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Floor show? Hell - you saw LIVE THEATER!!!!

And that's a pretty damn good one, too, I think.

Metaphorically? hmmm..... Yeah, I'll allow it.

So...what are you drinking?

Not sure that anyone and everyone has any kind of emotional investment in The Life Of Hank Mobley. And having been around a few dissipated individuals in the full throes of their dissipation (as I'm sure you also have been), I hardly think that one tune constitutes "everything" that was the last 15 or so years of Hank Mobley's life. In other words, if this one cut is so upsetting, imagine the daily horrors of the life that created it, and then let us meditate on The Life Of Hank Mobley.

Probably from somewhere where "legal ramifications" are not an immediate concern.... Note, however, that it is not "albums", or even a "set" that is being sold. It's just a collection of data files. If it's a pure data disc, it won't play unless there is a user command somewhere after insertion. Otherwise, it'll just open up on your D-Drive (ow whatever drive you have the disc in) & you'll see this jumbo list of files. Period.

Maybe people just getting tired of too much of a good thing that's not always a GREAT thing. That's why a lot of this stuff was in the position to be reissued in the first place, if you know what I mean....

Any impressions about life formed by intentionally avoiding disturbance are not to be trusted.

I don't think it sounds like shit at all. Anything but. What I don't know is if it sounds how it sounds intentionally or not. I've stumbled across enough of this type stuff being done intentionally to not have a conclusion one way or the other.

sounds like they're flac files. I can't see where these are being "oficially" released, so they might even be hi-quality MP3s. I've mentioned before how I've seen big bunches of the Prestige catalog being offered at diffrent Half Price outlets for $5.95. Those were MP3 files. I think they fit all of Miles Prestige output on two DVD-Rs. Same For Trane. No notes, no artwork, just track listings. But $5.95, and two discs.

Gonna have to disagree.

Word. I await the autopsy photos of Charlie Parker. No need to wait, just listen to the last Verve session.

Assuming there's no m3u type playlist file created for them, any way you want to. These are not "play" discs, they are data discs, meaning that the cuts - the individual files, the data - are yours to do with what you please.

Still not posting any birthday wishes this year, but if I was, I'd certainly wish you a great one!

Word.

Dude, a 7th directly below the root is a STRONG sound, accidental, ignorant, whatever or not. And that beat(s) is jaggedy/raggedy wrong-but-right in a Georgia Anne Muldrow kind of way. The whole thing sounds like a parallel univese lost cut from Blood Ulmer's Are You Glad To Be In America (on Blue Note!) Of course, no way I'd make a bet over how intentional the whole thing is (on either side), but accidental beauty is at least as cool as the planned kind, sometimes moreso.

I'll take that Paris version on Atlantic. Not too much anywhere swings harder than that.

Fine. When they can get the tone our of the instrument that Haden does, then I'll pay attention to them about that. Tone first. Everything else follows from that. Otherwise its not sound, it's math. Or something. But not music.

It's in G now instead of Bb, and DAMN...

But you can...

Taken as "jazz", I can't get into Shearing. But taken as "pop"...I still can't "get into" him, but I do find it a lot more fun to listen to, at leaast when it's to my likingThe album w/Nat Cole is actually pretty interesting...lots of thick, dark, chords, not at all "happy" particularly, although certainly not into Only The Lonely territory either. Still, it's pop music, and pop music with musical interest should is nothing to sneeze at, although maybe being in the same room with Cole's & Shearing's sweaters might be.

And maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that when the situation arose, he had a better feel for the clave that you'd have any right to expect.

George Shearing had skills, no doubt.

Not recognize him? Who else could it be? Within himself, Hank Mobley was probably one of the most intense motherfuckers who ever lived. I don't know if "music" really matters here. Life sure does, though, and life...is what it is. Sometimes there's blood. sometimes lots of it. In-fucking-tense.