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Bobby Brimfield Billy Butterfield BB King

Amy Slitheria Bowden - Rogue Glissandos

The one chapter I read was articulate enough. I see no reason to expect anything else from the rest.

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Santa Claus Sandy Koufax Senta Berger

Those things were important, no reason to wish/pretend otherwise, and to his credit. I don't see him doing that. He spent a few years with Phil Cohan, so he knows better, and says as much. But his point that this other stuff is also important is a sound one and he makes it well. It's an application of the macrobiotic principle of " the bigger the front, the bigger the back". It seems that he's arguing for a holistic, non/less exclusive view of Black American Musical Culture. I'm all for that. And let's bring in R&B while we're at it!

Pops Poopadeaux P. P. Badleigh Sir Albertine Flusher

Got the book today and cut to that last chapter just to see what the point was going to be. Still not sure, other than that the history of this era is to date incomplete because the musicology is written by people who were not a part of the community then or now, to which I can only say...this is different than most all Black Music how, exactly? Also, I'd like to know where all this "emphasis" on the "New Thing" is in today's narrative. Marion Brown is hardly a household name. Neither is Bobby Bradford, and he's still active! And this whole notion of narrative...I recall that the whole narrative being changed with the corporately funded Young Lions thing. Not only was the avant-garde excommunicated, but so was much of the music covered in this book (as well as it's evolutionary successors). We don't fix a damn thing until we purge that bullshit and that ain't gonna happen. To that end, there's a reference at the very end of this chapter to "the great jazz scholar Albert Murray"...no. Philosopher, muse, pontificator, yes, yes, and especially yes. But scholar? Words matter. Now, having said that, I definitely like the premise(s) that seem to be driving this book. Anything that expands the truth rather than contracts it is welcome here. There's a lot more to be corrected than this bit here. But every bit helps.

Oops! Of course!

Check out this one on RCA: Repertoire is suspect as hell, but between Pat Williams not even slightly dumbed down arrangements and the then-new clarity of recording on eight(?) tracks, it's a treat both musically and sonically!

From Kapp, Jones went to RCA, where he made some really good albums as well. Steve Swallow played on one!

"Do you want me to smoke it for you as long as I'm at it?"

Yep! I like it, but then again, I like most of Coleman's things. His rhythms are like ping-pong balls that keep bouncing off of uneven surfaces and his groups keep getting tighter. This is a quartet, so there's really no room to hide. Not in anyway condoning or otherwise overlooking Coleman's personal shit show of a few years ago. But this is a good record

Tee Carson Ted Carson Bill Barron

RIP He was sometimes quite better than his material, but when they were equally matched, hey...the man was a singer.

Diet Dr. Pepper!

That's one of those records that's likely to sound new for decades(or more). The stealth factor for me on this one is Ron Carter. That and the engineering. NP:

Douglas Edwards Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw

Blakey wore hearing aids at the end, and was damn near deaf without them

Our Plano Angelika recently closed after 20 years. That was, like, a 15 drive from our house, so I guess I'll need to see what else is relatively close and start stalking their schedule. What really got me reconsidering Eno was the second album with Fripp, Another Green World. Maybe my recreational habits of the time played into that, but that .music was so deliberate and unforced, it kinda forced you to slow down or get left behind, if you know what I mean. Also impressive imo is that he's pretty much invented his music from scratch, only instead of just being some static, eccentric "outsider", he's instead become quite sophisticated. He knows exactly what he's doing and why he's doing it.

For sure. Eno's music very much means what it says and says what it means. The details... Is this film in wide release, or what? I would like to see it.

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