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November 23, 2012
![]() An excursion to Pete La Roca's Love Planet | ![]() |
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Artist | Selection | Album (Label / Recording date) |
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Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio |
Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues
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Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues
(Folkways 1976) |
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In Tempo
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Major Force: The Original Art-Form
(Mo' Wax 1990) |
Talkover Music: Tommy McCook & The Supersonics |
Billy Joe
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Run Rhythm Run: Rock Steady and Reggae Instrumentals From Treasure Isle (Heartbeat ) |
Talkover Music: Hank Garland |
Third Man Theme
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Hank Garland & His Sugar Footers
(Bear Family 1950) |
Talkover Music: Organic Grooves |
Gold Weave
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Black Cherry
(AUM Fidelity 2002) |
Talkover Music: Nuspirit Helsinki |
Makoomba
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Mundial Muzique, Volume 2
(Guidance ) |
Closing Theme: John Lee Hooker |
Stand By
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I Feel Good
(Jewel 1971) |
Listener comments! | |
Fri. 11/23/12 8:48am
listener james from westwood:
who knew you had pictures of my office? | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 8:50am
Doug Schulkind:
That's not your office, it's the teeming masses waiting to burst through the GTDS doors. Come in friends, all is free and plentiful. |
Fri. 11/23/12 8:52am
listener james from westwood:
i'll happily find my way through the musical buffet! morning, doug, and friday streammates! | |
Fri. 11/23/12 8:58am
ndbob:
morning Doug, James, everyone! | |
Fri. 11/23/12 8:58am
listener james from westwood:
gotta say wfmu and the drummer stream were chief among my reasons to be thankful yesterday. both have gotten me through a chaotic year. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 8:58am
Brian in UK:
Hello Doug & james. Is that an ngoni the lady at the front is playing? | |
Fri. 11/23/12 8:58am
ndbob:
agreed James | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 8:59am
Doug Schulkind:
Hello Brian and ndbob! |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:01am
ndbob:
A toasty 8 degrees here with a minus 9 wind chill | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 9:02am
Doug Schulkind:
LJFW, may you always be able to soften your swirling maelstroms with a little Friday music. |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:03am
Brian in UK:
Nearly half a million people 'displaced' in Mali and barely a word on the news. | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 9:04am
Doug Schulkind:
Obviously (see, image, left) we are all toasty here this morning. |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:04am
Uncle Michael:
Ham, eggs and drumheads! Good morning. Hope everyone survived the crazy Uncles. | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 9:05am
Doug Schulkind:
Another early riser: All hail Uncle Michael! |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:06am
listener james from westwood:
goodness gracious that is cold, ndbob. at least by nj standards. hello ndbob & brian. there was a brief story on npr about mali earlier this week, but nowhere near as long as their thanksgiving coverage, sadly. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:06am
ndbob:
true Brian | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:06am
Uncle Michael:
All hail Satin. Been up an hour. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:06am
listener james from westwood:
crazy uncles were dodged in fine fashion, michael! | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:08am
listener james from westwood:
my black friday capitalism this weekend will consist of lunch with a friend at a restaurant i can walk to. keep the dollars local and in indie, mom & pop hands! (fmu included!) | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:12am
Uncle Michael:
I'm not going anywhere today except may a taco run to the carneceria. After Doug's show I' going to voice-track my next Emergency Broadcast System episode and edit it together this evening. I work best on deadline. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:12am
Aurélie:
@Doug Wow I dont have to struggle to stay awake with the music you play. Love to you from my small Pacific Island | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:13am
Brian in UK:
Just had to look up what Black Friday means. Dullsville. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:14am
Uncle Michael:
I might have to catch a gray man as he dives from the fourteenth floor. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:15am
listener james from westwood:
give the drummer some is, itself, a small, pacific island. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:15am
chris in durban:
checkin in for a brief while - greetings all from a pleasantly steamy durban 28 degrees friday afternoon | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:15am
ndbob:
Indeed James | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 9:15am
Doug Schulkind:
@Aurélie Thank you for staying up late. I will try to make it worth your sleep morning tomorrow! |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:15am
Uncle Michael:
Doug, are any Ichibans camping on the GTDR stream today? | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:16am
