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I was around to hear the same criticisms levelled at the first electric period that are now being levelled at the second. I lived long enough to see them fade as the inevitabilty - and logic - of that music revelaed itself, and I expect to live long enough to see the same thing happen again with the second period. Social music gonna do what social music gonna do, and Miles' was nothing if not a social music, probably always. As for Liebman, seems like he's always explaining something. Fine player, absolutely, very dedicated & principled, but I have interviews of him in the 70s where he's explaining what's happening in Miles' music, how it works, and why jazz ears were having a hard time with it. Now he's explaining why he didn't really understand it and why he had a hard time with it. It's always something!

I don't know what this means. Think Braxton's "For Trio" at one end, and Brotzmann's "Machine Gun" on the other. And think "Lonely Woman", "Ghosts", "New York Is Full Of Lonely People", any number of Frank Lowe tunes, etc., in between, and I'd say that "melodicism" (and I'm still not sure what that really means, melody being in the ear of the behearer and all that) is certainly encompassed. "Free" is just a way approaching a destination, it's not a list of ingredients. Same with "jazz". One could make the argument that jazz = freedom, therefore "free jazz" is a redundancy, but that time has come and gone. As Ray Price famously and heroically once said, don't look so sad, I know it's over.

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I don't know what this means.

Now it's come back, the browser spellcheck has..wtf, hey eh?

No spell check? Crap. My spelling is ok, it's my typing that sucks.

Yeah, this. Looks more like an literal "bulleting board" than a "forum". But oh well. Onnward!

Is #16 Ralph Towner by any chance?

Only one is "explicitly" Prestige, but again, who knew? XTRA? 5028?

It's a beautiful thing, that.

Ooops. Big mistake here. Sorry.

Wow, yeah, for real. And such a smile! I love this little bit of detail: Is it time for the Afro Klezmer to meet the Appalachian Klezmer? I think it just might be!

Do the liner notes explain who/what "Allegra" is? Always wondered about that.

All I know is that the one time I got out of a car in Gary, Indiana, I got nauseous, like, almost immediately. That, and playing a couple of three week engagements in Birmingham, Alabama was a lesson in watching out for when the air was not clear before stepping outside. But still, a pretty neat thing to be a part of, this must have been!

Middle 60s as I understand it, more or less over by the end of the decade. Caused not just by the decline of jazz' popularity, but also the increase in price of the biggest attractions, again, as I understand it.

What does molten iron smell like? Anything like a steel mill smell? Hopefully not?

I know that they were married for a while and that he served as her Musical Director also for a while while they were. Wondering if that parlayed into any record dates under Bacharach's production.

What if it was recorded in Carnegie Hall, or outdoors in a field,, or an isolated room even smaller than your living room? Sounds quarellous, probably, but not meant to be. Always interested in hearing how different people "hear", what their expectations are, etc.. So no "picking a fight" or anything here, honest.

Just got back from the screening. I found it to be a little - or more - goofy as a "film", but there is so much performance footage that I can't really say that that mattered. No FW Symphony people showed up for the Q & A, but Shannon Jackson did. Asked him afterwards about Red Connors, what kind of a sound did he have, and the answer was "he had a sound like Albert Ayler, he could fill up a whole room", which was an answer that for some reason I was not expecting, but really makes perfect sense.

I remember a thread somewhere where DEEP claimed that Gene Ammons was credited for the solos on Soul Stirrin' but it was actually Billy Root playing, because "Alfred wasn't all that down with the light boys", or something like that...very weird thread...

Indeed it does, but I get different outcomes depending on what I'm looking for/at. Just looking for something maybe different/more informed to consider.

Or, is direction predetermined by shape? Maybe this is a question for architects as well as/instead of physicists?

Or, I guess, maybe, shape is always there, and direction is what actualizes it?

Does direction create shape or are the two simultaneously occurring but independently existing phenomena? Serious question.

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