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I have to confess that I have read the other comments. I don't have a lot to add as I do not know any of the songs or artists., except for the Maceo Parker with James Brown. It is quite humbling. Track 6 is really a stumper. It's maddening. It sounds at times like Pharoah Sanders (at the beginning), George Adams, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, but I think it is none of those. I should know who is playing bass clarinet on "Creole Love Call". I can almost place the bassist at the end. I have heard him but can't....quite.....name......him..... It's a really enjoyable disc, and has opened up some new things for me, obviously, since I am incapable of identifying anything!

True. I hear uncompromising jazz all the time over the sound system at Starbucks and at Barnes & Noble--but how many people are actually taking note of it and listening with any awareness. Probably very few.

Exactly. Clem seems to think it's a crime. Oh no, it was not Clem who posted that, it was Chauncey Morehouse. Didn't you notice that it was a different person?

This was a very funny scene, in my opinion. It is the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title, Bozo Is Dead.

Let me lighten the mood:

In my opinion, Metheny has wasted his time with the entire Pat Metheny Group for several years now. He is so much more interesting to me as a player in settings other than the Pat Metheny Group. His current trio is one of the most promising contexts for his playing, I think.

In recent live performance, he has played a good deal of "real jazz" content. He is respected in his native Kansas City for establishing a charitable foundation to help young musicians. He is more than a fusion picker with hippie hair, from what I can tell. This is one of several "highly outspoken" speeches he has given on The State of Jazz over the years. He does not hesitate to state very strong positions, to say the least. One of his famous Great Speeches bashed Wynton Marsalis, another argued for the use of computers in music. He does not sanitize his ideas when he gives these addresses.

It's fun, and it's not malicious to anyone. To me, the sport of it is in finding the most off the wall covers that still fit into the category. Compared to some of the other threads we have here, I view the cover series as harmless.