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This one is a bit oddish, but does have some no small bits of flayvah.

I'd like to hear Lee Konitz do it solo.

Rangers picking up right where they left off. http://www.lonestarball.com/2015/2/19/8072017/jurickson-profar-needs-shoulder-surgery-likely-done-for-2015

Noticing today that Tom Wilson worked with Bill Barron on Savoy. Nice!

My Little Pony twerking. No, My Little Pony, NO. Do NOT twerk. Your turn.

"Hate" to say it, but I like Maynard's version, just not Maynard's (collective) contribution. Talking about the Mainstream version, not the Columbia one. I really like that band as a band. some solos were better than others, but as a band? THAT kind of a band? Hey...motherfuckers be MOVIN' that air, and you with it. You want "depth", look elsewhere. You want benevolent (the key factor right there, benevolent intent) taste-be-damned-as-needed (another key component, setting appropriate expectations relative to intent) AIR MOVING, well, there it was. Drunk on Air Moving, Air Gin, perhaps, even if not Airegin (spell it backwards, as they used to say) and play it loud (play it VERY loud) as they also used to say.

Even more impressive to me, from a technical standpoint, is this one, due to the overblowing/false fingerings involved. Joe, did you ever catch Robert Sanders when he was really active around here? He played recorder, not in this Trane-y way, more blu-boppy, but still, none of this is a music that gets played on recorder all that much, at least not to this level of detail.

Forgot about Swed's, yes, that one too, maybe could supplant Carr's. But I don't think that "the" Miles biography has been written yet, nor am I sure that it will be a good thing if/when it is...so many movements in that body of work, anybody who can deal with it all equally/objectively, at least not any time soon. I mean, how do you effectively frame Red Garland and Adam Holzman in a way that is fair and equal to both at the same time? I can do it, a lot of us can do it, but it takes some...shifting of perspective to do so, ya' know? Unless you're gonna go all Jack Webb about it, in which case, who needs a book? Just use the internet. Just do that until all the bodies are dead and cold and buried and actually dead.

IMO there's not any one book, just a combination. Between those two, Tingen's and the two different "Miles Davis Reader" things (much more valuable than I had anticipated at purchase), you can get what seems to me an effective composite. You can also add the two Jack Chambers books if you don't mind liberal applications of the proverbial grains of salt along the way.

Speaking of Miles, one of the very worst books ever was written by one of his ex-roadies and was called "Miles: The Lost Years" or something like that. Totally not about that at all, and not really about Miles, either. That book pissed me off.

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Yeah, Porter too. although to Allen's point about how things were marketed, then you get into the area of "coding" and stuff, and, really, I wouldn't have a clue how much of that was real at the time (intentionally or otherwise) or has come to be picked up on retroactively, I just don't know. I do think there's a lot of sub-texts to a lot of pop songs that we don't know about until we find out about it, but again, how would you know if you weren't attuned to it in the first place? And if you were, would you know/think you were being reached out to by the songwriter or performer or just "adopt" it? Again, I don't know. And in Gore's case, you wonder, was she one of those people who "always" knew they were gay, or was it a process of discovery? So many different ways that plays out, especially in the climate of outright hostile & retributory suppression/repression present until fairly recently (and we are still very much in a period of transition as far as that goes). None of my business, personally, but if there's going to be a posthumous "narrative" here, that could be a part of it, no? One more reason why the "pop" in "pop music" continues to be of interest long after the "music" part very often ceases to be, at least for me. Check this out for "code", real or imagined, intentional or not, imposed or just naturally projected...or maybe none of that at all, maybe just the synergy of cheesy film making and a cheesy song. I really don't know. On a (significantly) lighter note, found this in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Gore So not only can we blame her for Quincy Jones, we can blame her (or Quincy's dentist) for Marvin Hamlisch as well! Claus Ogerman!

Hmmmm....not sure about that, unless love itself is determinedly hetero? In which case, "true" love is rooted in the need to reproduce, not the need to "become whole" in a spiritual/mental sense instead of a reproductive merging of genetic materials? Still figuring this out as I go along, definitely was not born into a world that entertained the notion of a gay "true" love, everything was based in making them babies, or at least in engaging in the act that would theoretically allow for that. And now, not so much. Still that, but also other possibilities? I mean, I hear what you're saying, what I would hesitate on is this an Ultimate Truth or is it perhaps a Temporal Assumption that is going to have to be amended to make room for other possibilities as we evolve?

I only remember Kofsky interviewing John Coltrane and trying to lead Coltrane into places he didn't want to go. Trane didn't take the bait. After that, I had no interest in reading Kofsky's book. Thiele ran Jazz & Pop magazine, in which Kofsky often appeared, and of course, impulse!, where Kofsky's liner notes were placed. I've long wondered if Kofsky got the hookup to do that Trane interview through Theile

Also fascinating is to consider how much of a stage was given to Kofsky by Bob Thiele. Mutually beneficial there for a while.

Somebody should have done a REAL rock opera for those two, a tragedy about gender wars and surviving them and how it all starts as kids and how its never really all that much fun except in the heat of passion/battle, it's either kill or be killed and how that's fun until the lessons get learnt, and then, hey peace thru scarring. But poppy, of course. The poppier the tragedier.

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It'll take more than burying Ray Barretto twice to kill him.

So...is anybody buying this Sonny Til thing? It's not like he's still famous outside of serious Doo-Wop folks, and this release is really not Doo-Wop, not like it would become, I don't think the term was even invented yet, that came a few years later...and I can't see a lot of "jazz fans" getting engaged in the notion. But historically, I think it's a pretty significant issue. Maybe it'll prove to be one of those "long term" catalog items?

fwiw, I have heard the "Chief" thing, albeit just from the post-comeback days. Certainly not from the Coltrane era. Was it the Frank Kofsky book about free jazz that you're thinking about? "Black Nationalism and Teh Revolution In Jazz"? I actually recommend that one as a valuable document of the times. Kofsky himself was apparently pretty nuts, though. There was a small book I bought in the early 80s called "Fire Music" by the renowned John Sinclair that I found to be a letdown, much more fire than music, and yesterday's fire at that. I know this guy mattered, but this book doesn't. And come to think of it, anything with Bill Cole's name on it has been a drag.

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This, and there is unfortunately little of it being offered in this batch...next time perhaps?

Indeed! 2015 thread now open here:

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