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Glad to know that my dedicated efforts toward establishing a Living Fossildom are not misdirected!

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The only way that would happen is if they completely overhauled the way iTunes syncs to devices...and I don't see that change being needed or happening anytime soon. And the way to guard against that is to not update iTunes past a certain point, or to keep an older version handy, correct?

Hell, one of the unsung heroes of American music, period. This is slowly dawning on me in full force, one of those things that is so obvious that you don't even think about it, but when you finally do, DOH!

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I'm not a big phone guy. Don't want/need to be. So I liked the iPod classic. A lot. Now, having said that, I do have Pandora & Live 365 on my phone, and like having them there. But that's all about listening to what somebody else programs, and if you get a phone call or a text or something, there that goes. For sheer lack of interruption, put the iPod in the pocket, leave the phone at home, and take a nice long walk out into another neighborhood and back. That's for me! The only advantage the phone has for that over the iPod is that you have a "speaker" on the phone, so headphones are optional. Thus the transistor radio warmfuzzyflashback. Still and all, fuck Apple. I know they do good work, but fuck 'em anyway. My wife just got an iPhone and yeah, it's all sleek and minimalistic and shit, but the whole Apple "intuitive" thing...hell it's nothing but a new set of reflexes to learn, and until you do, you lose time, lots of time. The phone is training the user. OTOH, I've got a older stoner buddy who is getting so jelloheaded that he needs his iPhone to set up a reminder that he needs to be home in ten minutes. That's not convenience, that's just enabling the addle-headed. Take heed, world. Nevertheless, love my iPod, gonna rock it until it breaks.

Meshell Ndegeocello is a not-uninteresting musician, but this whole "re-imaging" thing...really? Would this Fats Waller thing have happened had it not been commissioned? I'm not gonna knock great players getting good money, but there's a part of me that still figures that music from the gut is best incentivized by the gut, and once other factors begin to come into play as far as incentivization, things change, they have to. I know the centuries old tradition of patronage and commercial considerations all that, but still...ain't too much f anything, ever, really "pure"..I guess I hope that everybody gets paid and that good things happen, and that the difference between having a vision and hustling to get it realized is not the same thing as getting paid to realize somebody else's vision. I mean, yes, let's hear it for sidepeoples, you get no music without sidepeoples, but, call me old-fashioned, I think the best vision for a leader to realize is one's own. Jason Moran & Meshell Ndegeocello...no reason why that shouldn't happen. No reason why lot more things "like that" shouldn't happen. Hell, they should happen more than they do. But what's the instigation, that's what I can't help but ask. Anyway, yeah, everybody get paid, and bon appeteat!

Upping this for this No Scepter, , not Hal David, not released until last year, and not even a "great song", at least in the "pop" sense. But geez...that's some convoluted shit right there, yet it almost, almost comes together. If it had...holy shit. I dig the lyrics too, how it starts out like it's going to be "Guess Who I Saw Today?" and then shifts the perspective a full 180. I'll take a "failure" like this any day. Soooo close...and shows how tight the rope was on their earlier work. Sounds like somebody/everybody looked down for a moment too long and then, well, you know.

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Bill Harris, not so much vulgar as eloquently lubricatedly rudely wry. In the best possible way. The kind of guy who could make a totally obscene joke in mixed company without using any foul language and have the society matrons laughing and calling him a wicked cad and all that and then excuse himself to go have another taste. Not that he was that kind of guy, I don't know. But his playing very much makes it seem to me that he was like that kind of guy. Smart, sophisticated, eloquent, common touch always to the forefront, and generally high - and highly functional. Pretty rare quality, really, one to be treasured.

Classic, and essential, at least if one has any interest at all.

Charlie Callas was a funny guy. His cousin Maria, maybe not so much. You be the judge.

Also...although not an "organ record" in the truer sense...but definitely "soul jazz".

One of the first, very first, jazz records I bought was a Gerald Wilson record, Everywhere. Out of the cutout bins, Loved it then, love it now, and have followed Gerald Wilson ever since. The more I understood big band writing, the more fun it was to listen to him. The Mosiac is a treasure, but don't overlook the later work. They're gems, all of them. RIP. Much love, and you'll be missed down here on the ground. If this was geared for airplay, it worked magnificently. A staple of drive-time jazz radio aorund here for as long as we had it. Electric harpsichord, California flutes, fully voiced brass, and Harold Land. Much, much love.

Hello Ran Blake... This can get "racial", but in my experiences and reflections on same, it's not about race strictly as skin color as much as it is race/skin color and the "Survival Impulse" that gets developed as a result. When one has survial in the fullest forefront of one's instincts, one tends to not value the pervieved "passive" qualities of life in general, because passivity can well get you killed. Literally. If there is blame to be found in learning that lesson, I can't find it. Of course, people who have the luxury/random acquisition/learned option of the ability to not worry too much about what happens when you don't do something, much less developing what you don't do into your mechanism of what you do do, they may well see it differently, as well they should. Becuase they can. Again, no blame in that that I can see. Of course, it's much more complex/diffused than all that, but I don't have the longpost in me this evening. Suffice it to say that the best way to move forward is to just do it, and that looking for answers can end up in either finding excuses or clearing a path. Or both. Or neither. Hoping, but not expecting, to live long enough to see history be repeated (or if you like, "made") as a result of forgetting it, not of remembering it. Or even better, remebering it but not getting tripped up by it. Over, not through. That's freedom...and probably delusional;. Oh well.

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(I'll bet Chuck Nessa knows) (Or maybe not) Probably not the same guy...here's another item with Robbie Porter - and Jiggs Chase! http://www.discogs.com/Joe-Thomas-3-And-Bill-Elliott-Speak-Your-Piece/release/4020299

The first more than the second, relative to the much later date, but yeah, especially allowing for a less refined tone after the passage of a lot of years. Does sound like over-dubbing though, the bari sounds suddenly pulled down in order to accomodate the alto. Weird way to do an insert, especially starting on the second chorus and then dropping out like that. Something went wrong somewhere on the raw take, it sounds like.

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Definitely sounds like the alto begins over the bari still playing. Also stops playing right after the beginning of a chorus where KD suddenly pops in. Sounds like there was a flubbed hand-off between choruses, so they filled it in with an alto overdub. And call me crazy, but the alto "voice" sorta sounds like Clifford, although it could be Cecil...can't say that I know Cecil Payne on alto. Perhaps a post-production choice by the producer?

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