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  1. 16 hours ago, sgcim said:

    The WDR big band recently released a concert they had performed in 2022 under the Phil Woods Legacy title on You Tube that had some meticulous readings of PW's big band arr's that put to shame the US PW Memorial concert held in PA, a year or so after PW performed. Apparently PW revised a lot of his charts, and they somehow got copies of the revisions and performed them very well with stylistic solos that showed they had some knowledge of PW's style.

    So I  wrote a highly complimentary post mentioning the above,along with the statement that there had been too few tributes to PW, and their's was certainly the finest I was aware of, etc...

    I didn't think much of it until I got an email yesterday from You Tube saying that WDR had responded to my effusive review. I figured they were thanking me for my positive review, but the first words were "I wonder if a review like this belongs here due to its negative flavor. The statement that only a German band and a US band were the only tributes to PW gives a misleading representation of the response to the PW Legacy."

    I started writing a response apologizing for giving them such a positive review on their concert, and that I'd be glad to delete my praise of their concert, and added the fact that Wynton Marsalis had publicly put down PW over a mic on a jazz cruise that his daughter had attended, and was forced to retract his statement over said mic when he came back from his break.

    I also added the fact that Oliver Nelson had received several death threats from his big band when he decided to feature PW on lead alto and give him the majority of alto solos in their concerts. I then deleted the first post I made, and all of a sudden, someone erased the entire two posts that both I and they had made on the subject!

    WTF, WDR?!

     

    Interpreting the written word is tough enough without throwing in language translation. Some English words translate into multiple German words & some of those words have a completely different meaning (positive/negative) that can be lost in translation. I once wrote an Italian record label to offer my help writing English liner notes and it was not well received by them at all. I'm sure my good intentions were lost in translation.

    I'd love to hear more about what Marsalis said about Phil. I know what Phil said about him & while I think it was a bit too much, Phil had some of it right i.e. an entire family should not have been granted an NEA Jazz award.  But Marsalis is one petty SOB if he came back at a dead guy for saying what a lot of people were saying at the time.

  2. John Funkhouser - Still (CD Baby). I forget where I found this one but it's pretty good stuff. It's still available on bandcamp if you want to hear it. Crazy that it was recorded and mastered in West Springfeild, MA, not far from my hometown of Holyoke. West Springfield is not what anyone would consider a hotbed of music so I would not expect a recording studio being there.

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  3. 15 hours ago, jlhoots said:

    Booker 2020 Fracture (extended) - 100% syrah

    I really like Booker's White. Their Oublie GSM red blend is very good too. I don't even know if I've had the Fracture.

    Unfortunately, their wines are getting very difficult to obtain here on the east coast. What they send this way is usually grabbed up by the restaurants. I don't understand why wineries allow this as it limits the number of people who can learn about their wines and forces anyone who wants to try them to pay the exorbitant restaurant prices, which prices out many potential drinkers.

    I hope that Constellation is true to their word and leaves the Jensen family to run the place as they have in the past. I'd hate to see this winery go the way of Meomi.

  4. 11 minutes ago, ejp626 said:

    Sadly I've just changed to a new job where it will be next to impossible to listen to this type of music at work (we can't even play ripped music because the USB ports are turned off and needless to say playing music from "the cloud" is frowned upon...).  My recent order of the Don Byas set (and Sonny Clark) is fairly likely to be my last order, but I suppose never say never.

    I recently left a job in a classified lab with those same restrictions you mention but we somehow managed to be able to stream Spotify in there. I assume the IT group somehow managed that one network port so that it was "one way", so we had no way to move data out but we could stream things in.

  5. 30 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

    'Alligator Bogaloo' indeed it is on the Liberty. I think it has been sampled but for sure it appears on one of those French Blue Note 'club' CD sets put out by 'DJ Booster' (whoever he is).

    I have a framed photo of cornetist Melvin Lastie supplied by Mosaic, from that very session. Tons of cigarette smoke !

    I guess I've been either misspelling or mispronouncing "boogaloo" my whole life. :)

    Is this Lou Donaldson LP titled pronounced "bog a lew"?

  6. Just finished during a workout - Lou Donaldson - Alligator Boogaloo, from the Classic Vinyl release. Sounds nice but it's still not my favorite Donaldson from that era. It's pretty short too.

    Now playing - Van Morrison - Loondance... I mean Moondance. It's easy to get those two words mixed up when it comes to Van.

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  7. Booker Ervin - That's It! (Candid/Barnaby). I'd only ever seen this Barnaby version on LP and one time I got to chatting with Jack at Stereo Jack's where he assured me the audio was very good. He was right. It just looks like some kind of bootleg or grey market release but it does sound fine. Crazy story on the Barnaby label. Born out of one pop star's desire to buy his back catalog. Thanks Andy Williams. :)

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  8. This is a touchy topic in this country and likely in many countries. We are not going to solve it here.

