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NNadir

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2. I stole the locution from the late brilliant musician Ralph Towner, a remark I overheard as he was setting up for...

Reply to wyn borkins (Reply #1)

Sat May 23, 2026, 08:30 AM

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a concert at the Bottom Line in New York in which I was luckily sitting in the front row. I think he may have made it to John Abercrombie if I recall correctly.

I had no idea of what the context in which he made the remark was.

I say it all the time, whenever - as is the case more and more in these increasingly Orwellian times - one is really hearing what one doesn't want to be believe one is hearing.

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