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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your Thanksgiving delectation, here are Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, Sam Jones, Hank Jones, and Art Blakey performing Autumn Leaves (10:58) from their 1958 Blue Note Records album Somethin’ Else.

After yesterday’s LNR show, listener Marc in Calgary wrote in to ask about the configuration of the equipment I use here in the studio to produce the show. Here is a schematic drawing. Note the critical appearance of one of these:

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Y2Kyoto: Not Californicated Enough

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Seattle Times – The 112-foot square-rigger, perhaps best-known as the ship hijacked by Jack Sparrow in the Disney film “Pirates of the Caribbean,” normally spends its winters in California waters. Last winter, it hosted more than 70,000 visitors and took more than 7,000 California school kids sailing from California ports. But not this year. Despite its 4,442 square feet of ever-so-green sail power, the Lady W also employs a 60-year-old diesel engine that fails to meet California’s air-pollution standards.
Bloomberg – California Budget Is Already in the Red 10 Weeks After Passage

The First American Prime Minister In Retreat

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Michael Ignatieff, September – “Mr Harper, your time is up. The Liberal Party cannot support this government any further. We will hold it to account. We will oppose it in Parliament.”
Michael Ignatieff, October – “What I’ve said consistently for a month is in those cases where the government brings forth legislation we can support or approve or amend, we’ll do so. My strategy is not to make parliamentary government impossible.”
From the Toronto Sun

h/t bluetech

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Steely Dan performing Reelin’ In The Years ¤ on The Old Grey Whistle Test show in 1978 (3:54). And for those listeners who might find that just a little bit too classic, here from their live Two Against Nature DVD, in 2000, and with a great horn section, is Babylon Sister ¤ (6:12), and for tonight’s best lyrics award, here is Kid Charlemagne ¤ (4:50).

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