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I'm trying, but Jimmy Blanton keeps pulling me back in. Would that I could say the same about Beyonce's ass, but hey, life is what it is...

Same music, different video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swahH_MWtAk gotDAMN did Jimmy Blanton swing!!!!

My folks bought me a new Buescher Aristocrat alto in 1966, my very first horn. It was good, but not a Selmer, which I got when I went to college. Not a bad horn by any means, but advances had been made, even at the time. Definitely noticed the difference once I got the Selmer.

This person is good! the beatles- she’s leaving home vs. nirvana- in bloom http://fairtilizer.com/track/66670

The more I watch Beyonce's ass & listen to Blanton's bass, the more I become convinced that whoever did this was right.

Yeah, I know. Seriously. But this, it's gonna stay so underground that only the people who need to "get it" will. Everybody else will either not get it at all or else add one more uncompressed file to their already clogged hard drive. And from what I've seen of the Cotton Club dancers, Beyonce would have ruled that scene much as she does her scene today. So there's that going on too. Them what complains about cultural illiteracy, hey...this don't seem like that to me. So far, no harm no foul, imo (I have faith in the long-term power of eternal rightness of Ellington). If/when there is, that ref will be making the appropriate call.

I smiled out loud! More & more it seems like the DJs are the ones doing what the musicians should be doing. No, not the mash-up per-se, but the compressing and defragging of the cultural hard drive to free up some space. Besides, that's one of the most musical-in-the-traditional-sense mashups I've heard yet. Whoever did it is not just pitch conscious, they're finicky about it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpXD7EQOYOM&feature=related

Wellsir, that strikes me as representative of damn near everything right now....paradigm shift and all that. They don't come along all that often, really. Digital reality and all that is finally gained enough traction to no longer just be a "possibility". It's here and it ain't turning back. In the meantime, a few people keep moving along in spite of all that. Georgia Anne Muldrow, to this point, is one of them. There will be more. Quite possibly, we're in the Stone Age of the Digital Era. Enjoy responsibly!

And as for bebop, well....junkiedom is a provincialism all its own, wouldn't you say? Not to say that bebop was "junkie music", just that...well...you know.

Ah, this type of hip-hop is definitely underground. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwsABGGZx3w Don't confuse what makes it up (or even halfway up) to "the masses" with all that is going on... And delta blues was never provincial? Have you ever been to the Mississippi Delta? Hell, even today, it'a a world unto its own. Or at least it was when I was there in 1981....probably not now that all the promoters and historians and tourists have made their impact. But back then, there were two types of people I encountered among the "blues population" - those who had left to as sidemen and those who hadn't. And the ones who had came home glad to be among those who hadn't.... Funny thing is, I was there playing a hotel "show band" gig in a white hotel, in Greenville. But blues musicians literally filled the streets during the day. They say a case or something, asked if you were a musician, and next thing you know, you were talking to about 8 or 9 other people, talking about gigs, axes, stuff like that, in that uniquely "provincial" dialect & vocabulary, full of odd turns of speech and refernces. This was 1982. I can only imagine what it was in 1932 (or earlier...) Any way Georgia Anne is one of the pieces of what is shaping up to be the new puzzle. Her POV is not an end unto itself, but an early lay-down of what is sure to be the popular music of the 21st century. Intriguing, unconventional, and yes, often lsee than fully formed. But here it comes, little by little, piece by piece, already forming its own embryonic tradition. "Rap" is all but dead as a real power & "commercial" hip hop is like baby corn - tasty enough, but picked way too soon in order to satisfy appetites that might not givve a shit about the mature product. (horrible analogy, I know, but I am pressed for time rioght now so it will have to do.) If you plan on living more than just a few more years, it might be fun to watch this stuff evolve over the next few decades. The underground lives.

Like all undergrounds...

The man's got stories of his own. Much props to and for that.

I guess they need to ask you how their beats should go then!

ohhh...my bad, sorry. But probably not Suzy Wandas (of whom I had not heard of until today...what a great time waster this thread has been!) http://www.geniimagazine.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=155687 which also offers this suggestion:

Don't think so. That's Suzy Wandas, "The Lady with the Fairy Fingers". I think she's palming some stuff, and really well. Look at how close to the lit end she's holds those "cigarettes"...you'd not do that with a real lit cigarette. The questions are - what is she throwing down? I don't think it's a lit cigarette. And where is the smoke coming from? Her exhale sometimes seems disproportionate to her inhale. I really dig illusionists...

http://www.spike.com/video/disappearing/2859062

http://www.miraclefactory.net/suzy.htm

That would be one way to look at it...

Other than "Sorry", I honestly don't know what to say. LTB & I should have been divorced 2 or 3 times by now. Hell, I should be dead by now. And for all I can tell, live would still go if any/all of that had happened. I don't understand why some things happen between peoples. All I know is that as long as you're here, might as well show up and play. Otherwise you waste your time. Other than that, I'm clueless.

FWIW, my daughter got the "probably tied up in customs" response up until the day it showed up at the DLO. She orders from this particular retailer on the average of once a month and knew the typical turnaround time, therefore that something was wrong. Sure enough, the people had not addressed the package. How much more wrong can you get than that!?!?! I still don't understand how it got out of Japan like that...