeed! I thought it looked more like a curvy cornet ! Virulent thought clearly enough beforehand (went with the 1st thought). Awaiting Baritone 🎷 with glee and anticipation !
	9:08pm moniker: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:55 oh indeed! I thought it looked more like a curvy cornet ! (went with 1st thought) - ¿”virulent” musta been autocorrected?🤷‍♂️. Happily Awaiting Baritone 🎷 with glee and anticipation! ✌️
	8:58am doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Sevivon/I Have a Little Dreidel" by "The Respect ... This is cool (doing my Monday Morning Quarterback routine); I've heard jazz covers of Chanukah tunes, but not ones going into "free" territory, cool!
	🕰 10:30am Listener Gregory: Later update: I checked out Klactoveedsedstene, and it is NOT the basis of that Mengelberg tune. I think what it (Mengelberg) reminded me of was "Donna Lee," but it seems to have a lot of bebop references in it that can't be easily untwined. In my opinion!
	11:08am DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @10:30 "Donna Lee" makes sense! I did find a leadsheet (haven't looked closely so I'm not endorsing it): musescore.com... For me the distinctive feature is the arresting drop in bar 2 which could be heard as referencing the bop rhythmic device of suddenly arresting the motion of the opening pell-mell phrase (e.g., "Ornithology").
	11:14am doctorjazz: You guys are over my head... (much Monday commenting...) Just listening to the last Blakey, great stuff, nice holiday show (especially since it wasn't full of the overplayed stuff), thanks, DJ Peter, Happy Holidays!

The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from December 17, 2023

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	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)	0:00:29 (Pop-up)
Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw	Invitation	Jazz Patterns	Everest Records Archive Of Folk & Jazz Music	1982	September 1970: Woody Shaw (tp,flhrn) Joe Henderson (ts) George Cables (el-p) Ron McClure (b,el-b) Lenny White (d). Live at the Lighthouse (outtakes from "If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem").	0:03:52 (Pop-up)
Tyrone Washington	Natural Essence	Natural Essence	Blue Note	1968	12/29/1967: Woody Shaw (tp) James Spaulding (as,fl) Tyrone Washington (ts) Kenny Barron (p) Reggie Workman (b) Joe Chambers (d)	0:19:04 (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.	0:24:06 (Pop-up)
The Respect Sextet	Sevivon/I Have a Little Dreidel	Respect in Yule	Mode Avant	2012	5/29/2012: Eli Asher (tp,toys) James Hirschfeld (tb,toys) Josh Rutner (ts,b-cl,toys) Red Wierenga (p,Hammond organ,toys) Malcolm Kirby (b) Ted Poor (d,bells), plus Brad Lubman (tymp)	0:28:44 (Pop-up)
Mal Waldron	The Christmas Song "The Christmas Song" by "Mal Waldron"	Mistletoe Magic	Quicksilver		1/4/1982: Joe Henderson (ts) Mal Waldron (p) David Friesen (b) Billy Higgins (d). from the same session as "One Entrance, Many Exits" (Palo Alto)	0:35:48 (Pop-up)
Chico Freeman	God Rest Ye Swingin' Gentlemen	More Mistletoe Magic	Quicksilver		1985? Chico Freeman (sop) Kenny Kirkland (p) Cecil McBee (b) Elvin Jones (d)	0:43:02 (Pop-up)
Clusone 3	White Christmas "White Christmas" by "Clusone 3"	Soft Lights and Sweet Music	hatOLOGY		November 1993: Michael Moore (as,cl,b-cl,chelesta,melodica) Ernst Reijseger (cello) Han Bennink (d,chelesta)	0:46:40 (Pop-up)
Misha Mengelberg Quartet	Hypochristmutreefuzz	Four In One	Songlines	2001	9/26/2000: Dave Douglas (tp) Misha Mengelberg (p) Brad Jones (b) Han Bennink (d)	0:49:28 (Pop-up)
Buck Owens	Christmas Time's A-Comin'	Christmas with Buck Owens and his Buckaroos	Capitol	1965	6/1/1965: Owens (vocal, guitar), Doyle Holly (guitar), Red Simpson (guitar), Don Rich (lead guitar), Tom Brumley (steel guitar), Bob Morris (bass), Willie Cantu (drums)	0:54:02 (Pop-up)
The John Kirby Sextet	Bounce Of The Sugar Plum Fairy	Complete Columbia & RCA Victor Recordings	Definitive	1992	1/15/1941: Charlie Shavers (tp) Buster Bailey (cl) Russell Procope (as) Billy Kyle (p) John Kirby (b) Cozy Cole (d). Originally a Columbia 78.	0:55:50 (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.	0:58:17 (Pop-up)
