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So, there's not necessarily justice? In America? Bummer.

It's funny, there's no standard as to what "standard" really means. You got "standards", "jazz standards", "jazz originals", on and on. And when something gets lyrics..."Stain Doll" falls into all categories!

Regarding Donald Byrd, it was he who advised Herbie Hancock on the wisdom of keeping your own publishing. Herbie apparently had the leverage with Blue Note to do so, and with the hits he had on that tunes that came out on that label, how much (more) money was that in his pocket as a result of doing so? More than chump change, I'm sure. For that matter, a quick perusal shows that at some time Donald Byrd himself set up his own publishing company, and Blue Note kept releasing his records. So whatever he might have lost by not having a royalty deal on sales, he picked at least some of it back up from his publishing royalties.

Think I'm gonna leave that that one be...

As is "Solar", albeit a much more widely played one, and one of much less definitive "original"-ness.

Like Jordi Pujol?

I don't really "get" Chris Connor all that much (don't dislike her, though). Can those who do tell me what they're hearing/feeling that I'm not, or is this just one of those "you do or you don't things"? If it's the latter, hey, c'est la vie.

Going through much the same thing with my mom, have been for a while now. If it's a good place (and I'm sure you'd not have moved him there if it wasn't), hey, you and your sister did the right thing. Nothing beats total independence, but...that's not always a responsible option. Expect a period of adjustment for all, but if you can maintain regular contact and if he's willing to accept his new environment (eventually), it'll be ok. My thoughts are with you. This kind of stuff tears you up inside, but...what are you going to do if not this?

In full glorious electronically rechanneled DUOPHONIC sound, the same way it was when I bought it when I was 15, the same way it was when I sold it when I was 24, and the same way it is now that I've bought another copy 31 years later. DUOPHONIC!

Oh good, Fresh Sounds. Maybe I can find it blogged somewhere! Seriously, I've only known Flory as a West Coast guy. Interesting to find out otherwise.

Is this stuff available now?

If I survive, yeah.

I'm only saying this because you can't read those words and react to them as if they were written just last week. At least not intellectually. Emotionally is a whole 'nother thing... But - for some historical perspective (if any is desired) - "The Revolution" was very much about the Black Man throwing off the yoke of The White Man. In both races, feminism had hardly stirred, and when it did, it was generally...not encouraged right off the bat, if you know what I'm saying. We also had the "conventional wisdom" (such as it was either conventional or wisdom, and I'll stake no claim for it being too much of either) of the time that there were power plays at work in interracial relationships, that a white man/black woman was a pairing of powers within their respective cultures, and a black man/white woman was a pairing of the suppressed/oppressed within same. For people who were using sex and relationships to act out, hey, might have been some truth there. But as with all Pop Psychology, it's a pretty damn simplistic generalization, and people are almost always more complex than that. It should be noted that Jones was far from alone in using sex as a weapon during that time and place. Read Soul On Ice, Icepick Slim, etc. "Reclaiming Manhood" was the endgame, and by any means necessary was cool, or so some thought. Truth be told, that's still a thing going on today, across racial and cultural lines. It wasn't just in the area of racial matters that there was damage that needed healing, and it still isn't. I'd even go so far as to say that if and when The Racial Thing ever gets straight that The Gender Thing will still be f-ed up. We are a beautiful species, but as the saying goes, the bigger the front, the bigger the back...

We were lucky to get deep into the sixth series, never mind the seventh...I wonder if anybody did get the seventh series in stores? Seems kind of weird to make them and then not sell them...I know that series always had a lot of traded players in their new uniforms and rookies who had kinda gotten hot during the season, so I don't think it was all part of the same production planning, all seven series. Never really seen a "formal" discussion of the matter, to tell the truth. Never will forget the day I saw a small ad in the back of Sport Magazine for a place called The Card Collectors Co. Sent off for a catalog and BAM! My twenty-five cents a week was SPENT, Jack! Seventh series cards were like the OOP Blue Notes of my pre-adolescence.

Med Flory had a NY rehearsal band in 1953? Details, please? I had no idea he went back that far.

Brad shoots, Brad SCORES!!! :g :g

Seventh series...ah, the kids today, they just don't know...

The notion of the "first look" at a "possible face" cracked me up. Hell, what else have we been seeing for centuries but a "possible face"? It's not like we got any Polaroids for comparison, ya' know?

Did you know...

Maybe...depends on how much love you still have for it...there's a lot more material than than on the LPs..none of it sucks, either, if you know what I mean. And there's a lot of earlier versions of charts that would get recorded the next album over. It's all Buddy Rich, so it's all gonna have that "tght" thing (which should not be confused with "stiff", oh god no!), and for me, that wears on as goes on. But as documents, yeah, very good value. For me, the first three were about it...Mercy Mercy Mercy, Buddy And Soul, Keep The Customer Satisfied, those just got less and less interesting to me. But I bought them yesterday anyway, just because. And Big Swing Face was probably in the first 20 jazz albums I ever owned. Found it in the cutout bins, a casualty of the big UA catalog purge.Sold it at the end of the 70s because that thing was so not what I wanted to ever hear again. But time goes on, and you never know what you'll want to come back to.

Kinescope would be the best hope, I'd think.

I think TV rights are a whole 'nother world than recording rights.

Audio, yes, but video...that would be sweet. I don't care how big a mess it was, it's an Ellingtonian mess!