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I don't know if "easy" or "difficult" has very much to do with it as much as it is that the music makes a sound that isn't part of the everyday conversation, except when used as attitude signifier in commercials and such. It's like, what can you do with today's "jazz"? Dance to it? No. Singalong with it in giddy glee? No. Fantasize about people and places that you can get to if you just make a few moves? No. Plan revolutions, personal and otherwise? No. Seduce exotic women with exotic desires? No. I'm sure there are those who still do, but once again...handfulls of specialists, etc. Pretty much what you can do is either sit there and "listen", or use it for ambient sound in the service of projection a sense of superior sophistication. Not particularly...kinetic activities, these, no matter how much kineticism is involved in the music making. In one case, the musicians want everybody to sit still and shut up, in the other, the clients want the musicians to stay in the background and project their aura outward into the room, as if it emanates from behind an invisible wall. People will sit still and watch the kineticism of an athletic event because they at least know what it feels like to run, to be pursued, to win, and to lose. And they're free to show some kineticism of their own throughout the observed activity. You get kinetic in the audience at a jazz gig these days, watch what happens. And people will accept having presupposed attitude sprayed upon them if its an attitude that gives them a sense of self-justification, Lincoln Center be doing that aplenty, but there's more people in the world for whom that "self" is not their self, so they really don't care. America's Got Talent! Tell me that in a world where information is everywhere, and obtainable any way, and damn near instantaneously, the natural collective impulse is going to be to go somewhere, anywhere, and still still for a couple of hours to hear people take 5-20 minutes to play one song that ultimately says...what, exactly? How do you market that activity as anything other than a niche product? If people can hear John Coltrane climb his mountains in their head while literally climbing a mountain of their own somewhere, what's their incentive to go sit still for a couple of hours to listen to some non-John Coltrane basically give you a slide show of John Coltrane's mountain climbing? How do you market that? Why do you market that? "Jazz" will be "popular" again when it does something that people consider that they might enjoy doing (or at least being engaged in) in a way that encourages and inspires them to do it more often and more better. Right now, practicing long hours in order to either project Accumulated Cultural Greatness or to have Accumulated Perceived Coolness projected on to them (both in a more or less passive state, it's not about doing what will/can be done nearly as much as it is reflecting what has been done) is not something most people would aspire to, no?

Full-length "Eurydice"...nice from a musical standpoint, but that's not how it was released, nor how it stayed released until now...oh well, who's complaining?

It was for changers, whre you could put a stack of records on the spindle and they'd drop down and play one at a time.. Then you could flip 'em over and play the other sides. So in a 3 record set, say, you'd have album 1 = Side A & F, Album 2 - sides B & E, Album 3 - Sides C & D . To represent vertical, load like this [TOP of stack] C (w/D on reverse) B (w/E on reverse) A (w/F on reverse) [bOTTOM OF STACK] When Side C is over, you leave the stack intact, just flip it over, and then you have [TOP of stack] F E D [bOTTOM OF STACK] Voila, properly sequenced music with minimal exertion. Also good or just putting on a bunch of unrelated LPs for several hours of uninterrupted play. Every notice how a lot of albums had one side stronger than the other? Well, yeah. Not accidental. Great for long parties of dancing, romancing, tripping, all sorts of things.

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Count me as one of those who saves up for a couple of great seat games a year...and I always sit behind the screen. I was a to a Rangers/White Sox spring training game in Sarasota back in 'spring of 1991...went with a neighbor, bought walk-up tickets, got seats about halfway up the first base line between the base and the fence. We both had our kids with us, and they were sometimes watching the game and sometimes not. Somebody hit a screamer into the crown that banged into an empty seat that was about five feet away from where my neighbor's daughter was goofing off..sounded like it was gonna crack the seat, but it didn't. We looked at each other and both let out a soft "whoa...." and set about getting the kids to pay attention for the duration. Ever since then, a great-seat game means behind the screen. Always. Worrying about the game is worry enough for me,

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Milton Berle was an Irish stride pianist? Don't know how much belief I can suspension to get there...

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Does the kid get at least get to walk with a limp now?

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I have that album too! Bought it in a college bookstore cutout bin...did Everest ever show up anywhere else? Agree about the music as well. Stunning indeed.

I see almost every Rangers game, that's why my blood pressure's not gone down much . That was a good game indeed. I figured that Harrison would get jacked early after his start, but he hung in there pretty nicely, just wore out there at the end. That rough start didn't help him, that's for sure. Ogando's not quite been the same since coming back from the DL...seems like that's been the case with all our pitchers this year when they come back, been a troublesome year in that regard. Kuroda was in prime form, and the night before, we had a chance to strike early and often but fucked it up with some cranius-en-recti base running anti-skills...two pickoffs in two consecutive innings, your #1 & #2 holes...why not just call in sick, ya' know? Grrrrrr..... This might be the Yankees' year (although I never count out the Tigers, that's one tough fighting bunch, and if they get into a set of playoffs not needing speed and defense to win, just grit, look out). They've been playing solid, consistent ball, and the injuries haven't really affected anything yet where it counts. This could be one of those the years where "veteran grit" is what it finally comes down to, you just never know until after you find out. BTW - we got two-hit(?) by the King just a few weeks ago ourselves. The guy's a true joy to watch when he's on, even when it's your own team he's doing it to. Mariners management better be finding some way to make him a very, very rich man if they're going to make him keep pitching for that team until he hits free agency. Anything else is...immoral.

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