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It's easy to do that when all the witnesses are dead...

That one stood out to me also, though I've seen him as a sideman a few times (always a pleasure). I'm not clear whether these concerts feature these artists with a pickup group, or bands that they bring in. Shit, wish I could zip up to DFW on a Tuesday night for this. James is fun to see. Damn. This thing got zero publicity, I forgot to mark it on my calendar, and...I missed it, assuming that it actually happened...

Sorry, but Borbon's act was one of the most blatant manifestations of a death wish I've ever seen, not just in sports, but in life. Let's take care of it now, get it over with, and then maybe the players can wear his number on their hat for the rest of the season and be motivated by that.

Geez, I hope your death comes 29 days late, than...

No,Jim, that's the punchline to "How many jazz singers does it take to sing My Funny Valentine". And the difference between a terrorist and a jazz singer is that you can negotiate with a terrorist! ( but they can both destroy a bridge in less than three seconds...)

The old Rangers would have blown the lead like they did today. Then they would have gone ahead and lost it. I'm liking the new Rangers a helluva lot better. Character is cool.

Nellie Cruz has redeemed your mortal soul, Mr. Borbon. This time.

Ian Kinsler, otoh..

JULIO BORBON MUST DIE!!!

All the Vortex LPs I've heard have a slightly brittle sound to them. Not atypical of the times, but not exactly "high quality audio" either. Embryo LPs were a little different story, though, some of them.

I'm with you on this one. I wish more people (anybody?) had heard & lived with Iapetus for a while, but Motivation is, like Iapetus, a wholly unique record that has been virtually unheard. As I type, I'm listening to Iapetus on headphones. I gotta say — this really is a great record. More than Motivation, I think, this is a band effort. While Caliman is clearly the leader on the session, the rhythm section has that feel (not muscially, but socially) of the great Hancock-Carter-Williams team. It's weird — tenor players working today would eat this up, I'd think. Meaning, I can't believe that this session hasn't seen a reissue anywhere. The record, though it bears traces of its recording year, has an unusually modern feel to it. This is to say that the music, almost note for note, might easily be heard in a hip club anywhere in the world today. I think of Iapetus as the next step after Filles de Kilamanjaro that Miles himself never took...but a group of Bobby Hutcherson sidemen did, on an album that got a ***** review in DB (iirc) & then vanished w/o a trace. There's really not anything else quite like it, and yes, it stands on its own merits as strong today as it did then. I think it qualifies as a stone classic. Now that I think about it, so does Oliver Nelson's Black, Brown, & Beautiful on Flying Dutchman, the original one, not the later reissue compilation of the same name. That arguably is Nelson's true masterpiece, more so than Blues and the Abstract Truth. And it's never been reissued on CD, not even on compilations that I know of. But it is strong, strong music.

I'm with you on this one. I wish more people (anybody?) had heard & lived with Iapetus for a while, but Motivation is, like Iapetus, a wholly unique record that has been virtually unheard.

All of them?

Is getting a two-CD Ellington set out of BMG/Sony's hands possible for an independent interest? If so, then seconded on A Drum...

Seconded. Seconded, but I'm not sure if it falls withing the OP's scope of either interest or financial ability to bring to fruition. OP, what's the word?

Put another way, Nat Hentoff's desk is the AntiCloud. By itself, it offers all the advantages of ready access to digital data and none of the privileges of ownership of hard copies of the same data. For me, it would be useful as auxiliary storage, but not much else. I don't like the idea of owning something that's important to me that only exists someplace else, which is pretty much what the "cloud" concept is all about. But as a dump to put stuff of passing/temporary/etc interest, hey, better somebody else's space than mine, dig?

I've got the original LP, and it's got much the same type of sound you describe, although whether or not to the same degree I can't say. I certainly don't find it hard to listen to.

Yeah, the JCOA stuff needs to be more widely available. Not sure what the legal hurdles are, though...

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Seconded.

Mr. Peanut Pecan Patty Joe Brazil

Maybe a streaming version on Netflix. People will pay for that, too.