Mary LaRose - Jeff Lederer - Steve Swell - Dominic Duval	The Very Thought of You	Obbligato	CIMP	2002	August 2001: Mary LaRose (vcl) Dominic Duval (b)	1:04:51 (Pop-up)
Mel Tormé with The Meltones	I Hadn't Anyone Till You	Back in Town	Verve		April 1959: Mel Torme (vcl), [The Mel-Tones (vcl): Ginny O'Connor, Bernie Parke, Sue Allen, Tom Kenny (vcl)] acc by Jack Sheldon (tp) Art Pepper (as,ts) Victor Feldman (vib) Marty Paich (p,org,celeste,arr) 5 unknown g, Joe Mondragon (b) Mel Lewis (d)	1:11:34 (Pop-up)
Thelonious Monk	I Hadn't Anyone Till You (take 2)	Monk Alone - The Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings, 1962-1968	Columbia	1998	11/2/1964: master take from "Solo Monk" (Columbia, 1965)	1:15:08 (Pop-up)
Tony Bennett & Bill Evans	The Touch of Your Lips	The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album	Fantasy	1975	6/10/1975	1:18:25 (Pop-up)
Al Bowlly	Love is the Sweetest Thing	Pennies from Heaven: 69 Original Recordings Featured In The BBC TV Serial	Conoisseur Collection	1993	9/19/1932? NOT the debut recording (9/8/1932) by Ray Noble feat. Al Bowlly. if matrix number and date are correct, this is a rejected take: the master remade on 10/7/1932	1:22:17 (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)	1:25:31 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers	I Can't Get Started	Child's Dance	Prestige	1972	7/28/1972: Woody Shaw (tp) George Cables (p,el-p) Stanley Clarke (b) Art Blakey (d)	1:29:55 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers	Love: For The One You Can't Have	Anthenagin	Prestige	1973	March 1973: Woody Shaw (tp,comp) Steve Turre (tb), Carter Jefferson (ts) Cedar Walton (p) Mickey Bass (b) Art Blakey (d) Tony Waters (cga)	1:37:23 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers	'Round Midnight	Rutgers University, NJ, April 15th 1969	Hi Hat	2015	4/15/1969: Woody Shaw (tp) Carlos Garnett (ts) George Cables (p) Scotty Holt (b) Art Blakey (d)	1:43:43 (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.	1:55:01 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	5:29pm DJ Peter: To all Clockwatchers: are you traveling for the Holidays? In your travels, if you spot a dial clock (especially in public) and have time to snap a pic that you'd be willing to share with me, that would be awesome! If I use your photo I will credit you (or not if that's your preference), and I will strip metadata from all photos before posting. The clock does not have to be centered in the photo (you may have noticed that in most of my photos the clock is NOT at center).
	7:02pm northguineahills: not quite time to clock out!
	7:03pm Listener Gregory: Good evening, Peter and all clockfaces.
	7:04pm Listener Gregory: If you aren’t part of the problem, I wonder if you are even trying.
	7:06pm Listener Gregory: The song is Invitation, no?
	7:06pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:04 That's true. it takes almost no effort to be part of the problem. it takes negative effort, I believe.
	7:06pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:06 It is indeed! I'll fix that glitch. Hey northguineahills!
	7:12pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @5:29 Yes!!! I’m taking a epic sola road trip from TX to Utah… I was supposed to be packing today but I’ve just been jacking around in the GTDR Sunday chats. So far I’ve only secured snacks. This will be fun game. But please don’t strip my metadata… how will my weirdos find me?
	7:15pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @7:12 Mountain Zone clocks! Awesome! And I think the weirdos will always sense your presence, HCF. I just don't want the Bezos/Musk/Google etc. to know where you are.
	7:15pm coelacanth∅: 'evening Peter, y'all
	7:15pm Jeff g. via app: I never meta data I couldn’t strip. -Kip Hanrahan, probably. Hello there.
	7:16pm fred: ↳ Hill Country Fox @7:12 We'll find you. You should scheme losing us instead
	7:16pm DJ Peter: Hey coelacanthø! I spent an enjoyable little while last week browsing around on the internet with Mrs. DJP thanks to your tip, looking at tricked out Beetles and such.
