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Wow, they're dumb. Everybody knows the answer is Armadillo. Wrong. Armadillo is a city in the Texas Potholder.

CD track = 3:07 Facsimile of original LP back shows 1:48 (or 1:49, really tiny print...). Can anybody describe where the edits were made for the LP cut?

Would you be comfortable saying that Ra left Chicago a different city (within his parameters. of course) than he found it? Serious question, you'd know a lot better than I would.

Yeah, that's what I mean.

Nope....that's still storage/playback in one. ? sorry, can't follow! Storing media on the same type device you use to play it back is combining two "levels" of storage media into one. If the HD crashes, what have you got left? Would you store the music on your LPs on your turntable platter (if you could?) & then lose the LPs? Of course not. Same deal. You want to keep/have your actual data kept apart from the playback medium, just in case.

The DVD-R option seems as good a solution as any.

Nope....that's still storage/playback in one.

Dexter on soprano too.

Chuck, Larry, anybody, any thoughts on this aspect of a potential Ra "influence" or lack thereof?

Up, 'cause I got a buddy who's been pumping me a lot of Basso lately, & I think he'd appeal to a lot of people here, the people who like "mainstream", swinging jazz that is what it is. The guy's got his own voice, swings hard (and real) and is totally without pretense. I could almost call him Scott Hamilton w/o the baggage, except that Basso's old enough to be Hamilton's father, so comparisons might not be fair to either man.

He was with Miles for a quick minute. Bootlegs survive. The guy caught my ear w/Brubeck back in the day. An individual slant on a generic bag, I thought then (and now). I think he's a better, warmer player than a lot of his recordings might suggest. Word has it that he's actually a somewhat introverted (some might say "quirky") but beautiful individual who's uncomfortable "playing the game", and that his BN sides were produced with the label's "direction" in terms of content, production (including post-production in terms of eq-ing his tone, which to me verges on - or actually is - evil). I've heard a few "private tapes" that tend to confirm all this. Seeing him in person might be the way to go to get a fuller picture, or not (as per Bill).

Legalities aside, I think it's a bad idea (a bonehead idea, actually...) to have your storage media & your playback medium combined into a single unit w/no backup of the media in a separate location.

Considering that he's (arguably) the most consistently strongest voice on Reach Out, maybe not?

Trane started on alto. You can hear him on the Navy band dates ("circulating among collectors") pre-tenor, and/or on a Prestige Gene Ammons date, post-tenor. There's a Don Menza date on Palo Alto where Sal Nestico plays tenor & Menza mostly plays alto & bari. His bari playing is nice. In general, I tend to prefer "florid" type players on larger rather than smaller horns. In general, mind you. Sometimes there's too much "style" over "substance" and the bigger sonic/tonal vibrational/aural space soaks up the overflow, like eating bread with greasy food to make it sit better on the stomach.

Would it be fair to claim, though, that Ra was a cultural influence if not a direct musical one? That the "social climate" in Chicago that fostered the AACM would not have been as it was w/o Ra's various activities throughout the 1950s?

Howdy!

That's good to know. Their last few records have been kinda...complacent. But damn, that band's legacy is freakin' awesome. Glad to hear they still do it live.

Hell, I was there before he was even born. Y'all just didn't know me then.

And if I was on that cruise, I would hang exclusively with George Duke & Tower Of Power and singlehandedly restore their confidence that at this point in their non-careers that their best bet would be to just let it fly all crazy mad like they used to. I would be forever banned from all Dave Koz Smooth Jazz Cruises, but I ain't in this for the money doncha' know.

Not cool, not warning us in advance that link would launch some godawful Dave Koz music. Believe it or not, I didn't think that little clip sounded too bad. Nice pocket. I get the feeling, though, that I don't need to hear any more of the tune than that. I'm with you on that. The problem with so much of this type shit ain't that it's intrinsically bad, it's just that everybody's so pussified what they do with it. They should be rockin' that shit, putting some BODY into it, making it REAL, dammit. Instead they wanna play all Mister Nice Guy. Fuck Mister Nice Guy. Not that there's anything wrong with being a nice guy, I mean, I approve of it myself actually, but anybody who's got to be Mister Nice Guy all the gotdammed time, especially to the point of coming off like Oh Baby I'm Such A Mister Nice Guy That I'll Love You But Never Fuck You Or Even Think About Fucking You Because Even Though I Have A Dick That Works I'll Not Use It On/For/With You Because Hey, I'm Mister Nice Guy So Buy My Music And Feel Safe is a fucked up human being, simple as that.

Makes sense to me. Look, Chelsea's almost 28 now (born February 27, 1980) . She's not a kid any more. Any subliminal (or not) fears that portions of the electorate might have of Hillary as a "domineering mother" type were not assuaged by her behavior in this incident. If the cultural zeitgeist right now really is "moving into tomorrow" or something like that (and I'll believe it is when November rolls around), who you gonna call - your mom (who you know loves you, but damn, she just won't...let you be) or your hip older brother?

That's bullshit too. On a tenor, you can change the timbre of the same note from pinched, almost bassoon-like to wide open and roaring just by changing the throat from pinched close to wide open, like you got an orange stuck in it (or like you're going to fog up some glass). The air column of a saxophonist really serves the same "essential" function for them as it does for a vocalist. Using the throat to alter timbre and facilitate different ranges is freakin' fundamental to playing the instrument in anything other than a rudimentary fashion.

Harrington says: Since the Shuster episode has stirred a wide range of responses, I would say that the answer to both questions here is "it depends on who you ask".