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This looks to be a Spotify version of the Pumpkin LP, "Rifftide". I never could figure out if those Pumpkin LPs were legit. I think I still have the Roy Eldridge/Richie Kamuca LP in the racks.

Really?  OK you explain what he means.  He says he refuses to talk to anyone about music unless they are up to his  standards of music understanding.  When it was pointed out that we talk about music here he shifts to oh I meant in the real world.  So what does that mean?  He's ok with us because he can always turn us off?  In what world does it make sense to say I won't talk about music with you unless you are up to my level of understanding but nothing personal against you, I only do that when the person is in front of me?  WTF?  We are qualitatively different because we are not in close proximity?  Please make it make sense.  It's nonsense and I am done with it because the conversation keeps getting pulled into Jim's hangups and emotional responses to the word noodling instead of the Plugged Nickel sessions.

I consider myself a serious jazz aficionado, and depending on my mood, there are times when I cannot endure too much "noodling". It is like playing and thinking, "do  i really need that many notes?" It is part of jazz, playing licks over the chord changes or whatever. The point is whether it makes sense to the player, or to the listener, are you experimenting - that band certainly did - and so on. I think it comes down to saying you do not like or get something without making negative comments. Talking about music or anything without judging. It is hard, I know. "Noodling" can be such a negative term,  unless you use quotation marks. 

There’s a bit of sadness in our household that the crisp autumn air complements. It sure is beautiful here in our sylvan neighborhood. Right now starting with disc 2 of the Ike Quebec “Complete 45 Sessions” released last week on Blue Note. Quebec’s sound is so full and enticing, and he has both the spirit of the swing era and the modernism of Rollins–I also really appreciate the A&R work he did for Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff.