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Not just "avant garde fans" (whatever that means...) but people who liked to hear "the music" moving into new spaces as well as meaningfully inhabiting existing ones. "We* certainly knew about Lester Bowie and as much of the AACM as possible here in our remote outposts. The Arista/Freedom series was a godsend, as were record stores that would order to your request. Other than the two Atlantic records, the AEC did not have a larger label behind them. And Muse had not yet grown as popular as it would, so Bowie was not being pushed the way that somebody like Houston Person or Richie Cole would have been. So in terms of everything except the music itself, ECM was huge in breaking Bowie into a different word. And it didn't hurt anything that he was ready to go with a deep well of different ideas and formats, or that ECM gave him space for them. I still miss Lester Bowie.

When ECM came into the picture, with the AEC, DeJohnette's New Directions quartet, the solo albums, and the Brass Fantasy records. ECM was a big deal in that it provided a permission structure and or a basic distribution structure for a new set of listeners. Thinking back, I think the DeJohnette thing game first, the group with Bowie, Eddie Gomez, and John Abercrombie. The band came through Dallas on tour, not in a club, but to a theatre. Full house, and I was one of the few people I knew who went primarily to hear Lester. The other players were already established names. Bowie wore his lab coat and more than played his ass off. Name recognition was no longer an issue for that audience! Oh, Lester Bowie was not an "avant-garde" trumpeter in any meaningful sense. He was a deeply rooted, soulful player who sprang out of the deepest imaginable roots. He certainly expanded the traditions, but not once did he destroy any. The more you heard him, the more apparent this became

A very quick initial glace had me seeing this:

This is a perfect example of what happens when you think you know what you should be hearing, and the context in which it should exist, only it's not really that that at all. 👁️‍🗨️ Still trying to break that habit myself, wish me luck!!! Objectivity is a bitch!!! 😂😂😂😂😂 Oh, another random guess on #1 - Tommy Tedesco?

Right. I have that one due to inexplicably losing my OG Muse LP of Fast Last and only being able to find the Muse LP with a reissue cover. Dorn got some rights from Muse. But BMG?????

How did Muse material end up with BMG? A Cuscuna thing?

With voice sent through a goose honk filter!!!

We need some madscientist DJ to create this record from samples.

CBS showed even less of the 58-second clip than is on YouTube. Santana's apology was cursory. That is not "in detail", not at all. Here's the fullest excerpt I can find: That's hardly a "rant". Not really enlightened, but that's NOT a rant. I saw Dick Gregory in concert/speech where he went off on the FBI/CIA and damn near everybody else, replete with name-calling, finger-pointing at unconfirmed plants in the audience, and just the most fired up sense of pending apocalypse imaginable. THAT was a rant, albeit a supremely entertaining one. The full 15 minutes, please. Otherwise all we have is Old Man Rambling about The Way Things Used To Be. Although he starts it off with "there is no 'virtual reality' " and I'll give him that much. But after that, hey Carlos, did you know that Cows are not Sand? So where do you go from there? Nowhere? Good. Now back to work, this is a gig remember? A comment is on thing, but 15 minutes is too fucking long a time to not be on the gig. I'm not arguing for the content, but I am against the characterization of it without more context. People saying stupid shit need to be called out on it, no matter what their attempted position is.

All I can find is a 58-second clip from what is being characterized as a 15 minute "rant", and a bit of a muddled one at that. Perhaps a better question is what kind of senility is he entering that drives him to stop a show for something like this? If this short clip is the highlight, it sounds like it would be more of a ramble than a rant. Either way, what was the desired outcome, and why did he think it was a good idea to do it right there? Senility Now!!! Far more relevant imo is Jann Wenner getting busted for finally saying the quiet part out loud and confirming decades of suspicion.

His later records show him playing more "traditionally". Don't forget that he alsorecorded with Lester Young!

What's he on about these days? Anything new?

Day job

Their secret would have been safe if only they had kept it s secret.

Ok, I remember now, thanks! The movie, but not Wayne playing on it...time to look for it on streaming.

What movie is this? From when? Was there an OST record? But just on general principle, yeah. Wayne Shorter! Indeed!

No fucking around with these guys.

He couldn't cut the mustard, no matter with how much relish he approached the playing of the game. That's a world class hand gesture though.

Worth a shot.

I broke 3 copies of Ray Charles 78 of "Greenbacks" without ever getting to play one. That was all the shop had. I took the hint and tacked the remaining label portion of the last one over the inside of my bedroom closet as some kind of reverse-energy talisman.

Love that picture, thanks for sharing it and enlarging it!. It's the whole Boomer experience in a nutshell!

I have lost weight since retiring! The cane is for extra stability in unfamiliar places. Protection against ankle rolls and such.