Holy Ghost

I'm in. Powerful record.

Still unraveling everything inside this record. Deeeeeep album. The music is just the surface, just the segue of what was bubbling underneath. Incredible document of where "intellectual" jazz was heading in 1970. PS: No slip to Miles as "New Directions" needed to go in it's direction (a direction I like too!)

Like it. Cool Spaces.

Still love this record up to this very moment.

Of course!! Love this one simply for Billy Higgins making a simple trap and snare sound like a huge drum kit!

@Niko This gets to me, "... my late dad had a lifelong struggle with the obscure language that's still commonly used in the humanities in Germany... I have many childhood memories of him complaining about the way people said things in faculty meetings etc... and, somehow, that preference for a simple and clear style in scientific writing has stayed with me... to the point where my tolerance for convoluted sentences and fancy words is pretty low... certainly far too low to appreciate Heidegger... " Niko, this story really upsets me too. I don't know where to start. I have had my fair share of pompous asshole professors acting like they know everything, and we students are a bunch of dolts and ninnys. No matter how hard I tried, I was never excepted into exclusive clubs that spoke fluent German (mine was still broken (I had to think) and could never roll my r's). I don't want to think Heidegger was one of them, but I am not German and even after taking four years of German plus two graduate years of German research, would want to believe Heidegger would not make fun of anybody because they're not fluent enough to speak nor write in his way, but now I think he does. If so, then Heidegger is a pompous asshole too and that pompous-ass tradition carried on and look how it affected your father is a complete shame. The idea Heidegger wrecked lives like that, your dad saying basically Heidegger set the bar, wow. And your Dad cites Heidegger as the reason. Agree. Wow! For what it's worth, I couldn't even translate page one of "What is a Thing." I made so many mistakes, all I could say was, I gave it my best. This account just paints a new picture of Heidegger for me. I have some reevaluating to do...

Wow Niko, thank you for sharing these amazing stories. How rare you get a glimpse into Heideggers's "real" classroom, which sounds like you dig him or you don't. This is rare and insightful. Wow!

Read it (the Oxford edition, if I recall, it was reprinted as a Harper Torch paperback, I don't have it handy, and he assisted in some of the translations) and it was a huge assist. Very much admire his contribution to the Hegelian canon.

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On this Night, yeah! Historically and great music, love Fire Music and Four for Trane, but I like the Shepp Impulse!'s that fly under the radar, like For Losers, Live in San Francisco, Attica Blues, and Mama Too Tight. The Savoy material with Bill Dixon should be made more readily available (have the Atlantic/Savoy issue of Shepp/Dixon 7tette/Cont 5, but not the quartet issue , which is some gray-area issue).

RIP. The loft material from the '70's is gold.

The Magic of JuJu is one of my favorite Impulse! Shepps. Contrasts, I am waiting for a copy to graze my presence.

This is one wicked record.

@ Gheorghe: I get it, what you say here resonates with me: "Nowadays I rarely listen to "straight ahead jazz" because my moods and spirits go more into other stuff in "so called jazz", mostly in awareness of geniusses like Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, and my beloved Sun Ra. Almost all music I have in my head, all the sounds I hear, all the feelings come from that directions, period." Awesome.

Meaning the Coltrane set. Everything looks great about it, how is it? For my wife (and me🙂) She loves Chet 😍 Yeah, this and

And this is my opinion, the first real deal heavy metal record:

How Black Sabbath clicked; it happened here:

RIP. Chuck was one of my greatest inspirations to go into music in the 70's (I was under 10 years old, to put that into perspective). Weird twist, this tune is one of me and my wife's favorite songs for years 😊

Headlines in the Wall Street Journal again. Huge turnout.

Both RIP: Ozzy and Dio both brought to Black Sabbath their own genius ways. Saw Dio twice, this dude was the real deal.

HUGE Rush fan. Glad to see somebody else besides me who listens to Rush after Power Windows🤘Saw Rush on the Presto tour '86 and wow, the second half of the concert was the first half of 2112. YESS!!! @EKE BBB, For Ozzy, RIP!:

Wow. Those inside gatefold photos.

Before I get bogged down with all of the awesome music I've seen played above, I'm trippin' on these two CD's I picked up in Chicago two weeks ago: Favorite Jimmy Smith I've heard up to this point, wow! 👍🤘😊 Mingus!!! Album photo is AWESOME!

Brilliant record, right along with this one: Happy birthday! Edit, to ask Chuck in particular, do you know where Roscoe came up with the word, "Congliptious"? Never heard this word in use anywhere else; is it a made up word or something?

Great man, great stuff. Sonny was in my opinion always an educator too, making massive donations to music programs, Oberlin College of recent, comes to mind.