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Cincinnati is at best "midwest" instead of "north", and if you look at the map & see its relative proximity to Kentucky, you'll see that not for nothing does it have a bit or more of "southern"-ness to its culture. Pretty "rough" town, really. "Sophisticated" might not be the first word that comes to mind when describing it...

An very interesting, imo, album is 1965's Extensions, w/Jamil Nasser & a returning Vernell Fournier (Fournier was filling in for Chuck Lampkin, who was Jamal's regular drummer after Fournier, but before Gant). This is the first album, iirc, to showcase Jamal in truly extended improvisational mode.

Pro Tools is a bitch!

Check it out: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=48143

I'm all for it!

Yes, of course, but I was thinking about those that had "non-series" covers, like the ones above.

Found here: http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/11/26/have-y...y-gets-its-due/ To getcha started:

The LP versions of Free Jazz & Ascension.

There were also 2-fers from the old Pacific Jazz catalog Here's two: Were there more?

I used to belong to The Record Club Of America: http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/bs.../vpost?id=87267 Got my copy of Trane's Transition from them in fact.

The Capitol Record Club was where you got The Beatles & The Beach Boys & Al Martino & Nat Cole & all that EMI stuff. http://www.friktech.com/btls/rci.htm http://www.rarebeatles.com/photopg6/y&trcad.htm

What I dug about sports wasn't so much beating the other guy(s), it was winning. I know that sounds like so much B.S, but what I mean is that I dug (and still do) the type of "competition" that forced me to up my own game in order to stay afloat. I took (and still very seldom take) pleasure in "crushing" an opponent (on the rare occasion when it happened...) but instead looked forward to the situation where it was a tight back and forth, where winning might well involve finding some "level" or "gear" inside yourself that you didn't know you had, or that you thought you might have had, or that you used once or twice but weren't sure if it was still there or not. That's the part of competitive sport that teaches a true "life lesson", and that's the part that I find woefully neglected in most such endeavors, both then and now. The focus is all on winning as an end to itself, not on winning as a means to a greater end.

ןɯʇɥ˙sɹǝʇʇǝןuʍopǝpısdn/ʎɐןd/ɯoɔ˙sǝɹıʍuǝʌǝs˙ʍʍʍ//:Dʇʇɥ

Bullshit. Five days after unions disappear, they'll be needed again. Today's UAW? I doubt it. The only reason Honda/Nissan/Toyota workers are happy is courtesy of the UAW, not their employers. Yessir! Let's hear it for the benefits of competition!

Also probably the only guy in the band not intimidated in the least by Buddy mid-tantrum.

Little League baseball - played it as a kid, loved it (wasn't very good at it, but loved it anyway), and coached as my son played. Was recruited for HS track but was in a place & time where music & athletics could not be accommodated into the same schedule. But I dug track back then, and still do now. No real adult athletics for me, no time when I was semi-fit, and now that arthritis/etc is setting in... I regret not finding the time, actually. Love the sports, not so fond of the bullshit. But you can get it like that if you' re lucky, and I pretty much was.

Why don't we just recommend about 95% of the records made over the last 25 or so years?

SOUL food!

And the thing about Japanese management, at least the stereotype of same, is that there is a sense of honor. These cats (or at least their stereotypes) know that with their power comes responsibility for nurturing and maintaining "health" of all types across all levels of the enterprise. American management by and overwhelmingly large, just does not "get" this. We have not yet learned that "rugged individualism" & "guaranteeing the common good" are not mutually exclusive in any put their purest forms. The whole yin-yang thing eludes us, and that will prove to be our downfall, should we not beging to get a grip on this most basic concept, that you can not have a front without also having a back, and that as one goes, so, ultimately, does the other. Then again, America is a nation in love with the illusion of its own "purity" (national, ideological, regional, whatever, even the "melting pot" is, according to some, result in some kind of ultimate "purity"), even though its greatest triumphs have been the result of anything but... I have repeatedly seen the most boneheaded management decisions, decisions that are bad for the company & destructive to its employees, not only not admitted to, but covered up, at times even rewarded to further the cover up. If the stereotypes are to be believed, a Japanese manager/executive/whatever would at the very least admit their error, probably even apologize for it to those it adversely affected, including the rank-and-file. It's the simple (yet apparently esoteric) notion of "hey, y'all entrust me with this responsibility and I fucked up. I do not take it lightly that I did, nor do I take lightly the disruptions my error has caused." simple as that. Hey, ok, Honda ain't got to deal with the UAW. You want that to be an across the board model, then make it an across the board model. When a pus-head like Angelo Mozilo resigns in deep shame rather than making out like a bandit (and disrupting, truly disrupting literally tens of thousands of people's lives, and that's just employees, never mind the lives of their families and communities, in the process), then I'll know we're getting somewhere better than where we are now.

