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Roach Om – Universal Expressions - Poetess Does anyone know anything about this record? Even the identity of the poet? She's not the greatest poet but it is very interesting to hear a jazz poet from this period take her lyrical approach, which is really quite different to most poets working in this area at the time. I had heard somewhere that the band might be Juju. Not sure what that is based on.

Of course there is no reason why other than the fact that baseball is most popular in the Americas, the Far East and maybe Australia. I will always prefer major sports that don't turn on Academy Award level acting to induce BS penalties. Will never comprehend soccer's appeal in the first place but the overlay of outright fraud involved in over-emotive flopping is ridiculous. I always compare it to the tradition in friendly tennis games to call lines in favor of your opponent unless you are completely certain it was out. Or, pre-Cyclops, the handful of players (I recall Gentleman Tim Mayotte especially) who would concede the next point if they had gotten an advantage from a bad line call.

Philip Catherine/Bert Joris/Brussels Jazz Orchestra - Meeting Colours (Dreyfus)

Country Joe sings about the lovely Janis:

I know a lot of players are into it but to me it’s not like the World Cup. That has significance.

RIP brother.

The way the system sounds today made me want to hear this Tatum material again–it is so well mastered that listening to these three masters seems such a joy. Art Tatum “Jewels from the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings” Resonance Records 3 cd set, disc 2

Something different. . . .June Christy wrapped up in that wonderful late 'fifties Capitol Records sound. June Christy “The Song is June” Capitol EMI Japan lp facsimile cd.

Got something important accomplished yesterday and slept well and decied to start the day off with an avant garde cd I purchased months ago but haven’t spun yet, “Griot Galaxy”. . . a fun listen.

It's more of a testimony or curiosity within the discography of the two artists. I believe it was an impromptu meeting organized at the last minute.

Love the late 60's Miles vibe on this disc

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Among those Motian-led Winter&Winter albums with Kikuchi, my favorite is On Broadway Volume 5 with Loren Stilman and Michael Attias, that one is just wonderful...

Just streamed it trough Spotify and it’s just as dissapointing as I expected. That starts with the bad audio quality. For an 80’s recording this sound really bad. Than it’s the repertoire played here: if they had chosen originals this could have been fire. With these standards they just play nicely. But it’s nothing more than standards played nicely.

I like Juliana. If I remember, I was a disappointed with that album because the drums sounded like cheap samples.

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Still waiting to put the CD in this sleeve (customed the sleeve to CD size already)

Coltrane said (in the Kofsky interview?) that the reason he "pulled back" for a quick minute was that he messed up his favorite mouthpiece and it took him a bit to find another one that gave him what he really needed. Conspiracy theorists said the the record company pressed him into it because "Chasin The Trane" was upsetting a LOT of people. Coltrane countered that he always wanted to have a balanced catalogue and the mouthpiece problem seemed like a good time to do it. That makes sense to me, because his pitch on Ballads is a bit off, like he was using a less than ideal mouthpiece. By all accounts he was an inveterit mouthpiece geek. It's SO damn easy to work on one just that one mivro_adjustment that fucks it up, and when that happens, game over.