JSngry

I'm not sure that is was recorded by/for impulse?

Adrian Beers J. Fred Muggs Keg Johnson

That's obliquely blurred... IIRC, Sonny frowned on that release, apparently he did not give permission for its release in 197?.

Blurred and oblique are not synonyms. Ask Google.

Bostic was a badass.That's not exactly a secret, but it's not exactly common knowledge either. Tab Smith, there's another one. Not as much a badass as Bostic, but no lightweight either. I'm still not sure if this book is intended as a social history or a musical one. The "forgetting" (hell, erasure) of popular, R&B- adjacent jazz (and/or vice-versa) isn't limited to the 1960s. I don't know that it's any mystery why...

Hmmm ...

Mine as well.

??? Those are the same thing?

Gene Page Gregor Mendel Michael Gregory (Jackson)

Seller was repeatedly brilliant for a long time. Was he acting or acting out? That's not a question for me to answer.

Ace Cannon Ace Frehley Ace Trucking Company

Abraham Rycken Chris Blacwell Gilligan

No, it does not suck!!!!

Louis Jordan was a huge crossover success. The other two, not so much.

There's not a lot about Gene Ammons in this book, which seems odd to me. And although there's mention made and photos of the Black Is Beautiful direction in female album cover models, there's no mention made of Grandassa (which is hardly a well-known thing, although a book has recently come out). The more I read into this book, the more I feel an ineffectual irony in making an academic argument about a populist concern. Maybe further up the road we can get a Questlove Netflix series about this music that takes it directly (back) to the people. That would be slammin'!

TJB jazz? That's a new one on me!

My overriding TJB memory is that some AC company used one of their songs for their between innings scoreboard ads in the Astrodome. In the late 60s, the music was not hi-fi, but what there was of it was cavernous. Couple that with how the TJB was already out of fashion, and the overall effect was just creepy and ghoulish. So I don't get it. But apparently a lot of people do, so I hope they have a good time!

Revisiting...

Has to be

Mine literally just got here, so...soon!

I don't get it.

The Eddie Harris chapter was a bit of a slog for me. Not much at all about Eddie Harris and a lot of "explaining" about critical perceptions throughout the 20th Century and how the jazz narrative is being taught in schools and through mass media. I'd much rather just listen to Eddie Harris Or in the intended spirit of the book...

I'm not deep enough into the book to tell if a case is being made for setting more places at the table (or even building a bigger table!) or just moving some people off the table so that new people can sit there. I can tell already, though, that this guy is probably too concerned with critics and scholars for his own good. I sense a bit of defensiveness in his writing that imo undermines the strength of whatever cases he comes to make. We'll see how that develops.

I've noticed a few others, just in Chapter One. But nothing that some good editing or proofreading couldn't have caught/fixed.