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And really, "quantum" is just a word, and like all words, it's usefulness only extends as far as its understandabilty. When the understandability of the word is exhausted (truly exhausted, not just commonized into a meaninglessly commercially useful meaningless, like "jazz" or "classical" or "composed" or "improvised"), hey, time for a new word. But more importantly - time for a new understanding. But being quantum, another way to look at it - the old cultural realities that created 20th Century outcomes are either going or gone, having (de)volved into "narratives". At root, any narrative is a story, and any story has to have a teller and an audience and a collective sense of disbelief (or at least suspension of belief) that allows for it being "true", then and now. Well, yeah, then (and even then...). But now? The more investment in the narrative, the less resources are available to see if maybe things have changed, never mind what hasn't, what has? A narrative should empower evolution, not cripple it. Unless/until I feel safe doing otherwise, I'm engaging in a moratorium on all "narratives". Fuck 'em, they can't take a joke, much less stand to be exposed as being one themselves. You know, we always blink first. Everything follows from that. But a blink is just a closing of the eyes and then an opening. How we go into that closing, that's the then. But how we come out on the other side of it...that's the now. And think about how many more nows there are, individually and collectively.

What records did he buy? Any one type?

That's what he tells the public,anyway. When he tells his baby to call his name, what does SHE call him?

Yeah, well, I imagine that's true for a lot of people. But there's been a lot of Kool-Aid drank on all sides, especially once it came down to really making a living. If you want to know where so many people came from before they made those decisions, listen to what they were doing before they made them. surprises abound! No judgement here, people do gotta make that living. Just saying, though...looking at you, Norman Connors, to name but one. Stanley Clarke, to name another but one. And you, Jan Hammer, especially but not really just you. And that's just from my youth. Imagine everybody's! Brecker...I don't have the experiential frame of reference to have heard his earlier work AFTER his later work. So for me, Dreams, Horace, James Taylor (on the freakin' AM radio!), that's always how I think of him, as this young, possibly crazy, kid that just don't give a damn about "styles" and shit, like Tom Scott only maybe not perpetually, if indeed ever, freshly showered.. And then he did all those other records and the sense of possibility became a reality, and it was just not as exciting anymore, at least not for me. Of course, he was an exceedingly gifted saxophonist until the end, worked his ass of until the end, and by everything I've heard, a supremely, sincerely humble person. So much love about all that. But jeeeeesus, that opening solo on Side two of that first Dream album, where the fuck did that come from? And will it ever come again?

It's not the technique of virtuosity that is needed, it's the clear macro-understanding of why/why/how/etc. that is needed, now more than ever. Not just what can you do, and oh wow, you can do that, fuck that, that's baby talk, basically. But structure, shape, movement, weights/gravities/densities, all that material stuff, that is what is needed to really keep shit moving forward. And truth be told, too much shit ain't moving, it's whirling around inside itself, sometimes with a delightful freneticism, but damn, it's old-school Newtonian Physics, no matter how delightfully frenetic your spinning around the same place is at any given moment, inevitably it creates a rut from which there is no escape. We're not living in a "Post-Coltrane" world, were lining in a Quantum World. Where did Cecil take us? To a quantum space. Where did late Trane take us, when it got there - a quantum place. Where did Tone Dialing take us? To a quantum place. Braxton, shit...born quantum, bonna die quantum (which is to say neither dead nor alive be, always there, always there, everywhere)Quantum was implicit from the first time African-American time (musically and otherwise) engaged with Euro-American time (same). The whole notion of "swing" was a long, organically fulfilling transition towards a Quantum Reality. And when it got there, as it inevitably would, people punked out, because, you know TOO much organic reality (and quantum simul-dimesionality is nothing if not organic reality), it overwhelms the programming that holds Newtonian socio-economic realities in place. You can only own things if you know where they are and where they are going to be at all times, and that includes people. People tend to do as they're told, and we are being told waaaaaay more often than not to jsut remain calm, disregard all this crazy talk, and above all else, stay where you are. Make it look all kinds of different if you get the urge, just keep it where it is. And without virtuosity, manifest or soundly (again, in multiple senses (ditto))) aspirational (yeah, I used that word), who the hell is going to not do just exactly that? Coltrane didn't change the game, he discovered it. And not just Coltrane, any number of people, "jazz" and otherwise. Spend some time with Elliott Carter's string quartets and feel that realization that quantum is the new universal, popular resistance to the contrary. It's a reality that cannot be avoided, once seen,can't be unseen, all that shit. Hell, BACH played a certain way is quantum as fuck. It's like any other reality - it's always there, it's never NOT there, it's just a question of where is the mass of cultural gravity pulling everything to - further in, or further away. And in closing (not of the door), consider this - to direct gravity away from an increasingly apparent reality takes a lot of muscle, eventually thuggish, brute force muscle. And that'll work, because most people just do as they're told, because there's comfort in numbers, until that point of no return is passed, and then, hey...too fucking bad then, too fucking bad. Like that man said, You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish. But ya' did. You know, I'll be honest, I'm just a novice at this, really. But like I said, once seen, can't be unseen. So...onward.

