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And it might yet come. Kinsmen has really gotten to me in a lot of ways, lots of implications about bi-lateral assimilations that play pout past the musical arena and such, but the bottom line is that this guy can play. He's really working on honing his own voice, and it is a voice that in some crucial ways is "first of it's kind" in jazz saxophony. Even if the worst that happens to him is that he becomes an "evolutionary figure", somebody who opened up a new direction for others to come after him, that's still notable, I think. And truthfully,I think he will become more than that. And also, I'm not so sure that what he might consider "breaking loose" and what "we" consider "breaking loose" are entirely the same thing. That might actually end up being part of his contribution, the establishment/definition of the whats/wheres/hows of "breaking loose". However, before I render any final verdict, I'm gonna need to hear him blow a few choruses of "Stella", just to see if he can really play...

Wow... Pastor Dr. Bill Jones really creeps me out. I only hope that help is indeed being proffered, and without any hopes of exploitation.

Nasty hot. Buy with confidence.

Veronika Harcsa in custom made Tisza:

Aye, lads, she be a-lookin' like a "sneaker" to me, HAR HAR HAR!

It all seems very 1992-ish to me...

So, is this company operating with or without BN/EMI permission? Ifit's with, then why would they not cooperate to provide satisfatory product/greater sales/greater return on licensing fees, etc. And it it's without, then how the hell is Amazon sanctioning this? Is EMI so impotent that Amazon spits in their face and laughs? Or does not EMI give a shit that somebody's openly pirating their product in the mainstream market place? And I really find it..."odd" that nobody at BN/EMI has kept a CD master of every release. What happens when James Newton goes crazy, kills Ad-Rock in a drive-by, gets famous in a whole new way, and suddenly they decide to reissue Romance and Revolution? Or America decides to change our national anthem to "Blues March" and they decide to repress Moanin' in Pop Smash quantities? What, is it back to the master tapes one more freakin' time? Unless I'm missing something really obvious, the more that comes to light about this whole deal, the more dysfunctional it appears...

Don Brown was there! What tune you talkin' about?

But a McDonald's sundae is forever.

Well, it should probably be noted that using boiling water (or grits, ask Al Green...)as a weapon of aggression is hardly unheard of either. The singer might well have had it in mind to disfigure his woman before dispatching her, to teach her a lesson, and to mark her as physically ugly as he perceived her spirit to be. Like I said, not exactly unheard of.... And if that seems genuinely dark, sinister, mean, and malevolent, oh well. It is. But shit like that did (and does) happen.

FWIW, I have, and have long had, a totally irrational but deeply visceral hatred of Kurt Warner.

Mention? Hell, you've freakin' represented!

It's a signifier of sorts. Out in the country (or in any poor area back in the day) boiling water is a commonplace activity. Cooking, washing, sterilization of drinking water, etc. But everybody knows that boiling water ain't used casually, or recreationally. That shit hurts and you best respect that fact. So it's not so much the boiling of the water that is significant as much as it is the timing, that the dude is picking a time when water is boiling to call his mama over to his knee and then call her out on her bullshit. Kinda like "harmlessly" sharpening a knife while you ask somebody about that money they owe you, that type of thing.

Let me say this again - I'll gladly pay 5-6 bucks for a real set of artwork. But to pay $15+ for a freakin' CD-R requires amounts of both disposable income and disposable sanity that I am not able to muster at this time. Thank god!

It's...as if...you were actually....in the room when the meeting took place!

They don't have any archive that I'm aware of other than the analog masters. They probably still have the CD mother stamper somewhere in the pressing plant, but they don't have any kind of library of all the CDs they've ever made. say WHAT?

Yep. And that's a drag too, considering the lineup, although maybe it's somewhat a case of "band minus bandleader" "slacking off". Maybe a different drummer would have upped the ante. Oh well. Just goes to show you that there are no guarantees...

I feel much the same way about Fuller's other Impulse! date, Soul Trombone. Not bad, but could/should have been a lot better, imo.

If you ever find out, please let us know. I for one am curious!

Dude, I tried, believe me. Like you, it sounded familiar, but I couldn't place it exactly. As to where to go, try this: http://www.beyondjazz.net/ They got forums like this one and the nature of that music lends itself very nicely to your query. No promises, but hey...

When you say "blues", do you mean "blues" blues, or jazz/blues/etc (I'm asking because of the Alex North & Streetcar references)? Because I'm thinking that the underscore of a lot of older cartoons had very "jazzy" music, some of which probably might fit within your boundaries. Not sure how much, if any, has been extracted to standalone soundtracks, but there's probably some crazymad collectors/archivists/etc out there who have some something along those lines, either w/the actual scores or else recreations. But then again, animation was very "jazzy" in and of itself, and you say you're looking for sightings in un/non-expected places... But then again again, I think that most animators & their cohorts would be considered "outsiders" relative to "blues" in general, Cliff Edwards notwithstanding...

My guess? They expect a generally older demographic that's "frightened" of digital downloads. See, this is just nuts AFAIC. "Frightened" of digital downloads, yeah, ok, I know the type, but geez, they're all gonna be dead in, what, 30 days or so? Everybody else has figured out that you can either A) Buy this type stuff legit used or elsewhere if you look hard enough B) Get a burn from a friend and/or C) Download it from the internets for free. But what you can't find w/similar ease is the packaging. A professionally-printed booklet (not some ink-jet job) would be welcome, as would, in some instances, tray cards, etc. Not sure what the cost/benefit ratio on this would be, but I'd be more prone to pay, say, $4.95 for a real booklet than I would $14.95 for a CD-R of something (that I can easily get elsewhere in some form or fashion) and some "almost real" artwork... Hell, even build artist/composer/publisher royalties into the price to compensate for non-sales due do the promiscuity of digital reproductions of the musical content. I know that's a bit altruistic, but hey, it's new day!