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"Indifferency" i'm not sure that this is even a word, but it's exactly how I feel about how musicians dress. I wear ties and sports coats to work, which colleagues and customers invaribly misdecribe as "suits" - unless the jacket and pants match, it's not a suit. Band uniforms and similar attire were not a badge of power and authority, but of servitude - like a welldressed waiter or butler.

I was going to post something pretentious about hearing the frontline (trumpet/soprano/bass clarinet) as neotrad and the rest as colour/texture, but maybe just getting a few bottles of the 40th ann. Bitches Brew brew would help more...

What's the best source for the Blue John +5 reissue, the Bastards?

Is this from the Monk family, or European 'grey market' issue, octet right?

Did you ever get close to or move in the circles of classic car collectors? I've been into that scene for almost as long as I've been listening to and collecting jazz (a.o.) records (and have accumulated my share of items there too ) and I can tell you that "collectionitis" can get just as much out of hand and assume colossal proportions as in the case of record collectors, and the stories surrounding those explorations, finds and discoveries can be just as bizarre (and fascinating, of course). Apart from the fact that the objects of those collections tend to be MUCH more cumbersome, all other facets are very much comparable and probably even worse, i.e. even more obsessive, than in the case of records, because as often as not those collectors tend to accumulate "related" collectabilia too - very often with every car stored away go NOS parts, books, catalogs, garage signs, gas pumps, whatnot ... as long as the things are considered worthy of keeping by whomever ... and the distinction between collecting and hoarding is a very, very blurred one. Just for a teaser, check out the videos on the LEE HARTUNG COLLECTION on Youtube. and then see if you can find any record collector who has hoarded THAT much (comparatively speaking) AS WELL AS associated items (printed matter, for example) that go with the music on those records. Which one would that be? In Search of The Blues? I may be mistaken (it's been a while since I read it) but i cannot recall it dwells that heavily on the collecting aspect of exploring blues music. Studebaker Drivers Club member here, and yes car guys can get quite obcessive - just don't tell my parts guy I said so!

Since when is Tenessee waltz a non Standard?: DUDE, WTF! (the spacing/line breaks were initially unintentional, but then...)

Dan- Interesting that you'd never heard of him when you first checked him out. In terms of R&B chart success, he was as big a star as, say, Muddy Waters who certainly has more profile today and whom my brother is kinda fixated on. Not that Muddy's not wonderful, but he's not the whole world, even in blues. Thanks for the rec's, I have just a best of CD of Duke stuff, an LP with a pseudo Guagan cover, some Sun stuff on comp's and a very weird late CD, Beatles and Willie Nelson covers, etc. A complete Duke antho like the Bobby Bland ones would be wonderful.

But, your point is yet another good one. Reason being that Kubrick and Pink Floyd both gave us what can only be called "timeless" masterpieces. Whether you're watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, or listening to early-to-mid 70's Floyd (Dr. Floyd?), you can't help but get a sense of timelessness because they still have a certain level of modernity. Both were ahead of their time, yet both seem to hold their own era after era due to their forward-looking vision in their respective art form So does why/that I don't care for one explain why I don't care for the other, or vice versa, or either?

Russell Connor, in his "bio-discography" of Benny Goodman, _BG: On the Record_, seems to indicate that in the 1930s Victor used two turntables to simultaneously record one tune (p. 140), presumably to circumvent this sort of problem. I got the feeling that BG only recorded an alternate take if he was dissatisfied with the previous one. But them BG was a little 'fussy' on issues like this, wasn't he?

Not quite, it equals anything that shares those artist's classic properties of precisely wild abandon, regardless of chronology or demographics.

I'm currently annotating a mix tape I made for my brother - a kinda Jr Parker in context kinda thing, and would welcome any observations you might have on this fine singer-harpist.

For me it was Ramblin', just so immediately, obviously right.

Not really...Farrell was in a different place as far as "vision" goes, I think. Grossman/Liebman were, at that time, pretty much into getting as far into Tranemath as possible as quickly as possible, full speed "ahead", no looking back, whereas Farrell, although also into doing the Tranemath, was at heart such a confirmed "hard bopper" that I don't see it. To say nothing of being at a different place in his career path as the two younger guys. What would have seemed more "logical" to me would have been for Horace & Elvin to have swapped tenor players on that gig. But then again, Elvin almost always used a very specific type of tenorist in his bands, and Farrell was more of that type that Maupin. Still, in 1968, I don't know how much that mold would have been hardened... makes sense, thanks

I just don't hear it that way...for me Five Live Yardbirds has far more energy and Zep is, well, Ledden - largely due to Bonham.

Listening to Muddy at the moment, and it strikes me that Charlie could've done very well playing with him or someone like John Lee Hooker who made chord changes when and if they felt like it, not just 'cause he seemed to have esp that way but 'cause never overplayed and always supported what the others were doing, even while going his own way. A big loss, to say the least.

Still my wish.

Hey, it's inventive, innovative, influential, etc. but still, IMHO "a bunch of sound and fury, signifying nothing"

Damn, I look away for a minute and this happens...at his best about as deep as shit gets.(in a good way)

No comments? Then can I assume you all agree with me? That would be a first...

What if Joe F had joined Miles instead of Grossman &/or Leibman? Same difference, or not?

Ha, I wish!

Yeah, but it's still Led Zep, so it's still overblown and empty. (no ellipses)

I thought the Hardman & Maupin edition Horace Silver stuff on youtube was just a nice contrast; nothing more, nothing less.

I'll have ti get that, just so I can mention it to him!

I got the Bud Freeman with my winnings from the Grey Cup pool, good stuff.