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No need to back out. I'm not at all questioning the validity of Schlitten's ethics or observation, both of which seem fine to me. I just wonder how sane and sensible anybody in this business really is... I'm sure there out there, law of averages dictates that there must be at least a few, but...wtf is up with the Xanadu catalog?

And not just that - every year the number of these middle aged decreases as they become old, and every year the number of those old decrease as they become dead.

Don Schlitten is our benchmark for sane and sensible behavior? Some pf you all seem to think that "drug user" is one single type of person. GUESS AGAIN!

Which is exactly what he was.

My hunch is that they're doing it because they feel like they have to, not because they want to... a fitting conclusion to the whole digital music revolution, which began by us converting because we pretty much had to, not because we wanted to. What goes around comes around...

You gotta realize that thre's the musical self & the personal self (and many other selfs if you really want to go there...). The musical Joe - and quite often enough, the professional Joe - had their shit totally together. The intellectual Joe too, for that matter. But there was another Joe, who had....that thing. Those selfs only sometimes intersected, which is why we all know of Joe Henderson The Tenor Player today and don't let the demons define his image (unlike some others who either couldn't or didn't keep it private, for whatever reasons) . He kept his shit together and private enough that the "general public" never had an inkling, which, really, is how it should be done if at all possible. This is just another way that Joe proved to be music first, everything else later. Serious people are not immune to problems. Joe Henderson the musician was a serious man and should always be thought of as such, no matter what. Anything else would be a mistake.

Been there, done that, couldn't market the t-shirt...

LOVE REJECTS HUMMER???? world gone wrong, I tell ya...

Is this a real attempt at a gospel album?

Maybe it's there, but it's not someplace you want to go. I mean, the thing I've always dug about Lloyd is his tone (on tenor only, btw). Gorgeous then, and even more gorgeous now. But the rest of it, mostly? I gotta be in the mood, and even then, nice place to visit, etc. But he's miles beyond now where he was in his "star" days.

Joe was not a particularly "loud" player in person, but being the master of the instrument that he was, he could still project his sound to where it could be heard anywhere in any room (under "normal" circumstances, of course). Projection & "volume" are subtly different but very real parts of sound production...there's guys that will be loud as hell when you stand right next to them, but you go out 15-20 feet and there ain't hardly anything there. Other guys, you can hear a triple-pianissimo at the back of a huge auditorium. It's the latter group that have really mastered the whole airflow/support/embouchure thing.

He "came to fame" 40-45 years ago. That's a long time, and his playing has deepened since then. How much is for each listener to decide, but geez, forming an opinion of 2010 Lloyd based on 1965 Lloyd is...whatever. The guy's disappeared, gotten rich on real estate, gotten lost in TM, and then came back to pretty much start over, and even that was 30 years ago!

I have done been get, thanks!

John Fred Living Dead Coke Head

Morgan's got that Glen Hardmann/Jack LaLaine thing going, Today that's a truly "lost" approach to organ...Treasure it now while it is here for you.

The email will work, thanks.

Never cared all that much for the Capitol trios, though.

Not exactly...I found him to be pretty easy to read - beautiful wife, great band, and willfully limited contact with anything outside of that, or that could disrupt that. a man who had built his own world to his specifications to meet his needs. Joe Henderson = winner of his own game, and not playing anybody else's. That used to be a really hipass thing to be. In my mind, it still is. Espceially being able to play like all that and all.

Yes. I find that one to be quite "transcendental"...there's a "zone" thing going on, at least how I hear it.

I'm told that he was just a very serious musician who liked to, uh..., you know... In other words, give him a good reed, a good buzz, and a good rhythm section and he was set. All muisc, he was. OTOH, I met his wife at Fat Tuesday's once, and she was a drop-dead fox. But she ran interference for him on the rare occasion he came out from the dressing room as well. I don't think he was aloof, just very into his thing, and willing to do whatever it took to stay into it w/o distraction.

Yeah, but I signed up for the Canadian post count. Who knew?

Most of the issues I hear about are bassists & pianists, mostly bassists. With wind players is usually something jaw/throat related. Inevitably the cause is "forcing" of one kind or another, be it through posture or positioning that causes undue muscle stress, or trying to blow too much air through too small an opening w/o compensating somehow (this took Michale Brecker off the scene for a little bit). How to stop it? Don't do it! Or else pay attention when something starts feeling funny. "Playing with pain" is one thing, disregarding ongoing warning signs is something else altogether.