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Never would have guessed Teddy Edwards. Doesn't at all sound like him to me in terms of instrumental fluidity. Oh well! Purcell in 1984? I rest my case.

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I heard he was murdered, cut up into pieces, and his remains strewn about a factory that made canned fruit.

How does that dime shit work anyway? Do you need special software or what?

I feel much the same way, actually. All those tenor players do start to sound alike after awhile (which was probably the point...). But it is what it is, & I willingly bought the set anyway.

Fair enough, but Miles being Miles (with and without a trumpet), where would you have liked to have seen him go?

Need any more proof that jazz is dead? Seriously, that's a depressing (dare I say sick?) way to get kids into jazz. "Hey kids, listen to all the dead folks. You'll love it!" Then again, the truth hurts... But the again again, I'd like to see Braxton do a kids book. That would be fun!

As many or as few as you want. Thing is, they all add up to one. Didn't tell my kids that when I was helping them w/their math homework. though.

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We be in different worlds. On this one, yeah. But it's just one world among many.

Why is that Miles' problem? I mean, I know where you're coming from, but doesn't it all come down to you not liking what was there more than there not being anything there at all? Truthfully, I can say that about Big Fun (interesting production throughout - and that's "important" in its own way - but thin on the music overall), In Concert (group not yet together at all). & side 4 of GUWI (needed tightening up and/or editing and or no "Red China Blues"). Mileages are going to vary widely on this, obviously, depending on what in music gives you pleasure and/or stimulation. But it's that subjectivity that steers me away from the "Miles selling out" arguments, other than to point out that if the guy was just trying to get over, he picked a helluva strange way of going about it. I mean, Pete Cosey?

But speaking of JB, I played "There It Is" about 30 times in a row last night and kept thinking that this was one cut that could have been played by Miles' band. The converse, though, could not be said about what has come to be called "Tune In 5". Sly got in the same area of bouncing staticicity w/"In Time" (and why that's not considered some sort of apex by the "conventional wisdom") is beyond me) but only in the general vicinity. Allegations of pale imitation, half-jesting or otherwise, just don't hold up to an examination of the particulars. This ain't the Mizell brothers we're talking about here...

No, I figured as much, knowing your genreal lack of enthusiasm for electric Miles. Besides, all of those cats were into beats/rhythms that were quite danceable in their time. The beat that runs throughout the second side of OTC is one that "nobody" knew how to dance to in 1972. But they sure do now. I hear variants of that beat everywhere I turn.

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Oh hell yeah.

Need any more proof that jazz is dead?

Not all at the same time I hope! Actually, Spielberg & Q were together. It was a bigass society wedding wedding in Florence. They passed through. This wedding band I work with got hired to provide "Texas flavor". Don't ask, because I still don't know how or why. Don't want to know. Merv & the Prince were together at the same gig too. this was in Albuquerque, and His Royal Earness was in town for some reason, and the locals were hosting a bigass reception M.C.ed by Merv. No matter how smarmy you think that guy is, he's even worse in person. This gig was in 1982 or 83, at the height of the first term Reagan recession, and this motherfucker's making poor people jokes, at which the prince & and the locals are all laughing. Fuck him, fuck Prince Charles, and fuck the Albuquerque ass-kissers who put on this event. Except for the one who signed the check.

On highly commercial gigs, Steven Spielberg, Quincy Jones, Flip Wilson, Ross Perot, Merv Griffin, James Baker, Randy White, Chuck Norris, & Prince Charles. On jazz gigs, Dave Liebman & Roy Hargrove. Draw your own conclusions.

No argument there whatsumever.

It's a giveaway! http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:78q7g4jxtv3z

Autographed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke So, what's the joke here, anyway?

I stopped reading when I saw that she was 16. My daughter's 16, and this type thing is one of the few fears in life I'm totally unable to shake. My deepest sympathies go out to the Werner family. I know that I would be devastated to the core, and I'm sure they are too.

#6 = Frank Wess?