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Steve Marcus Steve Garvey Steve Douglas

Don't know that I'd do this for any one of them individually, maybe??????, but together...yeah, I'll do that. Just feeling lucky that I've got the flexibility of schedule to do it, because, yeah, Tuesday in Austin from up here...it'll be a hit-and-run, but oh well. Had to miss Bobby Bradford when he was through here, still hating that, but fortune is smiling more kindly this time around, at least to this point.

Burning Spear Grandpappy Spears Lionel Smeers

Ticket bought, car rented, will I see any of y'all in Austin tomorrow? Also - anything that needs to be known about the parking around the venue?

Another one for Love That Bob/Schultzy, not Brady/Alice, but nevertheless remembered.

And if he's not an addict, if he's just one of them Get High For Fun Boys, then the actions that led to his result are those of a really dumb, common motherfucker who happens to be a good trumpet player. Or more to the point - as the means of provisioning criminal behaviors to the customer base desirous of same become increasingly sophisticated in terms of discretion and anonymity (to say nothing of the integration with the societal units contractually charged with enforcing the laws regarding these same behaviors) , it rather...urgently behooves the consumer of such behaviors to follow suit, unless and until said customer decides to an irrevocable point of certainty that their needs are better served through other means.

Yeah, at some point...it gets old. all of it. At some point people either get their shit together and move towards recovery (itself an adventure), or else they don't, with predictable results. In the meantime, we all got our own lives to lead, and all that goes with that. I recently had a guy who relapsed tell me that he told his therapist, that his behavior was stupid, and the therapist told him, no, don't call your actions "stupid", call them "distorted thinking". Apparently calling an action stupid is the same as calling the person who committed it stupid, like smart people can't do stupid things, only stupid people do stupid things.To me, that's bullshit. At some point, "wholeness" only becomes a possibility through owning your behavior, and if you do something stupid, hell, it is stupid. Own it, fix it, learn from it, and then begin moving ahead. If you're the victim of "distorted thinking, hell, that's psycho-killer, mental institution shit right there. you can't fix "distorted thinking", you can only get yourself away from potential victims the next time you thinking distorts again, you need to be locked up because apprently this "distorted thinking" thing is something that can strike without warning and you're powerless to do anythng but succumb to it, look out everybody else.. So, good job therapist, so much for ownership. Now this guy's gone from, wow, I really fucked up, to, oh wow, maybe it wasn't my fault, and maybe it's somebody else's responsibility to deal with this. I'm kinda like, dude, recovery is truly a "one day at a time" thing, and every day you think that you're not responsible for your choices and their repercussions is a day that I do not want you in my life past whatever time is absolutely necessary for the conducting of essential business, and don't be surprised if other people feel the same way. We all got troubles of our own.You dig drama so much, watch a fucking soap opera. So yeah, at some point it does get old. At this point, I've realized that good people die, bad people die (hell, everybody dies somehow, sometime, I think we get too gushy about death as a way of compensating for all the fuckups we tolerate while alive, tolerations we know we could/should do better with but just...don't), good people can hurt you, bad people can hurt you (hell, everybody can hurt you, and most people do hurt you, it's just a question of intent and severity). It's not about deciding whether or not anybody is a "good person" or some such, it's only about this - random shit, I have no control over, but seeing a trainwreck starting to happen, seeing the debris come flying through the air right at my own head, and not at least trying to get out of the way, that's nobody's failed opportunity other than my own.

Whether or not the addiction itsef is "smart" I'll leave for others to argue. Bet there are definitively different competencies when it come to personal addiction-management.

Addiction is no excuse for being stupid. I've known smart addicts and idiot addicts. The smart ones plan ahead, the idiots don't plan at all. Nothing's 100%, but odds is odds. As does the general population, the addict population has far more idiots than it does smart people. I have empathy for smart people of all stripes, idiots of none, and so much so much for the vast majority in between. Hargrove, stop being an idiot. Whether you want to be a user or not, that's your business. But when your usage-management style is this low-grade...gotta do better than that dude. You know what they did to Gene Krupa. Do you want that to be you?

