WFMU: Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from December 9, 2023

Listener comments!
	7:04pm Observations: we are LIVE
	7:10pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Berimbau" by "Agustín Pereyra Lucena" "Pereyra Lucena’s self-titled debut album from 1970. One of the outstanding South American guitarists, Agustin Pereyra Lucena commanded a unique position in Latin music history. He hailed from Buenos Aires, but was obsessed with the music of Brazil."
	🥁 7:18pm WR: Hello David, just connected, sounds good.
	7:19pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Unity Live 1968" by "Philip Cohran And The Artist... feat. Pete Cosey on guitar
	7:19pm Observations: Greetings 👋😎🙏
	🥁 7:24pm WR: The black,white and blue episode last week is an outstanding selection. Have listened to it three time already. It's an Observations of Deviance USA Roots Music compilation.
	7:25pm Observations: ↳ WR @7:24 Thanks! I put a lot of time/thought/effort into it.
	7:32pm Listener Gregory: Just turned on the show and wondered what the hell I had wandered into (Meditation). Hello, David and all the Deevs.
	7:38pm Dan: Already sounds like ornette coleman
	7:39pm Dan: The opening at least
	7:45pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Beings Of Light" by "Sonny Simmons" this CD contains a still otherwise unavailable live LP, I'm playing a track from that www.discogs.com...
	7:45pm Dean: Saw Simmons in downtown Oakland with Cosmosomatics. They played a weird space near the Chinatown branch of the public library. Loved it.
	7:47pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Beings Of Light" by "Sonny Simmons" Arhoolie didn't just do "roots" music, they also released several free jazz LPs, like Manhattan Egos from 1969
	7:50pm Dean: Yes, but the free jazz part of the catalog was evidently due to the fact that Chris, with whom I share a birthday, had a girlfriend into that repertoire. He himself was not a fan.
	7:50pm Listener Gregory: This Simmons makes a lot more sense to me than that Meditation song. Nice cut.
	7:51pm Dean: So I've learned from visiting his store, which is among my favorite record stores on the planet.
	7:52pm Observations: ↳ Dean @7:51 Interesting! I didn't know that. Never been to the store, hope to one day.
	7:54pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Monsom" by "Kantata" "It’s generally accepted that the first major funky electronic disco/boogie Highlife tune was George Darko’s 1983 Hamburg-recorded Akoo Te Brofo – so, Burger Highlife"
	7:58pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Dakchi Hani" by "Sami Galbi" "Dakchi Hani," which translates to "It's not serious" in Moroccan Darija
	8:09pm Listener Gregory: I have always pretended to understand the lyrics of this song, but… (Compared to What).
	8:15pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Kick (7" Alternate Mix)" by "Brion Gysin" feat. Don Cherry
	8:18pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Kick (7" Alternate Mix)" by "Brion Gysin" previously unreleased bonus track
	8:24pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Village Song" by "Isaiah Collier" "Nowhere is this more evident than on the album’s 13-minute centrepiece, ‘Village Song’, in which Collier evokes the spiritual, psychological and emotional home of the African diaspora in song. “I want to speak to everybody of the African diaspora, truly in its entirety,” he explains, “from all the way of being back in the motherland, to the new lands we’ve come to.” "
	8:27pm Listener Gregory: I’m not a big fan of Collier’s, but I like this a lot.
	8:36pm Doug Schulkind: Sounding great, David!
	8:37pm Observations: ↳ Doug Schulkind @8:36 😎🙏👋🙏👋
	8:41pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Song No. 1" by "Sinchi Yachaj" "Ayahuasca is a South American psychoactive brew, traditionally used by Indigenous cultures and folk healers in Amazon and Orinoco basins for spiritual ceremonies, divination, and healing a variety of psychosomatic complaints. Originally restricted to areas of Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador"
	8:45pm Listener Gregory: May I ask what/who hardedge is?
	8:46pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:45 www.discogs.com...
	8:55pm Listener Gregory: I like how he plays the electric razor.
	8:58pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Song No. 2" by "Sinchi Yachaj" www.discogs.com...
	🥁 9:02pm WR: Unfortunately a work emergency came up at 730. Will have to enjoy this episode mostly from the archive. Thank you, David, this is one of my fave 'FMU programs.
	9:03pm mackeral: I'll take your place, WR. Just now tuning in
	9:08pm Observations: ↳ WR @9:02 Take it easy!
