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Do you feel imposed upon by that record? If so, hey: A record has no charted-by-law responsibility to be liked, by anybody. I'm kinda like, you know, if I feel a record is imposing on me, really imposing, you know, like I DO hate it, I REALLY hate it, I shut it off. Not that hard, and I keep score. If it happens too often from the same person, fuck them, right? My prerogative. They can make any kind of record them and their audiences like, or will be thought to like, and still, fuck them. If I continue to let them waste my time, if I continue to be imposed on them, that's on me for not having enough strength of character to just turn that shit off and do something else with my time. Own your time, you know? Your time. Oh, and yes, Braxton (to show that your point, as weird as it is to the rigidity it seems to be advocated, is not without some merit. First Arista, I know he got some people to buy that record just for this. Now, whether or not they bought another AB album again, ever, hmmm...but the did buy this one. OTOH, people were more open to being curious back then than they are now, and records were cheaper. And then, this: So, you know, been there done that, onward.

Well, sure, but what did he have to do the just play his saxophone to the point where that music came out of it when he did?

Tonight, Jaap van Zweden's farewell gig leading the SO on Beethoven 9. It was magical - the band was in a zone, and seriously that piece is...yeah. Bye, wish I had gotten in on the van Zweeden transformation sooner than I did, but I caught enough of it to know that it was real, and that it mattered. Adios, Maestro! This guy, otoh, ain't goin' nowhere, ever, not as long as there is information.

Action figures. Let's have action figures.

I'll Not Remember I'll Remember April! Is that Johnny Griffin?

https://www.mixcloud.com/rostasi/random-radio-007-eddie-hazels-grandma-smoked-cigars-and-played-gutbucket-blues/ Dambô & Pauliño Nunes - Por Favor Khruangbin - Zionsville Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Lifeline Cold Grits - It's Your Thing Vulfpeck - Rango II Eddie Hazel - California Dreamin' Brute Force - The Deacon Johnny Harris - Stepping Stones Horndogz Ft. Michael Clip Payne & Antonin Bastian - P Is the People TSU Tornadoes - Getting the Corners The Commodores - Keep on Dancing Mongo Santamaria - I Can't Get Next to You Howard Tate - 8 Days on the Road Eugene McDaniels - Sagittarius Red Natural Bridge Bunch - Pig Snoots, Pt. 1 Darondo - I'm Gonna Love You Lord Paramour - Agamikal Mark Putney - Don't Come Around Here Anymore The Clock Reads - Plug Grassella Oliphant - Get Out of My Life Woman Q.A.S.B. - Jaguar (Instrumental) Soul Scratch - Pacified Stovall Sisters - Hang on in There Buddy Miles - Memphis Train Brass Construction - Movin' The Beginning of the End - Funky Nassau, Pt. 2 Rufus Thomas - The Memphis Train The Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun Nesesari Kakalulu - Imase South Shore Commission - Right on Brother, Pt. 1 Earth, Wind & Fire - Bad Tune Incredible Bongo Band - Apache Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Avi-Vo Outta Space Crew - Hip Tramp Idris Muhammad - Turn This Mutha Out One Mighty Atom - Sweet Chlamydia Fabulous Counts - Jan Jan Beef Wellington - Moog Rock Hammer - Tuane Cuasares - Ancestral Bootsy's Rubber Band - Jungle Bass (Jungle One)

Hugh Walker, now there's a name to look for!

Per AMG, that CD clocks in at 62 minutes. If albums should "max out around 40 minutes"..

11 CDs of standards, seems like a sell-out to me.

As of last night this gem of a station is no longer available. However, Roku has a buttload full of PD stations, and I've switched over to this one: https://channelstore.roku.com/details/39925/publicdoma Pretty good selection not just of movies but of all sorts of things. It's now gonna be my first choice, inaugurated today by another look at an old favorite: Supposedly this is not US PD, but/so...there it is anyway.

Why is Don Lamond playing a James Brown tune? That should have been stopped before it happened. I mean, I love Don Lamond, but....

Here's what you missed, or didn't, that's your call. Frank Strozier, and then...just a WHOLE lot of noise!

The great thing about TWA was that each side was complete in itself, had a beginning, middle, and end. Not just a great double album, but 4 great single "albums". Don Ellis' Autumn, I only - only - play Side two. Played Side 1 at most 3 times, and that was when I first got the record (1972 or so). So when I think of it - and recommend it - as a "great album", I really mean a great album side, albeit one that's about 30 minutes long.

How old of a gentleman have you become? Happy Birthday, no matter the answer.

There's quite a few now-classic albums" that are classic to me for one side of an LP.

I wish somebody could get Toshiko (with or without Lws) to reminisce at length like this. We're in somewhat uncharted waters here, aren't we? "Jazz couples" where there's not a singer involved and where both are, by any reasonable definition, old, perhaps elderly. Seeing Carla Bley talk in 2017/2016 and comparing that to what I know of her talking from, say 40+ years ago is...humbling. If you don't hear how she very subtly/fleetingly talks about how she learned ho to have things (or however she put it), these things are basic - home, job, business, identity. How many jazz people get this old and are left with little or any of that? And how many "eccentric" jazz people? And how many female eccentric old jazz people? Roller-Skating Nordic-American Church Girl goes to the big city, is in the room for god only knows what kind of conversations with Cecil and Bill (the mind reels and shudders in equal measure) and in the bedroom for god only knows what kind of conversations with Paul Bley (ditto), and comes out of it, not just alive, but alive and secure and actually kind of sweet. Forget the music (or not), as a human story, this is not a commonly told tale. It's actually pretty amazing. Enjoy it while it's still around to be enjoyed, not that many things are.

I'm really not feeling a need to "pick favorites" with these. The ones I like, I said so, the ones I wither didn't (or liked a little less), I said that too. The good stuff is all really good, and and some point, it does me good just to hear it. I'm at the point in life (jaded, burnt out, blissed out, whatever) where human excellence is its own reward in my book. And excellence exists quite apart from "style" or even/especially "taste". The only thing I feel ambiguous about is the Shaw cut. It still seems that there should be a better mastering available. But maybe that's just Buddy Rich using all the air in the room! Overall, a really excellent compilation of human musical excellence, seriously.

Can we do Pentecostal/Holy Roller Beat? If so, Mingus, Wednesday Night.

Welcome to the underground.

Yeah, well...good for all that.