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Mary Lou Williams was a big Monk advocate early on, and as I understand it, many people paid attention to what Mary Lou had to say about things like that. Taylor might well have been one. Either way, there's a certain "jazz piano-centricity" to Monk's work from the beginning that I think would get anybody's attention who had the chance to hear it and who was thinking that way to begin with (having a "jazz piano-centric" POV).

Found the Crouch/BN notes. They were on Chick Corea's Circling In (also released in 1975...that seems so long ago now...). Here, the notes are not particularly directed towards the material at hand nearly as much as they are as desalinating a continuum of the jazz "avant-garde", which interestingly (and enthusiastically) enough Crouch finds the material at hand to be firmly a part of, even with it's influence of "the European avant-garde", which at some point became a disqualifier for Crouch & Co.'s 's brand of circling-the-wagons-evolution-through-taxidermy. So yes, redemption, it is still hoped, could be attained. But perhaps not. No, there was a 2 LP set called The Third World that came out in 1975. Right -- I had that set myself. I also had (bless me) the three original BN LPs, including the two 10-inchers -- bought them about when they came out after I listened to them in a booth in my local record store, Paul's Recorded Music, and thought they were terrific. IIRC, the first track that really caught my young attention was "Shuffle Montgomery." As Roswell Rudd later said: "One of the greatest riff tunes ever dreamed up by anybody!" It should also be remembered that, in the wake of that BN 2-fer, Bethlehem reissued their Nichols album, and Savoy put out what they had as well (as part of some compilation, IIRC). So, the Mosaic set was actually Wave 2 of The Reintroduction Of Herbie Nichols.

No, there was a 2 LP set called The Third World that came out in 1975. Although...I see now that Roswell Rudd did those notes! But...Crouch did the liners to some album in that series...and I remember them being pretty good.

No longer have that album, maybe it was a direct quote, even, honestly don't recall. I just remember that when whatever mention was made of Herbie Nichols at that time (mid-1970s) it was always of the "overlooked genius", "tragically neglected", "victim of the business" A.B. Spellman slant (which was and is certainly legitimate), but now here comes this guy writing the notes to the first real "re-presentation" of Nichol's work, and he's talking about the music itself, at least part of the time, and I thought, well, yeah, let's do it like that. Because if all you want is a martyr and/or sad story, then ok, you can probably find that within walking distance of your own crib, no matter who you are and/or where you live. But, you want to talk about a certainly most-damn EXCELLENT composer and pianist, well then, let's talk about the music itself, build the case around THAT, then. That's what I remember Crouch doing in those notes, perhaps not always with a lot of/any really specific technical acumen, but at least the reader was being directed that way, and to me, that seemed like the right thing to be doing with that opportunity. Until the Mosaic came along, that set was the Herbie Nichols "bible", unless you were old/lucky enough to have the original releases. And Stanley Crouch, yes, Stanley Crouch, was talking about the music over The Story. But that was a loooooong time ago....much, as they say, has changed.

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Redemption of sorts, perhaps. Before Crouch turned stooge, I recall him having some interesting things to say...his notes to the Herbie Nichols BN LP two-fer talked about the overtones of a drum kit, and I was like whoa...NOBODY talks about how drummers tune, and yes, that is of critical importance, and hey, thanks for bringing that up, what else have you got to say? And he was cool about the early-ish "loft" music, he got it, he heard it, he was not stupid. Loud, perhaps, but not stupid. Until he was, and then he got all kinds of stupid, and then I was like, really dude? REALLY? And it only got worse, right? The awfulness kept gaining momentum, and I'm not thinking, you know what you're doing, right? You know you're being a total ignowhormus, right? But you do have your redemption stashed away for play when you absolutely ultimately finally have no further down underneath you, right? Well, you do, don't you? Now, I've not started this book (still enjoying my quite leisurely stroll through Mojo Snake Minuet), but it sounds like, no, maybe not. Maybe it got lost at the cleaners. But still - who in the "jazz critical community" brings drum tunings to a conversation, not in a Max Roach "pitched" digression, but as a matter of timbre, resonance, and, yes, overtones that blend/compliment to the momentum of the music? Nobody I've known about. So...what a waste. What a self-imposed soul-suck. And ain't no ambulances for no self-imposed soul-sucks tonight.

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Dude - you need to get one of these. Save the exercise for when the mizzus gets home!

Oh, if one goes looking for creative jazz stretching in the "post-Coltrane" years & overlook the Ellington(ia) of those very same years, one misses a very pretty significant boat, I think. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgBZOsQVbRs etc

For some weird reason it's always reminded me of this one But - have you noticed how the orange & pink (fuchsia?) is starting to make a comeback in clothing colorations? That's good news for the eye, imo.

It's like he's Jackie AND Roy!

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Some of these umps can't see, much less hear. So bring the noise, home team, root root root. Throw lightening in their ears and thunder in their eyes!

hehe. reminded my of this Stravinski quote "Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?" -- Igor Stravinsky Oh, I'd not get all like that up in it, but...the liner notes (by Alfred Frankenstein...STEEN! Frank-en-STEEN!) imply it best when they say: And OBTW - my copy is stamped as being from radio station WWCA, in the Gary Hotel, right there in Gary, Indiana. One has to wonder if this album, its cover and/or its contents, were used by Joe Jackson to keep little Michael in line. If so, hey, there you go.

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Same record, same company. United was a Bihari brothers label, same as Crown.

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Get it while you can: http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/story/_/id/9759942/vin-scully-los-angeles-dodgers-broadcaster-air-return-2014 I no longer care for the Dodgers, have not for some time, actually, but I will listen to Vin Scully call a game, especially on radio. The MLB At Bat app is good for that, and if you watch MLB TV, they drop in often enough. Not that there aren't/haven't been others. But there will never be another. n its own way, it's like catching Sinatra live, or Miles live - unless you have ready opportunity to take advantage, you hope to be able to experience it at least once in your lifetime, so do it when you can do it, because if you don't, you never will. And then, too late and oh well. Don't be too late and oh well.

But can you make him drink? Can you beat a dead horse to water and make him drink? Remember, you got there first, so perhaps the answer is not as apparent for some as it might otherwise be, especially now that John Zorn Month is no longer with us but Phil Schapp is. The constant here? Water. Some people see problems, others see solutions. If you plan on making yours a water-based solution, you might want to reconsider making the dead horse drink it. Force is never the answer, but it might be a part of the solution. I'm not a chemist, so really, I don't know. Do you? Does anybody? And yet, there is life. There IS life! So say yes to water! And ride a dead horse - AND the dead horse he rode in on. Give them both some water, and let them come rolling home, this one and that one, each and both, some, but not all. Stay thirsty, my friends.

Move Over, Darling on streaming Netflix. No color was spared in the making of this movie.

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The dildo-with-a-love-child-of-Ernie-Kovas-and-Triumph-The-Insult-Dog-for-a-head that dominates the cover photo should have tipped me off that this was not gonna be very good, but you know me, I like a good party record as much as the next guy, right? But...this is not very good, period. Red Seal? .