	9:09pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Principe Descarga" by "Príncipe Y Su Sexteto" Venezuela 1967
	9:15pm doctorjazz: Hi-I was goigng to take WR's seat, but I'll just hang in the corner.
	9:18pm Listener Gregory: I was here earlier; why shouldn’t I get WR’s seat?? Maybe David should auction it off.
	9:20pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Mass Hysterism Part III" by "Masayuki Takayanagi" Personnel Masayuki Takayanagi (electric guitar) Akira Iijima (electric guitar) Hiroshi Yamazaki (drum, percussion) Credits Recorded at Kid Ailak Hall, August 14, 1983 Meidaimae, Tokyo
	9:23pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Mass Hysterism Part III" by "Masayuki Takayanagi" Intense indeed!
	9:23pm Observations: There are enough seats for everyone 🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑
	9:28pm Listener Gregory: I need lower back support. And maybe some padded arms. Excellent set!
	9:31pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Triplet" by "Jemeel Moondoc Trio" Out of the Prime Time/Decoding influence, sounds like...
	9:39pm rf: ↳ Song: "Eat That Chicken" by "Charles Mingus" wow an all-time favorite song thank you
	9:40pm Listener Gregory: I want to have Eat That Chicken played as the closing recessional at my funeral. I am serious; the vocal version from Mingus Ah Um.
	9:40pm Observations: ↳ rf @9:39 😎🙏🐥🐓🍗🐔
	9:40pm Listener Gregory: David, perhaps you could dj the event?
	9:40pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Eat That Chicken" by "Charles Mingus" This is great!
	9:42pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:40 as you wish
	9:43pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:40 I'll bring the fried chicken...
	9:44pm mackeral: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:18 WR's seat is really great, y'all. FYI.
	9:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ mackeral @9:44 I'm just suffering in the corner with my bad back, but enjoy that seat!
	9:47pm mackeral: ↳ doctorjazz @9:46 I have a bad back too. And strangely, this chair seems to be actually HEALING MY BACK AMEN
	9:48pm doctorjazz: Almost the end, thanks David!
	9:48pm mackeral: ↳ Song: "Quero Companheira" by "Rubinho E Mauro Assumpção" super groovy
	9:49pm doctorjazz: ↳ mackeral @9:47 Glory hallelujah! Can I get a witness?
	9:52pm mackeral: ↳ Song: "Gittin' To Know Y'All / Part I" by "The Baden-Bad... great personnel www.discogs.com... Oxley, Mangelsdorff, Wheeler
	9:54pm Listener Gregory: Let’s hold my funeral while I’m still alive, with fried chicken for all! David will dj, doctorj will cook, and mackeral will sit. Will narrow down some dates and get back to you.
	9:57pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Gittin' To Know Y'All / Part I" by "The Baden-Bad... George Lewis - "This essay examines one of the first extensively documented musical collaborations between two experimental music communities that emerged at around the same moment in time: members of the European “free jazz” or “free improvisation” movement, an international development that spanned the continent, and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a product of Chicago’s racially segregated, all-black South Side. The collaboration, organized by the important critic and radio producer Joachim Ernst Berendt, took place in 1969 at the Baden-Baden “Free Jazz Treffen” in the German Schwarzwald. While the goals, methods, materials, geographical base, historical outlook, political and cultural stances, and critical reception of the two avant-gardes differ markedly, both of these movements are framed in music histories as key representatives of a second generation of the “free jazz” movement spearheaded by Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane, among many others. By 1965, these two experimental networks, based on different continents and unaware of each other, yet sharing important characteristics, goals and acknowledged musical antecedents, were in the process of crystallization. A studio recording from the “Free Jazz Treffen” was released in 1970 under Lester Bowie's leadership, bearing the pointedly ironic title, “Gittin’ To Know Y'All." Reading the history of the two avant-gardes around the Bowie recording, the essay seeks answers to the question of why these two avant-gardes, despite their seeming compatibilities, remain relatively distanced from each other in terms of certain kinds of collaborations." www.criticalimprov.com...
	9:59pm Listener Gregory: Thanks for a great show, David.
	10:03pm doctorjazz: Thanks again David!
	10:03pm Observations: 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from December 9, 2023

