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I get the impression that there were "open lines of communication" between NYC & Philly back in the day...people knew who was doing what where, and when. Might be a tangential (or stronger) correlation to NOI activities of the time adding to that, can't/won't claim any hard knowledge of that one way or the other. What it's like now, no idea.

Don't worry Walt, many of us aren't.

That's about what I remember paying for my 120 GB (which is still walking unassisted, but not completely upright). I'm thinking $349.00, maybe? but close enough for time travel.

If it was 1965, the fight would still be drawing blood, so, yeah, in 1965, fuck that about Lou Donaldson, but still, here comes all those Melvin Sparks/Leo Morris/Lonnie Smith/Leon Spencer/etc records that he did for the money, but did RIGHT for the money, so...yeah, fuck you Lou Donaldson, but anyway, when will your next record be available? But in 2015? The time where that shit has any meaning outside of "here he is, still crusty at 98" type of thing has passed...and today, I don't care when his next record is coming out, or even if there will be one. It that time of life for Lou Donaldson, and it's that point in time for jazz.

I don't worry about it. It's Lou Donaldson. Lou do what Lou do, Lou be how Lou be. I enjoy him and it for what they both are. It's not like any of these guys stared down history and froze Ornette, or anything. They tried, and time has shown that they have failed. Same thing with Betty Carter and the "avant-garde", man, she was NASTY about it. But it was Betty Carter, dig? Betty Carter did what SHE did so badass that she earned the right to be wrong, imo. She was as seriously strong about what SHE did, that her worrying about what other people were doing became kinda irrelevant to progress at large, as long as she was alive she mattered for what SHE did, not what she thought about other people, and now that she's gone, all the more so. I mean, up until the day he died, I don't think Stanley Dance ever made a full peace with bebop, never mind anything past that. So when Stanley Dance would write all those Radio Free Jazz/Jazz Times reviews/JJI articles (well into the 1980s, iirc) with all the pissy asides about "modern" this and that, he, fuck it, it's Stanley Dance. What he knew, he knew WELL, right? Everything else, just...people we love aren't always right about everything...for that matter, people we hate aren't always wrong about everything. Lou's an old guy occupying an increasingly shrinking space in an increasingly shrinking plot of living history. Enjoy it for what it is, warts and all, before it's no longer there.

Odean did a documented stint with Max in 1967, Tolliver & Cowell were both on the band. http://www.concertvault.com/max-roach-quintet/newport-jazz-festival-july-02-1967.html http://www.jazzdisco.org/max-roach/discography/ Also, wikipedia, fwiw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odean_Pope

This is out now, and highly recommended to anybody to whom a highly recommending might be of an interest.

He's earned the right to be wrong. He has.

You mean they want me to go back to dial-up?

Schroeder. If there was ever a pianistic equivalent of feeding the masses with a loaf of bread and a box of fish, it was him. Where is the love, people?

Somebody tell me where it says that I'm entitled to get everything as cheaply as possible no matter what all the damn time. That soundss like another one of those DevilTruths to me...like Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Pay,. Me and Bobbie McFree, yeah, we gonna rule the world some day.

You know, if I could have three weeks straight of some uninterrupted fun, I think I'd look for a way to stay out of touch...

If you were to knowing buy that record in that condition, what price would you think about right? I'd go no more than $15, and would really push for $10 if the noise was that audible for that long. $25 would definitely have me grrrrrrrr-ing. Then again, people go batshit over Blue Note, so somebody would probably pay $25 for it and get all fetish happy. I am SO not the guy to gauge "current market value", I'm just a hey, I'd like this at this price if it's in this condition type guy, not too much more to it than that for me. If worse comes to worse, you can always use the cheater-dealer's trick of cranking the treble down during playback. Tip for the kids - whenever you can get an in-store playtest of an item, ALWAYS ask to have the treble pushed all the way up, and visually confirm that it's been done. You'll probably not listen to it like that at home, but you'll also hear whatever noise is on the record before you get it home. Best of all - you can often get some serious leverage where before there was none!

I'd ave gone through life not knowing who Tommy Jones was if not for Dusty Groove.

When I'm in a spending phase, I buy vinyl from DG weekly, sometimes bi-weekly. I've been doing that long enough to pretty much know in advance what I'm getting. since i'm the type of guy who will listen to almost anything except a totally trashed record, I've found them a good alternative to going out in the heat (or the cold) and finding (or not finding) gaps in the collection (and often enough, opportunities to make new spaces for there to be new gaps in the collection) for prices that are generally equal to what the local used outlets offer, and, honestly, sometimes better, because the local guys tend to value rarity at expense of grading.DG seems like they balance it out more equally. And here's a tip - if you ever visit them in person, or, like I've done it, have somebody vistit them in person with whom you can Skype), hit the basement. They got stuff for, like, 50 cents or a buck a pop, and none of it is listed online. Most of it is garbage, but not all. I had my daughter pull me an old OG Gerald Wilson PJ that had that steady hiss type surface noise, but at not a too high level, and the LP must've been mastered hell-hot, because the music POPPED out of the speakers, really LIVE sounding. For a buck, hey, not a bad deal. As for the Weston/Harper...yes, I'm a big Billy fan, but even at that...that's a special record. One of Weston's very best, imo.

Which is all well and good, but will Rudresh be there for his own gig?

