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Not to compare the actual results as much as the thought process...it's interesting how Brubeck was doing cross-meters (not odd meters, cross meters, like playing three over 4 and then breaking that 3 into something else inside the 3 over 4), a while before the Miles/Herbie/Tony/Ron thing really took route. Brubeck was really adept at that pretty early on, as well as doing it with altered changes, somehow it all came out in the end. And it seems that he had very few actual "routines", so it wasn't going to be the same thing every night, not exactly. Of course, a lot of times he was subtle as a hurled rock about it, but still, I've come to say, yeah, subtlety is one thing, mathematical thought process is another, and when they overlap, great, and when they don't, hey, there are no guarantees in life. The man was indeed quirky, but as with all quirky people, there's never going to be a point where you can engage with them and not have those puzzling moments, just there will never be a time when yo can let your guard down and think that the quirks have finally disappeared. The charm of the irrevocably imperfect and perpetually flawed.

Good news is that wobblies might be greatly reduced in 2016. Bad news is that it's still 2015. Any post-season ball here will be welcome, of course, especially considering what even the most unrealistic projections for the team were at the beginning of the year. And yes, the team has gelled/stepped up/gotten hot/whatever lately, and yes with the exception of the Royals & Jays, the rest of the AL is pretty much smoke and mirrors, so sure, anything can happen. But...I saw three really good, genuinely good, perhaps even great Rangers teams not perform to fullest expectations, and this team is nowhere as good as those teams were. So, if they get a little summpin-summpin going, sure, it will be fun, but...it ain't real except in the way that I was "tall" when I was a kid and everybody else was around 3ft 6in and I was 4 ft. I mean, really, how's that for some short term gratification, oooh, I'm in the 3rd grade and I'm TALL. My only real, true expectation if for an interesting September,, and that, relative to any expectation in March, is treat enough.

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Still not trusting the Rangers to do anything other than be interesting for the rest of the way. Too much wobbliness, still.

Yeah, the "it's valid now that I've figured it out" thing, instead of the "ok, I get it now, wow, cool!" thing, that's why the homicidal impulse never really dies, it just recedes.

Don't blame the Beatles...Wes Montgomery was on the charts and radio, not Top 10, but still, there. "Windy" and "A Day In The Life" had heavy life as bumper music, at least in my part of the world. Sales were good, and htere was a Wes Montgomery Greatest Hits album on A&M. Instrumental hits, the mid-late 60s were full of them, not really jazz, though. Into the 70s.. "Chameleon", "Mister Magic" "Feels So Good", that SpyroGyra thing, "Just The Two Of Us (that's 80s, right?)...questionably "jazz" in many quarters, but non-jazz musicians could not have made those records, at least not those records like that...

And yes, I like "the music as struggle" because, yeah, it is, both within the music itself (the first struggle is to play, and then to play well, and then to keep playing more well than before) as well as the world outside. But what I don't like is how that "struggle" too often if reported, or worse, assumed, in such a way that it fits a limited, pre-set, and quite often, antiquated narrative. The enemies are different now, the tools are different now, hell, the good guys are different now. In the macro, sure, things haven't changed. But if you're gonna think that fighting the old war is gonna help you in today's war, well, no, it's not, and if anything, it dooms you to failure. The concepts might be macro, but the details are micro, sometimes in the extreme, and it's the details that can get you killed.

Larry Kert Larry Kart Larry Cary

More than once. I dig Kay Starr...maybe you could just call it "some Kay Starr" dong and let it go at that. Kay Starr got cred overall. The key to effective deflection is to never tell a lie in the service of not revealing the truth.

My point was just that activity is constant, somebody's always got something going somewhere, it's jsut a question of how much something, and how much air. True, there are moments when some things are going for enough people at one time that it becomes noticeable enough to become a "thing" and get noticed, it's hardly an act of keen perception to notice it, especially in retrospect, There's no small truth to the axiom that by the time something comes to broader attention, it's already over. Les so for "pop culture", because that's a sort of mutual cannibalism that will last as long as somebody's there to be eat and be eaten. But the type of thing like political free jazz, well, yeah, it's easy to notice that, one in the win column, but how about the political strain that came together for that moment, how about the musical strains, how about the "spiritual" strains, how about the human strains? And not just how they came together, the "back-story" how about what happened to all of that going forth. The whole "moment of the movement" thing, yeah, that's legit as far as it goes, but it, unlike its subject, never really goes anywhere does it, it just stands in one place and continues to exam, and at it's soupiest, reminisce. Photography, still life, and not something be looked at, not to be in. Because, yes - There's always something in the air. Always.

