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Aristotle was wrong:

It is possible to pursue a life of vice, and yet not have one's soul corrupted, and even love the good. For our wonderful blog host has, indeed, pursued a life of vice, in the form of country music, Diana Krall, and similar such crimes. And yet, and yet, she does not only have bad taste, defined here as a taste for the bad, she also has good taste, defined as a taste for the good!

For I inflicted a mix CD on her, consisting of the following tracks, carefully chosen as a sequential deprogramming from bad music, and particularly unchallenging jazz, to good music, particularly challenging jazz:

1. Monk's Dream -- Thelonious Monk -- Monk's Dream
2. Blood & Guts -- Mal Waldron Trio -- Blood & Guts
3. Banks of the Nile -- Carlos Garnett -- Black Love
4. Onomatopoeia -- Max Roach -- M'Boom
5. Tiny Pyramids -- Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra -- Angels and Demons at Play
6. Poise -- Ornette Coleman -- This is Our Music
7. Neon Cosmos -- Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe -- Funk if I Know
8. John McLaughlin -- Miles Davis -- Bitches Brew
9. California -- Jean-Luc Ponty -- Live at Donte's
10. Spanish Lady -- John Handy -- Live at Monterey Jazz Festival

And she liked every track. And hence she gets to remain one of my very favorite people.

Full post as published by Law and Letters on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).