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Songmy is really an Ilhan Mimaroglu thing, imo, allt hings considered. Russell, remember...

Well, if you want to talk about people who got into electronics in "ways that partially transformed their musical vision", and if "taste" is not a consideration, then you gotta put Don Ellis in there. For every 10 (or 100...) pieces of gimmicky bullshit, there'd be a thing that showed real vision. Probably more trouble than it's worth finding them, but if you're so inclined, they're there.

If this is it, then it did: http://www.dustygroove.com/warehouslp.htm#21846 If it's not, then I don't know...

Figured you might enjoy it. Glad you did! Now, if you don't already have this one...

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No problems here w/electric Ornette. Some's better than others, ranging from great to merely pleasant, but no real problems. Probably just those damn hormones interfering w/my judgement.

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IIRC, Milton Berle was the host & the show was a disaster because of that.

My "hormone period"? Dude, I hope I never have a time that's not my hormone period in some form or fashion! The neutered life is not for me, thanks anyway.

Yeahyeahyeah & blahblahblah, but show me a substantive precedent for that beat distribution on side 2 of OTC and then we can talk.

What album(s) was/were that? If it's Merry-Go-Round, I might suggest giving them time. Jan Hammer's playing some very cool shit on there, even if there's a blatantly wrong note in the ensemble head of "La Fiesta" which I'm shocked that the producer didn't catch. Wait a sec - I just consulted the LP insert & saw that the producer was George Butler. Never mind.

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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?