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What made Warne a great musician, not just "jazz improviser", was his clarity of thought, his endless inquisitiveness, and his tireless expansion of his possibilities. Which in the end, yes indeed, most certainly one of the greatest jazz improvisers and/but because of everything he did do. What he did not do is not relevant to that point, unless you want to start from the position that what he did not do = a greatest jazz improviser, which is...kinda check-listy, to say nothing of arbitrary. And the thing about 17/4 time...just silly. He used polymetric phrasing over 4/4 time out the ass (Bach is not a "non-jazz influence"?) , so the notion that 4/4 is the alpha-omega of jazz is kind of a...crude perception, imo.

Those are three true statements. They're also three totally unrelated statements.

I'd love to have Yu back here, but realistically, a six year deal is not going to pay off. He's not Adrian Beltre, nobody is, and questions linger about his arm post-surgery. For the record, I do love the guy forever, but if he becomes a Yankee, I hope he helps them like he helped the Dodgers.

Have we had this one on CD yet?

I like the rhythm section a lot!

I don't know if Warne fetishized originality, but surely he was dedicated to it (as well as to mastery of his chosen vocabulary...perhaps one feeds the other?).

These days, I get irritated easily by music. Anybody who doesn't irritate me, then situational consideration can begin.

I cut a wide berth as far as "technique" goes...if I hear coherence, logic, development, then ok, we're good. But that's not what I heard from Branch on the record. I heard basic "effects" playing. Which does not necessarily imply a lack of technique (although lord knows it sometimes sure enough does...), just a decision - at that time -to play trumpet in a way that sounds "free", but really isn't. "Free" is not a "style", just as "licks" are not "language". Can't access YouTube here at work, but will have a look at that clip and hopefully hear something different than that.

Yeah, I noticed the chronology almost right away. What I found striking was his physical presence, on older clips, he wasn't nearly that "whole body", not as I recall (apart from the other-worldly gum-chewing embouchure on that one clip). He really got kinda Hawk-y at times, musically and physically, imo. No matter, Warne...wow, one of my true heroes of music, a player - hell a musician, a musical thinker/doer - of the very highest order, regardless of "genre".

All I know is the Flight Or Die record, and like Allen said, I didn't hear any real depth of ideas or skills, just "trumpet-y" floo-faw. I've heard enough of that over the years, thank you. "Nada" is perhaps too strong, but, you know, every instrument has it's easy tricks that sound harder than they are, and that's what I heard - on that record. THB has been fine with me, haven't been paying attention to Peter Evans, and am certainly willing to recognize that Branch has more/different than is on that record. I would hope so!

Free. Seems to be channeling Haek somehow in a few spaces... Warne Is Free

Deemed like the editing and extreme close facial shots had me ready for Bruce Lee to pop up at any second. Maybe it was just this move, and maybe just what I imagined. I do realize that other than the Eastwood films, I've not explored the Spaghetti Wstern genre. Could be fun.

look how she drives herself

Not necessarily a Great Movie, but for sure a great movie. Does anybody talk about the similarities to "spaghetti westerns" and kung-fu flicks? I'm not enough of a cinemaphile to have an informed opinion, but it felt like it a few times watching this. No matter - Morricone! Piano player - hit three notes!

No Maps On My Taps is still my "bible" for that world.

Probably thrown away at this point, unless... I wonder if these would be air shots, or jam sessions, or...perhaps nothing at all. But that seems to be a somewhat specific bit of information about somebody who was not really a "star".

I like how this averages out to one $50.00 donor per week, every year. Hope it goes better over the long haul than has Album Of The Week...

Oh yeah, it almost went over my head, but the plot involves drunken accidental bigamy and attempts at annulment, and a lawyer is running through grounds for annulment of the first marriage and he says something like, "maybe he's a little colored, or insane, or..." and it's after it's passed for a second or two that I stop trying to think of what "colored" meant back then in terms of mental health...wow...I mean,I'm glad that I've evolved to where I didn't get it, like, immediately, but a little bit sad that I did get it at all. People who think that racism is not deeply ingrained into the American Way Of Life are either naive or else liars.

Stepping on your dick is a long-standing Jazz Rite Of Passage. Not sure about running away from it for 50+ years, put you know, courage ain't what it used to be. Sliding Scale and all that.

Is that a viable model, 52 people? Are there 52 people that will do that? I hope so.

Internet dates that concert as 1961. I've only heard of Judge Crater because of frequent references to the name by Johnny Carson. Nobody where I lived knew who he was, so...thank you internet, eventually.