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Well, "Messian" could be pronounced "Messy Ann", so yeah, sure!

Or Big Brothers... LOVE this record!

http://www.jimflora.com/01/flora01.htm

Thanks. Wasn't trying to be sensationalistic, just remember that this might well be a part of the answer to the question that started the thread and wanted to make sure. That DVD looks cool. Definitely on the want list. Can't forget that Levey was in on bebop, if not quite the beginning, almost the beginning. To me, that makes him more than "just" a great "West Coast" drummer.

Back in stock at Da' Bastids: http://www.dustygroove.com/jazzcd3.htm#364989

New Yaars gig is finally booked. On December 30. Now I can blink....

To to be sordid or anything, but is it true (as I might have even read Levey himself mention somewhere), that his switch to photography from music as a profession was motivated at least in part by a desire to avoid the temptations of narcotics?

Jimmy Vass. And Jimmy Lyons -great, celebrated (at least in some parts), but still widely overlooked in proportion to his greatness. And no, I'm not mentioning two "Jimmy"s as a continuation of the nascient Noel Coward theme...

I remember an interview sowewhere in the last 10-15 years or so where he said he had been digging Ornette. How true that is, I can't say, but just the fact that ARTIE SHAW would even feel the need to mention Ornette tickled me to no end. Apparently the guy was quite a trip. I like trips, and I liked Artie Shaw. My usual "R.I.P. and thanks" goes here, but the "thanks" part goes doubler than usual.

Weird, isn't it? You should see the books it recommends--nothin' but "chick lit!" Wow... If there's ever a name that sent a decidedly unambiguous message, it wuld be yours....

You know, I've long wondered about that one. How's Jimmy Vass on it? Lots of blowing? He's a really interesting semi-free player for whose lines the word "eely" seems to have been made...

Well, assuming that Taylor wanted to challenge them, you gotta ask yourself if doing so would have compromised his intent of creating "uninhibited" conversation.

As for the whole "rules" thing... As somebody who, like Allen, plays "both types" of music and enjoys doing so (and who has also known a fair share of avant-garde "posers"), I think the issue is not so much intentionally breaking the rules for the sake of rebellion as it is enjoying the freedom to use what is needed to tell a particular story, to disregard what is not (nothing creates a bog faster than doing something you don't need to do jsut because indoctrination insists you must), and to do this in any combination/ratio to meet the needs of any and all situations/moments. When I was a student, the mantra was "You have to learn the rules before you can break them", which seemed at once a mixed message, as if the need to break the rules was already acknowledged, but "they" wanted you to learn them from "them" so they could have a gig, and because "they" still believed in their heart of hearts that the rules didn't need to be broken after all. Too much math for R&B... My mantra is this - "You should learn all the rules so you can decide when to use them." Because sometimes you do want to use them. But sometimes you don't. It all depends. This isn't an act of willful rebellion or sociopathy or anything like that. It's just an embracement of the full freedom that I believe that we as expressive creatures should have, DO have, at our disposal. But it is a freedom that I believe comes with responsibility, a responsibility that mandates that we be honest with our expression, and that we use every tool at our disposal as we create these expressions. This doesn't mean that we have to use every too (i.e. "rule") at every juncture, but it doesn't mean that we willfully not use something that would work for us either. If seeking a fuller realization of one's expressive capacity is "rebellion", it's a rebellion only against structures/strictures that have been imposed, intentionally or unintentionally, benevolenty, malevolently, or otherwise, on humans by other humans. I don't consider that a rebellion, I consider it working out terms of a relationship.

Depends on what you're looking for, I suppose. Myself, I found it to be a wonderfully lucid accounting of "how we got here". If you want more specifics about anything in particular, I suppose there's better places to go, but if you want an introduction (and/or a fairly comprehensive summation), there's none better that I'm aware of.

You might want to give Aric that gig.

Any relation? No, but a possible Frank Bank/Danny Bank connection has yet to be explored.

"Tallest Trees" was, for the longest, the only place to find the Prestige Miles/Trane version of "'Round Midnight".

Are you asking about the list or the music?

The opening track to this album has all the jazz triangle you'll ever want to hear.

You fucking media-whore cunt.

No Ken Griffin?

ERNIE HENRY!!!!

Statutory rape or something, I think.

John Coltrane!

Leo Wright