orpheus10

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Thank you very much Alex, and I see the price is right.Could you post the other Chicago albums you have?Thank you. 
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"Melancholy", a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause."an air of melancholy surrounded him""Sublime", of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe."Mozart's sublime piano concertos"If we combi... 
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When I lived in the city, there was a film festival that was held at night in the Art Museum, and my wife didn't want to go, so I had to go it alone, and some very strange, even scary things occurred that night on my way to the museum.As I was dri... 
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I'm not exactly an art critic, but I have spent a lot of time at the St. Louis Art Museum;          https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x87d8b5576e47b955%3A0x97a4b1dc139c963a!3m1!7e115!4sh...As I recalled, I liked the Dutch Painters;  ... 
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That was the West Side. 
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Here is an album that was originally posted by Alex. He has a number of albums that capture the spirit of The South Side of Chicago in the late 50's, and he's never been to Chicago.This one album earned John Wright so much fame in Chicago that a ... 
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Rok, the ultimate music can change for me in a matter of hours; presently, this is the ultimate music;        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sda6b_0Kiak      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpenHlO_D_Y 
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While Paul Desmond's "Taste Of Honey" is so sublime that I must have it, I don't think it captures the intended spirit of the tune. I think the spirit of the tune should be seductive, like Woody Herman's; one can not stop with just one taste of t... 
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It was 1968, that was the year the Sun died;      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpR8UrMQvnUI was dining at a cafe all alone, and Shirley Bassey sang;      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JSi3i_1lZQbut it was too late, she was already gone; tha... 
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What one considers the ultimate in music depends on more factors than even the person doing the consideration is aware of.This is the music I consider to be the ultimate today;    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YsC32xLnkY    https://www.youtube.... 
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Quite sometime ago, I would have been on the verge of losing my mind living under "lockdown", but it's not so bad now. That's because I close my eyes, listen to the music and take cosmic trips. BTW, I don't listen exclusively to jazz. 
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Joe Henderson, Page One has been given very high reviews. After listening, I noted that all the artists contributed masterfully; including the one who is not listed. 
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Mary-jo, that may be the case where you are, but it could be different somewhere else.Some people live in places that were designed to transmit COVID-19; low income housing for example, and if you live in a penthouse in New York, there is a good c... 
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St. Louis was an exciting city in the Summers of the 70's; there were a lot of outdoor cafes where tennis attire was quite acceptable, no need to dress for the night life; the outdoor audio was good too.Here's music that captured the mood;        ... 
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This COVID-19 is doing it's best to keep me in the present, but it will not succeed; all these people with masks looking like doctors and nurses who hastily left the operating room to go shopping; that's the new reality, but I can, and I will esca...