THERE WILL be many other nights like be standing here with someone, some one someone some-one some some some some some some one there will be other songs a-nother fall, another ­ spring, but there will never be a-noth, noth anoth noth anoth-er noth-er noth-er Other lips that I may kiss, but they won't thrill me like thrill me like like yours used to dream a million dreams but how can they come when there never be a-noth ­ --Paul Blackburn, "Listening to Sonny Rollins at the Five-Spot"

http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi2987787033 Somebody, please, watch this to conclusion. I'm still not sure it really happened.

I thought they had delivery services in Manhattan. What's this guy doing coming outside and getting in a dealer's car? There's stubbornly old school, and then there's just foolishly recalcitrant. Besides, at some point, you have to decide what you're going to be - an ex-drug user or and old guy who never moved on.

Unfortunately I can't see the the record you`re rerefering too - could you pls specify in writing ? And your damn right about his playing with the Crusaders, which for me raised them another level..... No problem - Nancy Wilson's Tender Loving Care, or just TLC. If you're going to like Nancy Wilson at all, you're going to like this one, I'd think.

Just because, this is a big part of who he is and how he got there. And it's a damn good Nancy Wilson record in the process. And throw in a The Jazz Crusaders record(s) of your choice too.

Serge Chaloff Bill Charlap Cha-Cha Shaw

I love that Hawk set. I was significantly less familiar with the earlier stuff than the later, but it pulled me in from note one and didn't let go until the end. The story just kept unfolding, every selection being an expansion of the one before it (or so it felt listening to it in as much all-at-once fashion as each day would allow). It's programmed quite,as you say, adeptly.

How crazy would I be to wonder if the small group tracks are either Ronny Scott or Tubby Hayes?

Carol Connors Bull Connor Gianni De Conno

Like the Presige blowing sessions, only sometimes with some more interesting players/less prominent names (Shafi Hadi + John Jenkins, most notably) in on the dates, and more of Hank's writing. I too like the 60s music more, but these 50s things are still uniquely Hankish through and through, I enjoy them muchly, even though every note played screams WHEN DOES BILLY HIGGINS GET HERE? ,

What - and who - are we to make of these triads?

I'm lucky to have the ability to work from home, so I really shave only when required. The rest of the time, I let my stubble grow until it's almost a beard (or has become a short one) and then "shave" it back down with a Wahl hand-held beard trimmer. I'll use the Fusion for an outline trim when needed, but a full shave is something I don't really do these days as a regular event.

This cover story is very much worth tracking down and reading. In it, Jones says something like "who has seen the wind? neither you nor I", which I know is not original to him, but still, he might have been crazy/nuts/whatever, but he seems to have really felt what his music was in a essential way that I could see making a man (or woman) crazy in that way when it became smallerized than it really was just to get people gigs fames and fortunes. Just read the article and listen to the voice therein. Profound stuff, at least for me.

I LOL-ed at this: ...because I witnessed an example of that, Sonny going in between the time so much that the end result was "like" levitating in time, like you started out in one place, then went up into the air and then came back down to earth in the spot where you were supposed to be, but...how did you get there, it was not a linear path, it was like...I don't know, levitation is the best word I can think of for it. And because I was kind of like, WHOA, WTF was THAT????? I started looking around, and I saw Cranshaw just kind of shake his head, shift his body, and get back to normal, like, ok, yeah, he just did that to us, and I look around at the people in the seats, and many of them are doing the same thing, perhaps consciously, perhaps not, who knows, but yeah, Sonny can indeed "do some things". Also, fwiw, this was done on one of those "funk" type tunes, not on a standard, so the myth that Sonny didn't really have his heart into any of "that" stuff...that's not the right argument to have, I'd say.

Should've been a surprise bonus disc included in the 'Herman/Phillips Mosaic, because once you hear the Phillips albums and get past the charts and woody's schtick and all the "big-bandy ness of it all, this is what you have left over, and none of it is a minus, oh no in fact it's a plus, it's the life of the party. This is the drive train of that band, these guys right-here.

Howard Rumsey Marla Gibbs Carey Leverette