	7:18pm DJ Peter: Jeff! Fred! thanks for showing your digits! Jeff: Kip H. seems to be in the ether? I've got him cued up for my New Year's Eve show.
	7:22pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "Natural Essence" by "Tyrone Washington" I'm not a first pressing collector type, but this is (as far as I can determine) my only Blue Note first pressing. Supposedly stereo but a pretty centered mix. (Only on CD from Japan)
	7:38pm Listener Gregory: Who is the tenor player here? Nice balladic performance.
	7:39pm northguineahills: not this is holiday music in which i can abide...
	7:39pm DJ Peter: Joe Henderson! Stay tuned for a Mal Waldron solo!
	7:39pm northguineahills: ↳ northguineahills @7:39 err, now this is holiday music in which i can abide (preview is your friend)
	7:39pm coelacanth∅: ↳ DJ Peter @7:16 ha, i don't remember what i said but glad it was enjoyable! if you want more there's a vw show in germany with more variety than most people know exists (like this vw avatar) if you image search "hessisch-oldendorf-vw-show" or variations on that ...although maybe no wrought iron bugs!
	7:41pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:39 Yeah, it was the wrought iron photo... I googled the license plate and that led me to the artist's site and lots more photos. and then other "automobile artists"
	7:41pm DJ Peter: ↳ northguineahills @7:39 I cannot abide autocorrect (yet I do)
	7:43pm coelacanth∅: i saved one of those iron beetles a few years ago in my desktop images folder, but when i recently went to find a better shot of it was surprised how many others there were. some amazing; others also amazing!
	7:45pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:43 the first one you posted (by the riverside) is i think the best
	🕰 7:49pm Listener Gregory: My favorite jazz Christmas album is an anthology of (I think) original recordings called God Rest Ye Merry, Jazzmen. Performances by Dexter Gordon, MyCoy Tyner (killing it), Arthur Blythe, The Heath Bros, Paquito d'Rivera, and Wynton Marsalis. It's all good, though Wynton's piece is more abstract than Christmassy.
	7:49pm coelacanth∅: - of course you could also go the carbon-based route: external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	7:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:49 There are so many. Literally four brand new ones are on my office floor right now, all sent to me for radio consideration
	7:51pm Jeff g. via app: There are so many Christmas albums out there I’m a little surprised we don’t each have our own such release.
	7:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:49 Wood! Gorgeous!
	7:52pm coelacanth∅: whoa... external-content.duckduckgo.com... man i wish i had more time. this is something i could do. slowly, meticulously. such beautiful work.
	7:52pm DJ Peter: ↳ Jeff g. via app @7:51 HAHAHA! Didn't Andy Warhol say something about that. "In the future we'll all have an EP of Xmas music"
	7:52pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Hypochristmutreefuzz" by "Misha Mengelberg Quartet" i would not have figured this for misha mengelberg!
	7:53pm DJ Peter: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:52 Wow again!
	7:53pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Hypochristmutreefuzz" by "Misha Mengelberg Quartet" saw him once w/ the ICP orchestra.
	7:53pm DJ Peter: ↳ northguineahills @7:53 Saw him once with this very quartet!
	7:55pm Dean: Saw Clusone at Victo. After the two bands performed, both Gerry Hemingway's trio and Clusone played together.
	7:56pm northguineahills: ok, i'm off to volunteer at the shelter (last sunday for me, next two weeks i'll be holidaying w/ my bros, then i'm moving to nyc) cheers, peter, thanks for the toons!
	7:56pm coelacanth∅: i've got an armload or 2 of xmas albums. nobody wants them, for the most part. i sold a bing crosby one last year for a couple bucks, and an Elvis one. but the ones i actually like nobody seems to care about. no jazz really - unless you wanna call "boots & stockings" jazz. i don't!
	7:56pm DJ Peter: ↳ northguineahills @7:56 Fight the good fight, ngh!
	7:57pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @7:55 Envy!
	7:57pm coelacanth∅: tchau ngh
	7:59pm Axel: Teutonic roots feeling it!
	8:00pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ Song: "Bounce Of The Sugar Plum Fairy" by "The John Kirb... The highlight of my 2023 holiday season was attending the Muttcracker (Sweet!)… the classic tale retold with rescue dogs. Woof.
	8:03pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:00 i'd Love to see/hear that!
	🕰 8:04pm WR: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:00 Hill Country Fox, you have been making a Sunday of it with WFMU drummer stream today it seems (I've had it on all day as well but have only sporadically been on the comments).
