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Such a well-spoken speaking!!!! Nothing but kudos!!!!!!

Ok, maybe my call moved things along, maybe not. But the order has now shipped! That phone call was just...amateur. I expect that level of slackdom in-store, like Rod says, it's a record store. But a business with 5(?) locations in 2(?) states conducting on-line commerce should be prepared to project competence and competency with unseen customers. Such was not the case here. But all's well that ends well. I've gotten spoiled/lucky with Dusty Groove. Those guys are great on the phone! And I know- what even is a phone call?

Have ever had them mail anything to you? That seems to be the wrinkle here. I placed the order last night, and at 3 PM today, they had no idea what I was talking about about. 15+ minutes on hold before they even began to figure it out. But my card has already been charged! Ok, orders come in overnight. Pull them first thing in the AM. You don't have to pack and mail right away, just get them off the damn shelf. You've gotten paid, so that should be the least you can do. Maybe they have their act more together than they present. I certainly hope so, because "we'll get to it when we get to it and if somebody else beats you to it, sorry, we'll get you a refund - when we get to it. In the meantime, we've got your money but we can't guarantee that you'll get your product" is not a good customer-facing look for any business. Mail order is not for everybody, business and consumer. I think that in the case of me and Josey Records, that's the case for both of us.

A statement like this is kind of annoying to me (nothing personal). I have spent the better part of my life trying to learn all these "labels" with the aim of being able to forget them. I like to be fluent in music, not labels. Genres exist of course, but the goal of fluency is to enjoy the music itself, not the genre, and especially not the labels. It's language first, product second. There. Everything else is business.

Ok...so my card has been charged but my item is still out on the for sale. What's to keep somebody from buying it out from under me? Apparently nothing. What happens then? They issue a refund. When? When they get around to pulling my order and see that it's gone. How long will that take? It depends, calls like mine slow everybody down. So customers slow you down? Yeah. That's what the man said . He also said that this happens with all stores. I had to correct him on that since I've been doing mail order with Dusty Groove for decades now and never had that happen. When you order an item, it6 flagged as unavailable both online and in-house. He did not seem to be impressed. I definitely was not impressed. Slackers.

Interesting,thanks!

I have that LP on Federal 10". It doesn't have the vocal though. Who was that singer?

Jazz In Silhouette

You should hear Spaulding in the 50s with Sun Ra. He was hardly a baby when he started showing up on Blue Note!

Why don't they put on their own festival?

Because, yeah!

It's a concession to the Grumpy Old Farts jazz demographic. They tried to get Horace Silver, but Elvis insisted on writing his own lyrics to Horace's tunes. Horace said that that was NOT a total response and turned down the gig. Missed opportunity if you ask me. McCoy carpe diemed. Come early and stay late for this one! I used to get disgusted, but now I only get amused.

They alphabetize by first name on the website. Pet peeve! I've been if, not exactly burned, then heavily toasted a few times by their vinyl grading. At this point in the game, I feel no urgency to go there...or anywhere really...more than once a year. They also opened a store in Plano that is extremely underwhelming in quality of inventory, but their pricing seems to indicate that they think otherwise. It's just a few blocks away, but it might as well be in Waxahachie for all I care! But - I found a Mosaic on this tip here that I had been missing for years (vinyl only, dammit) at a fair price, with free Media Mail shipping, so even with Tx sales tax, it still beats the time and gas it would take to drive there and back. So, good lookin' out Al. Thanks!

That's the one. Willie Smith is unlikely to me. I swear it sounds like Dolphy! I'm a little skeptical of Lee Young as well, to be honest. But I'm not going to the mat on that one. Then there's the matter of the tenor players on the opener. I doesn't seem like they would be the apparent guest artists who hadn't been introduced yet. And from that...regardless of location, surely this was not the entire gig? What constitutes the further research, and were there other acts on the bill? The big band is HOT, what relatively little we get to hear of them. Ernie Royal, if that's who it is playing lead... that's how it goes!

I didn't listen to it on the radio, I was there in person. My daughter lives up there now, so we got to see the city, from all angles. Three stages, all in walking distance of each other. oh yeah, it's all free. Did I mention that?

If you want to travel, go to the Detroit festival. It's all free, and there's zero non-jazz/non jazz-adjacent music. I went last year and had a blast! Waiting to see who's being booked this year, and may very well go again!

Any idea who was in the band?

Pistol Nudde - Fire At Will!!!

He sings standards now and one of his songs was covered by Chet Baker. He's been married to Diana Krall since 2003 and in 2004 she did an album of songs they co-wrote. Plus, he used to be a rock star of sorts. So he can draw a crowd to a jazz festival, rightly or wrongly. And he's being backed by McCoy Tyner!!!!!!!

Oddly enough, there's a lot more jazz on this new bill than I thought. It's just 2024 jazz. And yeah, there's some non-jazz too. But even most (most, not all) of that is jazz-adjacent to one degree or another. I mean, if you market exclusivelyt o cranky old people...gotta build for the future. Louis Armstrong is dead. So is Mel Torm. For that matter, so are Marvin Gaye & B.B. King. Holographic shows, maybe?

Oh yeah?

Bob Wilber et al don't play "Dixieland" imo. That's why I enjoy them! They play jazz, period. But talking about them...what is there to say? It's fun, it's very musical, and...what else? It's also not surprising, it's not supposed to be. It's just supposed to satisfy. You want a surprise, here's a surprise

Well of course there was. Players stayed alive, needed gigs to live, and got them. And then other players get hired. As long as there are gigs, there will be players of whatever level of ability are available at whatever wage the gig pays. Bob Wilbur got gigs and they paid well enough to get good players. That's how long lives are most easily made!

Columbia Butler bankrolled the Marsalis bloat that fatally bankrupted the jazz department. Not for nothing do I still think of him as Dr. Death. Bruce Lundvall was quite good at finding that mix between the music and the sociology. George Butler was just clueless about music. Clueless and given a bigass checkbook.

Don't think it was that simple...the New Note Hitmakers got bigger deals at bigger labels. No help was forthcoming from the bullpen. Not unlike CTI. Bobby Hutcherson also made a series of not-very-well produced records during this time. Him and Horace were the last "pure jazz" artists left on Blue Note...and then there was Horace. Those were good music, but less than great records. They too were all in the cutout bins in quantity. Not only did George Butler not know how to make a good record, he did know how to run a business into the ground. Besides, given the marketplace dynamic of that time, if Horace's & Bobby would have made no-frills records for that Blue Note, they would still have gotten ignored. Case in point - Knucklebean. So much for the marketplace being an educated, reliable arbiter of music. The marketplace don't know shit about music, and when they get it right, it's usually because the music was in the same room with the sociology. And failing to recognize that as we age is not cultivating taste, it's just wallowing in nostalgia.