JSngry

Well, he's obviously loved her and is leaving her, but where's the rest of her? Rod Stewart, serial killer/sexual mutillator? I say INVESTIGATE and don't stop until he's locked up for life! That's the only way to protect the world!

Dialectics is what you gotta have when your kidneys go bad. Which might explain Chuck's peeing on somebody's shoes. Kidney trouble can strike anywhere at anybody's anytime. Your generous gift to the National Kidney Foundation will be greatly appreciated.

My curiosity by the Rooster's description has been piqued...

Ooooh...snotty vowels.... ICK!

I suppose I should clarify... Beginning w/the Candid dates, it seems to me that Ford's playing has taken on an increased intensity and, for lack of a better word, "furor". It seems to me that there's also been an increased element of "purging" in his playing, and has been for more than a few years now. I say that because of the intensity of his playing, yes, but also because of the "breathless" quality of it - the guy seems to be pouring out torrents of sound as fast and furious as he can, and it's not an "empty display of virtuosity" or anything like that (if anything, it's a display of intentionally distorted virtuosity, which, perhaps, gets to the core of this whole thing...). Instead, it seems that ("feels like", actually - this is admittedly a totally subjective response) there's something going on inside of him that he's got to get out because not getting it out would not be healthy. And given the intensely jagged, at times even brutal, nature of his playing these days, I have to wonder just what that "something" is. The title of the thread was phrased in a somewhat goofy manner, but still, listening to Ford over the last 20 years or so is often a pretty disconcerting experience for me. Maybe I'm "projecting" the emotions that I feel when I feel compelled to play with that type of intensity (albeit without that level of virtuosity), and perhaps that is totally unfair/innaccurate. Maybe he's happy as a lark and that's how happy as a lark sounds coming out of his horn. Could be! But I'm less than convinced about that... Hey, look - I wasn't implying that Ford was clinically insane or anything like that. But I do think that there's quite possibly some dark stuff going on in his head, which for any jazz musician these days is pretty much a fact of life, to be honest. I'm just consistently taken aback at how "unfiltered" it is in Ford's playing these days. Totally out of sync w/what players of his "style" are "supposed" to project. All I can say is that Ford is making some pretty confrontational music these days. Like Chuck so puckishly implied, such was not the case back in the 70s, and maybe that's why the impact is even greater for me - back then, "Ricky Ford" was synonymous with a "retro" direction, even if, in his fiendishly quirky originals, it was obvious that this was no "mere" neo-hardbopper. But I'll be damned if there's anything on the Muse dates to prepare you for something like the album he did w/Yusef Lateef, which is simply one of the most seriously perverse tenor duos ever recorded, imo. Wonderfully perverse, mind you, but still perverse nevertheless. If you've not heard it, check it out, and prepare to be mindfucked. That's just one example. Other than the duets w/Lightsey, I've heard all the items mentioned here (and at least one (RICHARD DAVIS AND FRIENDS LIVE AT SWEET BASIL) that hasn't been) and I'm very much of the belief that Ricky Ford is dealing with some serious issues. Whether or not they're "personal" issues I wouldn't want to begin to guess, speculation of the thread title to the contrary. But even if the issues are entirely musical (hey, I've known guys to get so deep into playing that they kind of "get out there", if you know what I mean), I'll still say that there's something going on in Ricky Ford's playing that all the Ralphs and Schnitters and such combined don't even get to in their worst nightmares. What that something is, I haven't a clue, but it at once attracts me and disturbs me. And it keeps me wanting to hear more.

Same. Glad I got in under the wire!

Uh, it kinda has! http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=13859

Damn.

I am a fucking jinx. Fuck me.

Oh, it's not just the one performance...

Clemens is looking good, and that old fire seems to be in him as he comes off the mound every inning. I just hope he doesn't stay in too long and give up a big one...

That's what I'm wondering...

I hear you, Chuck, but Ricky's vibe is a lot different now.

ORGANISSIMOE You could use this Moe as your model: or this one: or this one: or another one, or any combination thereof. But I think we need Organissimoe in the house. Think of the children!

Rick Ford plays so much so hard and so unrelentingly these that I wonder if he's doing all right. Needless to say, Ricky Ford rivets me with his current playing, but I'm not sure that it's for entirely healthy reasons. I've recently accquired a copy of Richard Davis' TOTAL PACKAGE, and Ricky Ford sounds like he's one step ahead of the devil, barely. Something's going on with Ricky ford, I do believe. I hope that all is well with Ricky Ford!

Hoping for the 'stros, but it's gonna be tougher than tough. Just hoping that the Rocket still has it...

WHOA!!!!

Got the June station log handy? Or is that not done anymore?

Trust me. Brown's somewhat the Vinnie Testaverde of pitchers - somebody who can get you there, but somebody who will find a way, sometimes agonizingly so, to take you out at the last second. That was definitely his m.o. w/the Rangers, and pretty much everywhere else he's pitched. He's had moments over the years, and occaisonal years over the years, and he's not as bad at folding as Kenny Rogers, but a guy who has had his stuff should be looking at Hall of Fame possibilities at this stage of his career, and PSHAW!!!! Maybe that wasn't a factor last night, I honestly don't know. But it would fit the pattern if it in fact was.

I've got the King. Nice, but... Haven't heard the Argo yet. Like I said, I keep trying...

I've got some of the old Tribe (the label) LPs, and can recommend them if you like the "Strata-East meets Bitches Brew but not too far either way" bag (and I do). Hope they were able to clean up the recordings for these reissues, however. The originals were kinda "murky" or something. BTW - Ranelin has a new album out that, after a somewhat slow start on the first two tunes, shiftts into high gear and stays there. Guests include Harrison & Pharoah Sanders. A total gas, afaic. Available from finer bastids everywhere.

I'd be interested in same. Missed them the first time around.

No, I've just heard the Blue Mitchell stuff he was involved in. I like it for waht it is, but I'm not sure what he could do for Lorez Alexander. Wouldn't mind hearing Teddy Edwards though, assuming that he actually made significant contributions. Besides, the appeal of Ms. Alexander is something I'm still trying to figure out. I very much like the singers and all, but she's yet to connect too much with me. But lots of other people think otherwise, so... Gotta look for those samplers, I guess.