Aurélie:
@listener james : I agree | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:16am
Brian in UK:
FMU was briefly a small specific island. | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 9:17am
Doug Schulkind:
Hi Chris! The EJ machine has been HUMMING lately! |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:21am
listener james from westwood:
fmu dodged a huge, wet bullet in that respect, brian. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:22am
Aurélie:
@doug : This is so weird I almost spend the last two weeks listening to ska/soca, I guess I was getting ready for this radioshow :')) | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 9:23am
Doug Schulkind:
You were in training, Aurélie. You don't want to pull your ska muscle! |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:38am
Uncle Michael:
I just love this song. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:40am
listener james from westwood:
indeed, excellent choice. | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 9:40am
Doug Schulkind:
@Uncle Michael To answer your previous question: No. For now, it looks like only on Thursday will be have Ichiban in Exile. But there may be more developments on that. News (possibly) to come... |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:41am
Uncle Michael:
Breathe is bated. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:46am
Fiveash:
*belch* | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:47am
Uncle Michael:
great set | |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:48am
Uncle Michael:
Thanks for serenading me while I cooked yesterday, Matt | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 9:48am
Doug Schulkind:
Here's a hankie, Fiveash. Clean yourself up, son. |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:54am
Fiveash:
Not to get too graphic, but it's gonna be more than a one-hankie job... | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 9:56am
Doug Schulkind:
All that stream-crossin' works up a real mess. |
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Fri. 11/23/12 9:58am
Doug Schulkind:
I'm gonna go hug my daughter. Be right back... |
Fri. 11/23/12 9:58am
Uncle Michael:
A day later and I've Sta-puft. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:00am
Aurélie:
@Doug: Take your time :)) | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:01am
Michael:
Hey Doug - thanks for curating the Day After. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:01am
listener james from westwood:
who would have thought that the "ghostbusters" line, "tell him about the twinkie," might become something we'd have to explain to younger viewers? | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:03am
Doug Schulkind:
I pray that we get telephonic images of Black Friday shoppers fighting over Hostess products. |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:04am
Aurélie:
What is the Black Friday ? | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:08am
ndbob:
It's the start of the holiday shopping season - called "Black Friday" perhaps because it;s supposed to be the day retailers finally are in the black for the year | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:10am
Aurélie:
@ndbob Ok Thanks ! | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:11am
ndbob:
here's where I went for Thanksgiving http://www.jamestownsun.com/event/article/id/174078/ | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:11am
Uncle Michael:
That's one heck of a lot of blond Turkish women. | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:12am
Doug Schulkind:
Here is the original album cover: bit.ly... |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:14am
Doug Schulkind:
If you go to the Wikipedia page for Ingres' painting "At the Bath," you can download a practically life-size image of the painting! Go there and click on the image. Amazing. en.wikipedia.org... |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:16am
Uncle Michael:
I'm not sure the Mrs. would appreciate that life-size print on the wall. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:16am
listener james from westwood:
have recently heard origins for black friday that refer to factories absent of workers (and thus are blacked out) on the day after thanksgiving, and as a pejorative used by philly cops for how bad traffic gets today. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:19am
Van in DC:
Never too late to be late here to hear I hope. Hi Doug and peoples | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:20am
jk:
mornin Doug! glad to have you in the kitchen today | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:20am
Doug Schulkind:
Hear here, Van! |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:20am
Doug Schulkind:
G'morning and HAPPY BIRTHDAY, jk! |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:21am
Doug Schulkind:
The bass player on this Steve Kuhn track is the brilliant Scott LaFaro. |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:21am
ndbob:
@James Yep - I don't think anyone really knows | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:23am
ndbob:
Happy Birthday JK! | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:24am
jk:
thanks guys! | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:26am
Uncle Michael:
Yesterday was the 49th anniversary of the JFK assassination. Let the countdown to 10,000 retrospectives, documentaries and news features begin. | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:26am
Doug Schulkind:
Saxophonist Dave Liebman wrote a lovely thing about Pete La Roca. It was reprinted in Pete's obituary in the Ottawa Citizen: MASTER-APPRENTICE: Before the advent of so many jazz programs in America, the question used to be to a young musician: ”Who did you play with?” The inference was what “master” did you serve under. (Now the question is: ”What school did you attend?”) Those of you familiar with my background know that I most notably put in a few years with Elvin Jones and Miles Davis (and Chick Corea much later). But my first true employer was drummer Pete LaRoca Sims. (The name LaRoca, meaning the Rock, came from his reputation, but his real name was Sims.)I have written in my biography about my audition with Pete, Steve Swallow and Chick in 1969 playing a few bars of “Softly” before Pete stopped the music and said: ”Let’s rehearse.” I spent the next six months with him mostly doing a gig at a club on 69th Street and Broadway called La Boheme paying five dollars a night-(absolutely true). We ended that cycle playing the Village Vanguard on Thanksgiving weekend in 1969, forty three years ago…my first time there. I was substitute teaching in NY schools at the time to make a living residing in my first of many lofts on West 19th Street in Manhattan trying to learn the music. For those six months every bass player and pianist in New York worked with Pete and me. He was my first teacher in all ways. He was a brilliant guy who after being so disenchanted with the music business became a lawyer. Over the next decades, every once in awhile he would put together a group to work a few weekends in NY, but basically Pete went into sunset mode. He was by far one of the most brilliant minds I ever knew, one of the greatest musicians I ever encountered who for starters would sing the bass line IN KEY and was a drummer like no one else. Coltrane had him before Elvin; he worked with Newk; Miles wanted him to join as did Herbie Hancock when he branched out on his own. Pete was one of a kind … a stubborn, brilliant guy who insisted on perfection. I will never forget the lessons he taught me, which I recite almost daily in my teaching. For me, Pete’s passing is in a sense like the passing of a father or uncle, meaning of all my mentors he was the last to survive. Maybe now, I am truly on my own!! |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:28am
Doug Schulkind:
Spoken intro here is by George Russell at Newport Jazz Festival, 1964 |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:28am
listener james from westwood:
a fine friday birthday, jk, and howdy van! | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:28am
Van in DC:
wowsers,nice | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:29am
Van in DC:
howdy LJfW! | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:32am
jk:
thanks James! | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:32am
Doug Schulkind:
And I'll have another set of Pete La Roca tunes a bit later... |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:33am
Paul Sherratt:
Just in ... there's a youtube of the bloke who wrote You Are My Sunshine having a haircut, Well there certainly used to be ! | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:35am
Doug Schulkind:
Not sure Jimmie Davis could ever have imagined a version of his song as sung by Sheila Jordan here. Wow! |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:35am
Uncle Michael:
Was he governor of Louisiana when he got that haircut? | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:41am
Paul Sherratt:
Uncle Michael, no, I think he was letting someone else have a go. Haircut 100 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGTNB3uMmys | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:42am
Brian in UK:
I did not hear Little Old Lady'. Was it Hoagy Carmichael's song? | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:45am
Aurélie:
@Doug: Have to quit ! Thanks for the great time :)) | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:45am
Doug Schulkind:
Not sure, Brian, but I am guessing YES, it was the Hoagy. @Aurélie Sweet Dreams! |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:46am
t\rsh:
(Hi) Has Thanksgiving always been celebrated on a Thursday in the US? And shop fest the following Friday? | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:48am
Andy S.:
The Jackie Edwards track -- this was over an hour ago -- sent me to the stacks where I found his Veep/UA LP PUT YOUR TEARS AWAY. Produced by Island Records founder Chris Blackwell and Jimmy Miller (Stones, Traffic, et al), it includes songs by Neil Diamond, Tim Hardin, Jagger/Richard, and Mickey Newbury. Jackie Edwards wrote two Spencer Davis Group hits, "Keep on Running" and "Somebody Help Me." He died of heart attack in '92, only age 54. | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:48am
Doug Schulkind:
Greetings t\rsh!! Yes, T-Giving has always been the last Thursday of November in the U.S. I believe we have Abraham Lincoln to THANK. The shopping day on Friday is a more recent abomination. |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:51am
Doug Schulkind:
I so appreciate your eminence and wisdom, Andy S! |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:52am
t\rsh:
The push to shop has been leaking north quite a bit of late. It's, uh, noticeably pushy. | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:53am
Doug Schulkind:
Brother Paul Sherratt, did I say good afternoon Sir? Good afternoon! |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:56am
Uncle Michael:
This show couldn't be timed more perfectly...my football game begins directly after. | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:57am
Doug Schulkind:
Hear the Fanta bottle being played in this track? The Fanta bottles had these raised bumps on the glass, perfect for creating a ringing percussive effect when rubbed with a nail or other metal object. |
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Fri. 11/23/12 10:57am
Doug Schulkind:
@Uncle Michael What are you gonna do if this show goes into overtime?! |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:58am
Uncle Michael:
Fahn-ta! | |
Fri. 11/23/12 10:58am
Uncle Michael:
Elect to receive. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:00am
Brian in UK:
And where did the Blues come from exactly. Ah yes a small club in West London in the early Sixties!! | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:01am
Uncle Michael:
I think Ronnie Scott invented the Blues when John Mayall wasn't looking. | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 11:07am
Doug Schulkind:
Lewlewal De Podor are from Senegal. Here's the band: Demba Doka Barry (vocals) Tidiane Thiam (guitar solo) Baye Aly Ndiongue (guitar accompaniment) Papa Diouf (djembe) Amadou Binta Konté (hoddu) Penda Diack (vocals) |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:11am
Uncle Michael:
Now here's a question...should I go to Spain next spring? | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:14am
Brian in UK:
Whereabouts in Espana, UM? | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:17am
Uncle Michael:
My friend has access to a house in Marbella. His other suggestion is Croatia but I've been there. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:24am
Brian in UK:
How about Scicily? | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 11:24am
Doug Schulkind:
I once left a satchel full of records on a bus in Marbella. I had been collecting them on my travels all over Spain, then forgot them on the bus when we arrived in Marbella. Miraculously, the driver on the bus found them and gave them to the driver at the next town on the bus headed back to Marbella. I had the records not four hours later. |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:29am
Uncle Michael:
That's a ringing endorsement, Doug. I think Marbella it will be. Sicily would interest me but I'm picking from my buddy's two options. He lives in Yurp. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:33am
listener james from westwood:
doug, that is the sort of story that restores one's faith in humanity. | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 11:33am
Doug Schulkind:
Typing this song title into the playlist, I initially keyed in "The Otter View." That would be something else entirely. |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:34am
ndbob:
That's great Doug!.. sounds like something that would happen here in ND | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:35am
Uncle Michael:
Cryptical Entanglement->The Other View | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 11:36am
Doug Schulkind:
Whenever I play one of the records that was in that batch, I still get chills. One record in there was a Spanish pressing of Sticky Fingers with the banned cover: bit.ly... |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:37am
Uncle Michael:
I have that vinyl too! I just didn't actually buy mine in Spain. | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 11:44am
Doug Schulkind:
Turns out I have time for one more. Please allow me to add on an another track from "Turkish Women at the Bath," next. |
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Fri. 11/23/12 11:45am
Doug Schulkind:
Joe Henderson here on tenor sax. |
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Fri. 11/23/12 11:49am
Doug Schulkind:
The shimmering cymbal work on this album is otherwordly. |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:50am
Brian in UK:
Scott looks interesting on the flip. Do not look whilst we are in traffic. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:53am
Brian in UK:
Just booked to see Charles Lloyd next year. He is coming up to 75. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:53am
listener james from westwood:
must head on out (a sin during this track), but thanks a ton for the lovely show. be well and be safe, all! | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 11:54am
Doug Schulkind:
Be safe and happy, LJFW! |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:55am
ndbob:
excellent show Doug! | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:55am
Uncle Michael:
Thanks for the fun morning, Dug it...Doug. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:55am
t\rsh:
Thanks again. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:55am
Van in DC:
yeps, thanks! Happy Friday all, avoid the shopping madness! | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:56am
Brian in UK:
Just noticed what label Pete La Roca is on. Good work, Doug. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:57am
t\rsh:
@Van I plan on returning something! Money back guarantee. | |
Fri. 11/23/12 11:58am
Van in DC:
Good luck! :) | |
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Fri. 11/23/12 11:59am
Doug Schulkind:
Blessings and leftovers to you all! |
Mon. 11/26/12 11:35am
Bob:
I always just thought of La Roca as "the other drummer besides Elvin Jones on Sonny Rollins' 1957 A Night Live at the Village Vanguard." I have been suitably educated beyond that, and am now listening to the complete "Turkish Women at the Baths" on the Spotify. | |
Mon. 11/26/12 8:44pm
Van in DC:
GTDS. The gift that never stops giving. And that is a Very Good Thing. | |
Mon. 11/26/12 8:56pm
Doug Schulkind:
And you promised you wouldn't open till Xmas! | |
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