JSngry

I've learned that living in the present immediately puts you in the past. I'd love to think that at some point I'll have everything on a server, controllable by laptop (or phone!), and available anywhere in the house. It's doable now, but hell, I was a late-is adapted to CD and didn't totally abandon cassettes until the truck stops stopped carrying them, so that ain't happening here. But if I was a young guy, hey... I'd be going all in on that and not looking back. Because 30,000 is a butt load of anything except dollars. And the future ain't about buttlosdd of anything except dollars. I concur! Except for this vinyl foolishness, but that lesson will be learned sooner or later. Or else become the fetished collectable that it should already be.

In time it will. The future is in files and minimum physical storage of them. Me, I don't give a damn, but that's where it's going. Inevitably. And audiophillia will get drug along. Because at that point, it'll be nothing but simple engineering, and those cats can do engineering.

I mean, they're all dead and everybody's made up their mind about what they're going to think (even if they're not thinking it yet). Now about that Andrew Hill biography...I will take extra good care of myself if it means living long enough to be alive to read it.

Can't read that shit, not with my mind.

DeSamuel Farty - Wings On Fire!!!

You can get an HDMI output on a computer. Or so says the internet.

Bill Evans did not invent quartal voicings.

Yeah, people just don't think. Or feel.

It's "hilarious" really. Repetition has become the lingua franca of propaganda commercial media worms, minimalist classical in all its offshoots, pretty much everything every where, and yet "jazz averse" clowns laugh at the quite intentional use of a deeply rooted African(-American) technique like it's some kind of failure or something. Ignorance in the service of assumed superiority...

Well I'll be damned. It's on YouTube:

Listen to Mal Waldron get stuck...

Don't think it is...I've only seen it on Spotify so far. I think it just dropped a week or two ago.

There ya' go!

Working for me...upgrade/restart maybe?

Plink Likely - Hotum Hotum Chey,!!!

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think you can "make" files sound "improved" . That would mean editing them. Playback chain, tweak away. But source material stays the same, always.

"files"? That's what they are, files.

It makes sense to me that the Selmer company would produce such a then-unusual record to promote their product. They were top-of-the line, but still had competition. So this was definitely a "prestige" product, the best player playing the best instrument. Didn't Baronet end up owned by Savoy? Savoy never released it. It's often described as "the rarest" Hawk item, so...would a Baronet record be that rare?

That band was on fire and on a roll! Spotify just put up a concert in Helsinki from Feb. 2. Same band, same repertoire, audio quality not as good, but JESUS!!! There are people who will complain that Ellington's band never played the charts the same way twice. When the band is operating at this level, that's a supreme blessing.

Big Tommy Brave, Crippled Seth Courageous, & Little Timmy Bold - Long May Our Story Be Told!!!

Connie Kay with the MJQ was a thing all its own. Kenny Clarke, period, was too, of course. But those things were not the same thing, and besides, Kenny Clarke excelled at neither crotales or Atlantic R&B sessions. Maybe they both played with Lester Young, though. The 3D Venn Diagram of Jazz (never mind of America, period) is a dense one. Better to appreciate it as is, because trying to separate it out leaves you in an inesapable void of myopic blankness. Sorry about all that counterpoint.

Barbara Simmons as in Mrs. Sonny Simmons (who is also on the record): https://www.discogs.com/release/2458826-Townsend-Townsend-Townsend-Rogers-Townsend-Townsend-Townsend-Rogers So, Barbara Donald.

Yeah, it's called money. Bags kept trying to be a standalone leader. First the MJQ went to a "season", then finally broke up, and then post-finally re-formed. Sometimes Lewis wrote some silly shit, sometimes/often not. But either way, the MJQ made money for all concerned. Sorry about all that counterpoint.

Barbara Donald was incredible, and both of her albums for Cadence should be available in perpetuity!!!!

I take what I can get, because that's how I can get.