JSngry

Maybe the LP Verve Bird box? But maybe not?

I can appreciate the type of sincerity that is applied to the gig and not (just) to the self.

Quite the intense Pacers-Celtics game this evening, eventually! So intense that I didn't mind it cutting into Spurs/Thunder. OKC is scaring me already...and it's kinda neat seeing old man Pop, like Coleman Hawkins with that wild hair and beard.

Blurp Nifters - Pluffy!!!

Judge Judy Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) Phillip Glass

Here is the probably unintentional "money quote" of the book for me. Discussing Wes Montgomery's Verve and A&M records, the author drops this imo little truth bomb: ...They are well-produced and engineered, and although they were not on the cutting edge, they are very listenable for many different jazz tastes...There is never a time when you get the sense that Montgomery (or any other player) is coasting or phoning it in... And there you have it. There's a LOT of legit reasons to dislike those type of records, but lack of purposeful intent and top-shelf execution of of that intent is not one of them. I find it increasingly difficult to respect any opinion that does not recognize well-honed craft. Liking the uses to which it is or is not out is one thing, but not bothering to recognize that, say. Grady Tate worked his ass off so he could in fact work his ass off and get paid...I don't like that. There's a lot of stupid people who say stupid shit for you to read. That would appear to be one of them.

Denny McLain Bobby Fuller Vernon Law

Tug McGraw George Raft Queen Elizabeth

Julius Watkins John Clark Vincent Chancey

Dewey Redman Mr. Blackwell Bill Blass

Maybe they were too busy with new music? Miles was still active and vital. That Basic Miles was a good enough idea, but sabotaged by the inclusion of stuff that was still readily available. Take those out and the then-known Jazz Track cuts fit?

The Disco Commanders - Get Up In There & Get It Loose!!!

Einstein's are not bagels. The are inoffensive bagel-tangental other-ingredient delivery systems that are literally just around the corner.

Einstein's is fine if you don't think of them as bagels.

She was a treat! RIP

Ok, I just finished reading this book. 3 stars. If one is unfamiliar with the genre and is looking for a fulsome list of names and album titles to use as a starting point for further explorations, here one is. Same thing for anybody looking for an explanation about the intrinsic blackness of this (and so much other) jazz. But...too much of the book is dry, almost academic, which is not the tone I would hope for in a book about "Popular Jazz in 1960s Black American". The two times I feel that the author is digging in is two of the few times where he stops making lists and such and engages in the actual music - Oliver Nelson's Black Brown and Beautiful aand the possibly eternally legendary Swiss Movement. I hesitate to be too harsh, because this music is deeply personal to the author (and to his late father as well), and he's obviously got a valid point (when it is made) about how this music matters, maybe not as "art" music but as social music ( two sides of the same coin if you ask me). But the point is blunted far more than not, and that's really too bad. I can tell that the passion is simmering there. Otherwise, yes, better editing, please. Freddie Roach and Freddie Green are not the same person, and too many adjectives before a noun...uh-oh! And Albert Murray is only too be taken so far literally. Just saying... Now as for Ramsey Lewis and the purported subject of this book - it might be interesting and/or useful to look at the evolution of his records from The In Crowd through, say, Sun Goddess. A LOT of changes along the way, musical and cultural alike.

Ramsey Lewis and Gene Ammons are far more not the same thing than they are. And yet... Why and how that is, or if it even matters, that's something everybody has to figure out for themselves. Do your own damn work and make your own damn canon. There are no wrong answers nearly as much as there are wrong questions. And at some point, it's about people. So know people.

Figaro James Newton Cookie Lavagetto

The 1973 Basic Miles LP would be the US source for what of those tracks were reissued. Maybe/Probably something to do with the soundtrack rights?

I don't recall a 1974 US issue?

King Floyd Floyd Lawson Samuel Barber

Hard to understand why Columbia "hid" those cuts for so long

It was elusive on these shores after the initial issue... This would sometimes show up in cutout bins: Here we go. I knew there was something else. https://www.discogs.com/master/198979-Miles-Davis-Basic-Miles-The-Classic-Performances-Of-Miles-Davis