<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A bit opaque, Robert, bordering on Delphic. Eschew obfuscation, pursue perspicuity. <div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Charles</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 9, 2020, at 6:30 AM, ROBERT R. CALDER <<a href="mailto:serapion@btinternet.com" class="">serapion@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="auto" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed;"><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">It's not that I'm accusing any of the even more senior brethren, but on playing the Gil Evans and friend PORGY AND BESS on what I could call dimwoes mediocre betrayer I found an alleged description "smooth jazz" -- and whatever dowp and dimwit is charged with that libel rated the CD at half a star.....<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">I suspect that persons in less than the robustest health might disable the standering facility of Dimwoes Mediocre Player before there's an accident.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Robert<br class=""></div></div><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; 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