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December 9, 2023

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time

Ches Smith	Remote Convivial "Remote Convivial" by "Ches Smith"	Laugh Ash	Pyroclastic	2024	https://pyroclasticrecords.com	0:03:36 (Pop-up)
Agustín Pereyra Lucena	Berimbau "Berimbau" by "Agustín Pereyra Lucena"	Agustin Pereyra Lucena	Far Out Recordings	2024	https://apereyralucena.bandcamp.com/album/agustin-pereyra-lucena-3	0:07:59 (Pop-up)
Philip Cohran And The Artistic Heritage Ensemble	Unity Live 1968	On The Beach	Aestuarium	2001		0:13:07 (Pop-up)
The TnT Band	The Meditation "The Meditation" by "The TnT Band"	The Meditation	Cotique	1968		0:27:23 (Pop-up)

Fefita La Grande	Caña Brava "Caña Brava" by "Fefita La Grande"	Merengue Típico, Nueva Generación!	Bongo Joe	2024	https://lesdisquesbongojoe.bandcamp.com/album/merengue-tipico-nueva-generacion	0:35:28 (Pop-up)
Sonny Simmons	Beings Of Light "Beings Of Light" by "Sonny Simmons"	Manhattan Egos	Arhoolie	2000	previously unreleased concert from 1970, feat. Michael White	0:38:57 (Pop-up)
Kantata	Monsom "Monsom" by "Kantata"	It's High Time Now	BBE Music	2023	https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/its-high-time-now	0:52:02 (Pop-up)
Sami Galbi	Dakchi Hani "Dakchi Hani" by "Sami Galbi"	Dakchi Hani / Rruina 7"	Bongo Joe	2024	https://samigalbi.bandcamp.com/album/dakchi-hani-rruina	0:56:49 (Pop-up)
Cecilia	Te Marchaste "Te Marchaste" by "Cecilia"	Chicas Vol. 3	VampiSoul	2023	https://vampisoul.bandcamp.com/album/chicas-vol-3	1:00:10 (Pop-up)

Kahil El’Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble	Compared To What	Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit	Spiritmuse	2024	https://ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com/album/open-me-a-higher-consciousness-of-sound-and-spirit	1:06:20 (Pop-up)
Brion Gysin	Kick (7" Alternate Mix)	Junk	WeWantSounds	2024	https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/brion-gysin-junk-1lp-deluxe-black-vinyl-edition-with-2page-colour-insert	1:14:35 (Pop-up)
Angel Bat Dawid	Jazz reflects the improvised life thrust upon the Negro	Requiem for Jazz	International Anthem	2023	https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/requiem-for-jazz	1:18:39 (Pop-up)
Isaiah Collier	Village Song "Village Song" by "Isaiah Collier"	Parallel Universe	Night Dreamer	2023	https://isaiahcollier.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-universe	1:20:19 (Pop-up)

Sinchi Yachaj	Song No. 1 "Song No. 1" by "Sinchi Yachaj"	Soul Vine Shaman	Neelon Crawford	1979		1:36:54 (Pop-up)
Wadada Leo Smith featuring Hardedge	The Nile	The Nile	Kabell	2023	https://wadadaleosmith1.bandcamp.com/album/the-nile	1:43:06 (Pop-up)
Sinchi Yachaj	Song No. 2 "Song No. 2" by "Sinchi Yachaj"	Soul Vine Shaman	Neelon Crawford	1979		1:57:46 (Pop-up)

Príncipe Y Su Sexteto	Principe Descarga	Salsa con Guaguancó	VampiSoul	2023	https://vampisoul.bandcamp.com/album/salsa-con-guaguanc	2:07:36 (Pop-up)
Roy Haynes	Tangiers "Tangiers" by "Roy Haynes"	Hip Ensemble	Mainstream	1971		2:13:43 (Pop-up)
Masayuki Takayanagi	Mass Hysterism Part III	Mass Hysterism in Another Situation	Black Editions Archive	2023	https://masayukitakayanagi.bandcamp.com/album/mass-hysterism-in-another-situation	2:19:44 (Pop-up)
Soft Power	War Setib II "War Setib II" by "Soft Power"	Raw Bites	RR Gems		https://softpowermusic.bandcamp.com/album/raw-bites	2:26:13 (Pop-up)
Jemeel Moondoc Trio	Triplet "Triplet" by "Jemeel Moondoc Trio"	Trip-P-Let	Eremite	1996		2:27:45 (Pop-up)
Sombat Simla	Tang Waii - Wicker Stool	Master Of Bamboo Mouth Organ - Isan, Thailand	Black Truffle	2023	https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/master-of-bamboo-mouth-organ-isan-thailand	2:33:24 (Pop-up)

