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16. Chuck Nessa is to jazz recording what meat is to mashed potatoes.

My copied arrived the other day. I got a few things ahead of it in the bathroom, but the dust jacket is really colorful in a nice way. The photo itself kinda gives me the chill of death, but...time to start getting used to that, probably, not gonna live forever myself, right?

Your hint on #2 is conspicuously gender-neutral (not sure if that's thread-wide, though), so, Mary Lou? I would be a bit surprised if so, but...surprises happen, eh? And fwiw - as predicted, Fela has taken over the house, but Danny Barker has got the car, so...community property.

Will there be slow jams and stuff like that?

Just curious - did you first get that on LP or CD? And when? I only ask because that one and The In-Between are two that I've only seen on LP once in my life each (fortunately, each at a time when I had cash...). The first was in the proverbial Old Dusty Mom & Pop back in 1978 or so, that latter in a department store cutout been a few years earlier. Those things couldn't have been pressed more than once, and even then in small quantity. Anyway, always interested in hearing stories about stuff like that, so if you'd like to share yours, it would be appreciated. Either way, great records, both of them.

Bob Cranshaw has displayed a lot of flexibility over the years, played a lot of different gigs well. I'm sure that at one point he could have hooked up in a wicked way with that. Now, it might be too late. Probably is. Sonny's for a long time been about going out with people he feels comfortable with and playing to see if The Muse hits that night (and it still does, it seems), not working in a new concept and getting a "great band with a different concept" together (and he's alrady done that, on several occasions). Probably now more that ever, so no, it'll never happen, especially now. And maybe it didn't need to happen, ever (well, obviously not, because it would have). But after David Lee left, Sonny never had a touring drummer that I know of who could really bring those grooves with that flayva', if you know what I mean. But David Lee was a New Orleans cat, right? So, if so, then there you go, damn near always. Sonny himself during that time was highly erratic, but it was quite often independent of his rhtyhm section. There a lot of people who didn't dig that time of his work at all, but I'm not one of them, I can play the first side of The Cutting Edge album and just GO with that. Then on Side Two, you get "A House Is Not A Home" and then Rufus Harley to no advantage at all (ad I dig Rufus Harley in HIS own world, so maybe Worlds Colliding is better left unattempted...) and that's why I've still not bought that album on CD. But I have played the living bejeebers out of Side One! And in my mind, I can imagine a Sonny Rollins/Bob Cranshaw/Tony Allen/Whoever Else version of "The Cutting Edge" that would render Life As We Know It no longer necessary. Maybe that's why it'll never happen. Life Is Defending Itself From Itself!

I mean, I dug the Cranshaw/Lee/Mtume hookup big-time when it clicked (and it would sometimes click independently of Sonny clicking with them, but that's The Life With Sonny Show, right?). But check out that clip of "The Cutting Edge" and imagine Sonny playing that tune today with Cranshaw & Allen & whoever else. I would love to hear that, especially if it worked. I don't know that anybody with Sonny's ear would even know about Tony Allen, though. Or maybe Sonny don't want that, and ok if so. Or maybe in that world it's all "Soul Makossa" if/when it's there at all. Wrong if so, but prerogative to be wrong earned. But hell, Tony Allen lit a fire up under Jimi Tenor's ass, and Jimi Tenor ain't got a teence of the ass to git lit up under as Sonny Rollins does, even/if/etc. I think Tony Allen can still light fires under asses if the asses are there to get lit up under. Fela weren't no Manu Dibango, if you know what I mean.

The joke that the same type men who used white powder then are still using white powder of a different type today might be there to be made, but how accurate it would be, I wouldn't know.

I still like the idea of Tony Allen.

Ah, the memory comes bac k, and that was the group. Quartet after all. I seem to remember Alias not playing much drum set though on the set, though...would that be right?

IIRC correctly, the trio I saw might not have included Grossman after all...might have been Alias, Perla, and...Kenny Kirkland on Rhodes? Was he around in 1979? It was Newport/NY and a Sunday(?) of daytime street shows...caught Billy Harper the same way, maybe the same day.

15. Chuck Nessa realizes that a Birth Day without a Live Night makes for a Dead Morning.

The man they call Lungs. Such a career! I caught a set by Stone Alliance in 1979, as a trio w/Alias, Grossman, & I forget who else. It was a type of music I was not all that into at the time, but the set was very appealing. Can't listen to this all at once, but I sure enjoy how it's starting.

I used Clearasil when I was a kid. Kinda soured me on the notion of putting anything on my face for the purpose of making it look any different than it already does. But if you can make it work for you, go for it!

