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I dunno, that trio album with Hampton Hawes tends to bore the shit out of me. If you want to give the guy some Mingus, give him some real Mingus. Booker Ervin plays "blues" a lot more intensely than any "rock" or "fusion" guitarist. Thinking otherwise is just wishful thinking and/or projection. So does Roland Kirk. Etc. The album in question won't convert anybody. It'll get played a few times, "liked", and then put aside, remembered as a kind gesture of a gift from a friend. I mean, that's cool, but so is a nice wicker creel.

That record sold really well. I wasn't that crazy about it myself, but it sold really well.

Whoever did that to you was morally abusive and physically wrong. I like that record a lot, I like Oliver Nelson's writing on it a lot. Hell yeah it's a "mood" record, clearly designed for airplay and other such commercial exposures, So, Nelson being Nelson, he goes along for the most part, just dropping the odd "fuck you"s here and there there and then getting out before anybody who might be offended but isn't smart enough to hear it catches it, and all after this glorious opening cut: Me, I can stop the record after that cut, or not, but ok, "easy listening", that is not. "Jazz with strings", that is, but ok, Johnny Hodges, ballads album for commercial consumption, start it oof with "Something to Live For", if you're expecting this for the opening cut, you have waaaaay higher expectations than anybody has a right to have! No matter how much "settling in" happens afterwards, this is the opening volley. point more than made.

Let Neil Young take them and make them sound better than ever!

Oops, not jazz. Nevertheless... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk_yNa0KPEM

I'm all in favor of history, those who do not learn from it, etc., but I'm also a fan of people being allowed to forget so they don't keep being repeater pencils. Oh, so we don't know everything that ever happened since the beginning of time, what would we do if we did? That might be a bit much, but this is not - has the availability of so much in so much detail emboldened imagination, or simply redirected it towards the pursuit of a conscious re-doing under the guise of "creativity. I know, no mater where you go, there you are, but if you already know where you are, then you already know where you'll be if you bother to go. That doesn't seem like a fair fight to me. At some point, civilization needs to forget in order to fall apart, pick itself up, and start all over again - without necessarily realizing it. It's either that or else, you know, we already know so much, let's learn even more of what we already know. Is that gonna work, really? Consider also - once ideas become "property" to be "preserved", then ownership is power. When nobody knows anything, brute force is power. somewhere in between, there's figuring it out for yourself and letting the power of our ideas drive their own future, and I think at some point, you just have to forget about remembering. At least some of it. Collectors hate this idea. Anarchists should fear it, because most people, including anarchists, aren't nearly as clever (or strong) as they think they are. Really - 200,00 CDs of the past. That's a buttload full of past, too much of a buttload, in my opinion. It's like population in general, at what point does the exponential growth start to yield a negative return? Embrace life, hell yeah, but at some point...just get out of the way, make room. That's the way this shit is designed to work.

Not that session, this one, might have been on the same album at some point. http://www.jazzwax.com/2008/01/charlie-parker-and-voices-part-one.html http://www.jazzwax.com/2008/01/charlie-parker-and-voices-part-two.html I'm still not as sold on Dave Lambert as are his more ardent admirers.

Ron Carter even played with George Duvivier!

So, Dexter had a book for when touring as a single? That is cool, not everybody did. Some guys just show up, call standards and blues, and maybe rehearse an original or two, depending on how confident they are in the group. Dexter had charts, arrangements, Dexter presented.

hmmmm.... https://www.lonestarball.com/2018/2/27/17058318/mlb-rumors-tim-lincecum-texas-rangers-los-angeles-dodgers when you ain't got nuthin' you ain't got nuthin' to lose. X2

Last night, Dallas Chamber Music Society: ELIAS STRING QUARTET Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703 Dvořák: String Quartet No.14 in A-flat major, Op.105 Janáček: String Quartet No.2 (“Intimate Letters”) A really splendid program, and a pretty good quartet. They seemed a bit..."timid" at first, but as the evening wnet on, I realized that they were playing exceptionally well within themselves, so,,,that's how they wanted it to be. They also took the novel (in my experience, anyway) of introducing each movement of the Janacek with a selection of his letter to Camilla written during the time he was composing the work. That dude...would probably not survive in today's world. Yet, for providing context to the music, it was a very effective move, I mean, running waters where couples come to catch babies swirling up and out of the stream, whoa....intense imagery all in the service of a one-way obsession.. I went home happy, with yet another reminder that the suggestion I was given a few years ago to not take Dvorak too lightly continues to be a good one..

run an output from your laptop and see if the issue repeats? Or see if you can get it open and look at the plug input itself? If it comes back on when reinserting the plug, you know that it's getting power. What you don't know is what's happening next. If the issue repeats on other inputs then it's something in that chain. Or, see if you can run your PC into your laptop, to see if it's your video card?

A lot of the 70s Inner City stuff was licensed from other labels, Steeplechase, and what was the Japanese Label...East Wind. The Lorber stuff has been reissued by Wounded Bird, right? So maybe he owns those now? Inner City was part of Music Minus One, so, who knows? Looks like the Ra thing was originally issued on Saturn?

I'm still trying to figure out if Artie Shaw wore some kind of special shoes or something, and why did Georgie Auld try to wear them. I mean jeez, I no sooner would I have my private areas in somebody else's underwear than I would my feet in their shoes, that's just....eeeeeeew. Was this some kind of orthopedic craze at the time, or just what?

It's kind of like marveling about a bassist who bows as good as they pluck...shouldn't be as "exceptional" as it is, really. And once upon a time, wasn't. For me, a left hand can act independently of the right one, that type of independence between limbs, , that's really going there. If you want to hear the connection between Cecil Taylor and Horace Silver, it's the left hand.

hmmmmmm.....

JAAP VAN ZWEDEN CONDUCTS DOROTHEA RÖSCHMANN SOPRANO MICHELLE DEYOUNG MEZZO-SOPRANO* DALLAS SYMPHONY CHORUS: JOSHUA HABERMANN DIRECTOR MAHLER Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection” whoa....

http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/23/news/kfc-apology-ad-shortage-chicken/index.html

Willie West?

https://www.accuradio.com/channel/new-orleans-r&b-and-funk/686/?name=New%20Orleans%20R&B%20and%20Funk&b0=Soul Play it for as long as you can stand it, which for me is damn near forever. I'm hearing about a 50/50 blend of familiar and unfamiliar from the early 50s through maybe the middle 70. And they play this one a WHOLE lot, although why, i don't know. But who cares why?

They should show this docu-series in high schools, if high schools have financial literacy classes. Not just this, mind you, but definitely this.

and, apparently, don't expect google to help.

Ok, publishing date for the one thing was 1968, but who knows when the music was actually composed? Maybe Niehaus did the arrangements for this project and used Grass;s tunes for the family to get a taste of the publishing royalties of whatever charts were sold? Or maybe Niehaus did the recording back then on spec or whatever and nobody wanted to release it, so he waited a decade and figured out that there might be a new market for this type of thing in educational circles, published the charts and put the record along with it? In the NT environment I was in at the time, "Lennie Niehaus" meant the guy who did all these "hip" educational things, nobody knew his as a player, or even, much, for his "public" work at all. They just knew him for this type of work.