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Maybe that's because you're not a piano player? Seriously - I do have the Hat. Definitely.

HA! Actually, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that it really says SANGRE Y ARENA. Blood & Sand. But hey... Looks like BEEF for dinner. Hey, you hang with me and don't get a man-size helpin' of bull at some point, you better call 911...

But them that do gets well-fed!

I've said it before, but... when Charles Stepney was producing them, it was magic. After he died, it dropped half-a-notch or so to really damn great pop music. Which is more than enough most of the time, but after you've had magic... And Chuck, what do you know about Don Myrick? Was it Threadgillw ho called hime the "best" or "msot complete" or something-like that saxophonist he'd ever known?

Ok, then. Maybe the pressing?

The sound maybe is...

1974, iirc. So that makes it 35 years old, not 25. and when you take into account the time, place, and target audience, he first part of "See The Light" is as audaciously in-your-face as anything anybody's ever done.

He played like a more "studied" Warne Marsh, and by that I mean zero disrespect. He was not a "profound" improviser, but I don't think that was his game anyway. Improvising was simply part of his it, and not necessarily even the dominant part. He was just waaaay out of sync with the "jazz mainstream" of his time and place, that's all. But the cat was no lightweight, that's for sure. And a lot of those Teo Records releases of his are worth hearing.

Heyzeus freakin' KRISTO! STRIKE ONE - Her vibrato (when she uses it) is waaaaaaay too fast STRIKE TWO - Taking a bubble bath with your glasses on is NOT sexy. STRIKE THREE - The Dancing Eunuch Patrol takes this miles away from anything even remotely resembling my interest zone. Y'ER OUT!!! Besides - "Something Stupid" by Frank & Nancy is somewhat the same song (abstractly), a better produced record, and immensely more charismatic in terms of both sonic and human personality. I will say this though - I do like the arrangement. Too bad everything else goes so markedly wrong.

That's hilarious...not to mention pathetic. I dunno man, Teo has a lot to be proud of on his own. thinking of him as first and foremost a producer would be a big mistake. But hell, the guy's still not getting full props for his role as Miles' arranger/editor/producer (one could make the case for co-composer in some instances, perhaps) during the first electric era, much less as a player/composer, so I think he's got a right to have an attitude. Allow me to suggest a read of this older thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...p;hl=teo+macero

Exactly. But you know, a lot of people don't fully understand what that word means...they confuse it with "songwriter" or some such.

I rather enjoyed the LP & CD both. And as far as released LPs, go, I'll much take Lift Every Voice over Grass Roots. CDs are another, much closer story.

No.... Grade AAAAA+++++ At least. And then some. So much more than "just music". And not just them. Come 1979-80, let's talk about not just a dream deferred, but a dream in the process of becoming a reality blatantly being murdered in cold blood...

I'd pay for an option to make a pre-order!

Geez, I hope not. I left out Ambien.

Heroin. & hamburgers. Heroin, Hamburgers, and hot pussy. Heroin, hamburgers, hot pussy, and clean cool sheets for revelling with it all Heroin, hamburgers, hot pussy, clean cool sheets, and a pool in the shade where everybody is blindfolded but otherwise naked and touches everything and anyrtyhing that gets touched diesn't get let go of until its naturality has been fully engaged, released, and appreciated. Y'all are are welcome to come if you can contribute.

Mrs. Miller trumps Andy Williams in the public mindset?

If you're saying that the great pool of "jazz originals" was created at least in part by a healthy motivation to create a language reflecting a reality that spoke to its creators more immediately, directly, and truthfully than did Broadway show tunes and other such items, then I think you have a point of no small validity. To equate, say, Monk, with, say, Gershwin is to miss the distinctively & directly relevant points of each at least as much as it is to appreciate their common ultimate greatness. In this case, if it feels good, don't do it. And if it doesn't feel good, then trust your instincts.

Hey, why not?

Flirting with danger here & take this at 100% literal face value, but... if Zawinul from time to time expressed a "dislike" of "Jews", that does not necessarily equate to being a Hitler sympathizer or a neo-Nazi. It's one thing to individually harbor cultural/generational prejudices, quite another to embrace a systematic/systemic organized acting out of those prejudices. Which is not to in any way "excuse" or otherwise justify those prejudices. I'm just saying, as somebody who grew up surrounded by prejudice, that not all "prejudiced" people gravitate towrds extremist positions. Some of them will actually backtrack big time when the opportunity to align themselves with such movements arise. I'm left wondering what was actually heard here - an actual embrace of Hitler/Nazi-ism or some individually prejudiced statements that were "assumed" by the hearer to embrace something that was not actually being embraced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSSGiA4f5cs

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Hey, Joe was crazy. Ok. "crazy", if you prefer. His music was beautiful crazy. That doesn't mean that every other part of him was the same. Not having known the man myself, all I can really evaluate is the music. As for the rest of it, I'll believe nothing that I don't have very good reason to believe. And the same goes for what I will or will not disbelieve.

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