As long as there is not a need for what the union provides (or should provide...), no there won't be (not unless we go back to the pre-union days of hired goons beating up and/or murdering people...). But labor does not determine that. I really want to know though - do Honda, Toyota, etc. allow any sort of "employees association" or some such? Or are they such awesomely Sensitive New Age folks that they maintain harmony intuitively? I really don't know, but I doubt there is any type of organized employee association. Maybe just a more representative lower and middle management structure. Hey, a rose by any other name... If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Tell you what, make it my way sometime and I'll not only make sure your pie has the right amount of fresh salsiccia, I'll make damn sure it is made by a non-union Italian. Cool! Can we make sure that they also work 80 hour weeks at less than minimum wage and sleep in the kitchen too? I bet that would be some DAMN good pizza! (just KIDDING!)

Exactly. The UAW needs to radically (and I do mean radically) reform. But that deos not = cease to exist, which is what immediately comes to my mind when I hear talk of "well, weonce needed unions, but now we don't" and such. To me, that's like saying that hey, your neighborhood is really nice these days, has been for quite a while, probably will be for a good while longer, so why the hell does your house need a door? Now, sure, I probably don't need my triple-titanium plated steel-core door with the atomic-powered security system built into it, but dammit, I still need a door, just because. And a decent door too, not some cardboard facsimile of one. As long as everything stays cool, I can even leave it unlocked, or even open (when/where I grew up, that's just what you did, leave your door open, assuming that you had a screen door to keep the flies out). But damn if I ever want to find myself in the position of not being able to lock my door if I need to, much less of going to close the door only to find that it ain't there, and OOOPS, Home Depot stopped carrying doors about 8 years ago. It shows a lack of self-respect to not care for one's self-protection, just as it shows an inflated/distorted sense of self to put one's self-interest above the collective good at all times. And it also shows a lack of respect for others to expect them not to want self-protection of some sort. And no, sorry, "If you don't like it, you can always work someplace else" (as I've heard more than a few times at The Mortgage Company That Cannot Be Named over the last 10 years) is not a form of protection, nor is it in any way a show of respect. It's a pseudo-Neanderthal approach to personnel relations that was a big part of what led to the formation of the labor movement in the first place, so when I hear the same people (not you) spouting, "Unions had their place, but now they're obsolete" turn around and say "If you don't like it, you can always work someplace else" when it comes to simple matters like tying production standards to quarterly pay increases and then transparently raising production standards to impossibly high standards in order to avoid the payouts (and then always having to repeat this charade because the motherfuckers are too stupid to realize that job functions with output that cannot be precisely measured & quantified should not be placed on such a program, and for damn sure you don't let employees "estimate" and report their own production!), then I know what time they think it's getting to be, and quite frankly, they can kiss my farting ass if they think that's gonna go down without a fight. It's bad for me, but it's bad for them too. I want them to do well, hell, they pay me for crissakes. I owe them an honest day's work and my best effort. I don't owe them my soul, and I don't allow them unlimited access to my ass, if you know what I mean. Now, we definitely need to reform, fundamentally reform, organized labor. But please, American Business, do not insult me by telling me, or even implying that, there is no need for any sort of employee representation in the face of clueless, ignorant management. That's my dignity you're talking about, and also my job. I want them both, I need them both, and I am a reasonable man when approached and treated in a reasonable manner.

It was DiPressing.

The adjective/noun combination "Screech Trumpet" is commonly used as a noun in the big band bigbandiverse, a la "Lead Alto" or "Jazz Trumpet" or No Time Motherfucking Piece Of Shit Drummer". Of course, the adjectives "Screech" or "screechy" have subjective connotations, as adjectives are wont to do. So once again, we have....

Hey, the last pizza I got was short on sausage. That wasn't bad engineering either, but I'm not going to blame the actions of the jerkoff who made it on the Italians...