    Some people are offended by the n-word, whether or not it is used by a black or white person. Our thoughts here on our lowly Jazz discussion board are not going to change that. Companies that offer things like movies or music or even something as odd as Bud Light, need to understand that some of the things they do will upset some subset of their consumers.

    MAX adding a disclaimer that Blazing Saddles uses racist language covers their ass somewhat and for that, I really can't blame them one bit. The last thing they need is to lose more subscribers. They're not doing that great financially as it is.

  9. A bit in advance, but I bought tickets to see George Coleman play with One For All at Smoke in March. It's Coleman's 89th birthday celebration and since I'm pretty much retired at this point, I can finally do stuff like this. I haven't been to New York City since 1999 so it'll be interesting to see what's changed. I'm actually looking forward to it. I might even fit in a trip the Jazz Record Center or Academy.

    I'm thinking about seeing Maria Schneider's orchestra at Birdland another night & probably Jerome Sabbagh or Steve Slagle at Smalls, a club I have yet to go to since they moved.

  10. 6 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

    well, the only ones that could make a Mel Brooks or a Richard Pryor movie are Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor, and they aren't people of the current time cycle. Today is today, other times are other times. Shit's still fucking funny though.

     

    There are comics today that are still pretty far out there, telling jokes that you would never expect to hear. They are carrying the torch for guys like Pryor and Brooks. So if someone like Anthony Jeselnik ever makes a movie, the comedy will be just as twisted as Blazing Saddles but you may find yourself groaning at some of the jokes. Rape, pedophilia, incest, you name it & Jeselnik has made a joke about it.

    And Netflix will probably put a disclaimer before that too.

  11. On 2/14/2024 at 3:31 PM, Dan Gould said:

    I've seen about 1/2 a dozen 'reaction" videos on youtube, recorded by black people, who laugh uproariously at that scene.  Nobody has ever reacted negatively or suggested that the word used offends them.  That's above and beyond the fact that humor can and must be offensive.

    The fact that I am not comfortable typing out the word means it is inappropriate. End of discussion. Seriously Dan, if you walked up to a black man and said, "N***** my man," you'd get punched in the face or worse. Yes, I get it that a black man can say this, but because no one else but a black man can say this, it's not something that should be used in today's world.

    Look, I watch a lot of standup comedy. Almost all black standup comics use the "n-word". Some, like Katt Williams use it excessively. I think they use it at times for the shock value more than anything. I have only seen one white comic use it & he does exclusively for shock value and he has received a lot of flack for it.

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  12. 2 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

    And you really think those "new football viewers" are in it for the long haul, or is that until Swift breaks up with him?  Sorry I think you have a better chance of bringing new listeners to jazz thru Kenny G then you do of new fans of football thru Taylor Swift and her never ending relationship woes.

    Speaking of, why exactly would someone want to date her at this point? Don't you have to know you will be the subject of her poison pen sooner or later?

    My daughter started watching football back in 2001 when the Patriots won their first Super Bowl and she has become a bigger fan than I am. She loves watching the game. I think that the NFL getting more women to watch their sport can only benefit the league going forward.

    And let's be honest here - a majority of the hatred for Taylor Swift has nothing to do with her new relationship with Kelce and a lot more to do with other aspects of her life which cannot be spoken of here.

  13. 2 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

    Anyway, I see the disclaimer from Max as less PC and more CYA. As we move further away from 70s cinema, new audiences may need more in the way of an introduction to set the stage so to speak. 

    This is it in a nutshell. I mean, c'mon, with that scene with Little holding a gun to his head as he says, "One move and the n----- gets it"... I'm surprised that it isn't bleeped. Funny as hell but I highly doubt you'll be seeing that played out on Broadway in today's world.

  14. On 2/12/2024 at 6:07 AM, Dan Gould said:

    The game was OK; I had no dog in the hunt but decided on the second or third view of Taylor that my true rooting interest was in knowing that 80 million or so Swifties were left crying in their soda pop and that didn't  happen.

    Normally I'd say only a few days to Pitchers & Catchers but the Sox will be awful again so ...

    I don't get why so many people get their panties in a bunch over Taylor Swift. It's not like she was advocating for anything other than her boyfriend's team.

    The way I see it, she brought a lot of new football viewers, particularly young women, which can only be a good thing for that sport, which has a history of being pretty misogynistic.

  15. Just now, Jim Alfredson said:

    That's a great idea. I'll see if this forum software supports that.

    When one becomes a forum supporter, they get a banner under their avatar. We used to get a small thank you gift from the team's pro shop, but that only happened for the first few years.

    I think the reason it works is because it is completely voluntary and simple in its implementation. I don't know that "no ads" is what you want as the benefit here, but you might be able to come up with something like maybe a free song download or two. It's way better than footing the bill yourself if the donations don't keep coming in.

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