Charles Mingus	Eat That Chicken "Eat That Chicken" by "Charles Mingus"	Mingus Takes Manhattan - The Complete Birdland Dates: 1961 - 1962	New Land	2024	31st March 1962 ; https://newland.ochre.store/release/402505-charles-mingus-mingus-takes-manhattan-the-complete-birdland-dates-1961-1962	2:39:03 (Pop-up)
Chicco	Chomesa "Chomesa" by "Chicco"	'Yebo! Rare Mzansi Party Beats from Apartheid's Dying Years' compiled by John Armstrong	BBE Music	2023	https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/yebo-rare-mzansi-party-beats-from-apartheids-dying-years-compiled-by-john-armstrong	2:41:21 (Pop-up)
Rubinho E Mauro Assumpção	Quero Companheira	Perfeitamente, Justamente Quando Cheguei	Mr. Bongo	2023	https://mrbongo.bandcamp.com/album/perfeitamente-justamente-quando-cheguei	2:46:29 (Pop-up)
The Baden-Baden Free Jazz Orchestra	Gittin' To Know Y'All / Part I	Gittin' To Know Y'All	MPS	1970	conducted & composed by Lester Bowie, recorded live during the annual Baden-Baden Free Jazz Meeting at Südwestfunk Uko Studio I on December 12 to 14, 1969	2:49:26 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:04pm Observations: we are LIVE
	7:10pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Berimbau" by "Agustín Pereyra Lucena" "Pereyra Lucena’s self-titled debut album from 1970. One of the outstanding South American guitarists, Agustin Pereyra Lucena commanded a unique position in Latin music history. He hailed from Buenos Aires, but was obsessed with the music of Brazil."
	🥁 7:18pm WR: Hello David, just connected, sounds good.
	7:19pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Unity Live 1968" by "Philip Cohran And The Artist... feat. Pete Cosey on guitar
	7:19pm Observations: Greetings 👋😎🙏
	🥁 7:24pm WR: The black,white and blue episode last week is an outstanding selection. Have listened to it three time already. It's an Observations of Deviance USA Roots Music compilation.
	7:25pm Observations: ↳ WR @7:24 Thanks! I put a lot of time/thought/effort into it.
	7:32pm Listener Gregory: Just turned on the show and wondered what the hell I had wandered into (Meditation). Hello, David and all the Deevs.
	7:38pm Dan: Already sounds like ornette coleman
	7:39pm Dan: The opening at least
	7:45pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Beings Of Light" by "Sonny Simmons" this CD contains a still otherwise unavailable live LP, I'm playing a track from that www.discogs.com...
	7:45pm Dean: Saw Simmons in downtown Oakland with Cosmosomatics. They played a weird space near the Chinatown branch of the public library. Loved it.
	7:47pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Beings Of Light" by "Sonny Simmons" Arhoolie didn't just do "roots" music, they also released several free jazz LPs, like Manhattan Egos from 1969
	7:50pm Dean: Yes, but the free jazz part of the catalog was evidently due to the fact that Chris, with whom I share a birthday, had a girlfriend into that repertoire. He himself was not a fan.
	7:50pm Listener Gregory: This Simmons makes a lot more sense to me than that Meditation song. Nice cut.
	7:51pm Dean: So I've learned from visiting his store, which is among my favorite record stores on the planet.
	7:52pm Observations: ↳ Dean @7:51 Interesting! I didn't know that. Never been to the store, hope to one day.
	7:54pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Monsom" by "Kantata" "It’s generally accepted that the first major funky electronic disco/boogie Highlife tune was George Darko’s 1983 Hamburg-recorded Akoo Te Brofo – so, Burger Highlife"
	7:58pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Dakchi Hani" by "Sami Galbi" "Dakchi Hani," which translates to "It's not serious" in Moroccan Darija
	8:09pm Listener Gregory: I have always pretended to understand the lyrics of this song, but… (Compared to What).
	8:15pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Kick (7" Alternate Mix)" by "Brion Gysin" feat. Don Cherry
	8:18pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Kick (7" Alternate Mix)" by "Brion Gysin" previously unreleased bonus track
	8:24pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Village Song" by "Isaiah Collier" "Nowhere is this more evident than on the album’s 13-minute centrepiece, ‘Village Song’, in which Collier evokes the spiritual, psychological and emotional home of the African diaspora in song. “I want to speak to everybody of the African diaspora, truly in its entirety,” he explains, “from all the way of being back in the motherland, to the new lands we’ve come to.” "
	8:27pm Listener Gregory: I’m not a big fan of Collier’s, but I like this a lot.
	8:36pm Doug Schulkind: Sounding great, David!
	8:37pm Observations: ↳ Doug Schulkind @8:36 😎🙏👋🙏👋
	8:41pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Song No. 1" by "Sinchi Yachaj" "Ayahuasca is a South American psychoactive brew, traditionally used by Indigenous cultures and folk healers in Amazon and Orinoco basins for spiritual ceremonies, divination, and healing a variety of psychosomatic complaints. Originally restricted to areas of Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador"
	8:45pm Listener Gregory: May I ask what/who hardedge is?
	8:46pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:45 www.discogs.com...
