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As seems to be his bented wont, I know what he means, but in spite of what he says, not because of it. I'd like to send my heart out to him, because I do that shit all the time myself, but I'm usually playing games with the words because games are for toys and words are toys and toys are for fun and games. Therefore: Trix are for kids & Stanley Crouch is a silly rabbit. Q.E.D.

So long, Nolan. Ya' done good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpbEJNNM-zI

Yeah, I don't think that's a good thing.

I look at it like lots of other drummers "dance", but Max "marches", a very meaningful & purposeful march, not a buffoonish showy one.

The second movement has me visualizing a Sinatra/Cowell album, and it's not an unattractive vision at all, at least as far as visions unfounded in any kind of practical reality go.

Just Art Blakey.

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I miss needing just a front-end alignment.

So, the Bley & Cyrille are temporarily unavailable...do the comma moves back when they come back in stock, or does it stay put, it and the numbers it rode in on? It's hard enough to trust an out-of-place comma when the transaction is instantly do-able, harder still to play the "maybe...we'll see" game with one, especially one that's in a number with a dollar sign that looks like an "E" instead of an "S". Home come I can't just buy records at a Firestone store, like in the old good days? Tires, I'll only need on occasion, but records? Always. Make your money by the day, not by the tire. What has gone adrift with you, oh world that is wrong? What ind,eed? You arst in need of an alignment, all four of you.

I have an M'Boom on Mesa/Blue Moon, Live at S.O.B.'s...does that duplicate the Baystate or is that something else?

Mingus, "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting", had/have it on an Atlantic 45 (45s were my generation's 78s, except that we also had LPs, so maybe not exactly the same thing overall...but in terms of living and breathing a whole world in right around 3 or so minutes, yes), hotter than hell, still is, the music, and the sound of the 45.

I'm having a hard time choosing between things that shook my world and whether or not the shakes are still shaking as much as they used to, if at all. Keep in mind, it's is the nature of a shake to eventually more or less even out. But some take longer than others. Two individual cuts that are still tremoring rather strongly, though, are "Transition" by Trane, & "The Egyptian" by Blakey. Ok, add "Somebody Loves Me" by Prez/Cole/Rich. And ok, yeah, this damn thing. Such a tremor that at age 15, it didn't really get the shakes a-goin' for a year or so. But damned if I know now when they'll begin to slow down, much less stop.

I'm somewhat less there about Preister, but Charles Davis, yes. And it's not really "ordinary", you're talking about players on the front line who all have pretty distinct voices & haven't exactly been over-recorded. Maybe I like the anthropology more than the music? Or they're more or less one and the same to me? The latter, yes. With this lineage of music, yes, to me. At some point all lineages, but this one more than most, just because everybody gotta be somewhere, right?

Men at work. If you enjoy experiencing those type men doing that type of work (and I generally do), then hey, here some more of it is.

1975 was the first set.

1974, to be exact. To me, the mid-70s didn't start until 1975, b/c that was the first full year that Nixon was out of office. And the late-70s didn't really get here until funk became Disco and Disco became Top 40.

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Either there's just one more besides us or else there's four... Don't like it as much as I used to, but still, it was a "hit" back in its day (at least where I was) and not without some reason. Maybe its one of those "you had to be there" things, with the "there" being a certain kind of still-impressionable mindset, but hey, that's where I was, so... Also, a look-back at what Atlantic was up to, what with Burton coming to the label from RCA, & Jarrett already there via Charles Lloyd/Vortex/The Label Itself. This was actually considered "jazz rock", and it appealed as such. What a difference 40 years makes, eh? Grow Your Own, What was that supposed to mean?

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Wow, that's $400.00! Don't think I care that much! And apparently there was a Columbia album with Farnon as well, With Love. Amazon offers it as MP3. But not the MGM Verve album. I did some checking, and there's LPs of both for sale on the internets, just not at prices I want. so now they're on "the list", things to start looking for casually, and to pick up when a good deal shows up.

Inexplicably got one hotel name confused with another and spent 30 minutes in a ballroom thinking that, gee, there sure are a lot of subs tonight. Then the leader showed up and the light bulb went off. Fortunately the other hotel was just a few miles away and I was still running early, but not nearly as early as I had been. That's a big part of why I don't like showing up too early any more, you're more likely to go to the wrong place if you have too much lead time. Focus is the key to being correct, and urgency drives focus.

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