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I played the first New Mexico (or was it Albuquerque?) Jazz Festival in the old ball park in Madrid. This was 1982, iirc. The "stage" was the empty area in front of the remaining ballpark seats, so it was under cover, not on the field. People talk about dead malls, extinct drive-in theaters, etc and such, there's another thing to look at while they still exist - old minor leagus or semi-pro ballparks in small(er/ish) towns across America. There used to be a big bunch of them, what with minopr leagues going all the way down to Class D. Anyway, I have no idea what Madrid looks like now, but the first time I drove through it, I didn't know it was coming, and pretty much freaked out hardcore. It felt like finding the Manson family or something like that.

Yeah, mining town turned ghost town turned artist colony/etc. Pretty trippy place, and used to be gigs there.

Nothing in Madrid, the ballpark, etc.? Is that no longer a thing?

Oh, no shade being cast on Cohn, far from it. Especially from this time (1974), the guy was soaring. I just think it's funny how you take two guys who you would not think of in the same breath, give them a tenor and the facts of Lester Young, and they come out using the horn the same way, maybe with more or less different ideas/projections. Same thing only different. Life is beautifully funny like that sometimes, especially when the expressive and the mechanical intersect. Apart from that, this is a pretty good record by Teo, more or less unknown best as I can tell, Uneven as hell, as most of his self-released Teo Records things were, but good. https://books.google.com/books?id=bn79jGZ6JBYC&pg=PA272&dq=teo+macero+pepper+adams&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwia1tHDmaXSAhVbImMKHUGjDpcQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=teo%20macero%20pepper%20adams&f=false

Yeah, I remember when Bob Moses was on Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous. They smoked some weed and jammed some Mingus. It was tight, man, tight! Of course, these days, that's the kind of dow-nhome shit you can only see on the "dark jackweb", But everything has its purpose, right?

Jimmy Madison too, remember him?

I'll momentarily enjoy the schadenfreude resulting from DJs being priced out of the market by friends with laptops and mix cds and such.

Feb 20: http://www.lonestarball.com/2017/2/20/14673258/josh-hamiltons-batting-practice-was-exciting-per-reports Josh Hamilton’s batting practice was exciting, per reports ....and then, as if by magic.... Feb 22: http://www.lonestarball.com/2017/2/22/14697880/josh-hamilton-having-his-knee-examined Josh Hamilton having his knee examined

CDs are dead? So that's the stench I've been smelling in my house!

Dig Lee here, the only cat in the band to look at this, the rest of the band is like, oh well, you know how Stan do, I'm just gonna look away, but Lee is, no, I'm gonna watch this shit, Lennie was weird, hell no, THIS cat is weird, I will survive!, I will be stronger coming out than I was coming in And he did, and he has, and he can do whatever the fuck he wants to as far as I'm concerned, Lee Konitz has not wavered!

The one and ownly!

More teeth than god has hired hands!

Neitehr bad, nor jazz, nor art. Just knock know, who's there, i don't know, i don't know who, hell, ifyou don't care about the future, what could will you be after it's already answered the door for you, huh? Hey, have a cup of magma and relax, ok?

Ted Brown, still around, right?

If you have a programmable CD player, you can skip the cut(s?) with them (the vocals/"vocals") present,. There's not that many, really. His playing is fine. Fine and warbly!

I've got a "copy" from a friend which in turn prompted an actual purchase, so I've heard that cut, and maybe one other with vocal. It's not even singing the song, it's more like Lee playing what he would play anyway, just with his voice, no real words. Maybe in anticipation of when he can no longer blow? Or maybe back to his roots, of singing Lester Young solos. Either way, it wasn't creepy or anything,. As far as "warbly", hell the whole thing is warbly. Lee is, what, 150 years old now? How is he not gonna be warbly? But it's a sweet warbliness, a totally Lee warbliness. Warbly, not wobbly.

Nervous?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/books/dick-bruna-dead-miffy-creator.html “In the Netherlands, everyone has always liked Dick Bruna as a person as well,” she said. “He was such a modest and kind man who lived a very simple life, although he was very rich.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/movies/richard-schickel-dead-time-film-critic.html?_r=0 “Criticism — and its humble cousin, reviewing — is not a democratic activity. It is, or should be, an elite enterprise, ideally undertaken by individuals who bring something to the party beyond their hasty, instinctive opinions of a book (or any other cultural object). It is work that requires disciplined taste, historical and theoretical knowledge and a fairly deep sense of the author’s (or filmmaker’s or painter’s) entire body of work, among other qualities.”

One good, no, great, thing about live music is that you don't get to hear it again. Something either works right there or it doesn't. I heard some things along the way that I felt "iffy" about (especially when it came to how soon he released the sus pedal at the end a few times, seemed out of sync with the groove that had been going up until then), but, you know, no time to worry about that because things kept going and what, there's no pause button, no rewind, so what are you gonna do, worry about it or keep going along with the player? And this stuff is so split-brained, like really really basic thematic material in the right hand, and jeese f. crist, a fucking drum choir in the left, no real "harmony" but overtones out the ass, intense forward momentum and sudden stops all at once, you know, like Sonny(?) said about playing with Monk, if you lose your place it's like falling down an elevator shaft, no so much structurally with these Cage pieces, but "zone", definitely, so, yeah, notice, and/but adapt, it's the improviser's way of life. But I would like some historical clarification about how/when and on whose authority this turned into this and then into this Was Ross Russell insisting on bebop tempo or what? No matter, for record, make mine Maro, at least on this one.

Tell it, Sonny!

Also heard for years as the house drummer on NPR's "Whad'Ya Know?" out of Madison, Wisocnsin! RIP, and fullest love possible. James Brown changed my life more than once, with and without Clyde, but especially with.