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You've been to Sterling, then?

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I don't know that he's too much of anything, really. But I'm used to people who mean serious and speak careless (and vice-versa), and I've come to be able to pretty much, as my old man used to say, take a Dutchman by what he means, not what he says", although why he would single out a dutchman for that fact of life is something I never bothered to ask he. I figure it had something to do with growing up in Sterling, Illinois in the early 20th century & having friends with names like Orlo Spahtz (who for decades I thought was spell Olro Spots), but...you can't get to everything from everybody before they die, no matter how hard you try. And if that phrase is offensive to any Dutchmen we have on-board here, I do apologize. Take a Texan by what he eats, not what he shits.

I think Bajka sounds a lot like early June Christy, but I want to make sure.

Grammar is also a guide to ways of making sentences that make sense. The part of the quoted West sentence that refers to the Schubert sonata -- "like ... Schubert's tempestuous piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat (D.960) I will not let life or death stand in the way of this sublime and funky love that I crave!" -- can only mean that Schubert's sonata, like West, "will not let life or death stand in the way of [the] sublime and funky love that [it craves]!" The piece is tempestuous, but it ain't tempestuous enough to do that -- though I do recall the time Debussy's "Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun" leaked some semen onto my shoe. Further, as I showed above, while West's sentence can be recast to link up Heathcliff and Catherine to what West feels, I don't see how the Schubert sonata can be stitched into West's "I" -- i.e. in a coherent sentence. Suggestions are welcome. Well, "making sense" is really nothing more than a consensual agreement to convey thoughts in mutually understood terms. As for Schubert, I thought I understood what he meant. Seems like he was projecting his personal drama into Schubert's music and finding relative equivalency therein. Not unlike an emotional synesthesia, hearing music, seeing a life's tale. Last I looked, that was allowed, albeit at one's own peril, some of this music being what it is and all... Seems like a waste of time to me, what with the readily availability of "Bernadette", but to each their own, and besides, who the fuck IS Cornell West anyway, really, that I should care about what he hears in Schubert or any other damn thing? I see your visit to Texas has paid lasting dividends! "Well, "making sense" is really nothing more than a consensual agreement to convey thoughts in mutually understood terms." Exactly. And West's sentence turns the mutual understanding of the link between Schubert's sonata and what he feels about women into a matter of guesswork. I'm guessing that he guessed that people wouldn't have to guess what he meant. Guess he guessed wrong, eh? I mean, I got it, but then again, I can't speak the language right and don't read books. So maybe his first mistake was writing shit like that in a format that people who would get it wouldn't bother getting to. Once again, too much Schubert, not enough Johnny Griffin.

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"Sublime and Funky" is a nice turn of phrase, but "Soft and Furry" cuts to the chase. Cornell West would have done well to listen to less Schubert & more Johnny Griffin.

It was Mal Waldron. "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" I first heard that cut on a beat-up radio station promo Atlantic 45 when I was 14 (don't ask...) and I knew the record was stuck. But I dug it and let it go, Sure enough, it resolved itself, as those type things occasionally do. It took a while before the realization hit that the record wasn't stuck...

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Grammar is also a guide to ways of making sentences that make sense. The part of the quoted West sentence that refers to the Schubert sonata -- "like ... Schubert's tempestuous piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat (D.960) I will not let life or death stand in the way of this sublime and funky love that I crave!" -- can only mean that Schubert's sonata, like West, "will not let life or death stand in the way of [the] sublime and funky love that [it craves]!" The piece is tempestuous, but it ain't tempestuous enough to do that -- though I do recall the time Debussy's "Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun" leaked some semen onto my shoe. Further, as I showed above, while West's sentence can be recast to link up Heathcliff and Catherine to what West feels, I don't see how the Schubert sonata can be stitched into West's "I" -- i.e. in a coherent sentence. Suggestions are welcome. Well, "making sense" is really nothing more than a consensual agreement to convey thoughts in mutually understood terms. As for Schubert, I thought I understood what he meant. Seems like he was projecting his personal drama into Schubert's music and finding relative equivalency therein. Not unlike an emotional synesthesia, hearing music, seeing a life's tale. Last I looked, that was allowed, albeit at one's own peril, some of this music being what it is and all... Seems like a waste of time to me, what with the readily availability of "Bernadette", but to each their own, and besides, who the fuck IS Cornell West anyway, really, that I should care about what he hears in Schubert or any other damn thing? I see your visit to Texas has paid lasting dividends!

Maybe in the "classical" sense of repetition of a basic set of materials with subtle, evolving variations, Chico Hamilton's drumming from the 60s onwards. Early Anthony Davis was working in that same area too, roughly.

Are we compiling a list? How many years should I block off for the job? More than 15? :g

"Bernadette"'s not about Bernadette, it's about the guy singing about Bernadette. The dude's vulnerable in an aggressively, deeply frightened way, but he's gotta keep it cool lest he become like everybody she's not being with to be with him precisely because he's not. An imperfect man defending his one glimpse of perfection by not acting out on his impulse to destroy that which would destroy it, and therefore him. And it's killing him to stay alive in such a world, but it would kill him even more not to. That shit's about as real as it gets right there.

I was listening to some live Lester Young the other day, mid-50s stuff, and not only did he use few notes and keen silences, but his time was, like, standing still. The rhythm section was moving, but he himself was just...suspended over it.. That goes beyond "space" into SPACE.

Grammar is like music theory - a set of rules/justifications based on what has been done before, and a guide to how to keep doing it. It's not a message from god or anything, not like "Bernadette".

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The people I knew just read the box scores in the paper, preferably the afternoon paper, which would have the west coast games too.

Tracy Morgan, but Kevin Mahogany is dubbing the vocals. Will Forrest Whitaker be reprising his role as Bird?

Are you sure his name's not Ben Wa?

Any chance that that Mainstream LP was first released on Time?

I've no doubt that it is, but I don't think I'd like rhythm being poured in my ears in the service of training them.

Who's playing Earl Coleman?