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Is this John Forster guy supposed to be funny or just clever?

There are talented thieves, I mean, just because somebody already has skills doesn't mean they're not above taking that extra piece of pie when they think nobody's looking. but still, Paul Simon has enough of a body of work that, ok, take whatever's claimed to have been stolen, there's still plenty left.

Ah, so it IS the same guy. I was about to reference the Hadley Caliman dates but saw "Cecil Bernard" and figured I had just had another case of conflationary flatulence. The big Hutch pianist for me in the early 70s was Bayete/Todd Cochran, not so much as a player, but as a composer. Whatever he was into then, it seems that he got out of, but there are some fascinating compositions that bear his name from the time.

I saw "Anderson", knew that it wasn't Fred who was playing on a Harold Mabern date, and began reaching for straws. Eric Anderson doesn't make much sense either, but it's a start, if only as a finish.

Yeah, that's the ticket!

This "without reverb" thing, it's important to me, is it only this new issue that has the reverb removed? I can justify a purchase if so, can't if not.

Morris Levy Inc?

From what I understand, the LP was released almost exclusively as promo/DJ copies. I never saw it, the Bobbi Humphrey, the Ronnie Foster, or the Marlena Shaw in a store. https://www.discogs.com/label/1281658-Cookin-With-Blue-Note-At-Montreux

And another change to get Bobby Hutcherson @ Montreux. Steaming hot, with Woody Shaw.

Anybody else been prescribed a diuretic to control blood pressure? I thought it odd, but it works. Gets excess water out of your tissue, which in turn lessens the pressure on the veins, which in turn lowers the blood pressure.

On an old Dizzy Gillespie 78?

Can't say that I'm a "fan" of Wild Bill, but I avoided him for a loooong time becuase I had him associated with cornball striped-vest rah-rah type "Dixieland" music. but then, somebody here, I forgot who, maybe Lon, maybe Chuck, said, no, you're doing yourself a real disservice by not checking this guy out, he can really play. So I did, and of course, they were right about that. Totally. I'm tempted to look for the CD in question because between Columbus ,Ohio and a pianist named Charlie Queener, I'm thinking that this is a chance to hear a combined jazz perspective that you'd not find everyday, especially not in real time today.

Somebody had to do it, and nobody was going to make a CD sound like an LP, especially back then. I congratulate him for not really fucking anything up and for putting it all out there the first time. I bought a few RVGs that were supposed to "sound better" than the McMaster, but I listen functionally most of the time, not recreationally, and to be honest, I didn't hear such a big difference one way or the other, and on one Horace Silver RVG, Rudy made it sound like a fucking mid-70s Muse record. And you KNOW that ain't right! This, and not necessarily due just to age.

Well, like Miles & Wayne, the collaborational intent with McCoy * Tran was in place long before it came to a gigging reality. Although I can certainly see where and why Trane was looking forward to McCoy sooner than he could actually get there, it's more or less impossible for me to accept that Coltrane "didn't like" Red Garland's playing. That seems an overly simplistic, faux-hipster tale that flies in the face of all but the most obtuse logic. I mean, c'mon, Redgot him the gig, they were junkies together until Trane cleaned up. Red took longer, of course, so it might have been a "personal" vibe more than a musical one. although, that alone does not explain either elvin or JG. But sure, you can hear on Paris 1960 with Miles, Trane was already (and all ready) to go someplace else completely, and McCoy no doubt knew where that was.

The phrases "ownership" & "access to capital" enter the answers to that question, at some level, at some time. We can delay taht conversation, but we cannot avoid it. But don't feel bad. We got JALC, right? Enjoy! Of course, it's not that simple, but it is a factor. The Country Industry is at least as vile as any other music industry, but they make a point of being seen as "taking care of thier own". Who takes care of jazz' "own", Wynton Masilias? A pretender to the throne of cultural Guardian, that, if it had to exist at all (and the money said that it did) would have been much better (in every sense of the word) by, say, Randy Weston. "They" decided that way, and those "they" are not the "they" of Modern Day Nashville. That is what it is, but make no mistake, that didn't happen by accident, any of it. Roy Acuff knew what he was doing and why he was doing it. Follow the money. Always. But ok. let's not talk about that, that's too serious, hey, it's just the Down Beat Hall Of Fame, nothing to get all frowny-faced about, right?

Had to get George Gershwin in first, apparently.

No, that’s not what I said. I said “fuck THIS shit” as in these people are either better than this or not worth eve this. Bring back swimsuit competitions, let’s get that logic restored, then we can lather up the dB polls. Foamy!

Hey, I voted. So now I can complain. That’s the way we are taught here, if you don’t vote, you can’t complain. For as long as America is America (bad odds, I know), so long may we wave) Next year, maybe I vote for Duke Pearson. Or if Warne gets the write-in wave my contacts tell me is a sure-bet, then I can free up my vote for Hank. But, no Don Byas? Tell me that’s an error on my part. It’s not like he’s Vada Pinson or something. All performance art aside (well, almost all), the truth is that I myself learn much more about much more music of much more variety from checking in on the discussions here in one week than I did in my last 10 years of down beat reading. And looking at the odd issue on the newsstand or online, it’s only getting more that way. So yeah, ok, big picture, yeah, message board format in general, dinosaur in progress. But this one, for me, I can ride that arc all the way down. Information trumps product placement, always

Seriously good advice about a deathly serious subject. No jokes here. 246/132...you should be dead from that, right? House money indeed! I don’t know how this applies across the board, but my pharmacy offers “ loaner” supplies for situations like this. That was the determining factor in our decion to go back to local from mail order. We pay just a teeeeeeeency bit more, but there’s no substitute for having help literally just around the corner in of this need. Life happens, and even if you have auto-refill, that doesn’t apply to every drug all the time, and yeah...you take the medicine because you need whether you remember that or not. Allow me to be a witness to that. Take care of yourself, and thanks for putting this out there. It matters.

Ok, I voted for the HOF - Warne Marsh. As a "write in". Not even on the ballot. Vote was for label of the year - Nessa. Again a write-in. Not even on the ballot. I like the underdogs. The only thing that was on the ballot than I voted for was Bells For The South Side as album of the year. The rest of it, I'm looking at all these names that are and aren't on there and I'm thinking fuck this shit. It made me feel like a fanboy all over again, not even a fanman.

Besides Hank, I don't see John Patton or Duke Pearson or Stanley Turrentine or Johnny Griffin or Don Byas or Don Redman or Jimmy Giuffre on that list. Oh my, what a shame.

No, but thanks for playing! Might I suggest that if differing opinions are not what you want to deal with, perhaps pursue your quest in other places than an open, public forum. But you know, if you gonna talk about how The Down Beat Critics Poll Don't Talk About Straight-Ahead Jazz, then the answer is the same there as it is here - it really doesn't matter. I mean, bring up down Beat & Polls,...there are multiple opinions there, have been, and from long before I was born. And there was exponentially more real-time weight to all that then than there is now. Hell, there was more weight to them 20 years ago than there is now. The landscape of music awareness has changed, and down beat is really not relevant except for those who can't break a habit. And yes, there are many habits I can't break myself. But down beat is not one of them. Hey, if it'll make you feel better, if I get some free time, I will go ahead and vote for Hank. No harm, even if no benefit. If I get that much free time. No promises, though, ok?