Those are all good enough prices for records which will most likely have a normal or greater number of pops and clicks that come from average playings and handling of their time by average peoples of, but for a few bucks more, better condition copies should be findable enough. However, if it we me, I'd jump on that Weston/Harper ASAP and then set a task to get a better copy when one comes along...that's a very, very strong record, and unless you're totally anal about "vinyl artifacts" (and some people are, so no judgement implied) or unless the record is TOTALLY trashed, it shouldn't be too much of a problem hearing through the noise. The music is that powerful.

The older the record is, the more you're gonna want to consider the presence or absence of that "+". What I find on their older records is that a simple "VG" usually ends up being noisy but playable, like if I got the same record at a thrift shop, I'd be pleased. an older record from them that is "VG+" is gonna be less noisy, but still noisy, and definitely playable. If i got the same record at a thrift shop, I'd feel like I had scored. What it comes down to me is what your needs are for any given record at any given price point. If you want a kinda hard to find record just to have a play copy, you know, put it on to play while you work around the house or in your garage or whatever, then VG will get you what you want, and usually for a good enough price. If you want something exclusively for "critical listening" and don't have the chops to deal with a lot of noise while doing critical listening, then, no, VG will not get it for you, and VG+ might pose challenges. The one thing I've noticed about Dusty Groove & vinyl is that the older the record, the more generous the grading relative to price, so a 1962 VG+ for $7.99 and a 1982 VG+ for $7.99 are not going to give the same results. The older record will usually be noisier in terms of continuous surface noise, whereas the newer record will tend to be more poppy/clicky but relative to a much quieter surface noise. But the older record for $7.99 might still be a deal for that price, whereas the newer record...not so much. If you don't mind learning the game through trail and error, it gets pretty easy to know what to expect through a formula of age, rarity, condition, and price. That's just how they do it, and you can get some deals great deals there relative to other places once you have realistic expectations. And you can avoid some pissed off disappointments as well.

That cover, not good.

so it is! I think we'll be playing around 11, one set only. But that's not confirmed yet.

I'm not even sure how much of an opinion I need to have...I already have very strong beliefs about unacceptable behavior towards women, and have successfully (to this point) instilled them in my kids and practiced them myself (not that I was born to all of them, ok, but...evolve or die, as they say, and what I was able to pass on the my daughter about the Games Guys Will Try to Run On You is something she thanks me for regularly...tell you what, however much a dog as guys of my age were, these guys today have bumped it up to a whole new level, because they got young women to thinking that Sluts Are Cool is the STARTING point of a relationship). I already know that Bill Cosby has made some undeniably great and lasting contributions to American comedy. I already know that public personas and private realities are quite often polar opposites. The only thing for me to have an opinion about is that Bill Cosby certainly appears to have done some pretty horrible things towards, with, and to women, and even if they all turn out to have been 100% consensual (which, again, just doing the math, odds of that VERY unlikely), all I'm really left with, is well, fuck that guy, and, you know, that list is already pretty damn long. May justice be served, and if not, that list is also already pretty damn long. So, really, I already have my opinion, with or without Bill Cosby's face on it. Would rather expend energy in actions that can benefit the faces I actually DO or are likely to see.

Have you read any statements by Cosby saying that he openly offered these women Quaaludes for the purpose of having sex, and that they took them voluntarily? At this point, why would there even be any such statements to be read? Is it accepted legal strategy to admit to that much this early in the proceedings? If even a few of the encounters involved consensual DrugSex, the statement would be "embarrassing", which is something it's been made clear is trying to be prevented here. And if none of the encounters involved consensual DrugSex, the statement would open him up to claims of perjury, or even certain conviction. I think we all know what we think happened, and I also think that the numbers lead to a logical conclusion that what we think happened most likely did happen at least once (ahem). So, yeah, disappointment, outrage, disgust, etc. these are all healthy reactions to an unhealthy dynamic. But geezleweez, let's keep it between the lines as far as what to expect from who, in where, and when, all that stuff. Because the legal system is not supposed to be based on using emotion and probability as both starting and ending point and every point in between. There is strategy for both plaintiff and defendant, and asking either party to sacrifice those strategies "just because" is a little bit weak, really. Now, speaking of strategy - Bill Cosby is 78, and presumably has some pretty deep bank (presumably). It's entirely possible that he has the resources to stall this shit until he's either dead or incapacitated or some other shit. So why the hell would he volunteer ANY information other than that asked directly, and why the hell would he not make EVERY effort to deflect every question asked of him that might have even the slight negative connotation? So yeah, go ahead and hate on Bill Cosby, Very Probable Sexual Predator and/or Serial Rapist. But if any of us thinks that our justified hating, individual and/or collective, compels an defendant to just go ahead and be stupid, like, ok, ya' got me, haha, I give up, I'm an asshole, go ahead, fuck me now, then....really? That's some comic book shit right there, Bad Guys Face Mighty Avenger and Get Cosmic AssSpanked For All To See , and is every bit as clueless as is thinking that you can go through life having TrickDrugSex and neverever have to answer to a complaint. Competing fantasies don't make one reality, this is not - x - = + This is - + - = 2-

How did you get/how did anybody dare to release this without its original cover? You should get your money back, like, NOW.

“Saving All My Love for You” is a good tune to blow on, but the rest...I smell a formula, albeit a "winning" one...and who gives a damn for losers?

What kind of long lines and what kind of eight notes are we talking about, anyway? If it's the basic running of changes and their extrapolations that seem to be the, for lack of a more ready reference, "post-Brecker" norm, then yeah, that gets old in a hurry. But if we're talking kind of a Tristano thing, no, I don't find that boring at all, becuae there's all sort of harmonic and rhythmic/metric variations going on within those eight notes.