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Noooooo.....none of that in my kitchen! None!

I've heard it since that post and agree, not at all a bad record. Not a great one either, but it's not cheesy at all.

You don't put hot sauce on watermelon, surely? Now sure, all taste buds are unique at some level, but the basic premise remains, salt cancels sweet, sweet cancels salt. I've yet to eat a watermelon that was too sweet! My wife's a salter, and although I do think there's something fundamentally wrong with her for that, our love endures. But once the watermelon is opened and sliced....never the twain shall meet, hopefully. She claims it "brings out the flavor", but to me, it takes a perfectly fine sweet flavor and turns it salty. I wonder about her sometimes.... As for hot peppers, if your soil and climate allow for it (and you don't already do it), try growing our own. They thrive here, and bear fruit from mid-May (we've already gotten some in) all the way through November or the first freeze, whichever comes first. Low maintenance gardening with very satisfying results. Let the kids do it!

Salt cancels sweet and vice versa (ask anybody who's oversweetened or oversalted a recipe). If you have to salt a watermelon to taste it, you've got a bad watermelon. Same thing with cantaloupe, and tomatoes. The other way around, I've come around on sugaring berries - no mas. Sure it makes for a nice syrupy "juice", but really if you have berries that need sugaring, you've got bad berries. Now having said that, the way they grow some of this stuff and package it for shipping, the flavor is never given a chance to be natural. So, that's why, find a roadside stand or a real farmers market or someplace for in-season fruit other than the supermarket. Taste it now and thank me later!

Bright Monuments!

giving up waiting for that to happen, put it in the car this AM and not taking it out for a while. About 3/4 of the way through the first listen. Marvelous music, and let's talk about the orchestration, which is sublime. Everything is weighted in such a way that enhances the rhythmic impetus of the lines (even the unisons!). This adds to the clarity of the overall motion(s) within the music and is a delight to hear. There's always the element of time (as in time/space, not metronome) in Roscoe's music and the orchestration plays to that. Never a dull or expected moment, everything happens fresh and in real time. I get the comparisons to "20th Century Classical" and/or whatnot, but it's ground that is only somewhat shared. This music sequences itself with a logic quite different from so much of that music, and the orchestra comes to it with an awareness that was not really possible until (about) now. The meta-effect is one of swing, not ching-chinga-ching-chinga, but rather an inevitable forward momentum that gets there with breath, style,grace, and all that good stuff. I can imagine, say, Lukas Foss or somebody thinking that this is what they're doing, but no, it's not. Kindred spirits, perhaps, but with no uncertain distance before any commonality. I know there are listeners who don't "get" this type of music from a melodic/harmonic standpoint, and all I can say about this is...whenever one note follows another, that's movement. When enough notes follow themselves, there is shape. And where there is movement and shape, there is melody. And harmony, once we get past the triadic imperative (which is essentially now voluntary, not inevitable), connections create their own harmony. And rhythm is both melodic and harmonic if heard/played that way. On this record, it certainly is! It's a fun record!

Never dump a Booker Ervin record, you'll always want it back eventually.

Yeah, same here for that one. This one is more engaging, to me, anyway, but I would have preferred more/some horn solos. Preferences aside, though, it's probably going to appeal to people today more than In-Sanity did.

omg yes, Survival Themes, right? Came out on Inner City here. One side was pop-oriented, the other side is the best look at what was going on inside of Miles' music of the time I think exists. Very study-worthy and enjoyable. RIP

If enough average record buyers minded, it wouldn't be the music business we all know and love. However, your theory is not without merit, although the cynic in me thinks that they could just as easily have caught the error but said fuck it, let's see who complains. And of course, nobody probably did, because I don't know that a whole lot of anybody was paying attention to this record (the JAZZ WAVE one) at the time.

That was one of Hal Wilner's "theme" albums. All of them were, you might say, "commissioned" performances.

I've had the CD in the car for a few days, and: Steel drums are hardly there, all things considered, They're certainly not any kind of "focus" of the music, although there are a few times where they're used as a tonal effect that is weirdly synth/electronic-like Don Pullen plays great from beginning to end Horn solos are essentially non-existent Buster Williams turn in a gem of a performance. It's so nice to hear him drop down to a low tonic note and hit it dead-on without any ambivalence of pitch or inflection, just BOOM there it is. I like the record more than love it, but have zero regret about buying it and would cetainly buy it again.

Royalties?

I'm about 36 hours removed from hearing a grand performance of the 9th live, and 8 days removed from sitting in the hall for 5 hours (75 minutes of it being intermission of a grabbing performance of Die Walküre, so the notion of "songs" needing to be a certain length and programs needing to balance originals and standards and all that. I'm just...That time was not an imposition, it was a blessing. People just need to do what they do and do it well. Do it right, whatever it needs to be right, do that. It's your life, your music, so make it right for you. And if you want to be "popular" then do that. But if you just want to share with whoever else wants to hear it, then do that. And if you want to make a living out of this shit, think about what is really right for that, no easy answers and more wrong ones than right ones. But you know, choices gotsta be made, and you gotta live with them.

That "Lawns" thing is just a beautiful song, period. And the tempo that Carla does it at...there's a few clips of other people doing it, their tempo is not right, and the song does not sound right without that tempo of Carla's. Tempo is time, and time, as best we can handle it, is life, When you call a tempo like that and make it work, hey, you got my highest respect, because that's a wisdom tempo, to play it that slow and that strong and let it breathe because as the song says, "cause you know it's there", that takes wisdom, life wisdom. Shirley Horn, Jimmy Scott, Eddie Harris, some classical & gospel people, who else? It's a pretty short list, no matter how long it gets, it's a pretty short list. But I'll see Carla Bley on it, that I will.

Point just being that there's two different time/space dimensions involved, thus no need to "destroy".

Merchandise. Records won't be enough.

Well, but...it's Sherman Irby. I'm gonna be out of it after at most two cuts no matter what. so...a noble effort for a failed cause, if the cause is to get be to listen longer because it's relatively smaller doses of relatively boring. And what's this about "destroying" Anthony Braxton? What's the agenda here with that? If Irby brings a blade to cut, Braxton brings a phaser. so what's the point of that at all?

She's still pretty, imo. Seems to be a little loopy, but when was that ever not the case?

I'm seriously starting to get a picture of the store being at best lightly minded, with Blue Barron records playing when it is.