Re: nonaligned radio/Pandora

["Kelly Coyle" <skcoyle@gmail.com>]

> I'm sorry, but you can't go from Ra to Manhattan
>Transfer in 2 moves.


Ahem:


Sun Ra...

 ...played with Yusef Lateef on "The Dozier Boys with Eugene Wright and his Dukes of Swing," who...

 ...played with Jon Hendricks on "Bamboo Flute Blues," who, of course, worked with...

...Manhattan Transfer on "Vocalese."


So there.

On 7/10/07, Dave Trenkel <improv@peak.org> wrote:

The first time I tried Pandora, I set up a Sun Ra station. First track was
Sun Ra, 2nd was a Mary Lou Williams Gospel/jazz track from the '60's, third
was Manhattan Transfer. I'm sorry, but you can't go from Ra to Manhattan
Transfer in 2 moves.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Cheli-Colando" <kevin@minds-eye.org>
To: < Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: nonaligned radio/Pandora


> Warren Sirota wrote:
>
>>And there's always Pandora. What they need to do (according to analogy) is
>>to exit "original Yahoo mode" (editors involved in every categorization)
>>and
>>go to full Web 2.0/Google mode (automated classification of music
>>according
>>to their "genome" schema - not an easy task) so they can really scale.
>>
> You've got to watch out for Pandora though,  I was listening using the
> German band Can as my seed as it were, and  after several fine selections
> the station offered up a track by....David Hasselhoff!!!!!  Seriously
> messed me up :-)
>
> Kevin
>
> --
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>
> - Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)
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