When I was a kid, Halloween meant dressing up with my friends and looking for the spots with the best candy, stopping for pranks along the way — which, if attempted now, would land me in some sort of correctional facility to contemplate that idle-mind/devil's-workshop thing. Now that I'm older, I'm stuck handing out rather than filling up when the ghosts and goblins come knocking. Today, as a season, Halloween has a different sense of rhythm, but some of the best Halloween ear candy hasn't changed.
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— To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story
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— Speak No Evil
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— Cover for Hottest New Group in Jazz [Compilation]
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— Cover for The Music of Raymond Scott: Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights
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— Blues for Dracula
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