But we went to Blue Buffalo, and it's been a few months now. That stuff is stoopidcrazyexpensive, but when you see an 11 year old Golden Retriever pick up like he has, it's like, ok, right choice if we can afford it. I wonder if LTB snuck him some contraband yesterday...she's been known to to that from time to time...

I used to know a drummer whose nickname was "Cheeto-fart". I never knew why until we did a weekend out of town... But...dog gas is just nasty in a way that no human flatulence I've ever experienced has been. There must be some neuro-chemical thing going on with that, like how we seldom find our own flatulence as offensive as do others. Odd topic, I know, but....god knows I love my dog, but last night he was right up in my face sleeping and...wow. Thanks for letting me vent, Organissimo, and no thanks, Josh, for venting when you did. BAD DOG!!!! But I love him anyway.

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Oops, you posted this while I was typing. But yes, I agree 100%. What bugs me is that many older persons (I'm 66 by the way) don't - or don't want to - see the convenience of a more modern way of living than they were used to. Just an example - I live in an apartment building with quite a few people who are older than I am and they refuse to use a computer for even the simplest things, making life harder for themselves. Their excuse: I'm too old for that kind of thing; they don't even try... In the entire history of mankind....there are always people like that. Why at this point does it bother anyone? I'm not bothered to the point that I'd like to see them tried for crimes against humanity or anything. Well, in my Fantasy Revenge World, maybe. But in real time It's more like "wow, shouldn't have picked this line". But every now and then you get the person who makes a show out of their deliberateness, like I will NOT be rushed, and I will NOT take anybody else into consideration, this is ALL about me, and if YOU don't like it, you can just sit there and WATCH. Well, then, time for your close up Miss Desmond! One time, a store manager our Kroger came by and put the register on hold (or whatever it is they do that locks an in-progress transaction) during one such incident. It was @ 5:30 PM on a Friday afternoon, line backed up out the ass. He moved the line - and the cashier - to another register and said "ma'am, we'll get back to you when you're ready". There was laughter almost all around. But three people got through the new line before the lady said," I'm ready now" in a tone of unmistakeable Why Am I Having To Wait For You To Be Here? I love that Kroger!

I don't mind people writing checks. I write them myself on occasion. What really baffles me are the people who don't even begin to get the pen and checkbook out and open until the transaction has been fully rung up. I mean, how modular do you have to be to be functional? If you're at a point where there can be no overlapping activities at all in your consciousness, then...wtf?

Don't get me started about the customers who perform similar acts of Totally Unavoidable Time-Wasting at Post Office counters....especially after hearing them whine, sometimes quite pointedly, in the line about how slow the Post Office is...any number of times I've seen people show up with something to send, a container they think they want to put it in, and...nothing else. Nothing else. I guess when All The World's A Stage meets This Must Be My 15 Minutes Of Fame, stoopid shit is part of the inevitable result. But some people don't get that My 15 Minutes Of Fame is supposed to be per lifetime, not per venue per day.

Why is it always so quiet? Why does it come more often when you feed them good food? Why do they prefer being good all day and them climb into bed with you at night and then bring it on in full? And finally of all the flatulence odors available,, why did dogs choose the most malodorant stifling scent available?

Blue Note - Hitting A Newer Note!

Don't do Tumblr either, sorry, don't do any of that stuff, illogical to modern reality as it may be. Just saying - Nameless Sound sends me emails to get me to come to Houston, and it finally worked. Austin is closer to me than Houston, and although the traffic is worse, the drive is actually easier. Actually got a snail-mail from NS earleir this week, hitting me up for some bucks. I might actually give them some. One evening in Houston wiped out several decades of distaste. I don't even have any particular distaste for Austin. So yes, I am old, and yes, I occasionally have disposable income that I sometimes dispose of in musically-related ways. But I don't do Tumblr, sorry. But email works!

Actually created/had to use that line on a gig last week when one of the attendees (a "liberal") was talking about how that last shot fucked him up, SHOULNT-A DRANK THAT ONE,like it was the shot's fault that he drank it, like he didn't know how much he could handle, like if you keep drinking it becomes a surprise when you get fucked up. And this in the context of an earlier discussion a few seats over with another attendee (a "conservative") about how 2nd Amendment rights should be absolute b/c Otherwise The Government Will Control Everything. But War On Terror is OK because We Need Protecting. So at some point, it all comes together, and while that's fun to see in porn, in real life it's kinda like not porny at all.

Just visited your website. http://epistrophyarts.tumblr.com/ If you had a mailing list (snail or e-), I would gladly sign up for it. I do not/will not do "social media", but I sure as hell will check email! OTOH, I was looking at the site w/o my glasses on, so if I overlooked something, let me know.