Holy Ghost

Considered a Christmas album in my home:

Granted, one of the prettiest pictures of a toolbox I've ever seen. Whoever was in charge of the lighting, nailed it. But wait, no ladders, backhoes, earthmovers, bull dozers, cherry pickers, foremen? Who's in charge here? I want to speak to the manager.

What a batch of music. Excellent listining, period.

Braxton, Dolphy and Ayler in no particular order.

Polarizing. WOW. Dortmund (1976) changed everything (for me). When I was studying bass clarinet in my early teens, and heard this, this record stopped me straight in my tracks, and I never played the same since.

👍 I'll confess. I am a Prestige blow-out jam session sucker. I love these sessions, and buy them in a heartbeat whenever I see them.

Right? This album is BADASS. Everything clicks! Dude, how cool is that. Different worlds. Wish I could've experienced that. 👍 I am really warming up to Art's Galaxy output.

This happened in the early 60's, but my mom recognized NKC straight away while he was taking a break at an Akron club, while enjoying dinner with my grandparents and recognized him straight away. My mom told me how nice he was when she went up to him and said "hi."

Word. My daughters managed to find every way to sabotage my day from my morning coffee, right up to my nightcap! Can't believe they both have high school diplomas and are in college. PS: After 25 years, I found a replacement copy of Blues in Trinity. They both still have no idea who Dizzy Reece is.

Wow. I didn't know this, but why would anyone go out of their way to deliberately mess with CDs? I mean, my kids would just go the good ole' fashioned way and spill milk on my CDs and laugh, as I cried; but this thinking I don't get, like why this: "When he was small my kid was pretty good at finding the weak spots in things. He showed me that it is easy to completely wreck a cd by not putting it far enough onto the spindle and then shoving the cd tray into a pc. Another time he pulled a cd up off the spindle of a laptop when the cd tray/drawer was not all the way out - bent it seriously. If I remember right it didn't snap but was totally unusable." Wha? That's like fucking around with my car, so it doesn't start. First things first, I'd say (just me), "Stop touching my shit!" Just saying. Question further begs, why? How come? What enjoyment comes out of this? Fucking with the integrity of enjoying a CD eludes me. For example, if I (stupidly) left a CD nearby my daughters, I was playing roulette; anything near them (because they were sloppy) was at my own risk. Frankly, my kids were just slops, like, "sorry dad" as they spill milk on Dizzy's Blues In Trinity. Like, try cleaning up milk off a CD; just as wholesome as a good-ass,fun-ass, hoe-down, cleaning up broken eggs off the floor...sorry dad. That aside, like why mess with CDs otherwise? Oh yeah, keep them away from your kids.

Completely my opinion: CDs versus vinyl: I posted I played an Oscar Peterson, Time After Time CD I "inhereted" in "what are you listening to NOW" thread and this CD is an absolute mess, like someone drove over it, or tied it on the back of their back bumper along with any other empty soup cans and used shoes after getting married (like what other annoying noise can we add to attach to the back bumper to already add to the rattling on the back bumper, to tell everybody we're hitched? You have any so-so Oscar Peterson Pablo CDs honey? In fact, I do!!! Time After Time! I'll tie it to the back bumper right now, along with the empty soup cans and nasty shoes!) Whatever the case, I washed it and played it, and it played perfectly fine; I couldn't believe it! Now tell me this would be the same case listening to a scratched up/looking like a shitty piece of vinyl after driving over it with your car. First, that record ain't worth shit; secondly, even if the sleeve is salvageable, maybe worth a ham at most. Moral of the story: it all depends on how you take of your stuff. CDs seem to have more give. You can drive over CDs with your car, yet they still play; one scratch on a slab of vinyl, it's ruined. Botton line: In my opinion, I think this vinyl-revival is a quick, market to dum dums, make a quick buck, stupid-ass fad, which young dum dums are titillated by, until their scatter brains run their ADD course very quickly, and on to whatever else. I'm in no rush converting any format to anything else.

This album is sick! By some remote happenstance, this was at a remote used CD shop in the most remote location, and I couldn't believe it, sitting there, for what look like years. This is DEEP GROOVE

Right? More stories please! 👍Grew up listening to this record, one of my mom's favorites. +2. Was just playing: Oh yeah. For such a rush to end his Prestige contract, resulted in some of my favorite Miles records.

Yep. I just have to hop to it and buy it. NP

This set has been mentioned, and what a great modern Christmas classic:

This is awesome, thank you for these cool insights! That account was nearly 20 years in the making for me...when I was barely one. Great experience, to be of age at the time! If you haven't seen this video where Ed rejoins Ornette, Dewey, and Charlie...what a treat!!!

One of my favorite drummers:

So, my wife brought home (shhh, I know she's a secret horder) a box of weird-ass religious CD's, but I looked in the box anyway, and nestled in them was this CD: Oscar Peterson (not Cindi Lauper/Miles Davis), Time After Time. Looks like someone used it as a brillow pad, no case, scratched up, but I put it on (after dishwashing it) and who knew, it plays!!! Here's the jacket that should accompany the CD: Pleasant enough, but I still can't believe it played all the way through! Superior listening!

Excellent!!! Fascinating accounts, I was barely one years old!

NP

Yeah, another minor masterpiece! I saw him live with Roy Campbell at CMA back in 2014, and I snapped a photo of him, but the flash went off, and he knew it was me and basically snarled at me with his signature headband and couldn't stop staring at me, like he was going to find me and kick my ass after the show. I was so embarrassed. I'm like did I just piss Henry Grimes off? Like here is what he looked like when I saw hin around that time (the original photo is gone)