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“I’ve worked with [avant-garde composer] John Cage, and the strange thing is that you would think there couldn’t be two more different kinds of musical artists than John Cage and George Clinton. But that’s the closest I’ve ever experienced.” Hello! P-Funk is still on my bucket list of concerts to experience. They've never been in a town I was in at a time I could make. Those guys run deep.

Wondering what, if any, woodwinds were used on that Rascals Carnegie Hall gig. Seems like Hubert Laws was involved with them on their records, often soloing a length (relatively speaking). I'm not up on my Laura Nyro, but this albums has a very interesting personnel, which almost sounds like the people on that gig had already been involved, probably in the same spiritual circles: https://www.discogs.com/Laura-Nyro-Christmas-And-The-Beads-Of-Sweat/release/1047909 It also looks like Laura Nyro made an Atlantic album for Coulmbia!

Paul West Paula Woods Paul and Paula

Right, I know thse records, just not sure if they actually played live, and if so, with who? There's a lot of studio players on those records.

The New Rascals? Any idea who was on the gig? That’s still a blur, those last Rascals albums, would love to hear what that was live, just to find out.

The ultimate negative review!

Well, Real Player was a player waaaay back in the day. but today? They're still up and running though. http://www.real.com/sem/rpwelcome?pcode=sem_ggl_rt&rsrc=ggl_sch&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI84ac8beV3QIVBQRpCh04lwYuEAAYASAAEgLujPD_BwE I guess their "big" thing now is downloading/converting YouTube videos, but geez, theirs plenty of browser plugins for that, and none attempt to insinuate themselves into your memory the way Real does.

While we're on the subject of Real Player, how do they stay alive? Who uses them as anything other than a weirdass legacy app?

Coltrane with Miles in Paris + Mingus with Dolphy at Antibes.

You can get a basic version of Real Player for free on a PC. What about Mac? It's an obsolete format, and they try to be predatory, but that's easily stopped in its tracks. So unless you have file conversion software to do that trick, hey, why not? I like to keep versions of these obsolete players on hand, just in case. But Fubar can handle most of them, not sure about .ra files though.

I've always thought that "riot" was probably overstating the case at least a little bit. But a robust public demonstration of disapproval, that wouldn't surprise me at all. I've heard the jazz records where the French audience is not shy about expressing their disapproval, and I can only imagine how the audience for Rite might have reacted, it being far more radical relative to its time and audience than, say, Dolphy or Coltrane were to theirs.

Here's a Verve that ties all that together, sortakinda. Billy Byers for this one. This one I had heard (under its original tile), my high school had a copy (sic), and of course, if you played in any kind of stage/lab band, you probably got around to at least one of those charts. But they probably didn't get played this well! Again, the kind of thing that becomes wearing over the course of an album (at least to me), but a few tracks at a time, hey, yeah.

That's sort of my feeling as well. I have not bought all the individual discs, they did not have a "pull" for me as individual items. Expenditures, shelf space, just wasn't feeling that. But a set, yeah, I could get them all at once and be done with it.

Well, that's another one I forgot about. Looks like it was on Brunswick in the US: That one and this one: Note the "Vocals With Orchestra" tag. And look - a possible 45 version!

no no no - THIS!

I might be more interested if it wasn't limited to jazz. Those songs have been through a lot. Like "All The Things You Are", the original, with a verse that's more or less a song unto itself, damn! Before I got tired of "songs", I made sure I knew what it was I was getting tired of. And there's still surprises lurking there outside of strictly jazz.

Have heard none of this album of Quincy Jones' charts (your joke here _____ ) until now Yes, formula, but yes, damn good band. Snooky Young/Marshall Royal, lead players, hey. Truthfully, fr this kind of thing, I think I'd rather buy it all at once than in pieces, get it all and play it, like one disc a month or whatever, a lifetime of pleasure with a minimum of engagement, hey look at me, I'm post-modern now. etc. Oh, here's two I had forgotten about. Kay Starr don't suck.

You've never seen that before? That thing went all around the world! Jeez, talk about regional bias! I was watching the game on TV when it happened. One more episode of the Sad Clown Show that became Jose Canseco.

That's a good one! This is essential music, it's criminal that it's OOP, but if you got $200, don't hesitate. https://www.amazon.com/Live-Half-Note-Lee-Konitz/dp/B0000046TF Better, though, to spend the time/money on hunting down the two Revelation LPs that consist solely (almost) of Warne's solos from the same sessions, Lennie's go at being Dean Benedetti. The Art Of Improvisation Vols. 1& 2. For my mind and money, this is the definitive look at all that Warne did, although not necessarily the mist "user-friendly". You'll also want these (if you want any)

Best recorded Rhodes sound ever imo, although the LP is really the only way to go, although CD is ok. YouTube sound sucks, you can't really get the magnificence of David Lee's cymbal whooshbath.

I love George Cables on Rhodes. not sure about his Ring Modulator, though...where do I go to hear that? Listening to Funk In France now, and yes, shame about Don Lamond, that might be in France, but it is not funk. Still love the guy, but... The Antibes set, though, HELL YEAH. Too bad that the organ wasn't always in the mix, that really sucks, but great energy all around, nonstop pocket, and the best Claude Bartee on record!

and one for his sister, of whom I was not aware until her passing: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/obituaries/frances-walker-slocum-94-pioneering-pianist-and-teacher-dies.html Attention should be paid to both. Better late than never.

Readily available, I think, but sure! not on principle, not sure about rights, though.

No idea..there's more that I've not heard than have...let's see, on Verve: On My Way & Shoutin' Again Basie Land Ella and Basie L'il Old Groovemaker....Basie! Our Shining Hour (with Sammy Davis, Jr.) More Hits of the 50s & 60s (aka Frankly Basie) Count Basie with Arthur Prysock Basie's Beatle Bag (better than you might think, but...) Basie's Beat After that, you go to the two Command albums (Hollywood Basie's Way & Broadway Basie's Way), Basie Meets Bond (a LOT better than you might think!) and the Dot sides, The Board Of Directors (w/the Mills Brothers), Plays the Happiest Millionaire (w/Illinois Jacquet!), Standing Ovation, and Straight Ahead. The ultimate obscurity is Basie On the Beatles, done for the Happy Tiger label, home of post-Van Morrison Them. Also two MPS records, probably nothing Mosaic can get. Not sure what else there is. Other than the Beatle Bag album, what I've heard of the Verve album is pretty much "straight ahead" but also very Swing Machine-y. Still, one helluva band. Also, interested in this only after the Bill Barron side comes out!