Ah, I see...but wasn't there some kind of "mini" CD format, though, early on? Maybe for singles, something like that? I though maybe AH had done something like that, they were always "quirky" about how the did things, god bless'em. Looking forward to the Telarc. Getting to the point where the only way to get "new" Desmond is to get the Brubeck Studio box (and even then, I don't need but some of it, it's not like I'd never bought any Brubeck records until last month ) and whatever bootlegs are out there.

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As long as you're befriending the internet, ask it what that great Pacific Jazz Chico Hamilton trio record that at 10" had Howard Roberts on guitar but used Jim Hall to add two additional inches of size is doing for the weekend.

There's always something in the air. Always. Only really noticing it when everybody else does, is, like, a win, but it still leaves you under .500 for the season.

Just ordered the Telarc. Nobody's saying that it's a "leftovers" plate, so, yeah. Also find it interesting that the AH did see digital release after all. was it only as a mini-disc? No matter, now we know where our Paid Servicers Of Those In Need got such a nice, clean copy. It's funny...a month or two ago, I figured I was through with Paul Desmond, Now I hear him, when he's not coasting, as really a "free" player, not for what he plays but for how he plays it. Anybody who improvises should want to have that kind of an ability to maintain and sustain their responses to their impulses. "Intellectual" vs "Visceral", ""Sound" vs "Line", yeah, it breaks down like that, but it all has to do with feeling and then doing as clearly as possible, no distance between inspiration and result. How Desmond did it in his voice...that's what I love hearing anybody do in theirs.

But that would be cheating.

Dude, you got screwed.

Upping this to revise...that comment was made only hearing the Horizon album. It never got to me enough to make be pursue the subsequent Artist House & Telarc releases from the same gig. and now, wanting to look into those things, I notice the AH album is OOP and has never been legitimately reissued on CD. But have no fear, EuroMusiPorn to the rescue! OMG, soooo much zonier (for my tastes) than the Horizon stuff, and not just on Desmond's part. I've long admired Ed Bickert, but never really felt the love, ok? It's not him, it's me. But here, yes, I feel it, I get it. And Desmond himself, some of the Horizon stuff felt a little coasty to me, not bad, and advanced age/health issues fully considered, but...what I've always hoped to hear in the Horizon album, I do hear on this one, so...not just me, necessarily, maybe not just me. Gears fully engaged AND advanced conditions, proof that the latter was not at this point in any way excusing the former. I guess the AH material was a "runner up" in the original submission because the sound quality is not as good, and yes, there's a slight hint of that here and there, but really, not enough to matter even a little. And the music is at a higher level often enough to, you know, screw "sound quality", it's MUSIC quality that matters. Anyway, EuroMusiPorn says thank you very much you heartless hypocrites, to which all I can say is damn right, and yes, you're welcome very much, actually, you did what you were paid for, met expectations, strictly business, ok, you want love, buy me a Cadillac car and a diamond ring this Christmas so I can light up like a Christmas tree with the good music on my radio. You know, be the pro you aspire to be. Now - who among us has heard the Telarc material, and how would you rate it?

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assuming that's what this thread is about .... enjoyed the first two (mini-)seasons a lot - hoping for more to come! Correct! There's been a third season of three episodes (getting to the third one tonight, the first two have so far proven delightful)...don't know if you can get it where you live, but I'd not see why not? Dude, my kids have hipped me to enough good/great things over the years that I've learned to take notes for future reference. Don't dare take them up on it in real time, becuase it's not ALL good/great, if you know what I mean....

Oh hey, USA, available on Netflix.

My son hipped me to this a few weeks ago, I guess we're both years behind the times, but, yeah..."high-functioning sociopath" (or so he says), no matter my kind of guy. Very watchable in terms of both content and time, Season 4 in the works, correct? Interesting that both here and on Elementary (which I'm afraid slipped a fair bit this last season), Holmes is a more than a bit of a prick, but always in the service of getting it right...or maybe it's just being right. Either way, I like it. So few of the everyday assholes I run across these days have that dedication to that motivation. And Holmes/Watson as Buddy Movie...with these two, when they do that, it works. Who knew? And hey - best Moriarty ever. A true scary sociopath. Fan!

That's a nice tune. Spend some good time last week checking out Brubeck Plays Brubeck, a not particularly celebrated 1956 solo album on Columbia. I was pleasantly surprised by it, both the tunes (which include first or near-first recordings of "The Duke" and "In Your Own Sweet Way") and the playing, which was very reflective, almost introspective. This Brubeck guy...he does the one thing...except when he doesn't. I keep finding exceptions to the rule, start to think that maybe it's the rule that is actually the exception, and then, nah, they're the rule alright, but damn, you can go through a lot of Brubeck and get plenty of pleasant surprises, like this one here from later on, or from that solo album from fairly early on.