Dmitry

No, I haven't had the Balvenie yet. Lagavulin is Islay, does it tastes peaty, like Laphroaig? Wife gave me a 18 y.o. Laphroaig for B-day, and it's still here. Wayyy too strong for me. The 10 y.o. is a lot more palatable to me. That being said, I'm not a Scotch cognoscenti, more like an amateur admirer. I must say that Johnny Walker Platinum is a pretty amazing-tasting scotch.

Just bought and tasted the ABERLOUR 12. While not a big fan of the double-casked scotches, like Glenmoranghie, and sherry-casked ones in particular, this one is not too fruity, and I wouldn't add ice. Price was right. $45/750cl.

I'm less than a casual football fan, but even I've heard about the almost universal disdain for the Pats. They are revered here in New England. Why no love in the rest of the country?

I'm mildly dyslexic, and am profoundly thankful for your correction.

Well, it's all fitting now, isn't it?! Coming back from a certain defeat...and how! I knew there was an other-worldly explanation for it. Now we know WHO helped... Also, another connection between Sun Ra and Massachusetts is that the previous Governor of that state Deval Aptrick is the son of Pat Patrick. So there's that too.

Very nicely and succinctly put! Remember the story of Coltrane walking the bar, and walking out of the said bar? Obviously his alternative to the bar gig was something we all know.

Are you positive on that? I've played some of it on youtube, and I'm not so sure. Honestly. And I do agree, it's music. This is music too. I could actually sit through a good hour of it.

I will go on the limb and wager that I've been to more gigs in last 15 years than Jim. From Zorn to Dixieland... Requests were happily taken by the latter, because that's what their music is based upon - the standards. If a delicate genius refuses to play the standards, and has nothing to offer as a replacement, but the Sound of Two Seagulls Fucking, i.e., TSOTSF, then no wonder that jazz music amounts to 1% of all music sales, most of it based on performing at least some standards as part of the program, I'm sure. Re:utilizing the spelling ARTISTE. Sure, I implied a higher level of artistic consciousness, separating the cerebral proponent of the music from a mere hack, who takes requests and plays the standards. Like these three hacks

It was not recorded on tape. It was originally done on acetate. This 10" came out in 1951, well before Lion met rvg.

Validity?! Sure, it's valid to you. Naturally, you, or me, can listen to whoever we want. I'm just asking, can the man carry a tune? Has he been known to break into a recognizable melody, spontaneously? Never mind Hodges, you're right, not many can do that. How about Mary had a little lamb? Just curious.

Can Mats carry a tune? That's what I meant.

Can anyone post the track list ? I'm not so hot on this yet. Hank sounds prime, the rest of the band...not so much. Imho, naturally.

How about, Hey Mats. Can you play some Johnny Hodges? What happens next? crickets..?

Sigourney Weaver was hot. Arsenio Hall - the worst interviewer since interviews were invented in Egypt by Ramses II.

I think you're reinforcing what I wrote re:pop music, perhaps unwittingly. Public wanted [past tense, because jazz only accounts to 1% of the music sold in the US now, and the vast majority wouldn't know High Society from Hi-Fly] tunes that they knew and liked, i.e. pop[ular] tunes. I'm all for the rebellion and refusal to comply with the norms...if it's going to make the music better, expand the scope, or at least produce memorable compositions. If an artIste , creator, interpreter of all things hip refuses to perform the stale old standards, doesn't he/she have to replace them with something of greater musical value, create the new norm? Understandably, the Sound of Two Seagulls Fucking maybe it, in the artiste's mind. But I'm not buying a record of that.

That's when it was pop music, and people knew the tunes. I bet a good number of the SEAGULL players don't even know how to carry that tune [some can't carry a tune period]. When was the last time you heard requests at a jazz gig? It happens very rarely, in my experience.

I don't think anyone's requesting the SEAGULL'S LOVE CALL. BTW, I think there are a lot more casual jazz listeners now that in the prior times; if anything "the general public" has no concept of what the standards are.

Off him? What are you, Ray Liotta? I think he just got enough of the badgering from people who are verifiably so much hipper.

Yep. That's it. Tomes. No synthesizers, no electric bass. I wonder what happened to him. He used to be a butt of many jokes and ridicule on the BNBB, until iirc someone finally got to him.

That's a non-answer, really. You seriously think someone should pay more for you [or anyone else] playing Creole than to the SEAGULLS LOVE CALL? Because why?

As long as you're on it, what was the name/handle of the guy who loved Wynton on the BNBB? He was located in NYC, and I even met him at a Cassandra Wilson tv taping once. Hardbop something. My memory sucks.

That begs a couple of questions - The standards are standards because they are good music, or there're other motives to install them into the minds of fans? Also why should someone pay more for a band to play standards? How much is the sound of two seagulls fucking that you wrote is worth comparing to Round Midnight? In your opinion.

His stature is akin to a demigod here in Rhode Island.