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Yep.Some of the best extended Benson soling on record for quite a while. And I was kidding about it being a shame that it was on a dance record. I myself have developed quite a fondness for dance music over the last few years.

Have you called Fred to tell him "you're welcome!"?

Snap Crackle Pop

Anybody else hearing a spiritual kinship between this music and some of Grachan Moncur III's things? The whole "moving while standing still" and/or flittering around/over/under/through stop/start but ultimately monol;ithic (again with that word, sorry...) rhythmic impetuses of the music(s)? Maybe Newark=Rosebud?!?!?!?!

Bee Gees albums, pre-disco. Pretty good stuff indeed. But East Broadway Rundown is a better psychedelic record than any of them. :Nod:

Thanks, appreciate the offer, but one is enough. For now, anyway....

The good ones never are!

https://soundcloud.c...-clive-lowe-the Broken beat luminary with allegedly serious jazz training/skills meets highly competent very traditional big band with top-notch-if-generic soloists. Broken Beat's roots in "spiritual jazz" get highlighted, the jazz big band's roots as dance orchestra get rejuvenated. Good things happen, everybody wins, and probably nobody will like it because it's got drum machines, it's got a kit drummer, it's too commercial, it's go no vocals and long solos, it's a total contrivance, it's not really any one bag, it's not jazz, it's that damn jazz shit. Etc. Something here to piss EVERYBODY off. Nevertheless, if the idea of the Music Inc. Big Band playing for a roomful of sweaty 21st Century dancing people gives you cause to consider an impish grin, this is the album for you. I'm digging the LOL shit out of it myself.

Please! and Thank You!

Bechet Select. Listening to the classic Clarence Williams things here reinforces how I laugh when I hear people talk smack about today's popular music being "limited", like all these songs about mens with three or four main chords and melodies that could be cut-and-pasted at will aren't "limited". shuhyeah. The good news is that "limited" is not the point. The bad news is that when it comes to popular music, it hardly ever is. When I eat that sandwich, I know full well what is and what's not in it, and I know why that's the sandwich I want to eat. No matter, I love Sidney Bechet. you talk about presence, the ability to OWN a space, that's him. I can't imagine anybody trying to cut Sidney Bechet, not if they wanted to survive. Now I'm wondering - did Bechet & Hawk ever play together, on stage or on record?

Cary, what do you think of the whole Sa-Ra scene?

Coltrane, Transition

PM on TM

Hall Overton John Edd Welch, Mayor of Overton, Tx: http://www.ci.overto...ndex.aspx?NID=9 Clifton Clowers, who lives on Wolverton Mountain

That other guy in the pic looks like a Manson waiting to happen.

Sweet Lorraine Queen Frostine (and boy, don't get started with these people: http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/311735/i-am-outraged-at-the-continued-shafting-of-queen-f ) People Not Made Of Sugar Candy

Tetragon?

If it's just swallowing and saying ahhhhhhh! that everybody's looking for, I don't know that Sony can help you out with that. At least not at the consumer level. But there are people who can!

Disc 3 is where things get really trippy....Monty Stark was not in any way a "good singer", and at times could be called a genuinely awful singer, but he had a brilliant musical mind (and was a seriousass vibes player), and the music that is going on around his, shall we just call them "enthusiastic", vocals is startling in its organic originality. Still sounds fresh today, I think, which is a tribute to the spirit of everybody involved.

He did make those later sides on Landmark...w/Joe Henderson, Kenny Garrett, Bobby Hutcherson...his chops were really down by then, but he could still present a good program of music.

CD - http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=n47g9hd6jx&ref=browse.php&refQ=kwfilter%3Dstark%2Breality%26amp%3Bincl_oos%3D1%26amp%3Bincl_cs%3D1 LP - http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=3kjk8q5w93&ref=browse.php&refQ=kwfilter%3Dstark%2Breality%26amp%3Bincl_oos%3D1%26amp%3Bincl_cs%3D1 Nice package, good price, and music that is really groovy, in the best kind of way, if you know what I mean and like that type of thing. Should appeal to all fans of early "jazz-rock", every fan of fuzz-tone vibes playing, many fans of "groovy vibes playing", people who remember how fun acid trips were before you had a bad one, Hoagy Carmichael scholars, Boston jazz and/or WGBH scholars, and those who in general find inspiration in the way things were good before they weren't in spite of the likelihood that they'll probably not ever be that good again. See you tomorrow!

Does German Amazon offer German resellers? I'm thinking I could get a German set with the sticker for a damn good price if so. I'm at least as serious as not, because that sticker thing really kinda piques my geek...

I have a friend whose son has just graduated from Berklee. If this kid is to be believed, awareness and love of Dilla up there is widespread. So...look out for that, whatever that might be. I would like to think that since Osby knows that what he used to do was just as "right" as what he changed to doing that he might come on back to doing it. Whose Market Is It Anyways? Me, I could care less any more about "jazz innovations". That war's been lost. If A ≠ B, then it cannot be allowed to be jazz, so, ok, go on with that, and treat your docent kindly. AFAIC, and all conniption fits based on a superficial grasp of nothing but the most obvious commervial visibilities of LCD popular music pimped as "hip-hop" and/or "rap", it became evident pretty early on that things were going to have to change, that there was too much going on - not just in a brief little blow-up, but on an ongoing, evolving basis - in terms of redefining some pretty basic principles of what music was and what it could be and how it could be made that at some point too many people with good minds were going to have to stop and say, hey, this is probably at least as much a part of who we are as all this other stuff that was over before we were even born, time to get with it like that. Historical inevitabilty reaching critical mass, or something. I'm making no claim to be "in on this" or anything, because as much as I dig what I do dig of it, I know full and damn well that it's not "my" music. It's just "music of my time". But that's important, because I figure that "my time still has another 20-30 years on it, and that's a long time to be looking at photo albums and nothing else, ya' know? Besides - it really, really pisses me off when a young cat tells me how lucky "we" - as in us "older" people" - were to have had all this great music around back in the day. I'm like, hell, motherfucker, get out there and make your own great music, and don't waste your time trying to do what's already been done, because you will not be able to get there like that. Will not. And then when they start talking about ah, all anybody wants now is blahblahblah, I try to tell them, look, that's all anybody has EVER wanted, so get over it. Use your tools and make your blahblahbalh into more than just blahblahblah, That's all anybody worth a damn has ever done anyway, really, take a common language and.....TAKE it, ya' know? Take it and do stuff with it, all kinds of stuff, not just repeat it back over and over. Anyway.... Sounds like Humpty Dumpty's finally coming out of his coma. That fall was a bitch. May he recognize that all the king's horses and all the king's men don't have his best interests at heart, and may he put his own self back together again the way he knows he wants to be. Good luck!

So the sticker is just a german thing...that makes it even more collectible, then.