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For me, one trick to eating less meat is finding ingredients when I cook (and I do all the cooking in our household), that have a satisfying “mouth feel” that sorta approximates at least some kinds of meat — so everything doesn’t feel like eating veggies and pasta, etc. Edamame is one (blissfully available as a workhorse of an ingredient, flash frozen in bags, easily available in our regular grocery, even in a cheaper ‘store’ brand). I have no idea what it really tastes like, but it’s SUPER satisfying added to all kinds of dishes. Or I’ll make a recipe with half as much cut-up chicken (or pork), and add edamame instead. And I’ll stretch a Chipotle burrito bowl into 3 meals by adding about half a cup of edamame and some raw spinach. Chickpeas (Garbanzo beans) are similar. And whole cashews too, which soften slightly when heated — and especially when reheated after they’ve sat in the dish with all the other ingredients in the fridge overnight. That’s the way I cook with less meat a lot — and don’t really miss it — and food is still really satisfying.

My wife and I have grilled Beyond burgers a few times (when they’ve been on sale), and we thought they were mostly pretty tasty, by and large. As good as the real thing? Of course not, but still pretty good, all in all. We’re not vegetarian (far from it), but we’ve been trying to eat less meat for 10+ years — and easily eat barely 1/4th as much red meat — and 1/3rd as much chicken — but more fish (and shrimp), mostly all farm-raised, far as we’re aware. I’m all for meat substitutes, long as they’re tasty (and they don’t have to taste exactly like the real thing), and as long as the “mouth feel” is sufficiently good. Some faux-meat products have lot further to go than others, but Beyond is more than halfway there, imho.

Keith Jarrett probably sings along with choruses, and not just verses — and he’s most assuredly wordless.

Me too! I assume The Bastards will carry this (on CD), like they did Tolliver’s recent leader-date — so I’ll probably try and get it that way.

I always “liked” The Free Slave, don’t get me wrong — but for years I’ve felt like it wasn’t as good as I was hoping (But maybe my expectations of it have always been too high). It’s a solid ‘B’ album, but I always hoped for more of a B+/A- sort of affair. I do definitely plan to get Understanding soon-ish, once the positive first-hand reports start rolling in (or if I can stream a couple full-length tracks from it somehow). Not a title I’m gonna sleep too long on getting either.

Lyrics, especially wordy stuff or if there’s any kind of narrative, engages a different part of my brain. As opposed to a “might-as-well-be wordless” chorus that might happen to have some repetitive words that don’t really connect up in any sort of syntactical way. I think I get exactly what your saying. It’s not the singing, per se, but what’s being sung. That said, really traditional scat singing doesn’t do anything for me (at all), and I usually avoid it like the plague.

It’s not necessarily a deal-breaker, but more often than not, I *do* find occasional vocal tracks pretty annoying — with a handful of exceptions, if course. Also reminds me that leaders who double on too many instruments — who insist on playing all of them equally frequently — can also be a bit of an annoyance too me too (in some cases, at least). I’m annoyed easily, probably too easily.

This is literally the one and only Ruben Blades song I own (and have ever owned) — from an XTC v/a tribute album. But I’ve always wanted to get more Blades — especially with the kind of horn section and arranging I’m hearing here — but have never known what’s the best place to start. So, where should I go next?? (This is a very good tribute album, and this Ruben Blades track is absolute top-drawer, among many quite inspired covers found therein.)

A bold admission, to say the least.

How long is the CD in total? And what’s the Carmell quotient like?

I’ve got that Ponty/Gerald-Wilson date on CD, used from Euclid Records in STL (if the price sticker on the case ain’t lyin’ to me) — $8.99, fwiw — found it maybe 15 years ago. Mine is a “One Way Records” deal, also says “Cema, Special Markets” — from 1993, made in Canada. Edit: the miniaturized repro of the original liners makes the text look like it’s about in a 2.5 point font size.

Aha, interesting. I’d seen that Max and Abbey were both listed on the bill — not of the movie, but of the festival. And I too was hugely curious who was in his band (hoping perhaps Charles Tolliver). Can anyone scare up any pics or individual still-frames from the new doc — so we can all take a crack at ID-ing the mystery tenor player?

I don’t really know exactly, but Dusty Groove has a specific sub-section for it… https://www.dustygroove.com/category/now_sound This seems to get at it, I presume… https://www.spaceagepop.com/whatis.htm#now

I’ve told this story before, but I had a roommate back in college for one summer (and she really was just a roommate)… …and all the jazz I was listening to back then (whatever it was), she classified into three simple categories… 1) Pink Panther (as in the PP theme song, and incidental music) 2) Peanuts (as in the Charlie Brown TV specials music) 3) Batman (as in the old Batman 60’s TV theme song). Anything I would put on (any individual cut), I could ask her what kind was it — and she’d listen for a bit, and put it in one of those three categories. To her way of thinking, those were the 3 different kinds of jazz.

You better not be trying to suggest that’s suppose to garner our respect er nothin’.

Bump! — for no particular reason.

Alas, I never got this when I had the chance (though in my defense, it was always close to $25 with shipping, always from eBay sellers from god only knows where). Still wish I had, and would love to still find a copy.

How many different kinds/colors of kryptonite were there? I vaguely remember there were several.

So what’s next on the chopping block? (After rap and hip hop?)

There was an Albert Mangelsdorff 5CD box (Vol 1, of a 2 maybe 3 volume set of Mangelsdorff titles) that included Zo-Ko-Ma, that I tracked down a few years ago. It’s a nice date.

Red vinyl with black marbling? Foil stamped? “Direct to Board” Jacket style? “Widespine” Jacket type? Oh, and it’s numbered! Lineup is barely mentioned (only at the bottom of a description you have to expand to see). NO track-listing, NO track-times, NO recording date (beyond the year), NO recording location mentioned, NO indication whether it was recorded live or whether it’s a studio album. But yeah, here’s all the fuckin’ bells and whistles about the marbled red and black colored vinyl and “jacket style” AND “jacket type”. This shit annoys the fuck out of me. /rant

I bought a few booklets for the LP-only Miles sets they did (back in the day, when I'd gotten the metal-spine boxes with notes that were really hard to read). And -- back then -- I think(?) they charged me $15, iirc. Shipping would've pumped up my true cost, but I piggybacked on some other orders that included other large-format boxes (so no extra shipping at all, really). This was back in the day though, so no idea how that applies now. $20 wouldn't be entirely unreasonable now, but I wouldn't think they'd be higher than that -- but for long OOP sets, who knows?

Looking forward to listening to this. And everyone should click on “see more” to catch the full accompanying notes, which are fairly extensive (I’ve only just skimmed them, I have to admit). Some good stories in there!

I think the purpose of the “just sold out” is so if someone saw something earlier the same day (or maybe within the last 24 hours), they can then get positive confirmation that it really was there, and to more clearly explain why it’s not available (as opposed to it just suddenly not appearing at all).