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Bobbi Kristina Brown is a celebrity, actually, but still, I feel your pain on the whole Culture Of Personality" driving headlines. All I can say is that news agengies are businesses, so if the collective "we" didn't make it worth their while to report this stuff as prominently as they do, or to even report it at all. Cue Pogo and/or Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, USMC

Warne @ 42:35: Yes to that, all the way.

Everything from Arid Andersen's solo on "In A Sentimental Mood" on is some of the most nerve-wracking live footage I've seen in quite a while. Not in a bad way, but...talk about seeing right in front of you why things that would happen for all concerned over the next few year pretty much had to happen, that's intense. I'm trying to imagine Sonny Rollins recording for ECM with that trio, and it's a good thing, just not with that Sonny Rollins, the real one. Not then, not ever. That cadenza...damn. Eicher should have been the one to do the Sonny Rollins Solo Album, with that Sonny Rollins, the real one. And at that time. And really, for all the legend that has been earned about the improvisational peaks and valleys of Sonny Rollins, is it just me, oh is the notion of Sonny Rollins being one pf the most consistently authoritative deliverers of interpretative melodies (no matter what happens in the improvisation) one of the most overlooked facts of jazz? I heard "Stairway To The Stars" from Sonny Please on Pandora this evening, and jeez, talk about a statement, just the opening melody statement, you could stop right there and have the best life has to offer. That's another project, Sonny Rollins Plays Just The Original Melodies. But not with that Sonny Rollins, or even this Sonny Rollins, the real ones both. I don't know if that would be something he'd view as anything he felt an impulse towards doing. So I guess it befalls us, the listener, to pay attention to it while its happening, lest it be done and moved on from. And that is Sonny Rollins. The real one.

Not necessarily "selfish", imo...I take it your experience has been mostly positive?

Uber, Airbnb, etc. Really interesting story written buy a guy who, as he puts it, "became a corporation" through these new business models. History leading up to the successful realization provided, as well as speculation about implications for future class distinctions. But mostly a first-hand relating of experiences. This is all new-ish to me, and I don't know that I'll ever participate in any of this. I'm too old to take to it naturally. But if this had been happening in 1975 instead of 215, I would probably be all in (and my parents would have most likely have the same instinctual wariness that I have now). All that aside though, is anybody here actively involved in this type of activity, either as a provide or a consumer, casually or fully? Wondering how it's working, how it's feeling, etc. Seem like a really interesting socio-economic development from which there may not be any walking back short of forced institutional blockage. Potential here to veer the discussion into the "political" is high, so the extent that it might, please keep it between the lines.

Ok, thanks.

Were they ever married, or am I just confusing people's relationships trying to make people happy who already are?

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Yeah, I go for Boykin whenever possible. Definitely. Don't have any vinyl though, when did this one come from? Not relevant, but are he and Nicole Mitchell still married?

If I had never heard of Bill Cosby and heard one of his prime monologues "blind", would I laugh my ass off? Most likely. So, art, person, don't bother trying to merge that with any consistency. Square a circle instead, you'll get that done sooner. Comic genius = comic genius. Rapist = rapist. Time = time.

Crothers definitely is pretty engaged in free music, playing with people like Jemeel Moondoc, Ras Moshe, and others associated with the William Parker circle. Yeah, but the kind of "out" that Halperin is into on that album is not at all that type of "out"...it's more like a Jimmy Giuffre/Roscoe Mitchell merge.

I've never heard her get particularly "locked in". It all seems like like splattered Lennie-isms, except when it doesn't, and then it sounds like more focused Lennie-isms. And the progression seems to be to start focused, then start splattering...not unlike the more masturbatory early-ish Brubeck in terms of keeping a focused expression...just get it started and then start whanking. At least to me, and in general, not literally "always".

You might enjoy Joy & Gravitas. Halperin's earleir work was very much n-th generation Tristano-ite. This one is not that, and thinking about how somebody could get that "out" from out of Tristano is perhaps as fascinating as the music itself.

https://www.dustygroove.com/item/731085 Same album.

Not sure if I hear it like that myself, but have you heard Jimmy Halperin's Joy & Gravitas on CIMP? That one was a more than slight "jolt" for me.

Being eaten alive, especially by piranhas.

And now, Ogando to the Red Sox. Alexi may very well be broken, but geez, before he was, he was a thrill, for sure.

What's the source of this material. or, at least, of the Scott? There is no information on the LP jacket but Discogs states: "Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios, New York City; October 29, November 23 and 30, 1956." Don't know their source. That's all I got. Maybe someone else has more. The liner note says the session was the idea of bassist Trigger Alpert and lists Dick Hyman, Marty Paich and Tony Scott as arrangers. On my LP, the arrangers as you give Bill are listed but nothing about the sessions being the idea of Trigger Alpert (although I read somewhere that they were). Do you have perhaps a UK version (was there such?). Mine is Jazzland JLP-11. Mine is an OJC CD. At the end of the notes we have: "These notes originally appeared on the album liner for Trigger Happy! (RLP 12-225), a reissue of Jazzland 11." Mystery solved! Perhaps the order is reversed? Would not the Trigger Alpert Riverside album (a very early Riverside, iirc) have preceded anything on Jazzland? Anyway, thanks for clearing up the origins of the material. I've never heard that one, didn't even realize Scott was on it. Have only known of Alpert through the Glenn Miller AAF band.

Mars Bonfire Bon Scott Joe Bonner Holy shit. Next time I spot a name I'm unfamiliar with, I might just skip the google... No shit!

Found this on YouTube...all kinds of unusual.

Any time I play one of her albums, I start out really digging it and end up being really annoyed by the time its over. So I know what you mean about the interest/intrigue. My recommendations would be to go for the quartet records with Lennie Popkin, Cameron Brown, and Carol Tristano. None of these are perfect, but Popkin keeps things interesting enough, and the quartet format keeps Crothers from going so far off into her frustratingly rambling (at least to me) extrapolations. I'd start with Jazz Spring. That's the one I best recall, although maybe that's just due to all the bright colors on the cover. The one I really need to get is Swish, the duet with Max Roach. That's one that's been on the "get to it someday" list for waaaay too long.

I don't know if you'll want to hear Restoration Ruin, and know even less that you (or anybody else) "needs" to hear it, but it's there, and it shows that it's been there almost from the beginning.

Don't know anything about the deal with Hampton, but as far as knocking him, if there was anything that needed fixing, Frank Sinatra was the guy who could do it.

And if you want to put down "Birth Of The Cool", put down Gil Evans w.Claude Thornhill, because that's were it came from.