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It sounds like the guy took later-period Gil Evans as an inspiration for his scoring style, and that's more than ok by me. But then it also sounds like he gets his idea of pocket from...someplace different, that's all I feel like saying right now. And you know, pocket matters. Colors matter too, but pocket determines shape, and colors alone do not have a shape, they're light waves, right? Or in this case, sound waves. Either way, left alone, they have no shape until one is imposed on them. So yeah, pocket. And this pocket here, it sounds "funny" enough to me by itself, never mind it being imposed on Monkmusic. Truthfully, I think Lyle Mays "invented" this type of writing oLab 75...I called it "sneaker music" then, because I was there while that music was being made, and everybody wore sneakers, it was in no way dishonest or inappropriate, and to this day, I can enjoy an occasional listening to Lab 75. Lyle Mays wrote some really personal music for Big Band, very much of its time, place, and people. These were his sneakers made manifest, they became manifest as his and ours, and we all wore our own sneakers on our own feet. I will not say that John Beasley is not writing charts that are not of his time, place, and people, I'm just saying that if he's looking to create or discover or otherwise call attention to his time , place, and people with the music of Monk, he's not doing it in anyway that I can either discern or appreciate. That shit just sounds wrong, not the colors, but the shapes. Now, we all know that all kinds of shapes can fit together in all kinds of ways, but we also all know the old maxim of if it don't fit, don't force, the unspoken corollary of that being that forcing things into a fit - as opposed to letting the fit develop by a natural stretching, is not a fit at all, but rather an act of aggression, violence or some other predatory psychology at work. And when I hear this, and then when I see that guy in front of the band doing that weird pelvic wiggle,, A) no wonder that pocket ends up where it does, and B) don't do that to Monk, please. Monk was a dancer, not a humping Fabulous Furry Freak Brother. Wear your own damn sneakers, that's all.

If I got a call from Dexter, I'd never wash my phone again!

Life is not fair. Death is.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/06/entertainment/robert-osbourne/index.html Osborne, a Washington native, moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in acting and was once mentored by Lucille Ball, according to an official bio on his website. His credits included "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "The Man with Bogart's Face."

Neither alarmed, frightened, nor provoked, just delighted.

Yeah, see, this would be of no help whatsoever.

I have not yet known the music of this particular scene as much or as well as I would like to and maybe someday will, but what/when I have heard it, the integrity and fullness of the vision is overwhelmingly immediate, so...RIP,, and we'll keep listening as the currents flow.

That's a good idea! I dunno, this is really good writing from a writing standpoint (and as such, I gotta give full props), but I gotta go with the OP - why? You could do that with/to any song and it might actually be an "improvement", or at least an "examination". This, to me, is a diminishment of Monk's composition,. it comes out different, yes, but it's like a haircut of one shape on a bad head of another. Not the barber's fault, not the head's fault, just...not everything comes out good just because it's all good going in, right? Now this one kinda pisses me off, actually...go do that with somebody else, ok? And this brings to mind - if you got so many ideas, why not write your own music? Because there's no market, because "Monk" will get you more sales? Becuase you love Monk so much? This is some California shit, right? It reminds me of what Lab Bands did with "hip jazz tunes" (when they did that at all), they don't look for what makes the music unique, they look for what they can make it look like them so they can in turn think that they can prove that they look like it. Gonna stop now, because although personally I find that esthetic repugnantly predatory, I also realize that in music, people got a right to do what they do and be who they be, no matter what, and in the end, all I can say is "none for me, thanks". I'm sure what it means to them and how it sounds to me don't even connect, so...move on.

Yeah, I can't say that I've ever heard Alan Dawson be a/the problem. That cover of Dexter Calling needs to be viewed while on a good buzz to be fully appreciated, imo. Those colors, that look (eyes, ears and hair, Dexter was always ready for the camera!), that coat, that phone booth...buzzzzzzzzed! Q: Hello, stoned jazz listener here, how can I help you? A: Hey there, Dexter calling, and I believe it is I who can help YOU!

John Beasley, apparently. I have no idea who he is, and have sorta run screaming from the radio when that Gordon Goodwin comes on, but if the question is a simple "who would make this, and who would listen to it", my objective response is simply that all kinds of people like all kinds of things. Ours is not to reason why, ours is just to buy, according to what we like, or think we might. You can't undo what somebody else does, you can only make your own impact. And yeah, people fuck up Monk far more often than not, in some form or fashion. People back in the day used to talk about how "difficult" his music was, and at first I think it just meant that the forms and intervals and changes were not exactly conventional (at least not in jazzworld). Now that everybody's had a chance to get all that down, they still fuck it up, because, as you say, Monk is not just about notes, Monk is about time, not just "rhythm" time, but TIME, like physics time. Time/Space/Shape/Dimension. And most people don't see how that matters all that much. Those are the ones who fuck it up, but the ones who DO get that, they are the ones who don't. People who fuck shit up and appeal to other people who don't get it...there they are. There they are. You can't get around it, they're always there, always have been, always will be, so don't event try. Just move to a world where they aren't and build on that as much as possible. Because if you wait for wrong to turn into right, you gonna be waiting longer than anybody has time to wait. There ain't that much time, even if you put it all together, there still ain't that much time.

Mainstream used the UNIPAK almost exclusively for their 70's run. Blue Note used them a lot as well, look at things like Slow Drag, Caramba, Ghetto Music, that era.

I like "Deirdre", but that's as far as I go, and truthfully, that might be as much for the arrangements as for the song. Michel Colombier, the right guy for that one. But lest we give ourselves over to full throated Manilow Reflux, he cut a helluva record with Donne Warwick on that Isaac Hayes song, Deja Vu. Good thing Bruce Johnston is not relevant to that one, thank god.

Also like baseball, even with extra innings, the game eventually comes to an end.

See what you think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Poland_Concerts_1976_%26_1978

Changing times, that's all. And those are marvelous photos.

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Go see the Dover Quartet, really. This is some really, really high level playing. http://www.doverquartet.com/schedule/

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/arts/ren-hang-dead-photographer-china.html Mr. Ren was a writer and poet and kept an account of his experience with depression in a blog, “My Depression,” on his website. In one poem, “Gift,” dated July 2014, he wrote, in Chinese: Life is really one Precious gift But sometimes I feel that It has been given to the wrong person

Any record in a Unipak. http://www.collectiblesanyday.com/angus-bull/unipak-gatefold.html https://books.google.com/books?id=sQoEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA6&ots=OcGUAZvm2e&dq=unipak+record+sleeves&pg=PA6&hl=en#v=onepage&q=unipak%20record%20sleeves&f=false

Well, now that they're not going to sell CDs any more, you can go to Kroger, or H-MArt. Daiso for potholders. Gotta say, though, as much as I like Ike, Tina's best work was done with Clem. Shame that it's not on CD, you could have gotten it at Target. Now you have to order the Lil' Cuties music right from Neil Hefti, he owns the Basie band now.

I often have consecutive weeks when I drive in my car without my phone, just leave the sucker at hone, so I'm definitely doing it wrong, all of it. Oh, drove by a Target today, didn't stop, didn't need to. Maybe what they stop carrying doesn't matter as much as what they do carry, I mean, if they have what I want, I'll not even give a casual funk about if they have what I don't want.

Here's a graph about TV watching! How American TV consumption is changing, in one chart https://www.axios.com/streaming-subscribers-officially-catches-up-to-paid-tv-2292736310.html People just less and less into having stuff around. My wife feels their pain. Me, I still got a bootleg copy of the My Name Is Albert Ayler documentary which is otherwise available how?