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Oh man... it took ALL MORNING, but I finally caught up on the challenge 🤪

16. Meliorism - (n.) a belief that the world can be made better by human effort "Here's To The People" who will effect meliorism. Sonny Rollins was surely one of them.

15. Nostrum - (n.) a medicine, especially one that is not considered effective, prepared by an unqualified person Imbibing a nostrum might cause you to "Taste The Pain", as played by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the "Say Anything" soundtrack.

14. Toothsome - (adj.) (of food) temptingly tasty Johnny Pacheco displays some toothsome delights at his musical veggie stand.

13. Dithyramb - (n.) a wild choral hymn of ancient Greece, especially one dedicated to Dionysus On the JAWS film score, Quint tells a harrowing story over the track entitled "Quint's Tale"; after-which he and Brody drunkenly sing a dithyramb called "Show Me The Way To Go Home".

12. Hortatory - (adj.) tending or aiming to exhort Aretha's hortatory performance got me to bust-a-move on her song "Jimmy Lee".

11. Tsuris - (n.) trouble or woe, aggravation Carly Rae declares her tsuris over guys in the song "Boy Problems".

10. Adamantine - (adj.) unbreakable The Ray Brown Trio lays down an adamantine groove on EVERY track on this album!

9. Peroration - (n.) the concluding part of a speech, typically intended to inspire enthusiasm Delfeyo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra present a poignant peroration to inspire social change, in the song "Make America Great Again".

8. Septentrional - (adj.) northern Oscar Peterson's song "Laurentide Waltz"celebrates the septentrional mountain range north of Montreal.

7. Dragoon - (v.) to coerce someone into doing something On the track "Little Bit", Chris Brown discusses how he'd like to dragoon a lady-friend into sex if she would only let him put it in a little bit.

6. Chthonic - (adj.) concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld The Nashville Bluegrass Band warns against an eternally chthonic fate in their track entitled "Old Satan"

5. Desiderium - (n.) an ardent desire or longing, especially a feeling of grief for something lost The members of the Stooges Brass Band express deep desiderium at the loss of a friend in "Why They Had To Kill Him".

4. Maunder - (v.) to talk in a rambling manner "Never" from Clark Terry "And His Jolly Giants" Just like the Meat Puppets song above, this song needs to be heard to be "understood": .

3. Epistemic - (adj.) of or relating to knowledge or to the degree of its validation In the interlude "History Lesson" on the album Time's Up, Living Colour aludes to the flawed epistemic roots of western History in the way black people have been portrayed.

2. Fissiparous - (adj.) inclined to cause or undergo division into separate parts or groups Monica explains on track 2, "Don't Take It Personal (Just One Of Dem Days)", that she does not wish to cause a fissiparous rift in her relationship when she takes a day off.

1. Liminal - (adj.) of or relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process; occupying a place on both sides of a boundary I feel like Andrew Hill occupies a region in jazz between avant-guarde and traditional. He's in a liminal jazz zone. Also, the lines on the cover could be...

Here's a post for the crazy audiophiles (of which I am one). I just got a new Jim Hall album, "Live in Tokyo", and it's recording quality rivals the best recordings that I own. Before this record, I think the best recorded audio I've ever heard is from the Bill Evans Trio on "The Complete...

I had never heard of these guys, so decided to check them out. What an interesting music! It's kind of like small group-orchestrated-new age-rock. It's also interesting that they're on Impulse, because they're not really jazz; but like, who says Impulse must only release jazz music? Thanks...