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Long time no see Dr J! Welcome back!

Actually it's up to you. Q You know what I mean...

My personal opinion is that no one HAS to go through the experiences you list. While incredibly valuable, these experiences will certainly affect a person's individualism, which in many ways is a key component to free improvisation. Couldn't it be said that knowledge of jazz history might impact a musician's every decision/reaction, thus decreasing the distance that player has from preconception, tradition, and a true free nature? An extreme example: a savant may pick up a tenor saxophone, having never seen the instrument, or knowingly heard it's accepted uses, and approach it's use in a very different way. This person may have an incredibly broad and deep emotional spectrum, and an incredibly sensitive ability to interact with others, having never done so in a musical setting. It is up to the critics to describe the individual's merit. Maybe that wasn't the actual direction of this topic, but...

Evan Parker is also on a Scott Walker record.

Giving beer to kids certainly can't hurt! Performing Arts will continue to contract in the fringe as long as it is presented as sit and observe. Seems to me that all of us bust our ass all day, all week, all year to keep those bills paid and stress about how we will ever get out of this thing with something to show. The relatively small amount of time and money that we do spend on leisure is generally spent trying to leave all of that behind for a moment. Most of us are looking forward to blowing off some steam. People seem to be popping at the seams with stress. If "jazz" (insert performer here) is not addressing this, it is going to fall further down on the list of things to do tonight. Engaging the audience, having some understanding of why they are there, and entertaining that notion can go a long way. If the audience is there to preserve America's Classical Music, well, I can imagine being in that audience, and it feels like an obligation. Beer anyone? Yelling at the fire-breathing trumpet? Boogie down with the girl beside you if you're feeling it? Vitality! Real, live fun. Not compositions in a jazz idiom to represent it.

I will also be getting Now No Is So. I love the preview samples.

Agreed. I will be submitting my largest order to date with Chuck. Except for the AEC box, though I wish I had, I generally duplicate my orders... Copies for me, copies for my brother. Which leads me to mention a few albums that he has recorded on over the past year or so. Ps he's a bassist, by all accounts as dependable as a work dog. Fight The Big Bull | Dying Will Be Easy (Clean Feed) New album with Steven Bernstein this January. Ombak | Framing The Void (No Label) Ilad | Here//There (SYJIP) MAP Trio | MAP Trio (Slang Sanctuary) All of these are available at the usual outlets online, with the exception of the MAP Trio, which I will help you find if you are interested. It is VERY good. All music from the "burgeoning" Richmond VA scene.

also on "As Long As Theres Music" on Artist House iirc. How do the versions compare? I've only listened to the former once or twice and my memory of the music is that it is sort of hazy. I'll put the lp on tonight to revisit.

Soul note is available through emusuc and etudes is highly recommended. Shuffle Montgomery! I didn't read the track listings very carefully after purchasing this album on vinyl and was very surprised to hear this tune by this trio. Very nice. And the baby loves this record!

Happy Birthday Tom! Hope all is well up there...

What do you mean? I was referring to his design style. His shapes and type faces seem "wacky" to me. Maybe they didn't back then, of course. There is plenty of evidence to show that he wasn't the only one using these devices. It has basically become a kitsch style all its own, exaggerated with 'irony' and 'humor' as most everything is when revisited in this 'post-modern' era. 'denotes bullshit terminology.'

wacky

You know, that Jimmy Raney cover really throws me off. Interesting to read that it is a favorite of yours. Everytime I listen to that album... that cover never grew on me.

The former, yes, not so much the latter. Yeah... I don't know what to say about that. Ascension should do the exact opposite, I'd think.

I know... still, it fits the bill!

Good recommendation.

Obvious to most, but maybe not to newbie... the New York Art Quartet was a joke, and I don't think it would be easy to find a copy anyway. Seriously though, I always go into a blissful, relaxed state while listening to Interstellar Space and Ascension. Not sure how that happens, but it happens every time. Does this music have a similar effect on anyone else?

Maybe Miles Davis/Gil Evans Porgy & Bess? Maybe New York Art Quartet?

Lovers Rock was one of the albums we played at home during my wifes labor. Others iron and Wine Endless Numbered Days Bonnie Prince Billy Master and Everything Nick Drake Fruit Tree Gillian Welch Revival Lovers Rock came out around the time we were married and is intrinsically tied to that wonderful time in our life.

The tank is real. I've seen it on tv. http://www.jl421.com/

great website!

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I voted other as a sort of all of the above answer, plus this is where all of my folks came after the BNBB demise. Honestly, one of the only reasons I open a web browser these days! I need to get around more! I hear that the web is world wide.

Who gives a shit what is hip anymore? Some people think dressing up like a medieval lute player while his buddies battle it out with foam swords every Saturday morning at the local park is hip. Some people think bent-circuit children's toys are hip. Some people think beat-boxing is hip. Some people think recreating a Scriabin piece in midi is hip. Shit, I think the vibraphone is hip. Most people don't even know what the fuck a vibraphone is, and when they see it, it immediately becomes a xylophone. And then there are the people that visit this board... a very small sample of the population. All of these groups think what they are doing, what they are into, is hip. Nothing needs saving. Everything needs nurturing. You never know what the next trend will be... if its be-bop or Albert Ayler, you can say you've been there all along. BFD.

Hey everyone. I want to share the wonderful arrival of my daugther, Tatum Gray Ralston, born Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 4:14am. She weighed 7lbs. 6oz. and measured 19 inches long. Tatum is my wife's maiden name, Gray is my grandmother's middle name before marriage and the middle name of her daughter, my dad's younger sister, Jane Gray Ralston, who lived to the age of two. We brought her home today. The dogs have been incredibly sweet and seem to be acclimating just fine! We are all thrilled. Mom and baby are both doing wonderfully. The Tatums and Ralstons will be on cloud nine for some time... this is the first grandchild on either side!