JSngry

Another difference is that some of the people who heard those 70s albums actually liked - and still like - some of them, and see no reason to not like them, or to incorporate that which they like into their own stuff. Nothing at all wrong with that. One more difference is that today some people recognize that some of that stuff was actually good music, period. Not everybody, of course. Remember "Bebop Is The Music Of The Future"? Nice try, that was.

And don't forget his game show hosting!

Seems right to me...everybody I knew who had original copies got them from their parents, and the stories were always like, yeah, the old man would come home from work and...or Sunday afternoons were reserved for music and...just various scenarios of the records being "lifestyle items". Remember, this was back when you could buy record players at Western Auto & the average tracking force was 37 pounds.

Yeah, that red cover is the only one I've known. Thanks!

maybe....

Is that the original European cover?

There's a lot of possibilities here...having Shafiq do more than a vocal cameo would be cool...Madlib's "worked with" Blue Note in the past (not sure who the "in" was there), but...there are definitely possibilities if both Glasper and Blue Note really want to go there.

I understand your frustration. There's only 160 games left.

Dude, you should have an electrician check that out. Could be a fire hazard.

Yeah, sure, ok, and I appreciate your civic pride.

I work on commission you know...

I bought Ideal Scene back in the day and it never really clicked with me. But I love Lee, and maybe I just wasn't hearing it then.

Hey, different strokes and all that. Me, I've never been that much of a fan of it to begin with (when the Liebman/Grossman thing was "all the rage" back in the 70s, I was not leading the cheers, if you know what I), and am even less of one now. Nothing "wrong" with it, just not relevant to me personally, not as much as a lot of other stuff, past, present, and, hopefully, future, including musics emanating from New York City. Just not that one kind with that one feeling. Seems like the meaning of "tight" has taken a turn for the worse of the last few decades. But that's just me.

As it was happening in real time, there was a year or two where it looked like Applause was going to be the only way to get Blue Note. The "real thing" was totally dead, and this was all that was coming out. You talk about the future looking dark...

Trying some ol' reverse psychology eh? On myself, yeah. Last season was...extremely intense for me personally. Don't know if this one needs to be quite as much so. Besides, getting to the Series three years in a row? Not likely by any rational/reasonable standard. Now, next season...

Absolutely. But - Different time, different scene, different business/career models, different drugs (generally speaking, cocaine is not the best possible jazz drug, neither as an ongoing proposition nor as a lingering after-effect), different music, different everything. That was cats coming to play, not to burn. True burning happens, it's not set out for before even one note is played.

Street preachers are (or used to be) fairly commonplace in more urban communities, including African-American ones. Perhaps even more so there. "Priest" shifts the lens to a more African/tribal perspective. I think it just means that these are guys preaching their "tribal" truth on/from the streets, "street" being more figurative than literal, meaning that they don't have any real formal, built-in support structure & have to hustle for anything/everything they get every step of the way. A tribe of barbeque dogs preaching on the streets of the world, there you go!

I never got him either, but I do think it's cool that he like to blow up stuff on his ranch. I wonder if he like weenie-water soup too?

Now there's some shit that could stand to be hacked!

Just another way of saying living hand-to-mouth, which is how a lot of players live.

And that's how they do it...and how they should do it. That most of it is of no interest to me just means that fjords don't resonate with me, not that fjords are off-limits. Same thing with standing in a 12" asbestos circle and "burning" to no end other than to have a burn...if that's your world, cool, but...that ain't everybody's world, and for many people, that's by informed choice.

"NY Jazz records" are those where everybody shows up to BURN instead of to play. And they try OH so hard and it's OH so obvious that they're trying, and..true burning don't need all that. It's not just a "NY" thing, but cats get all caught up in that scene and get all tight about shit and feel the need to BURN all the time, and in the rest of the world, it just ain't ALL about that, if you know what I mean. We got back yards and back roads and...stuff like that. "Marketplace records" are those where the "production team" (including the players, often enough) get together and say, "let's make sure this is aimed t the marketplace. Let's do what we need to do to make it sound like that". And for certain jazz artists/producers, that "NY Burn" is a part of that, even on more populist material. So it ends up with everybody playing down instead of playing to. What Glasper % Payton have done (or seem to have done to me) is more like "let's just make some R&B the way we'd like it to be". And why not?.I don't senbse that the music itself is contrived or condescending (in fact, Payton's shit is pretty left field in spots). Garrett's Black Hope is such an album too, but nobody really got hip to it. I'd like to hope that he still has some more like that in him, because that tone of his,,. it speaks of things besides just Burning & Playing Down.

You should barbeque those goats before they get rancid. Barbequed goat is a delicacy among delicacies. If you're ever in a Mexican restaurant and see cabrito on the menu, order it, and keep ordering it.

Couldn't see the image you posted. Did a search & came up with this: If that's it, some very good Pres there. That is indeed it.