JSngry

Ok, that might have been a little unfair. Or not. God knows, Joe Segal's done more than his fair share for jazz over the years, and for that, he's earned much respect from this distant outpost. But c'mon...

I don't see why that would factor into it. On a plantation, Massa calls all the shots.

Ya' know. Buster probably just went back to his hotel room and chanted...

Glad to see this music getting some attention, so I'll not point out the several crania en rectca statements the Ratliff makes, none of which have anything to do with the specific music being highlighted.

Plantation???? It was bad but I'm not sure it was that bad!!! It's as if both of them just accepted it and went on with life. I've taken the liberty of rearranging the sequence of your words to, perhaps, illuminate my point, such as it is. Think about it, though - if somebody had pulled a stunt like this on Mingus, what do you think would have happened? OUCH!

I've had the old Trip 2-LP set for years, and, yeah, it's a "document" more than anything else. In terms of both playing and recording quality. In other words - don't pay retail!

I'm liking this one. Geri Allen & Charles Lloyd go well together.

Well, I mean, really - Buster Williams didn't do anything that even remotely deserved a reaction like that. The word "plantation" keeps coming to mind. I don't even remotely know why...

Actually, I'm less in favor of jazz becoming more popular in today's world than I am of today's world figuring out just what the hell jazz is all about. Get that much done, and then we can talk.

Tough love, that is.

This one's really good, and this one's really good.

Seems to me that, between INTERSTELLAR SPACE and EXPRESSION, Trane was finding a new lyricism in his playing. The big "what if" for me is how he would have contextualized it. But ti's a moot point, really.

Joe Segal's done a lot of great things for jazz over the years, but that was not one of them. Where's Mingus and his crazy-ass mouth-punchin' self when you really need him?

Ok, I'll admit it - I've not seen Sesame Street in about 10 years. What's going on w/Cookie Monster to the point that Tina Fey is involved?

I'm less concerned with how much it sells than with having it be able to stand or fall on its own merits in a marketplace that hasn't been saturated with preconcieved notions about what it "is" or "isn't", if they even have any notions that the music exists in the first place. Let the people have a fair chance to be exposed to the music, all of it. Then, if it sells more, beautiful. If it doesn't, hey - that's the way it goes. Of course, jazz will most likely remain an "alternative" music for the forseeable future, given the overall condition/priorities/etc of the society at large, musical and otherwise. That too is the way it goes. But geez - there's other "fringe" musics with a lot less potential "general" appeal than jazz that the mainstream media doesn't ignore the way they do jazz. They seem espescially determined to either ignore it, iconicize the dead folks for commercial exploitation purposes, or treat the music as something for a select group of older highbow hipsters (talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy...). That's about it. Any other presentation/image is pretty much nonexistent. I'm tellin' you - it's a world gone wrong.

Just when I think that Texas is the bottom of the barrel, I get a gig in Oklahoma and find out that there's even worse. Happens regularly. The last time was a ball for the Speaker of the Oklahoma State Legislature, the first Republican to hold that position in some long time. To call the experience surrealistic would be putting it mildly. Miss Oklahoma offered a 15 minute prayer, and the entertainment before us was a school orchestra that consisted of a core group sitting in a corner, miked, with the rest of the kids (including cellos and contrabasses) strolling among the patrons, who were completely (and often pointedly) ignoring them. If 10% of the strollers were actually playing, I'd be shocked. Then there's the time I got a speeding ticket for doing 30 in a 25 MPH zone after playing a wedding reception up there. This was two blocks from the country club where the reception was held, mind you, at 1:30 AM, and damned if I ever saw any speed limit signs. But the rather bovine officerette who ticketed me lectured me sternly about maintaining a safe speed in "their" neighborhood. Then, there's the turnpike exits that exist but aren't marked or even hinted at. Miss one of those (and I have...), and it's easy to go another 50-60 miles before you say, "Hey, wait a minute, where the hell AM I?" The liquor stores are all state-owned, and you can only get 3.2 beer. But they do have Indian reservation casinos out the wazzoo. It's that kind of state. It's not that Texas is better, it's just that Oklahoma is worse.

Oklahoma could use some educational assistance.

Oklahoma can't handle what they already got.

That Indiana time thing is discombboolatin'...

Are we talking hidden track here?

FWIW, I was just trying to explain KD's antipathy towards the Baby Face side. Myself, I dig KD & BF both. Different bags, obviously, but there's a place for all of it in my world.

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Is his first name now Pontius?

"C" IS for cookie. That's good enough for me.

Preordering Mosaics & is SO much easier...