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Would be very interested in learning more about the "secret society" of Ra & Abraham. "Space Is The Place", etc. has never really done it for me in terms of what Ra was really up to. Will an exhibit guidebook be available for sale?

It'll take ou longer to read the damn review that it will to listen to the box...

Had a listen to this one last night, & it got better for me the deeper into the disc it got. At first, I was kinda all eyes-rolling "o....k... more Trane shit" (even though as seemingly unanimously noted, Pharoah plays great throughout. But it's not his album....). Just waaaaaay too much gesture from the rhythm section, and Garrett seems more than happy to meet them on their terms rather than bringing them to his. But the further into it got, the less derivative it seemed to get, and my interest perked up accoringly. Maybe they just wore me down. The voices don't bother me at all. I like voices ok. What did bother me was that too much of it sounded like it should have been a Strata-East side of 30+ years ago. C'mon, that shit was great then, but I know how it goes already, and have for quite a while. Give it a twist. Or something. If I'd not already heard a lot of what this album was modeled on, I'd probably go apeshit & give it rave reviews. In DownBeat language, that's 5 stars. Knowing what I know, I'd give it 3 stars, just because no matter how good it is, and it's quite good, there's still a lingering sense that no matter how "intense" it is, it's more the intensity of effort rather than discovery. To be as objective as possible (and because Pharoah plays really, really beautifully from start to finish), I'll split the difference & give it 4.

Serious music is fun! It's the stupid shit that's a drag.

Un Homme et Une Femme Frere Jacques Soeur Sourire

Come to think of it, you might be right. Please confirm.

C.W. McCall Steve McCall Macaulay Culkin

Well, since its coming from a re-seller, the boot people ain't gettin my money. I still wonder who else is on it. Hey I got no problems with that. How do you think I got to know about the Lotus label in the first place?

Much the same can be said about the stories about Gigi Gryce's alleged mob-threat induced paranoia & withdrawal from the professional music scene, stories for which Mike Fitgerald & Noal Cohn were completely unable to find any corroborating evidence. Although I subscribe to the theory that just because you're paranoid doen't mean that they're not out to get you, and although I fully understand the numerous individual & institutional hostilities present in this world towards the spiritual essence and power of this music, I also know that sometimes cats get a little/lot wacky about it too.

Tightwad Johhny Wadd Harry Reems

Frankie Carle Carl Perkins Don Perkins

Lotus as I've known it was a bootleg label that often issued material from the similarly bootleg Joker label . This is probably a live date captured on tape & then released on the grey market.

Henry Clay James Clay Gene McDaniels

Thanks. I missed that one.

Did that ever come out as an OJC?

That won't do any good.

Well then, how about the "Lady Killer" do? I said CHANGE my hair style. Ohhh.... May I suggest a good hat then?

Give me "Little Saint Nick". Please...

Oh, he was doing some Blindfold Test thing and they played him a cut off that album and he went batshit, talking about how "they shit on Ellington! They shit on Duke!" or some looney-tooney crap like that. Same as his infamous comments about Braxton in a similar context many years earlier, only his sense of "outrage" was even more f-ed up because he'd had more than enough time to figure stuff out and obviously hadn't. God, what an idiot. Doesn't look like I'll be checking out his music any time soon. Guy Well hey - my "professional respect" for Phil Woods is quite high. As a saxophonist, he's unquestionably a master, and he's one of the greatest lead altoists in the history of the music. But I'm not a fan of his work after he came back to America in the early 70s, and as far as what he "thinks" about post-Ornette music, he can go fuck himself as far as I'm concerned.

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Oh, he was doing some Blindfold Test thing and they played him a cut off that album and he went batshit, talking about how "they shit on Ellington! They shit on Duke!" or some looney-tooney crap like that. Same as his infamous comments about Braxton in a similar context many years earlier, only his sense of "outrage" was even more f-ed up because he'd had more than enough time to figure stuff out and obviously hadn't.

That often happens when you put a needle on the tracks. Or so I've heard...

Cadence.