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I like that Genevieve Artadi!

Now that is a bottle that gets my attention... Know the beer well from the small bottles but never saw the big ones, it looks beautiful... (Musically, that Joe Henderson is a bit closer to home though, a long time favorite)

OK I get it, you are just gonna keep flogging that horse because this is a pet peeve and hobby-horse for you. I don't like it because it condemns people for ignorance, which is curable, and it divides people into your categories of reality-based vs bullshit people. This is a defensive, blame-dealing approach which is almost always doomed to failure because people like being condemned even less than being educated.

He "heard" and "listened". What he meant was "this music is incomprehensible to me and that's their fault, not mine". It's always somebody else's fault. Nobody ever says " I don't like this because don't yet, maybe will never, understand it". You find a person who is that reality-based, you have maybe found a friend! Oh yeah, "demanding music" is more often than not a fun listen for me. And I know I'm not alone in that (and it's not just musicians). But a simple "I don't get" is adequate and honest. This "noodling" thing just bullshit. Period.

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And it only took nine innings - and less than five hours! Now take care of the Dodgers, please!

Haha. Well, I can see that the word 'noodling' presses a button for you. I get what you mean but this isn't really the issue here. My friend listened and heard something to him very abstract and hard to get into for him at that point in time. How he described his difficulty and how people who don't listen to jazz interpret what they hear is perhaps a subject for another day and tangential to the argument that this music may not have been reissued for 30 years because it is difficult for the average person to connect to. And I would contend that it is demanding listening even for somebody in awe of it; it is not background music.

Thanks for the reply The playbacksound quality is average considering the age of recording. The music is very good at least for me as westcoast fan Have other LAJI member recordings. The quality is always what is possible for these recordings from the 1950s

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You're giving them waaaay too much credit.

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If this is what "noodling" is generally supposed to mean then I guess it is at least part of what what some reviewers referred to as "rambling on and on and on", as in their reviews of certain "blowing session" LPs. Rightly or wrongly, but that's how apparently they felt about it.

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To me the Plugged Nickel sessions operate on a number of levels. On the one hand this is a band playing mostly some standards. You can just enjoy the performances as such. From another point of view there is a sort of meta message: a commentary on the playing of standards. This way of playing a standard is different from before. Previously the time might change once, into double time or something like that, and back again. Here tempo and time change suddenly at will. Instead of theme, solos, restatement of theme in five minutes, the pieces wander around and stretch boundaries for 15 or 20 minutes. This is already exploding the way that standards were mostly played at the time. Now some inexperienced listeners will take the whole thing as it comes to them and enjoy the performance without any awareness of how this is a development in the genre and I have no quibble with that. Others are aware of groundbreaking aspects of the performances in the context of the development of jazz. Just as a young person might read something that satirizes another piece of literature and only see the surface story, others who are familiar with what is being satirized might see deeper meanings and humor. As far as the request to define noodling - this is asking the wrong question. If you are reading this discussion, 'noodling' is not really part of your critical vocabulary. 'Noodling' is a term typically applied by people who are not jazz aficionados. My friend used this term when confronted with Plugged Nickel. I suppose I understand it to mean soloing in way which is casually playing around with notes that fit, conventionally, but are idle and do not cohere into a bigger pattern that feels like a story. Dinking around, fooling around, exploring as you might in practice. I am trying to explain what I believe people mean when they use this term, not how I approach the Plugged Nickel Sessions. To me they are revolutionary, serious music which is exhausting, like the over-stimulation of spending a lot of time in a big museum or art gallery.

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Thanks for sharing that. Marion Brown made some great records.

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