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  1. It's nice to see a cut from "Cosmos", one of my favorite Sun Ra albums, and one of the most accessible. It was readily available when I was getting deeply into Sun Ra, as it was released on Inner City in the United States. With Sun Ra, you can rarely go wrong assuming that whatever you are considering, it is full on bananas.
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    Jeanne Lee

    Her looks, yes. Once at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago, we were seated on metal folding chairs in the front row for the sold out show, a few feet away from Betty. She sang a very romantic love song, and stared deeply into my eyes at the most dramatic moment, for about ten seconds. I will never forget it. I was carried away....somewhere. It was very powerful. She bored right into me with her eyes. That was the 4th of July weekend in 1980. Some friends and I saw her in Ann Arbor, then in Detroit the next night, and then decided to drive to Chicago to see her two nights later. It occurred to us that this is what Grateful Dead fans were known for doing; only we were doing it with Betty Carter. (The night between Carter shows, we saw Joe Williams at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit). Those were fun days.
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    Jeanne Lee

    I also never looked at Lee and Carter that way. Am I the only person on the board who saw absolutely transcendent live performances by Betty Carter in the 1978--82 period? They were among the best, and most memorable, musical performances I have ever witnessed by anyone, anytime. I saw her live in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Madison and Kansas City in those years, and she was a fully realized force of nature, to me and to my jazz loving friends who joined me at some of these concerts. There was nothing more for her to do, to be a truly top notch artist, a giant. But virtually every mention of her on this board is accompanied by a chorus of slighting comments. It's fine with me if people didn't like Betty Carter's singing, or find her music lacking. I am not trying to convert anyone--I just don't understand it. I am scratching my head here.
  4. Well, no wonder I could not identify anything but the Ry Cooder. I have the Walt Dickerson but could not place it. This is what I come to the BFT for, to be introduced to some worthy music which I am not familar with. There is so much to investigate here. Thanks for a great, and memorable, BFT.
  5. I second that emotion.
  6. It was a very pleasant lunch. Chuck's wife Ann is a very nice person, with infinite patience for detailed discussions about jazz. It was great to meet Chuck and Ann, a lot of fun.
  7. You are not in way over your head with some of the guys on the forum. Me, for instance. I couldn't begin to identify anything, except the Earl Hines/Ry Cooder song.
  8. Well, I admit that I did not see many Rice home runs in person.
  9. I saw home runs by Rice and Jackson in person. Killebrew's long home run to center, which I witnessed in the late 1960s, went up much higher at an early stage in its flight, almost freakishly high. I have never seen anything else like it.
  10. My family lived in north central Wisconsin beginning in 1965, and my parents took us to one Minnesota Twins game ever, some time between 1966 and 1969. In that game, Killebrew hit a really long home run to straight away center field off of Denny McLain of the Tigers. It was the longest home run I have ever seen. I can still remember it climbing really high in the air and really far. It had a quality as it traveled though the air, that differs from any other long home run I have ever witnessed. Even now I can remember how it looked.
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    BFT #87

    I will participate. I will need a disc and will drop you a line.
  12. I take it that you mean that Ella Fitzgerald is a mere singer, and does not qualify as an artist. Under that definition, many of the posts on this thread depict mere instrumentalists or singers, not artists.
  13. When I was a teenage rock and roll fan, and had never heard a jazz album, I was impressed with his sound in his brief soloing on The Band's "Rock of Ages". It made me more receptive to checking out trumpet players in jazz (which I had accomplished in large quantity within a few years later).
  14. Now Art Yard knows where to go to get clean vinyl for any Sun Ra reissues which may require needledrops due to missing master tapes.
  15. I agree with you but let me say just one more thing....
  16. But unlike what happened after the torpedo took out the Bismarck's rudder, leaving her to sail in one large continuous circle, no one has yet moved in for the kill? I think that this "ship" has absorbed enough pounding to sink several times, yet somehow it stays afloat--as if by a miracle!
  17. For a moment long ago, you thought that his name was Warne Shorter and you filed it next to All Music. Try looking there.
  18. But the fact that we posted all at once shows that it was a natural, unbiased outpouring of real opinion, not part of a combined effort. If we had "held off for a while" it would have been an unnatural, planned, manipulative scheme. We left the forest long ago to wander for 40 years in the desert.
  19. and... There is no conflict of interest here, not even remotely. I feel no special close relationship with Chuck Nessa. I don't know if he has children, what his house is like, what his voice sounds like, how tall he is, anything about him. I read his posts here. He knows nothing about me or my personal life. None of you do. To say that the fact that we interact on this forum makes us such close friends as to imply that a conflict of interest could be present if we review each other's CDs--I'm sorry if this sounds offensive, but that strikes me as deluded in the extreme. To call what we have here "close friendship" is to confuse actual. flesh and blood, real world personal relationships with something which is far less than that. There are probably two people on this board who I consider personal friends, but those are very unusual situations. Chuck Nessa is not one of them.
  20. No, but IMO it's ethical to disclose your personal friendship with Chuck when doing so. Not exactly because I think there would be a conflict of interest, but because reviewers owe it to readers to provide some information about who is doing the reviewing. A cousin of mine wrote a bestselling novel and I read it and thought it was great. I gave it 4 stars out of 5 on goodreads.com and wrote a nice review, and also disclosed that the author was a family member. What if all 30 Goodreads reviews were from members of my family and none of us had disclosed that fact? It's not like my cousin kicks back percentages of his book sales to me, but anyone who discovered that our family was spamming Goodreads would instantly think that the skewed distribution was fishy and a possible indicator that the book sucks. A lot of this is just about having a basic level of respect for consumers of information on the Internet. People come to Amazon expecting the reviews to be from an organic cross-section of the public. That's why I'll never buy another Terry McAuliffe book again - NOT because he exploits his friendships and his power relationship over his employees to juice his Amazon reviews, but because the juicing shows he has no respect for his readers' ability to sift through information and decide for themselves whether they should buy his book. I don't believe it is accurate that people come to Amazon expecting the reviews to be from an organic cross-section of the public. I have never thought that was the case, with any well known album that has a lot of reviews. It strikes me that the reviews are instead written by a very unrepresentative sample of the public, people who love the album deeply for the most part. You never read in a Led Zeppelin review something like, "since I am a big band and Baroque classical fancier, this music makes my head hurt." No, literally every reviewer loves Led Zeppelin. That is just one example. I have never felt that I was reading a set of unbiased, reasonable reviews for any album reviewed on Amazon. I have no expectations for the credibility of the reviews. I don't know Chuck Nessa. I have never met him or spoken to him. It would have been false for me to claim some personal relationship with him as I reviewed the Warne Marsh album. While I have read his posts over the years, we have no idea what each other is really like. So for me to overreach and claim a special bond with him as I submit an Amazon review would be a lie.
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