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About Fenster

Gainfully employed for thirty years, including as one of those high paid college administrators faculty complain about. Earned Ph.D. late in life and converted to the faculty side. Those damn administrators are ruining everything.

Sunday Jazz Selection

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Thanks, Jim, for playing Swiss Movement back in 1969. Les McCann and Eddie Harris, Compared to What? The President, he’s got his warFolks don’t know just what it’s forNobody gives us rhyme or reasonHave one doubt, they call it treasonWe’re … Continue reading →

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New Note Discovered

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: It’s pretty much official now.  When you sing the national anthem and you get to “the land of the free”, you have to add that extra high note in to milk it for all it’s worth.  For this … Continue reading →

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Sunday Jazz Selection

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Miracle of the Fishes, from Native Dancer, Wayne Shorter and Milton Nascimento

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Sunday Jazz Selection

Posted on May 11, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, Waltz for Debby

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Sunday Jazz Selection

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Dizzy Gillespie, Man from Monterey

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Sunday Jazz Selection

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Coming Home, Art Farmer.

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Juxtaposin’

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: A current ad for T-Mobile (music by the band Said the Whale) The Merrymakers, Monument of Me (1995)

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Sunday Jazz Selection

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Some Dirge, from A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967), Carla Bley and Gary Burton

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Sunday Jazz Selection

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Samba Triste, Eliane Elias.  From Calle 54, Fernando Trueba’s film about Latin jazz. Elias appears once in the film but twice in the CD soundtrack.   Here’s a streaming version of That’s All it Was.

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2 Follow-Ups

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Regarding the increased visibility of Brit-style fonts discussed here, Shop-Rite is getting in on the act. And regarding creepshotting, what to make of this?  Is it an inveitable result of wearing one’s pants down low?

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