	8:06pm Listener Gregory: I think the contrast of sweet vs hot/swing jazz was pretty standard in the 30s or so. Isn’t it a line in Ellington’s “It Don’t Mean a Thing”?
	8:06pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:00 Axel, WR, hello hello!
	8:06pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:00 Pics or it didn't happen!
	8:07pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @8:06 You on insta?
	8:07pm Dean: "Cherokee" is one of those songs I have a hard time enjoying. Duval did a record for CIMP--I think not this one--featuring himself and a vocalist. To my knowledge, it received the worst review ever in Cadence, which otherwise admired his work.
	8:09pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:07 Oh yeah, i'll check! i follow you there
	8:10pm Listener Gregory: That Mengelberg song sounded more like a familiar but super-fast bebop song to me. Could it be their version of the equally strangely named Klactovedsestene (spelling guaranteed to be wrong)?
	8:10pm DJ Peter: ↳ Dean @8:07 But the lyrics are so progressive! Yeah, we're skipping that one.
	8:10pm Dean: I believe this is the maligned record: https://www.discogs.com/release/3219692-Devorah-Day-Dominic-Duval-Standard
	8:10pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ WR @8:04 It’s classic avoidance… I am leaving for a trip and have tons of writing due and meetings tomorrow. Gulp!
	8:10pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:10 You may be recalling the Eric Dolphy "Last Date" (or is it "Late Date") LP... with Mengelberg & Bennink
	8:12pm Listener Gregory: Makes no difference if that rhythm's sweet or hot Give that rhythm everything, everyhing you got It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing
	8:13pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" by "Mel Tormé with The ... My theory is that some Verve exec said "no hyphens on album covers" and Tormé was like "but the group isn't the Melt Ones! It's the Mel Tones!"
	8:14pm moniker: a heavy Velvety Fog just rolled in !!!
	🕰 8:14pm Listener Gregory: ↳ DJ Peter @8:10 Don't think I know that record. Klactovedsestene is a Parker composition.
	🕰 8:14pm WR: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:10 YIkes, I got about 70% of my tasks for today done. Yes, the day isn't over so I could go for more but for the moment I sipping a post dinner cordial and being cordial with WFMU folks. Oh, and turning up the volume.
	8:14pm DJ Peter: Hi moniker! Thanks for tuning in. Sound the fog horn as necessary
	🕰 8:15pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:10 I will try to investigate this burning issue during the week.
	🕰 8:15pm WR: ↳ moniker @8:14 I actually did not know that Torme nickname until just now.
	8:16pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:14 Oh yeah, there's a resemblance for sure LG
	8:17pm Dean: Yesterday I picked up Mel with George Shearing, an LP, $1. Lovely.
	8:17pm moniker: ↳ WR @8:15 Isn’t it delightful to keep on learning into dotages
	8:18pm Jeff g. via app: This is very satisfying.
	🕰 8:18pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @8:17 They were a great pair.
	8:18pm moniker: ↳ Jeff g. via app @8:18 Until the fracturing began — perhaps now it’s WFMU stamped approved !
	🕰 8:18pm WR: ↳ DJ Peter @8:13 You are correct about the group being the Mel-Tones and not the Meltones but I suspect the lettering on the cover was the decision of an art director, not a rec exec.
	8:20pm DJ Peter: ↳ WR @8:18 I know you're right but these days so many of those dumb things are from some exec's idea and he (yes, almost certainly he) can't be dissuaded
	8:22pm moniker: I ponder 🤔; ya think George wore shearling slippers on a cold winters night, in front of the fire. pal-o-his nearby (pie-aner that is).
	8:24pm Listener Gregory: With all his solo and trio recordings, it’s amazing what a great accompanist Bill Evans was.
	8:24pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ WR @8:14 I call it a “dirty dozen” when I make it from the start of Jeff’s show to the end of Peter’s. And then I turn back into a pumpkin. And it is all lovingly sandwiched with Stork and Lady C (my meatheart)… I did get packed. Peter—you were my lucky charm.
	8:27pm moniker: My 🥩 🫀 is my mode & motif ! - a ‘coat of arms’ so to speak.
	8:31pm moniker: that British Pennies from Heaven with fireplug Bob Hoskins is stellar. (As is the very different USA version!) the soundtracks for both & all the versions are fabulous. See/Hear “The Singing Detective” (British Potter version!)
	8:32pm DJ Peter: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:24 Travel safe, Madame Fox!
	8:33pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ DJ Peter @8:32 www.instagram.com...
