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Martin Küchen: sopranino saxophone, multi band radio, mutes, percussion, 78rpm records Ola Rubin: trombones, multi band radio, selected reeds, 78rpm records

Those Discovery/Trend titles were ones I had to push from the distributor I worked at back then. It did help with that Grammy nom for the "Concerts By the Sea" LP. Stores that weren't familiar with Florence bought them because of that. Still enjoy those Albert Marx titles. Now Playing:

In the sense of sinsemilla.

First thought: Holy shit! I can't believe I'm listening to this! [Second thought: Elvin must've been in charge of mic placement. Third thought: What the hell was Reggie Workman smokin' during his solo on "Africa"?]

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For me, a slight bit of nostalgia comes after something has begun playing that comes out of my past, rather than feeling nostalgia first…and then playing something in order to appease a desire. Also, what’s up with the long bit of nothing in the middle of this page?

Oh, I'm not saying that they had any ideas of patchwork vs. lineal - that's just what I get out of it when listening. Yeah, you're right about it being a stunt to poke at "free-jazzers," but, like I said, I don't care what their intentions were. I'm just listening. The same people are also very into scrambling heavy metal too - I mean it appears to be nearly 90% of their output on their YouTube channel - so, none of this is meant to be any kind of serious inquiry into machine language. It's pretty much just screwing around, so I'm listening to it with that in mind (as well as with a mental scan of it's curiously stochastic nature). There is software out there already where you can enter whatever source audio that you choose, so, again, they're having a "mickey-take" - as the British say - with the new tech and, some superficial ideas.

I’m thinking that the Aurobindo Ivor Coltrane “version” is patchwork free-jazz while the original is lineal free-jazz. I usually don’t care what the original intention is when it comes to things like this, because I view it as a learning tool rather than something to create a definitive outcome, so with that in mind, it really has my mental gears a’turnin’.

Love the cigarette break at the 9-minute mark.

I think the above statement (Justin V) is way too extreme. Even tho what Allen says appears a bit like an ”Oh, my kid can do that”-ism, the issue seems to boil down to: he has preferences for an improv that’s tethered to a more distinctive musical content and that appears to him to be lacking in the above examples. The funny thing is that the “shaped, compositionally-based performance” that is longed for does actually exist in quite a major way in both of those Halvorson videos. It just happens to be more amorphous than what Allen likes. And you know what? That’s all right for him to have that opinion. That track, Hartford, is really quite wonderful to me - especially the clearer, less hesitant version on their album On and Off. (Apparently, in the video, that was their first time performing together?) It kinda takes a John Fahey-like folk structure and gives the melody a serrated edge to it. To me, it’s refreshingly innovative.

Is there a difference between these two tunes?

I say: be the improv king that you think you should be, by playing with others in the manner you think it should be done - pretty much like any other art form. Yes, Matana - and Chapter Five is coming the end of September! … and Allen, I love you, but you are in no way even remotely playing guitar - or even interacting with another instrument - anywhere near the way Halvorson does.

…and you can't delete your Threads account unless you delete your entire Instagram…

Twitter people are flocking to Mastodon and Bluesky, but Bluesky is so wedded to Twitter and their draconian new rules, that Bluesky had to stop new users from joining until they take care of their technical issues. Meanwhile, at Mastodon: up, up, and away... According to third-party trackers, Mastodon currently has around 12 to 13 million users across the decentralized social network. Fediverse Observe concurs that Mastodon saw an increase of over 438,000 monthly active users during the long July 4th weekend for a total of 2 million.

Just wanted to say that I don't really "do" these either. It's just that Mastodon is an open/transparent decentralized location for info of various kinds. I don't engage with anybody there. I will look into it sometimes as a small source of actual civilized discussion (though I'm not interacting with them).

Threads is just a horrible extension of Facebook inextricably paired to Instagram. There are all kinds of reasons to not go there - actually, to not go to all of those places except Mastodon (for now). Bluesky, like Twitter is sh*tpost city. You wouldn't believe how faulty the actual mechanism is even if you were interested in the BS smack-talk that goes on there. Never went on the big social media sites until after researching Mastodon (notice spelling) which is a world of difference and it's growing like crazy - and for good reason because Mastodon is the only one who doesn't ask for your personal preferences and is decentralized-based which is what "social media" should have always been about. You also have their "Notes"/"Substack" connection which makes it so you can condense down to only the people/articles that you want to see and interact with. It's growing like mad - and sometimes it'll show some slowness for a day or two after a big migration (especially after this last asinine thing that Twitter pulled - yet again), but they seem to come out of it fast and keep right on moving - again, due to its decentralized nature.

To be honest, I don't think the original was all that much better - especially whatever Herbie was rubbing out.