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I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a couple of hardcore hardboppers back in the 1970s about a Cecil Taylore record (one of the New Worlds, maybe one of the Hats, Ramsey Ameen was on it and he was in town for a concert/recording and I was involved in the proceedings, so whoopdie-doo about all that). The intended damning critiques was that "there was no language, it was all just bleepsreechackBOOM", to which I said well hey, if enough people are saying "bleepsreechackBOOM" and understand amongst themselves what "bleepsreechackBOOM" means, then you pretty much DO have a language, correct? One guy was all like, hey, whatever, you're just trying to confuse the issue, and the other guy was, hmm...that's a good point. Didn't change anybody's mind, but that's not the point. The point is are you going to not like something and move on about it, or are you going to not like something and create some persecution complex about it? Or do the same thing about liking it? Things are only complex until they're not. Music is just sounds organized the way somebody(s) thinks/sounds like they think they should sound.

I've got no dog in the hunt about how good she is or isn't doing any one thing any good, I really don't care one way or the other, but I would point out that nasality when people talk will be naturally transferred to their singing voice unless they consciously decide for it to not be there, and then...truth? Or consequences? Norah pretty much grew up in these parts, and the way "we" talk, you'd thing the larynx and the sinuses were parts of the same organ. Having never actually split anybody's head open (at least not from the front), I can't say with first-person conviction of proof that they aren't! So, that part of it has no relevance to me, kind of a, how you say, argument with a strawberry dogman about who gets the short end of the cake. Everything else, like I said, I don't care.

This is what she was doing in local clubs when she was signed by Blue Note. Whether or not it's "true jazz" or "right phrasing" or not, hell if I know. In hindsight, there's a lot of other things going on up in there if you're not listening with jazztunnelvisioned ears (which Lundvall obviously wasn't, not sure about most others) But this is what got their attention, her doing this like this.

She was signed as a jazz artist, actually. When they found her here, that's what she was doing, lounge/club gigs doing standards, and htat's what they origianlly had in mind for her. The Bruce Lundvall got to thinking about it... Haven't cared about her for a very, very long time now, but the lady has mad skills, and Puss n’ Boots, that's like hey, you think you gonna own this Puss, nah, WE own this Puss, so everything else starts from that, now, what were you saying? And hello Nancy Sinatra, talking about who's gonna own the Puss AND Who Gots The Boots. Still a role model after all these years! More power to her (Norah), just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't wish anything but the best for her.

With hair like that, you gotta have suits to match.

Andrew sent me this great interview with dunlop, talking about Monk: http://www.cruiseshipdrummer.com/2011/04/frankie-dunlop-on-monk.html

Holy shit Sal Nistico, you go ahead and drop all that Lockjaw harmonic science on the peoples and then just walk away like nothing happened. Holy shit, Sal Nistico! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx35lhlfBVg#t=13

Looks so wrong, sounds so pissed off. Gotta love it. Either that or be repelled by it, perhaps even scared. Or all of the above. Yeah, all of the above.

No, just relocated to the rehab wing. From http://www.lonestarball.com/2014/7/31/5957241/tanner-scheppers-alexi-ogando-kevin-kouzmanoff-jurickson-profar-all apart from that, Price to the Tigers is a strong move, and glad to see Price with a legit contender. That guy's a player! Not sure if Oakland was smart with the Cespedes deal, though. Boston can throw money to get Lester back in the off-season...time will tell. Oakland has been smart enough and good enough for so long now, I retract the "playing over their heads" suspicion I held about them for too long.

Well, shit. Not just Monk, but Maynard(!), Mingus(!), Hamp, who else? Oh yeah, Slide Hampton (maybe as an offshoot from Maynard. I know there is some honest..."disagreement" about his work with Monk, but I always felt that he played like Monk danced, even before I even saw how Monk danced. His kicks and stuff just felt like dance moves to me. 30 years retired, and the first thing I think of when I hear "Frankie Dunlop" is swing, old-school dancing, syncopated SWING. RIP, much love, and here's a loud snare pop on 4 just for you.

Not even with the cufflinks?

Charles Lloyd immediately comes to mind. Here's his former employer in 1967, getting there: His former employer, and the one you'd tend to think of as fashion-forward, didn't really hippen up the attire until the second Quintet, allegedly at the instigation of Betty Mabry/Davis. Truth this - nobody rocks a tie like Roscoe Mitchell. I've said it before, but it bears repeating. Although, I am in total agreement with the "ain't what you wear, it's the way that you wear it" crowd.

Would anybody happen to know the CD disposition of that Victrola material, all three volumes of it? Either as a set or re-positioned? Also, why did RCA go all "Victrola" for that instead of Red Seal?

Early on, I only knew of him through his disco albums on Kudu, did not know that he used to be "Leo Morris". The he started showing up on those Theresa sides, Then I learned who "Leo Morris" was, and then, whoa, ok, this guy's a badass, always has been, just...too bad about those disco records. And with Ahmad Jamal...yeah, that's good stuff. Great stuff, really. Can you ever go wrong with a New Orleans drummer? Even if you can, it won't be as wrong as it would have been otherwise. That's my own personal superstition, right until scientifically proven wrong. And even then, right. RIP and much love.

If anybody's interested in some really good, stretched out later-day Forrest, find that Waymon Reed side on Artists House, the one that looks like it's a picture of a fried egg on the cover but is really some Art Deco-ish foofaw flimmerjam. I say this in spite of the presence of Bobby Durham.

Probably because The Aging ______Market forgets everything after five months?

Kenny Burrell Prestige = 70s material as well? Yes? If I get a vote, yes, please. I would drift off a lot, any period, but some drifts are significantly more enjoyable than others, and KB has always been such for me.

Plentiful, bounteous even, directions here, and much appreciated, all of them (and all of you).

I think it's funny (as in LOL) how people who always look askance at things that go "too far out" with the comments similar to "you can't start over" or some such are usually trying to do just that - to start back over without dealing with what it is they don't like happening. Well, guess what? You really can't start over. So the joke's on them. Only that's not so funny.

It's late, Amazon is no help, and dammit, it's time to hear this guy instead of only knowing about him b/c Dolphy wrote a dedication to him. Where to go, please?

I have to think, though, that some people talked to their agents, or their agents talked to them, and said, hey, ok? and then yeah, ok. Not everybody, mind you, but some. Like, hey, all the gigs is gone, so let's...adjust.

Have you contacted the NSA?

Nothing in the runoff area? Gotta be a matrix # for each side?

Just because a wild bear shits in the woods, does that mean he'll jump off a bridge if you do it too, as long as there's nobody there to make a sound?