	8:33pm DJ Peter: ↳ moniker @8:31 Absotively! I co-sign!
	🕰 8:33pm Listener Gregory: Mary LaRose and Jeff Lederer (who may be personally linked) put on a series of concerts during the late pandemic in a non-music venue in little Brattleboro, VT, and because of the terrible publicity, I only caught one of them, which was great. So far as I can tell, they haven't come back. Arrgghh!
	8:41pm Querying ♾️: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:33 …so Not at the VT Jazz Center led by venerable Eugene Uman? Would you perhaps know the venues name. I’m lack a wanna attendance (fir futures).
	8:43pm Doug Schulkind: What a powerhouse Messengers lineup. Carter Jefferson (who died 30 years and one week ago) was a phenomenal player. And Woody Shaw. Just wow.
	8:43pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ moniker @8:27 Yes!! 🥩🫀
	8:46pm DJ Peter: ↳ Doug Schulkind @8:43 Agreed Doug -- and this period Blakey has been forgotten? I suppose there are many other bands that are quite rightly celebrated, but this line-up w/ Cables or Walton was so great.
	8:50pm Listener Gregory: @Querying, no, I know all about the VJC concerts, which has mailings and a schedule known well in advance. This was at a place called 116 Elliot (or the like… its name is its address).
	8:50pm moniker: I’m partial to our Captain 🍖🫀as well. Btw:your ‘strumpet with a trumpet’🎺photo is to admire and delight. (Other images just as De-Lovely and fun!). FOXY 🦊 !
	8:51pm Listener Gregory: DJP, I think you’re right about this Blakey band getting short shrift. I’d forgotten about it… if I ever knew.
	8:52pm Hill Country Fox: The hot chocolate is heating up and the Godiva liquor is at hand. What a stellar offering tonite of absolute musical gifts. With just the right amount of gold, frankincense, myrrh, and tinsel in there. Thx Peter!! Nite, nite everyone this is where my GTDR train leaves the station.
	8:55pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ moniker @8:50 It’s a cornet… and just wait til I post pics of me with my baritone. :)
	8:55pm Listener Gregory: Cannot listen to Woody Shaw without being depressed by his end.
	8:58pm Hill Country Fox: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:55 Yes. Same thing w Phineas Newborn…
	8:59pm Listener Gregory: Also noteworthy is Woody Shaw’s stint with Dexter Gordon.
	8:59pm Listener Gregory: Thanks a lot, Peter!
	🕰 8:59pm WR: Thank you! Peter!
	9:00pm DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:59 Yeah I had a Dex/Woody track cued up but ran out of time
	9:00pm DJ Peter: Thanks everybody! Happy Holidays, Safe Travels to all!
	9:01pm coelacanth∅: actually a lot of records not salable on discogs -any bootleg is supposed to be blocked from sale but some slip by.
	9:01pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Peter!
	9:01pm moniker: Oh Indeed! I thought it looked more like a curvy cornet ! Virulent thought clearly enough beforehand (went with the 1st thought). Awaiting Baritone 🎷 with glee and anticipation !
	9:08pm moniker: ↳ Hill Country Fox @8:55 oh indeed! I thought it looked more like a curvy cornet ! (went with 1st thought) - ¿”virulent” musta been autocorrected?🤷‍♂️. Happily Awaiting Baritone 🎷 with glee and anticipation! ✌️
	8:58am doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Sevivon/I Have a Little Dreidel" by "The Respect ... This is cool (doing my Monday Morning Quarterback routine); I've heard jazz covers of Chanukah tunes, but not ones going into "free" territory, cool!
	🕰 10:30am Listener Gregory: Later update: I checked out Klactoveedsedstene, and it is NOT the basis of that Mengelberg tune. I think what it (Mengelberg) reminded me of was "Donna Lee," but it seems to have a lot of bebop references in it that can't be easily untwined. In my opinion!
	11:08am DJ Peter: ↳ Listener Gregory @10:30 "Donna Lee" makes sense! I did find a leadsheet (haven't looked closely so I'm not endorsing it): musescore.com... For me the distinctive feature is the arresting drop in bar 2 which could be heard as referencing the bop rhythmic device of suddenly arresting the motion of the opening pell-mell phrase (e.g., "Ornithology").
	11:14am doctorjazz: You guys are over my head... (much Monday commenting...) Just listening to the last Blakey, great stuff, nice holiday show (especially since it wasn't full of the overplayed stuff), thanks, DJ Peter, Happy Holidays!

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