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So what's the end game here?

If it won't ever go away - and it won't - then the only sane and sensible course of action is to walk around it instead of trying to plow through it. Until quite recently, this was not an option, and even now it's just a tentative option. But an option it is, and if not us, who, etc. etc. etc. If we're going to really go "post-racial", we're going to have to just do it. Ain't nobody going to do it for us. And thank god, there are enough people going that way to say that the door is now open, and that once open, it'll be pretty damn hard to shut it back again. Anyway, Randy Sandke's "problem" is at least as much a matter of there not being any "market of significance" for what he does. Not just him, but any "jazz" in general that isn't re-creational. So even if all the racial issues ceased to exist, he'd probably have a net income increase of...not that much. I'm not making light of the reality that at this level, any net increase in income is significant, but every time I hear any jazz musician of any stripe lash out at reasons why they're not getting their Proper Recognition As Artists Of Our Time or some such, the word "delusional" begins to enter my mind. Of all the reasons why people have a hard time in this music, the primary one is that it is now a music with limited appeal to a limited audience and probably will continue to be so in its current forms. So I'm kinda like...do what you want to do how you want to do it with who you want to do it, get it out as best you can, and kwithcehrbitchin about how there's no market there, or there would be if only Mass Media hadn't brainwashed everybody or Black Folk holdin' White Folk back Or Vice-Versa, just forget about all that, because that stuff is what it is, and if you want the rewards of that world, then go live in that world. Because that's how it works.

I just one-clicked that bad boy right on up in here, so here there it comes! Jim Sangrey keeps his word.

Contrarian Libertarian Saggitarian

Well, we got whores, but no weed or Ugly Americanism. Nevertheless, you may know that I love me some trios such as this, and if you swear to me on your life and mine's both that this release is for real and not some conceptual prank, I will order this thing the next time as soon as I see your response and am at home. Especially if there are pictures of the exceptional beauty of the bordello's bevy of women, under the care of grandmotherly Madam Marina. I promise. Now, get me some weed and some Ugly Americanism to go with those whores!

The joke's on the Americans, though - THEY CAN'T COUNT!!!!

I don't know what that means.

I doubt that you'd get much - if any - dis of Al Hirt from Wynton, Hirt's cred amongst NO musicians (as I hear it) is pretty solid on grounds of respect for instrumental facility and, by all accounts, being a fair employer, and besides, he's a homeboy who stayed local even once he got national, and that means a lot. but yeah, decayed and would-be, that's really all that's left in this game at this time.

And a lot of times it's true. But "a lot" is not always, and that's where one's ability to actually hear music instead of simply having are reflexive response to any auditory stimulus that sounds like what we think music oughtt to sound like comes into play. I call no foul on one's own "shortcomings" in this regard, as they are all but universal and inevitable. I do call it, however, when those shortcomings are seriously represented as an ongoing reality for anybody besides one's self. The Murray & Marsalis crowd are the most visibly entrenched perps these days, but, really, it's an eternal/ongoing dynamic, this compulsion to "own" a music by defining it rather than just letting it be whatever its gonna be & taking advantage of a change to learn, grow, and evolve when it does.

"Never" is such a big word... one that, say, Donald Byrd & Pepper Adams must never have heard, or at least not believed... Besides, I would counter that any honest music that is not simply re-creative in nature cannot avoid bringing any number of "cultural flavors"...that's what helps make it unique. So maybe the problem is not that white players can never "play black" authentically, maybe it's that Murray and others of his trip can't "hear white" (or Latin, or Indian, or etc.), and whose fault is that? Certainly not the players'. Anyway - this is all rumblings of a "world" whose death is well underway. The "real people" making the "real music" of today are past that, not because they've argued the point to a successful conclusion, but because they've realized that the argument is one that is at this point nothing more than game for suckers & have just moved on to leave the dinosaurs to argue amongst themselves. But back to Donald Byrd & Pepper Adams, the argument could be made that "first language" and "second language" and all that are very much a product of environment, and to the extent that race in America determines environment, well, make your claim, but that extent is wholly man-made/artificial, and should no way be construed as being Natural Law. So, isn't Albert Murray dead already? His undeniable eloquence in expressing why he liked (likes?) what he liked is one thing, but thinking that he should "make the law" for anybody besides himself and those who like the same thing for the same reasons is just plain wack.

http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=zgqb6h33p2&ref=index.php This line caught my eye, to put it mildly: So - for real? If so, who? And even if not, is this side any good relative to many other post-King Doggett sides? As always, thanks in advance!

