Milestones

I would like to see some live material released. As pointed out, there must be plenty of it. I have seen live concerts on YouTube with Joe Lovano that are much better than the official live album by Tyner and Lovano.

A great one for sure...in every way. R.I.P., Sidney.

I doubt I'll get beyond one (1) on this BFT!

Brotherhood (1995)

Yes, sometimes music at home is devoured like socks in the washer/dryer.

Track 12 is "This Little Light of Mine." I have this on a compilation of Harris's Concord period.

An interesting BFT, for sure. Anyone trashing Billy Higgins, one has to at least suspend the jazz card.

I was born in 1960 and I don't recall anything about disco being good as music. As both music an cultural phenomenon, it seems to be largely forgotten.

If anything, we live in an age of "found" music. Consider that Bob Dylan's vast discography has probably been doubled by the massive and ongoing bootleg series. In jazz, we see a similar thing with Miles Davis.

Thanks for the video of Benny Golson. As many know, Golson is a great storyteller, and his recount of hearing about Clifford Brown's death and writing his famous tribute is priceless. A very touching performance too, with the audience so respectful that you could hear a pin drop.

I know that quite a few are no longer playing, which is fine at that age. I know most musicians would prefer to play until they drop, but sometimes you just have to retire. Is Benny Golson still active?

I remember buying this quite cheap on vinyl decades ago--a used record. I recall that I liked some tracks, others not so much. I would like to hear it again. It doesn't appear to be available on Apple Music.

It seems like nothing but doom and gloom of late. Variants, surges, the whole works. Will this MOFO every slow down? Our football team has about 14 players out due to Covid, including the QB and backup QB. Also, the head coach, Stefanski (his second time). Geez.

Really? So Miles was dreadful and boring when playing the dreadful and boring "My Funny Valentine"?

I'm an HO scale all the way. I went with this full tilt as a youth. Trains and buildings were huge at Christmas. These days it's pretty much limited to one boxcar on a railroad crossing in my office. I ride real trains from time to time--in fact, two vintage trains (steam locomotives) this past summer in West Virginia.

Anyway, I don't live in the mountains, and won't be visiting soon!

I've been using external Bose speakers for my desktop computer...for a long time now. They are quite satisfying to me. Not interested in listening to music on my cell phone. Well, maybe I would if I was stranded on a mountain and might not be rescued for two or three days.

I am using Apple Music for the first. My wife and I got 3 months free due to upgrading our phones. I am much more into listening on my computer than my phone. Can you actually download these songs and keep them forever on the computer? Can you burn tracks to a CD? I suspect not.

Yeah, they seemed more into pop vocals and easy listening. And some fine stuff, especially from Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. But as far as jazz goes... Even Cannonball did a few records with vocalists and large ensembles.

Not sure that Capitol is into the single-artist retrospective thing at all. And it seems to me that Capitol was never that big on jazz. Other than Adderley, what jazz artists have done a serious record run on the label?

Track #4 is "Windy Mountain"?

I find Cannonball to be comforting in our difficult present time.

I find Cannonball to be comforting in our difficult present time.

That has to be the great Cannonball Adderley on #7.

That triple goal is interesting: entertain, enlighten, enrage! That appears to be your credo!