I remember like Carly Simon's Torch fairly well, but in looking for a pimp-clip, I realized that it was the production that I like, not the record itself. Still, if you can seondaryize the vocals on a vocal record, hey, still a good enough time to be had.

The more engaged with pop(ish) music he was, the more I liked him, and vice-versa. Because, you know, everybody's gonna trot out their Personal Coltrane Jouneys on a jazz record. On a James Taylor record, not so much. Context matters, just as often as not. If that's not what you're looking for,..I think other people like these more than me, but at least, be aware that they exist. That Guerilla Band record is pretty good, actually...

Short on savings or not was not the gist of the article as I read it. It was that, oh my, there's going to be all this work that needs to be done and it's going to have to be old people that do it, and I'm like, oh, really, what's that going to look like? How is that need going to be met? Is "business" just going to sit there and let old people have a whole lot of options? Am I supposed to believe that "they" are willing to let everything go to hell because they can't get enough old people to keep working? Tell me again how all the lost 401Ks are now back to their pre-crisis levels and how that's never going to happen again, tell me again how the whole economic system is going to be allowed to fuck itself because old people don't have to work anymore. Tell me, please, how all the young people (of whom apparently there's not going to be enough) are going to be left to benefit from a high-demand/low supply labor pool by demanding quite pleasantly high wages that reflect all that. And dig - that's the optimistic scenario. I work in a corporate environment where automation (none dare call it AI, even though that's exactly what it is) is driving, not just the employment model, but the actual business portfolio. I suppose I should be glad that I'm going to be "needed" to work until I die, but needing between the lines, I'll note that "being needed" and "having an opportunity" are not quite the same thing. Not exactly.

Sure, the immediacy of a visceral thrill is always available, especially if you lead into it with the expectation of getting it. But again - then what? If it's true that "hope is not a strategy", then I'll go out on a limb and speculate that adrenaline is not a sustainable esthetic. A now that leads only back into another now is not evolution, it's a rut. Give me a buzz, sure, but leave something in my intellect after that buzz wears off. I'm too old to keep cahsing buzzes that lead nowhere except back to the next buzz.

That's a regional pronunciation, right? I knew a guy from Gretna who pronounced hit "Meaux-Koy". He was one of those tough guys with a teardrop tattoo, so I didn't question him.

I always heard it as "Mow-Kay".

Of course there's nothing wrong with work. That's why we should hope there's plenty of it for those who want it, especially younger people who want to have families and stuff, people who want to further their horizons not just for themselves. That's not exactly what is being considered in this scenario, though.

Ok, it's not about now...

They don't exactly look alike, but they look similar enough so that every night the TV news has me hoping that I'm going to all of a sudden hear Billy Harper or Johnny coles.

aka shopping at the company store....

Yeah, they already hate us (with good reason) for not getting out of the way...is armed warfare inevitable? And who will protect us old fucks, our overlord slave-labor overlord benefactors? Because what are you going to do with old people if you need them to have to "work", give them gym classes and in-house Starbucks?

A Friday. hmmmmmmm....since we don't yet have bullet train, maybe Megabus + Uber? Is that viable for a down and back w/no stay over? I ask for a round trip and all it gives me is the way down? https://us.megabus.com/journey-planner/journeys?days=1&concessionCount=0&departureDate=2019-01-11&destinationId=318&inboundDepartureDate=2019-01-11&inboundOtherDisabilityCount=0&inboundPcaCount=0&inboundWheelchairSeated=0&nusCount=0&originId=317&otherDisabilityCount=0&pcaCount=0&totalPassengers=1&wheelchairSeated=0

Did you read the article linked to? This is about the "future of work". I can't tell if it's a promise or a threat.

https://www.axios.com/developed-world-senior-citizens-workforce-c745b318-fc36-453f-b7e2-2d1933fe3c57.html Work long past 65....doing what? For who? For how much?

Does he?

Is that Tivoli radio any good? I see that their clock radio is $299.99. I like waking up on time, but not that much!

I am enjoying this CD quite a bit. Haven't gotten to the disc of alternates yet, but will. Max is just so....crisp. The thing that blows my mind the most is the picture of an actual royalty check for $29.09. I mean, how did they process check w/o MICR lines? I mean, WOW!