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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?

Dammit Jeff, now I want to cry too...and for $2.98 used at Amazon, I don't feel bad about admitting it.

Don't know if I can tell if it's arroyo's voice per se that I like so much on the Stockhausen thing as it is the sheer confidence with which she asserts herself in every passage, but that recommendation looks interesting, and will be filed away as a future get. Thanks.

Sorry, Stockhausen - Momente, the Nonesuch issue of the Wergo LP. The copy I got has too much surface noise, and I'm generally pretty workaroundsih about dealing with that. Can't do it with this one, though, just too much. Martina Arroyo, though - damn. The whole ensemble, for that matter. Damn. Sometimes you hear records of "this type thing" from this time/place and it's like...they're not really getting it, are they (just got done with a Penderecki from 1967(?) on EMI that really felt like that), but no such concerns here. All in, already.

A too-well-played copy, as it turns out, had to order the Wergo CD. Looking forward to it.

Have not. I fo like Live365 quite a bit though. But I just have that on my Roku now, not on my phone.

forgot about that one. Just now discovering Cage's early works. Have to admit, I'm more than a little stunned at the visceralness of them, how rhythmically driven they are. The "connections" I get to things from 20-30 years later (from Cecil - 88 tuned drums, indeed) to Max's melodic drum solos to Herbie's electronic music to Brian Wilson's drugged-out deadened piano & reverbs to the AACM's "space" pieces, and that's just for starters) are really startling to confront, to say nothing of the impact of the music strictly as its own self. Are there any more empathetic performances of this material that those of Kirtsein here? Hard for me to imagine that there are, but I don't know enough to imagine that with any true confidence.

The Raiders Station experiment continues, and the results, although pleasant, have been discouraging. I've had to start disliking songs that I really like just because they don't go fit what I'm looking for. This things seems to think, ok, this user doesn't like THIS song, let's send him another one just like it. I mean, a thumbs up to "Great Airplane Strike" and the next tune is "Monday Monday"? Thumbdown that one, and up comes "Love Potion #9" by the freakin'; SEARCHERS???? C'mon Musical Genome, either you are bad science or stupid science, which is ultimately the same thing, really. Or, most likely, just old marketing ideas (i.e. - hopes) applied to newer technology. The Art Ensemble station, though, is showing prose. Last night it threw me Cecil's Live In Bologna as one (nearly) 70 minute "song" , and I not only thumbupped it, but listen to it all. Wanted to see if the logic took the hint and came back with something else equally pleasantly surprising. Well, no. It gave me back a Willaim Parker cut for the 4th time this week, and an AEC cut for the 3rd. Pandora seriously needs a way for the user to set their profile to "get deep cuts" or "don't play the same song more than X times in Y time frame" and "play less p[popular artists first", something like that. Because it looks like it's currently set up to be an online "mainstream" record store - plenty of familiar variety for most people, but if you want anything else, look for your nearest specialty shop, and take your complaints there, please, we're doing ok as we are, thank you. Oh, by the way, are there any Beatles records you'd like to add to your collection? No sense leaving empty-handed, is there, don't want the trip to be a total waste of time now, do we?

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