Dmitry

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.

It's an original 45 7" single, ca.1951-52.

FWIW, I don't think this photo represents the best of Candy Dulfer.

You mentioned an oil field. Hope there was no asbestos there. Several people I knew passed in the last few years, who did work in asbestos environment as long as 50 years prior to mesothelioma taking its deadly hold. I completely forgot the singles...duuh. No such thing now, is there? The 45s must've put a serious coin in the record companies coffers. Much cheaper to produce than LPs, way more portable.

That is what, like $50/hr today? Or more even? New car probably cost $4,500. You were doing well.

If that's a true conversion of the buying power, then people spent a lot of their hard-earned money on records in the olden days. I have seen quite a few albums with a discount sticker and a price tag of $1.99-2.99, ca. late 1960s-early 1970s. In fact, just recently bought a Johnny Cash at San Quentin still sealed original pressing, with a "final discount" sticker of $1.99. Thrift store find. How much were you making per hour then, Paul?

Some people may complain that cds and records are expensive, but I think they are a relative bargain now, comparing to 50-60 years ago. Atlantic Records inner sleeves sometimes come with album prices printed on them. How much was $5.95 in 1960 worth comparing to today? $10.95 for a 2-fer. Methinks that wasn't chump change. What was hourly wage for a construction worker or a pizza delivery guy or landscaper, house painter, someone in their teens-early twenties, working his/her way through college? My first job paid $4/hr. in the late 1980s. CDs were $11.99, albums maybe $5.95-7.95, tapes about the same, maybe a buck or two more.

I'm gonna show you something really cool that I picked up in a consignment store, once I get home tonight.

Aivazovsky is considered one of the top artists in history who painted bodies of water. Do a search of his painting of the Niagara Falls. I've been to his museum in Yalta, Crimea, when I was little. Amazing giant canvases. Returning to the topic - Joe Harriott - Abstract

Is that her? https://www.facebook.com/sandi.hummer

Yep, now I remember. IIRC Dookie may have been DEEP/Danny D'Imperio's alter ego. Good times on the BNBB... Sorry to thread crap, btw.

I think I joined BNBB in 1999 or thereabout. Dookie rings a bell, can you refresh my memory? Here's my own exuberant reflection from almost 15 years ago...amazing how time flies.

Good one! Look at the dude on the right. He's getting it. Yes, sir.

That's pretty amazing...all of this from just one sound.