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  3. Martin Williams near nightmare

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

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    Seeing that "Martin Williams near nightmare" title made me expect you'd tell about one of his nightmares. In real life 2 piano players threatened to kill him if he wrote another review of their albums. Also he said that one night he was to take a plane from Boston but while he was at that airport by the ocean, his flight was delayed than cancelled and he was moved to the next flight. Weather somewhere in the East. 2 hours later that next flight was cancelled and he was moved to the flight after that. Which was also cancelled. Martin got the fear that night and said he never took a plane anywhere again.

  4. Alexander von Schlippenbach recommendations

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    Two that immediately come to mind tonight: I'm very fond of the arrangements by Schlippenbach and Aki Takase in the CD "So Long, Eric: Homage to Eric Dolphy" and of the Schlippenbach trio's part of Evan Parker's birthday concert. "Monk's Casino" was a noble project, but jamming 72 Monk songs onto 3 CDs sounds to me like trying to view landmarks from an express train.

  11. How to download eMusic?

    in Audio Talk

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    So I bought a download of a Hatology album from eMusic, my credit card paid for it on Sept. 24, and I thought I downloaded it back then. Haven't found it among the music or downloads on this computer, though. Did they hide it somewhere on my computer? Or didn't they really download it to me? How to find out? Their website is completely uninformative. How can a customer contact a human being at eMusic?

  16. 2015 MLB Season - Let's Play Two!

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    Last month for the 2nd time this century I went to Wrigley Field. Again, for the cheapest seats, paid twice what the cheapest  White Sox ticket cost - nothing wrong with that, Cubs were in a wild-card race - but again wound up in the lower deck behind a post, had to watch most infield plays on the scoreboard  replay. Had to go down 4 long flights of stairs to the mens' latrine and wait in a long, long line to stand in urine. The stadium was dirty, food selection small, seats airplane-tiny. A really lousy experience. It was a dump compared to where I usually go, the current Sox Park where it's clean and there are plenty of room for all, restrooms with dry floors and a variety of concessions on both decks, and the only thing wrong is my mismanaged (from owner on down) baseball team.

    I love these young Cubs' opportunism - the bunting, stealing remind me somewhat of the Go-Go Sox of my teenaged years, plus they hit home runs now and then. No doubt there are still some old drunks who get moony over the Lovable Losers of the Sandberg-Grace-etc. years, but these bright young guys seem to have a future.

    Maybe Arrietta vs. Greinke next week?

     

  20. 2015 MLB Season - Let's Play Two!

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    That cool, man!

    For real, I like yard work, I stuff like chalking foul lines and batter's boxes (did it once as a teen-summerjob for the local LL) and you're at the ball bark, like every day pretty much. Come early, stay late.

    Don't think that it's a"career", full-time job, more like seasonal employment, maybe, but hey, dragging the dirt every few innings,watering the mound, pulling out the tarp in a bigass hurry, sounds like fun to me.

    And I like how you can be part of a team's "secret weapon" strategy, so to speak, that's one more reason why imo turf sucks, it's very non-interpretational. Dudes can interpret the living shit outta some dirt and some grass!

    You and Jimmy Yancey, the greatest White Sox of them all.

  21. Ornette!

    in New Releases

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    Promising, yes. It would be better if the Caravan Of Dreams music was on CDs. In fact, a scholar-archivist-recordist needs to listen to Ornette's collection of tapes, identify the musicians and dates, get permissions, and arrange for the release of all that music on CD. A few years ago (well, more than a few) I'd been eagerly awaiting the imminent release of the Ornette-Ayler-Tyler-Fred Lyman session (ca. 1965) on CD. Denardo probably knows about this aborted project.

     

  23. Steve Lacy

    in Artists

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    I assume that I***e pulled it? The thing is, she keeps thinking she should do these archival issues herself, but then has no money nor bandwidth to do them. So she's out potential royalties and we don't get to hear the music. Of course, it's her right, but it seems like a bad way of doing business - especially when someone like Martin Davidson is there to do things more or less "above board." I don't think that you get to complain about bootlegs and file sharing when you refuse to have the stuff in your (or others') possession released.

    Clifford, what do you mean by "more or less"?

  25. How Hugh Hefner and Playboy staked a lasting claim to musical hipness

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

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    The best article that Rex Stewart wrote was his long piece about racism in jazz during the swing era etc. It was in Playboy in the Jazz Poll issue in, I think, the year he died - the would make it about the Feb. 1967 issue. It was not reprinted in Stewart's book "Jazz Masters of the Thirties" because Playboy would not give him the rights to reprint it. I'd love to see that article again. Do any Organissimo folks collect 1967 Playboys?

    But last time I looked, "exposed vaginas" is a term of simple, factual description, devoid of any vulgarity or salacious intent. "Unshaven underarm hair", "pierced earlobes", "painted fingernails", "exposed vaginas", I see no difference there.

    Jim, put on your glasses

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