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Miles' was right! And probably not everybody got such respect shown to them be Mr. Davis as did Mr. Kirk! But really - once you have a century or so to process the reality, does it not seem silly that you plug in to record music and that's ok, you plug in to hear music and that's ok, but you plug in to make music and that's not ok? I like jazz that sweats too, btw, including Kirk's records with Trudy Pitts, Jack McDuff, and Eddie Baccus, all of whom would have been out of business if the cord was pulled out of the socket, so, oh well, sometimes it takes a while for the reality to get fully processed, eh? Fact, though - Rahsaan didn't need no electronics, because his brain was wired to do it like that naturally *and god bless him for that just as we were blessed to have him here for the short time that we did). But not everybody's is, and life-options for anybody should not be limited on the basis of plugular preference, one way or the other. Some people's brains are wired that way too.

Oh, I love Rahsaan, for real. But the whole "electronics gonna kill us all" shit is at this point in time dumb, outdated, and just wrong. Ain't nothing gonna kill us all but us all, and if "electronics" is the tool, oh well. Hastening (or perhaps just presenting) the inevitable, that's all it is. And in the meantime, people who do learn to deal with it and not be dealt to by it are at this point in time not dumb, outdated, or wrong. But at this point in time, Rahsaan (and all the people he carved, benevolently or otherwise ) are dead or closer to it than not. So if the game is to re-argue (do we get to win this time?) what is at this point a debate that has already been settled unless and until The Lights Go Out Once And For All (at which point there will be bigger fish to fry than who can push a button and sound just like Wes Montgomery), then I guess that's one of the many things that the Electronics Of The Internet will let you do, but, ok, good luck, and really? That's all I'm saying. That, and did Rahsaan ever carve Eddie Harris, or did they have a "gentleman's agreement"?

Time for the annual-ish bump. FROTHY URINE.

http://loungelegends.blogspot.com/2013/03/derek-watkins-my-way-rip.html

One of the most compelling, strongest voices of her time, imo. RIP indeed.

So...although there are past masters who "controlled the electronics", everybody else should just stop lest they get brainwashed? And them Europeans wrote beautiful "electronic sounding" music, but that's enough of THAT? Frankly, acoustic lemmings matter to me no more or no less than do "electronic" ones. "Craft" is not something you do as an end to itself, unless that's really all the better use of your time that you got, in which case, hey, have a nice day, would you like fries with that (no, not ever). and life is a song, oh yeah. Maybe the herd needs to be thinned and "electronics" is just the right tool to do it? Why, I think that just might be it! And I do want to be around to hear the survivors, as well as those who almost make it. Those who never stood a chance, oh well, get the fries, then. Super-size 'em. Although, in the context of his time, Kirk made the good sense as far as he went. Find his Jazz & Pop interview where he talks about how Wes Montgomery busted his ass to play those octaves and now everybody push a button and they sound like Wes Montgomery. Classic. Again, as far as it goes, good and right. But the real question is now that they got the button, what they gonna do with it? Thin the herd! Hell yeah!

I like the way you put that, "dealing with that specific dialect of music". That's pretty smart, imo. It neither minimizes nor exaggerates the intent and/or accomplishment of same. Even if it's not a dialect that I myself make sure I have all the time in the world to listen to, I can still dig that it exists, why it exists, and who is doing what with it. Thanks for that objectivity of observation, for real.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO_wlonVsO8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bVpNp4ybQ

Bob Greene Bobby Blue Bland Robert Redford

This was a few years before Dreams.

Spring Byington Harry Morgan Cara Williams

Jack Six Count Basie Dr. Harold J. Numbers

Maybe like you just got laid by prime Ursula Andress?

I've had good luck listening to the whole set for about a week straight and then just remembering the stuff I liked, as it occurred to me. I'll probably need a "booster shot" at some point, but I'll worry about that when the time comes.

ouch.... and again...

Oh my!

Yeah, now see, that's what builds character, stuff like that, where you know that you're going to die RIGHT NOW and then somehow for some reason you don't. That ain't no "intellectual perspective", that's LIFE talking to you right in your mf-ing FACE, no avoidance to be had . THAT'S perspective! After that, what choice do you have but to be strong and soulful? Yeah, George Barrow. Liking him even more now. Thanks for passing that on.

Sorry to hear this, but a life well-led, apparently. All I know is that every time I see his name on a record, I get interested. RIP.

Hey Lon - Where I go in Ohio, they have very "interesting" regional lunch meats and give you a free bag of potato chips with your local-chain pizza. A BIG bag. They also say "pop" instead of "soda". Knowing you, I don't think that lunch meats, local-chain pizzas, potato chips, and/or soda-pops are of any particularly significant interest, so your odds of having a happy life there are immediately improved!

I'll DL the fool in April, please favor.

No idea....maybe she was the facilitator for JAM regarding access to some Japanese labels?

I've got a copy of the Herman Riley record. Much better than I was expecting. Much better. I seem to recall word back in the day that Toshiko was an actual business partner in the lable...not sure if that;'s a fact, but that was "the word" "back in the day".

I just hope he doesn't end up as the Mickey Rooney of his generation.