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I think it also shows that Joe had serious career ambitions, or at least attempted to. Remember how he joined Blood, Sweat & Tears for a quick minute when they re-formed?

How did that happen?

Who/what is "the blower" and how does one go about talking to somebody on it? Or are some questions best left unasked?

I had no idea what that was until looking it up.

It’s the end of New York as the lodestar for new and uncomfortable ideas... The Voice was once a lodestar to freaks and geeks everywhere. Now the lodestar is both nowhere and everywhere. Are we sure that Mike Pence didn't ghostwrite this article?

I like Unity that way too, Joe plays that good R&B tenor on that one (sic).

I'll take In 'n Out, Inner Urge, and Our Thing any day, on a loop, randomly sequenced or otherwise. The others, really, only on special days. Our Thing was a sleeper for me. For years, I only had a pretty worn LP and I didn't get all the nuances. Then it got reissued and I was like, WHOA! Kenny Dorham! and then it all started falling into place, piece by piece (in multiple ways!). As you say, that one was OOP for a long time. When all the others were still available, Our Thing wasn't. I got my copy from a radio station. Don't know how it got so plowed, they sure as hell never played it, but I didn't ask questions.

Why do so many favor Mode For Joe over the other BNs? It's always seemed a bit..."tame" to me. Obviously not everybody hears it like that!

There's a development, a logic, a lack of "licks" to Ra's bands of this era that draws me in and keeps me in. I hear John Gilmore and MArshall Allen working with the overtones and the "false" fingerings, and whereas with so many players, they work that and then go somewhere else, these guys don't just stay there, they move around inside it. None of this doodly-doodly-doodly faux shit, no these are ideas being engaged, confronted, and worked through/out.

Here's Basie's Beat. The thing I never warmed to about the Pablo records was they were so dry, little or no reverb. Logistically, most of these LPs were pretty short, correct? Putting 2 on 1 disc would be largely do-able?

That and "All Of Me" were staples of the "entry level" lab bands back in the day. It was funny how cats would complain that they were "old-fashioned" and "corny", and yeah, if you can't play them like they were intended to be played, I can see how you might think that, but as with so many other things in live, that ain't the chart's fault...

And I'm possibly on the other end of that stick - don't have that many of them, but don't really want to shell out for them individually. Or maybe I don't want any more than I already have...still trying to make up my mind, really.

Oh yeah, they answer the phone!

It only sucks if you think it means something other than what they mean. I've decided that it's their job to but a grading on it and my job to figure out what that means in terms of what I will actually get. I've done pretty well with that. I can decode them a helluva lot better than I can eBay sellers, where every damn thing is VG+. Everything. It's meaningless. Like growing old (or so I'm told, vinyl ain't for sissies!

Also, if you really REALLY want an item, call them directly and have them pull it for you right there. I've done that a few times. I still call people, places, and things. People are so online-centric now, I'm like duh, call 'em if you need to know RIGHT NOW, that's what phones can still do.

And it possibly gets even weirder...Command material released on a Columbia budget label. There's one or two cuts left off, though.

It's just a part of the process of dealing with any company regularly, you earn their quirks and adjust. Like with their vinyl, I can tell you right now that the older it is, the more grains of salt you have to give to any "+" on the grading, and if you see an older LP graded "Very Good", with no +, expect the noise, it will be an object and/or a play-until-you-get-something-better copy. They don't tell you this, of course, but if you keep finding things in their inventory that you want to have, you learn how to understand how they do. Failing that, you just don't buy there, but who wants to do that?

My favorite version of the tune is by Stan Kenton. Seriously. It's like a deep sea version of Ahmad Jamal as an obsessively precise Swiss watchmaker. And not just anybody could make that work, right? And also as well, ask yourself how many times and in how many ways your life has been bettered by reverb. More than you know, I'll bet.

And they will still make you happy. Except when they don't, and then they won't.

https://wfmt-od1.streamguys1.com/wfmt/relevanttones/120922_RT_JustIntonation.mp3

Excellent!!!!!

I have long since learned that if there's one item that I really want, to never, ever, add anything to the cart as an afterthought. Often enough, I get the afterthoughts alone. It's what they do. Proceeded accordingly.

yeah, but you won't be around to enjoy it!

So, how's the movie, Harlow? I seem to recall childhood memories of it being "controversial" or something?