Larry Kart

This isn't a dictionary. No, but organizing things here so they can be readily found would seem to be a virtue with no downside.

Great stuff.

Never much liked Morgan, especially after his return. He played IMO like the con-man he was. Never forget the time he opened at the Jazz Showcase in its Blackstone Hotel era with Willie Pickens, Wilbur Campbell, and a bassist whose name I forget, maybe Dan Shapera -- the house rhythm section. After the first set, Morgan took the guys aside and began to berate them for not following his supposed cues. This seemed odd to me because there had been, as usual, no time for rehearsal, and the program was all standards, familiar bop lines, and blues. Finally, Wilbur had had enough and softly but firmly told Frank to go f--- himself -- quite unusual behavior for Wilbur, I believe. Later, Willie, who knew Frank well from their Milwaukee days, explained what was up. Frank was neurotically fearful of failure, as usual, and had tried to beat up the rhythm section to make up for his anxiety. BTW, the rhythm section had played just fine.

Welcome to my non-alphabetical-order dictionary. Yes, it's a bit harder to look things up, but, ah, the freedom...

It's very easy to see who's a moderator - they have "Staff" or "Super Moderator" (Rolf) under their handle in the left-hand column of each of their posts and their "group" below that is "moderator", for everyone to see. There's nothing like that under my handle, so the conclusion is simple: I'm not a moderator. You don't have to be a rocket scientist or brain surgeon to understand that. Good grief... As for you "attitude" remark, well, I don't think it'd be wise to go into that. My last post: regarding the attitude: Larry wrote "Some search you did there." That's attitude. I've seen moderators bitching about what a pain in the butt duplicate threads bring/are. Why not just let them lie? How are they such a cancerous evil? People who search seem to do fine. People who don't search, don't search. About leaving duplicate threads lie, the reason one doesn't/shouldn't do that is that then information on one subject resides in two different places, which makes it that much harder to keep track of, no? Further, of course, if everything on a subject is on one thread, replies to what it being said there form a coherent -- need I say it? -- thread, rather than leaving say, your bright response to a point made on thread one unread by someone on thread two who otherwise might have wished to respond in kind to what you've just said. But, no, were just making all this stuff up because we like to wear badges.

Good idea, except for the PM part. More work, and if the thread starter can't figure it out by then, no PM probably is going to wake that person up. Also, PM exchanges tend to get too personal in my experience. As a psychoanalyst who had a stroke and recovered from it said to a colleague who asked why, if had recovered, he had nonetheless retired: "I can't handle the hostility." In a somewhat similar vein, I just ran across this in a new book by Charles Rosen: "When I was writing a review of Alban Berg's correspondence, I remarked to an elderly and very distinguished psychoanalyst, Sophie Lazarsfeld, that I was surprised by how many of Schoenberg's students seemed to enjoy being so badly treated by him. She replied: 'I have no time to explain this just now, but I can assure you that there are a great many masochists and not nearly enough sadists to go around.'"

About how much effort to put into a search, I can't say for sure because this one, involving the politics/religion forum, is a somewhat special case. OTOH, you wouldn't necessarily know this, but some board members, though frequently admonished, post duplicate threads on a fairly regular basis, either without searching at all or just because they don't care or Lord knows why. And I/we have to clean it up.

Sorry to SS and others If I'm getting too prickly, but what Jim said. It gets you down.

Nonsense about the Hans business. When he was a moderator, however "prominent," there also were two other moderators. Hey, Chuck Nessa and Joe Fields both produce recordings, so if I say that Fields produced those great Roscoe Mitchell albums, that would be a "misconception"? Among the many reasons we can't all get along is that we don't think before we open our mouths.

Don't know and don't really care. That's no excuse for flinging crap at the walls. Besides, he is aware of the politics/religion forum, could reasonably assume that there might already be a King thread there, thus no mystery. Finally, and speaking only as the annoying moderator I am, if someone locks a thread I've started, the first thing I'd do is think what reasonable cause there might be for this rather than make accusations. If SS is sincerely puzzled, he could have asked a simple question.

Off the top of my head, and speaking only for myself and my own tastes, I would say the something close to the opposite is true. That is, leaving aside your a,b,c, and d, and a variety of other social factors, most players don't get better with age. This I would attribute to the difficulty of balancing out/processing the freshness of youthful inspiration with/against the self-reflective qualities that may come with age and a largish body of experience.

I locked it, Soulstation. Some search you did there.

Still waiting for a PM with your street address. Can't do PayPal.

I don't like the appellation either, Joel. I dug Hardman from the first time I heard him (on "Jackie McLean and Co." I think -- a date that turned me inside out) but I said "minor" I guess because I was thinking of his relative impact on the course of the music and other players. By those standards, Gene Shaw also would be a minor player, but quality and individuality count for a lot for both men.

A minor figure, perhaps, although a quite individual one, but IMO trumpeter Bill Hardman kept getting better and better with age.

Not sure about this, but maybe Earl Hines? A whole lot of late Hines sure is fantastic.

Thanks, Big Wheel.

Agree about Harrell. Certainly mature Kenny Dorham was leaps and bounds better than young Kenny, but then the trumpet is such an unforgiving instrument if you're trying to playing in a style that demands sorts of technical mastery that the young Dorham did not possess. In his maturity, Dorham, among other things, figured out some different ways to play that played to his strengths.

What does "All your blog are belong to us" mean? Is it a dialect or some slang I'm not familiar with, or is there a typo?

One who has gotten better and better with age IMO, up until the point where physical factors come into play at times (but only at times), is Von Freeman.

Would that he did. That he doesn't (IMO) is unfortunate. Again, I would ask any admirer of latter-day Woods to listen to the two very good (though not the best I've ever heard) samples of his early work ("Stockholm Sweetnin" and "Toos Bloos") that I posted on the Woods thread and tell me that they can't hear a difference in quality as well as in style between them and his typical later work. If you can't hear a difference of any sort, then I think we can't talk.

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@ Ted -- Dave Dallwitz! One of the great, by any standards, jazz composers IMO. The Ern Malley Suite for one. I've got a good deal of what Dallwitz recorded on Swaggie LPs, but I'm afraid that much of it is o.o.p. now. My, and Chuck's, good friend Terry Martin is a native of Adelaide (Dallwitz's hometown) and knew him fairly well, initially because Terry and Dallwitz's son were childhood pals. Dallwitz was a heck of a painter, too: http://www.greenhillgalleriesadelaide.com.au/show-artist.php?id=76

Hey, while in a very expansive mood I bought the record and its predecessor, figuring that standards might bring out what remains of the non-whiz bang side of Woods, and on several tracks that's the case. But not this one.

Put it on my IPod and listen while I'm walking in the Great Outdoors. Excellent. Fascinating to hear you playing without (much of) a safety net, so to speak. The "purity" of your sound and overall approach is very moving. More please.