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So long.

The House Of Lady Jane Wart-Hog!!!! Got to love it!!!!

(let me add for full accuracy's sake that Airto began recording with Miles in November of 1969, but is not on any to-this-point-documented live recordings until 1970. Still, his addition changed things up significantly, adding another layer of rhythm and texture to a group that was already well-supplied with both).

Somewhat - but that album is very heavy on In a Silent Way/Bitches Brew material. In the summer/fall of 1969, the band was still playing a lot of material from earlier in the '60s (Footprints, Masquelero) and even some tunes from the '50s (Round Midnight, Milestones, No Blues). Even those tunes get pretty abstract, though. I'd also add that by the time 1970 rolled around, Airto was in the band, and that made a fundamental difference in the basic texture of the music.

Same tune/arrangement, different perfomance.

All I can do is just stand in awe at the level of genius behind that quote. On the internet, there is no such thing as a wish. There are only requests.

Just received this (forwarded) update:

I had no idea that there was a "Tom Chapin" that wasn't Thomas Chapin. Learn something every day!

I like that one because on "All the Things You Are", Coleman Hawkins tricks out the changes more than Stan Getz or even Don Byas, and does so in the most understated yet emphatic fashion imaginable, kinda like, yeah, ok, y'all do all that, here's what I got. Hey, how 'bout that, eh? How did THAT happen? Hmmm. The older I get, the more I appreciate just what an "Ok, you want to fuck with me? Bring it, then! (smirk chuckle digestive fluids beging flowing)" guy Coleman Hawkins was, and why he needed to be that way the older he got.

Dude, is that a dead horse you guys are gathered around? I really need new glasses...

If there's an alternate of "Almost Like Being In Love" ...I need to hear that for personal reasons.

No holiday tunes, ok?

And not even a useful one.

This year's November Rainey bad news (damn) - his house has burned down. An account has been set up to assist. Links: https://www.facebook.com/HelpRaineyFamily http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f28/chuck-rainey-family-house-fire-933576/http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f28/chuck-rainey-family-house-fire-933576/

Hey, lots of people have changed a lot of things about themselves since their NT days, so I'd not have been surprised.

Where might one hear said Sutherland versions? It's circulated in "collector's circles" and in the blog-o-sphere, and has now been released by one of those Fuzzy Andoras of a label. Amazon has it, or you can drop by the crib sometimes & I'll hook you up with a copy that is every bit as legit as theirs.

He's changed it since his NT days, then. It used to be "sny-DEHR-o".

Details, please?

But still no holiday songs, right?

Looks like the Imagination Department was on vacation this day...

Not unless you put them on there yourself.

For some of us, it's been a long, stressful year. We've had sports drama galore, relentless political dissension, meteorological terror, and who knows how many personal dramas that nobody knows about but our own self. Stress and drama, stress and drama, stress and drama. And more stress and drama. And now the holiday season bears down on us, which inevitably brings...you know what it brings. Probably the last thing anybody's looking for in a December Blindfold Test is a lot of "difficult" music (or "a lot" of anything, really...). December's a busy month and you probably won't have the time or the inclination for that. A short collection of nice tunes that doesn't eat up a lot of physical time and mental space, that's the ticket, some stuff you can listen to in the car while shopping, or at work or, maybe, the bedroom. But - you still want music that's got some substance to it, not some trite bunch of superficial piffle You like to chill out but not to go brain-dead in the process. So what I've gone for here is both substance and style - music that can be enjoyed at the surface level, but also music with more than enough substance to reward the kind of immersion that we like to experience if/when we have the time. And fwiw, I think that this particular mix will get an overall favorable rating on the Wife/Girlfriend/Date/Etc. scale. It did here. That'll reduce a lot of stress right there! When creating this set-list, I had just a few prerequisites - it had to come in at under an hour, the selections needed to flow well, yet contrast with each other, and everything had to have smile-inducing potential for both the Organissimo audience and a broader, more general audience, the kind of people we end up spending a lot of time around at this time of year. And NO HOLIDAY SONGS!!! To that end, there are 14 selections, and the disc lasts 58 minutes. The one thing every track has in common is that every one of them has at some point sent me into one or more sessions of obsessive track-repeating because of the groove they hit (and by "groove", I mean the tempo of each piece, and how the performance makes love to that tempo. The tempos will vary, but that aspect of the performances will not, or at least, have not to me). And NO HOLIDAY SONGS!!! Not going to be a whole lot of straight-up 4/4 swing (but what there is is choice), and there will be a larger-than-usual performances featuring voices and/or electric instruments, as well as a few things that straddle the line between jazz & R&B (and other "popular musics"). But those things all wear their jazz on their sleeve quite explicitly. Still, if that's a hardcore deal-breaker, well, there it is. So, if you'd like to participate in the collection of Discriminating Music For Non-Critical Listening, please let me know. My PM box has this annoying tendency to fill up faster than I clean it out, so feel free to email me through the board, or directly at musicaconcarne@yahoo.com Downloads or hard copies will be available, so take your pick. Thanks in advance to the venerable Jeff Crompton for his invaluable assistance in distribution. And now, back to BFT 104 - some good stuff on their that has yet to be identified. Please help!

I mean, it's Miles Davis Pop Music. Not a problem in my mind, and it keeps me from looking for something that's not going to be there, and from getting disappointed for there not being that "something" there that's not being put there\, not even. By the same token, knowing what it's not every going to be - or even try to be - allows me to look at the much of You're Under Arrest as silly, and much of Amandala as downright excellent, and to really, REALLY dig Ricky Wellman as being every bit as perfect for the music he was playing as Philly Joe & Tony (and even Al Foster, although by rights it should be Al Foster-Mtume) were for the music they were playing. #Ain't WHAT you do, etc. Miles Davis Pop Music. It's a better world where such a notion proved even plausible (and actually executable, and quite often, executed quite well) than a world were such a notion would never even be considered possible, even in one's wildest dreams.