JSngry

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

And quite apart from that, my god. When of a mind, they were Rulers Of This And All Others. Andhere, they are filmed so being.

Good to see R.A. Dickey get the 20. Always liked him when he pitched here, nice guy. In the conversation for the NL Cy Young, I'd have to think.

None other than The Hero of the Newport Jazz Festival! Listen at the very end, during the applause...Duke calls "Cottontail" for the next tune. :g :g

need a SS. Yeah? Yeah...they got one too....the personality challenged(Just like his older bro) Stephen Drew..but I may have been wrong about really needing one, they are really on a roll...Baltimore and the A's are the most unlikely teams to be playing so well coming into September... Oakland is a bunch of f-in' bulldogs. If it weren't us whose legs they were trying to chew off, I'd be all GO OAKLAND. But can't do that, not now. St\ill, them some tough bastards, Oakland is.

Is that why the cover tuned green?

The internet is your friend. h yes it its. It's a good friend, perhaps the best friend. But this cloud thing is going to rain on the parade. Or more to the point, not rain at all....

Well then, a Golden Age Awaits. Most Certainly! Let us gather our sobriety now, for it will be but no tong until we are flooded with the inebriation emanating from the sunamis of brilliant new musics just waiting to happen, each more stunning than the last, and each being fully abilified by we the audence only wanting to hear them at out leisure and at as minimal a cash outlay as possible. Dare I say that we are on the cusp of the first full-blooded Renaissance of the new century? Dare I say it at all? Or do I set my stand on the corner that best allows me the most unblocked view of the parade verging on panic of what is sure to be the Rush To End All Rushes as one brilliant mind after another comes strutting down the road with his (or her!) latest gift to the airways, the one that everybody will want to hear MORE than once and some will want to get played to them from the Great Benevolent Server In Teh Sky..why, I suspect that a concession stand will be in order, and would turn a nifty profit in return.Hot dogs and lemonade = profit beyond even airplay! Great new, provocative, controversial music that stirs debates amongst the masses, this music will flow like liquid of the wine, everybody will hear it, nobody will have to buy it, and everybody makes a good enough living to keep it a'-comin', for there is no end in site for this perpetual goodness. I think I have just peed my pants in the delirium of the realization that such a future is her, HERE RIGHT NOW, and is is just a matter of days before Life Changes Forever For The Better. I can have all I want and never have to pay, and It will just KEEP ON A' CUMMIN', allup in my ears, and my legs, and on my monitors, it's just gonna be AWESOME LIKE GOD RUNNING MUSIC, that's what it's gonna be! SELAH!

So...radio used to exist to sell advertising, which sponsors gladly bought because people were listening to music. In turn, new music continued to be cranked out, because radio needed new product to keep people listening. The new music was able to continue to be cranked out because people bought enough product to sustain the business model. Now...if I'm understanding all this modernity correctly...not that many people want to really buy/own anything anymore, and are willing to just listen to the radio and just kinda nib-nab a snack here or there in terms of buying, and even at that, they're ok with buying digital data stored on somebody else's servers. So...radio now exists to sell advertising, which sponsors will now gladly(?) buy because people are listening to music. In turn, new music will continue to be cranked out because...radio needs new product? And...the new music will be able to continue to be cranked out because...people are willing to occasionally/essentially rent connection time to somebody else's server? "what is this i don't even" But that's ok, because there's enough shit already recorded that, if you're curious enough, you can hear "new" music on the radio for the rest of your life and not once hear it be played by somebody who is still living. And never have any of it clutter up your shelves! This, ladies and gentlemen, is how civilization advances, by incentivizing people to explore more and spend less. Because, you know, progress don't need money, it only needs a lust for convenience. Color me most impressed!

Nah...

These guys.

Always have a drum machine at the ready, just in case.

It's the creaminess that does it for me. Creamy creaminess.

Oh, well, then I guess I don't know Sam Newsome then...my bad! Whatever happened to Sam Morrison?

The recordings that I've heard of his time with Miles are some pretty interesting listening.

Damn.

I've always like his version of "On the Street Where You Live"...such nice phrasing...and the way he leads into the bridge And that arrangement...whoever did that arrangement had some skills...

I thought of him last week, and did the same thing, and...he's not. http://bostonjazzsce...ntributors.html JSngry, better than Google. Thanks. When's your IPO? HA! That one took a bit of work to come up with a search string that yielded a "first page" result. What finally worked was Marquis Foster Boston Died. Anything else seemed to just pull up discographical listings and/or worthless ad portal sites.

I came late to an apreciation of his true abilities. The guy could sing, period. RIP.

Not my video, or neighborhood, but sure could be.

Character, ladies and gentlemen, CHARACTER! Not as a moral judgement, but as a way of being!

Didn't think duos were all that rare pre-1972. Rubbish (re: the ECM claim). There were many duos prior to the 70s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eXn6CkbLeU

I thought of him last week, and did the same thing, and...he's not. http://bostonjazzscene.blogspot.com/2012/04/musiciansthe-major-contributors.html

Nessa is also concerned with getting new music made and heard, not just with getting new ways for everybody to hear old music. Nessa also helped midwife a musical revolution that was felt pretty much across the entire planet. Given all that, I'll indulge Nessa some grumpiness, and will not think that a sleeping giant doesn't know what it means to be awake. Hell, I've been known to throw a shoe at somebody trying to wake me up at the wrong time, and I ain't done nothing like any of that. But the shoe don't know that after it gets thrown. Just sayin'.

I think all the great movements in jazz (as well as the non-great ones) had/have more to do with "defining of self" than they did "aesthetics". And I think it's important to keep that cart before that horse, lest we shift the game from the universe to the parlor, as well as losing the right to reserve the right. But alas, here I go getting all polemical and shit. DAMMIT!!!! :g:g