	8:55pm Listener Gregory: I like how he plays the electric razor.
	8:58pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Song No. 2" by "Sinchi Yachaj" www.discogs.com...
	🥁 9:02pm WR: Unfortunately a work emergency came up at 730. Will have to enjoy this episode mostly from the archive. Thank you, David, this is one of my fave 'FMU programs.
	9:03pm mackeral: I'll take your place, WR. Just now tuning in
	9:08pm Observations: ↳ WR @9:02 Take it easy!
	9:09pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Principe Descarga" by "Príncipe Y Su Sexteto" Venezuela 1967
	9:15pm doctorjazz: Hi-I was goigng to take WR's seat, but I'll just hang in the corner.
	9:18pm Listener Gregory: I was here earlier; why shouldn’t I get WR’s seat?? Maybe David should auction it off.
	9:20pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Mass Hysterism Part III" by "Masayuki Takayanagi" Personnel Masayuki Takayanagi (electric guitar) Akira Iijima (electric guitar) Hiroshi Yamazaki (drum, percussion) Credits Recorded at Kid Ailak Hall, August 14, 1983 Meidaimae, Tokyo
	9:23pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Mass Hysterism Part III" by "Masayuki Takayanagi" Intense indeed!
	9:23pm Observations: There are enough seats for everyone 🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑
	9:28pm Listener Gregory: I need lower back support. And maybe some padded arms. Excellent set!
	9:31pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Triplet" by "Jemeel Moondoc Trio" Out of the Prime Time/Decoding influence, sounds like...
	9:39pm rf: ↳ Song: "Eat That Chicken" by "Charles Mingus" wow an all-time favorite song thank you
	9:40pm Listener Gregory: I want to have Eat That Chicken played as the closing recessional at my funeral. I am serious; the vocal version from Mingus Ah Um.
	9:40pm Observations: ↳ rf @9:39 😎🙏🐥🐓🍗🐔
	9:40pm Listener Gregory: David, perhaps you could dj the event?
	9:40pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Eat That Chicken" by "Charles Mingus" This is great!
	9:42pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:40 as you wish
	9:43pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:40 I'll bring the fried chicken...
	9:44pm mackeral: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:18 WR's seat is really great, y'all. FYI.
	9:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ mackeral @9:44 I'm just suffering in the corner with my bad back, but enjoy that seat!
	9:47pm mackeral: ↳ doctorjazz @9:46 I have a bad back too. And strangely, this chair seems to be actually HEALING MY BACK AMEN
	9:48pm doctorjazz: Almost the end, thanks David!
	9:48pm mackeral: ↳ Song: "Quero Companheira" by "Rubinho E Mauro Assumpção" super groovy
	9:49pm doctorjazz: ↳ mackeral @9:47 Glory hallelujah! Can I get a witness?
	9:52pm mackeral: ↳ Song: "Gittin' To Know Y'All / Part I" by "The Baden-Bad... great personnel www.discogs.com... Oxley, Mangelsdorff, Wheeler
	9:54pm Listener Gregory: Let’s hold my funeral while I’m still alive, with fried chicken for all! David will dj, doctorj will cook, and mackeral will sit. Will narrow down some dates and get back to you.
	9:57pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Gittin' To Know Y'All / Part I" by "The Baden-Bad... George Lewis - "This essay examines one of the first extensively documented musical collaborations between two experimental music communities that emerged at around the same moment in time: members of the European “free jazz” or “free improvisation” movement, an international development that spanned the continent, and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a product of Chicago’s racially segregated, all-black South Side. The collaboration, organized by the important critic and radio producer Joachim Ernst Berendt, took place in 1969 at the Baden-Baden “Free Jazz Treffen” in the German Schwarzwald. While the goals, methods, materials, geographical base, historical outlook, political and cultural stances, and critical reception of the two avant-gardes differ markedly, both of these movements are framed in music histories as key representatives of a second generation of the “free jazz” movement spearheaded by Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane, among many others. By 1965, these two experimental networks, based on different continents and unaware of each other, yet sharing important characteristics, goals and acknowledged musical antecedents, were in the process of crystallization. A studio recording from the “Free Jazz Treffen” was released in 1970 under Lester Bowie's leadership, bearing the pointedly ironic title, “Gittin’ To Know Y'All." Reading the history of the two avant-gardes around the Bowie recording, the essay seeks answers to the question of why these two avant-gardes, despite their seeming compatibilities, remain relatively distanced from each other in terms of certain kinds of collaborations." www.criticalimprov.com...
	9:59pm Listener Gregory: Thanks for a great show, David.
	10:03pm doctorjazz: Thanks again David!
	10:03pm Observations: 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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