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His name was Walter? Who knew? Gotta say, I always had a lot of respect for Maynard. He himself was comfortable with the role as "showman" (although he was a respectable "professional" improvisor), but other than the unfortunate incident w/Jaki Byard & the Dolphy-Little gig, I never heard anything even remotely implying that he wasn't all about letting his band (players & writers alike) do their thing. Much props for bandleaders like that. They are few and far between.

If the story I've heard is correct, his band instructor in Dallas called him "Fathead" for messing up a chart. Mr. Dan Gould is correct on both counts.

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So, if Murdoch in any way, shape or form helped get the book published, it invalidates the points made in the book? Let's just hope it wasn't those liberal bastards at NPR! "Felon" is the magazine. "Enough" is the book.

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I think it's pretty damn funny that an article about how jazz used to be "music of the people" has its access restricted to academic institutions.

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Line of the year afaic.

If it wasn't in the sale, it's still in print, right?

Thanks. Sounds interesting. Do they reach the potential of their goals? Because for this "pan-Global pan-music pan-groove" thing, I gotta tell ya' that I've yet to hear anybody come close to Monday Michiru. And I keep looking...

Well, it's just that most pop musicians don't know shit about the specifics of how jazz is made, most jazz musicians don't know shit about how pop is made, most classical musicians don't know shit about how anything else is made, and everybody thinks that hip-hop musicians don't know shit about anything, yet they couldn't lay down a phat groove if their lives depended on it. Hell, most chefs are more "versatile" than most musicians. They respect the vastness of the world's various culinary cultures. Musicians tend to tribalize themselves. Why that is, I don't know, but I don't know that it's ultimately a good thing, not today. Maybe in the times when localized tribes were essential to survival, but those days are rapidly approaching being over. Live in the old world, die in the old world. If that's what works for you, fine. But I'm not ready for that just yet. To use Oliver Lake's "all my food on the same plate" analogy, when my plate starts getting full, I'm just going to get a bigger plate. What I finally end up eating in quantity is another matter altogether, but dammit, I want at least a taste of everything. Most of us learn what we need to know to make what it is that we want to make, and, at best, the basics (or a little more) about that which we like but don't make. That's probably how it should be, but I'd no more expect a hip-hopper to know the specifics of "Giant Steps" than I would expect Sonny Rollins to know how to effectively put together a collage of samples that gets your attention, or for Yo Yo Ma to know how to layer a rhythm track that forces you to move your body whether you want to or not. Those are distingly different skills for a distinctly different music with distinctly different motivations, means, and ends. And no, not everybody (much less anybody) can do it. We're talking "craft" here. Craft is part of the beginning of art, not the end of it. You don't have to respect it for more than it is, but to dis it entirely is just wrong. I give this guy credit for at least having his mind open to Coltrane, and for at least keeping it on his "things to keep getting into" list. That's more than most pop musicians do, and, turned the other way, it's more than most musicians of any type do.

That's the lovely and talented Lilian Vieira. Tell me more.

Nice. Who's that?

Sounds like somebody I'll get to eventually. Probably.

If I had a dollar for every musician (of all genres) I've known (including myself) who knew, really knew, the technical specifics of musics other than their own, I'd probably have less money than I do now.

Squirels are all cute and shit in the park and all, but I tell you - those fuckers got a devious side. I am not a fan.

Or http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/arti...,186776,00.html (#7). If you wanna kick it oldskool tejas style.

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I like The Office (NBC version) too.

Dammit! Can't make it.

I dunno man, some of those old guys are frontin', if you know what I mean, and might not let you live to celebrate...

Yeah, that Suba stuff has piqued my interest, and I read somewhere that he had produced her at some point. Know anything about that? Then, some cat on Amazon or someplace said that Berimbaum wasn't anything that Bebel hadn't already done better, and I was like, ok, show me, and all that. I really dig Berimbaum. And hey, thanks for sharing these. Stimulating music indeed!

Not exactly balls, but suitable for the task at hand, I should think...

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