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I've never understood the thingy...it looks negative, what with the "thumbs down" gesture & the eyes rolling, but obviously not if you're leaning towards getting both sets... anywya, if you like it like It hink you're saying you do, cool! Henry needs more recognition!

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As much as I'm from anywhere... And now, from just a relative few (< 60) miles down the road from Elmo, something completely different: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=9pr4s4Jn3Ys http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

http://maps.google.com/maps?layer=c&cbll=32.721944,-96.165000&cbp=12,,,1,&ved=0CBQQ2wU&sa=X&ei=Zn6uS569CpHczASGiY2IBA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo,_Texas http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/EE/hne12.html

Yeah, exactly. Which only goes to further my theory/suspiscion that if the "music business" had a do-over, they would not have been so god-awful eager to cram digital/CDs down our collective throats back in the day. Talk about a Pandora's box...

Other than business/financial concerns, if these are straight digital copies w/comparable-quality packaging, does the consumer get cheated in terms of product quality when inadvertently buying something like this?

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The way I read the ad, it's probably the announcer doing the ususal intro work and then saying something like "now, let's head over the the Blue Note Studio & se what Gene & the fellows are up to" or something like that. But who knows?

Pretty sure there will be spot breaks w/Army commercials. Shows of this type that I've heard came "as is", all ready for airplay, just put the side on and let it roll.

Those recruiting things are definitely neat finds...the music is always(?) already released stuff, but the interview segments are usually nice, if not particularly penetrating or insightful. They were radio shows, and their main thrust was PR for the military.

That cat looks like a bad-mutha-shut-yo-mouth so you could call it Shaft but shaft is a dude's name and this cat is a chick so maybe Shafta or even Shaf-tay if your wife is not anally Angloistic.

There's a little overlap in that both teh Mosaic & BS/SN have recordings by Air, but even that is a qualified overlap, since the BS?SN set has some sides by New Air (i.e. w/Phaeron Ak Laff on drums and - sometimes - Cassandra Wilson on vocals), which is a very much differnet band than its predecessor. Other than that, in very broad terms, I'd say that the Mosaic material features more "traditional" instrumentation & compositional concepts overall, but again that's a very, very broad generalization. That Spirit Of Nuff Nuff side by his Very Very Circus band (BS/SN) is totally non-tradtional instrumentation but some hardass grooving, so really....I'd get them both if you're at all interested in/intrigued by Threadgill. The guy's overall "musical worldview" is pretty consistent, but his manner of expressing (i.e. "pallate") it is more than a little diverse. Myriad, if you will, might best sum it up. Let me put it this way - both sets are fine representations of Henry's music, but nether one alone will give you the "full picture".

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same here, only more than a few, as is no doubt true for you as well.

WSQ would be cool. Those records caused quite a stir in their day & most hold up quite well, imo.

A perfect size for a box set of its nature, no?

Pops Poopadeaux, all over again.

but neither of them is being the Bluenote!

Nobody in Houston I've spoken with (all my age or a little older) over the years knows of him, he was before their time. So, older than Sparks, that's for sure, and I guess he never came back.

That might well be the best musician (as opposed to music)-related photograph ever. Definitely one of them. Never knew who took it. Too late now, but hey, thanks!

Fuller size back cover here: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2dEe-_Mu0I/S6LmVYUG-_I/AAAAAAAACmk/9fiVGLQr3H8/s1600-h/ShellyMBk.jpg Bigard & Hodges each in a bass-less trio! Eddie Haywood meets & greets Don Byas. Some good stuff here (and none of it originally issued under Manne's name!) Has the Signature label be the focus of an intelligent and well-organized comprehensive reissue yet? Should it be? Could it be? Your thoughts welcome.

OTOH, some people get destroyed without that armor. Especially when music that has to struggle to find its own niche is involved. I've seen countless more "creative people" destroyed by a lack of "arrogance" than by an overabundance of it. The default outcome for playing any type of non-pop "creative music" is failure. To get beyond that takes some drive and something to fuel that drive. And that something is damn near always ego. What else is there, really? Granted, from a "consumer" end, people tend to either overrationalize it, make a fetish out of it, or have zero tolerance for it, but I'm just saying...any "exceptional talent" has to have a fair amount of ego in order to survive and suceed. The ones who have succeeded and act like they don't have it, don't believe that bullshit for one second! When it comes to Jarrett, yeah, he's got issues. But even if he didn't, there would be a lot of ego involved. The career path he's taken demands it, and I'll fault him (as much as I'll fault him for anything) for not maturing enough to keep it under manageable wraps, not for having it. Then again, it almost sounds like he's starting to make a shtick out of it, which would be almost healthy...

I actually worked with Artis once...he's an itinerant type by and large, or was then, passes through, stays with people he's met over the years, shows up, plays intermissions or "sits in" for a few days, passes the hat, and moves on. Interesting guy. Now, could he play Sweet Georgia Brown, I don't know. But I've no doubt that he could play with it. He's got this one basic pulse that permeates everything he plays, but I've heard him adapt it to all sorts of other things well enough. Close enough for spoons.