All that needs to be said about the Michael Young situation: http://www.bbtia.com/home/2011/2/8/a-tale-from-two-perspectives.html

These are currently available from MMO: http://www.musicminusone.com/blues-minus-p-963.html http://www.musicminusone.com/eight-search-drummer-p-842.html Others may be too, but they have repackaged/renamed a lot of their older items.... Found this (out of stock) at DG:

Who's going to end up with Michael Young?

WORD!

Oh don't worry - if there's jacked-up road conditions and you live in an area which is contains an immediate conduit to the stadium and other official venues, hotels, etc, you will see the fullest of attentions paid to your roads. But if not, hey...better start looking for a good price on some sand and some dump trucks so you can DIY, that's the best advice I can offer.

Stay sane, and onward!

This is the Xanadu LP cover, except in purple and white. The original was gold & black. Pretty sure that LP - the Xanadu - was not a needle-drop. They released several JARO items in conjunction with Fred Norsworthy, iirc, so they would have had authorized use of the master tapes.

Packers dodged some big bullets...should have been too many missed catches, but hey...glad to see Aaron Rogers get out under Favre's shadow, glad to see the Pack back on top, drag to see the Steelers come that close and not get it done, but somebody's got to lose. Great game, really one of the best in SB history.

Great game, and much to my surprise I thoroughly enjoyed the Black Eyed Peas in a weird kind of" Busby Berkley it's got nothing at all to do with "music"" kind of way, but....kids out of school for four days, four days productivity (and in many cases, wages) lost, people exposed to unecessary danger becuse zero road work was done to clean up the ice and then the snow, except for Jerry World and points directly connecting there unto, where I'm told it looked like freakin' July... I am not impressed, not at all, so fuck Jerry Jones and fuck the NFL all the way from here to there, back again, and then over to you, Troy.

Jim, if the Super Bowl visitors were to have problems with the ice, etc., Dallas would be remembered in newspapers for decades as the city that clusterfucked the Super Bowl. Surely that bad reputation would hurt the economy worse than the business lost due to lack of productivity for a week, don't you think? Are you serious? There's no in between? The NFL/Super Bowl should be empowered to totally shut down the lives of millions of people lest we offend the Sports Pimps and get bitch-slapped for our self-respect? You're talking to the wrong person if you think that even begins to make sense to me! Make no mistake - a lot of local life was totally shut down because not one major commercial thoroughfare that did not lead to Jerry World got even a few grains of sand or salt. I seriously doubt that the Media Machine put that out there, I know they didn't locally (you want a clustersuck, that was local media sucking on the NFL/Jerry tip all week long, reporting on the weather but still pretending that it was all going down "naturally"...), but believe me, plenty plenty of local folk are livid about this). On top of that, schools had to be shut down for four days. That has never happened here to my knowledge, even on the one or two times there have been worse storms than this. There will be makeup days at the end of May, and everybody will be thrilled about that,... What this Super Bowl will be remembered for decades as it The Event That Clusterfucked The Metroplex. Not that they care. Would that it would have been the other way around. So yeah, absolutely - fuck Jerry Jone, and fuck the NFL.

There were no road crews anywhere in the metroplex except to serve the NFL. Kids were out of school for four days & businesses took huge hits in productivity due to workers not being able to get to work. I'm still watching the game, of course, but hey -fuck Jerry Jones and fuck the NFL.