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Curtis Mayfield has a really groovy band. Then again they all do. Les McCann sings "The Price You Got To Pay To Be Free". Today's ears hear this and laugh at the trouble the festival went to have a "Soul" show at a "jazz festival" when in just a few years, the Kool Jazz Festival roadshows would be mostly this. And then in just a few decades, this type of music would come to be accepted as perfectly acceptable as feeding into jazz fully on its own terms. It's not a bad record, not at all, and one does wonder if the tapes of the full sets still exist. It was Cobblestone, so who knows?

"peameal" I just assumed from hearing it was spelled "pimiel" or thereabouts. Had to look it up to learn otherwise and to learn that it means exactly what it says! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peameal_bacon

It does not. Clear as a bell!

But you did! 👁️‍🗨️

Remember Madeline Peyroux?

Pretzel & Cookie Reese's Pieces...omg, did NOT see that one coming!

If that were possible, I should be playing it, not writing about it. But I cannot play like even the most uninspired/insecure/whatever Sonny Rollins. If I could, I could get an agent and have a significant but fraudulent career. Create a narrative and appeal to the easily duped. There's definitely a market for that these days. Hey that's my retirement project!!!

I mean, it's a lot of things, just not jazz. It doesn't have to be jazz to be good. But something so blatantly referential to past musics can't avoid being classified. To avoid classification...make music that is not easily classified.

yeah, tip of the iceberg...

My daughter knew what to look for, went straight for it!. And she continues to be amused at the red/yellow pricing signs all over the Wal-Mart, instead of the drab black-white we have here I wonder why that is. Oh yeah, I got bacon on my poutine, but only after confirming with our totally delightful server that it was real bacon and not Canadian Bacon. I asked the question a little slyly to see if she would get the joke, and she did, laughing and also dropping science about the word "peameal". She added to her tip with that little gem!

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/detroit-jazz-festival-2023-a-tribute-to-a-great-jazz-city A far more literary account than I could give, but on point AFAIC about the city, the experience as a whole, and the sets that I saw. Glad to see that my impression of Kenny Garrett holding church with his set is at least somewhat shared. That stuff was INTENSE!!!!!

How much coy can one box hold, what's the science on that?

I am 67, on the way to 68, and have realized that there's only so much that is within my control. Diet is very much a thing where I no longer want to be stupid on a regular basis, but neither will I avoid stoopid fun altogether. I'm not going to live forever, and from the looks of things, I'm more than ok with that! My wife and daughter had pizza at the same Windsor place and loved it. I shared a slice and did too! The real revelation of the trip was the candy selection at WalMart. Canada has a few different candy options than we do here, and...whoa, good options they are indeed! It stands to reason that if tartar sauce works, mayo should too!

Yeah, my curiosity has been satisfied. But I would not reject another opportunity. This mayo thing intrigued me though....

So doubling down on the potatoes... Not particularly a spuds guy myself...what was your gravy, did it have a twist?

Some people would advise you to quit while you're ahead, LOL. Me, I'll tell you to proceed with caution, and for a lot of it to be content with playlists and such. But gems do exist, as do some full records that hold up quite well over repeated listenings. At least they have for me. We'll get to all that in due course. Please be patient. ☺️

People who don't have it should get it if they are so inclined. It really is exceptional+++++.

What little of it they showed was...jolting, to put it mildly. One hopes that there is more!

Jazziz magazine loved them some of the smooth players. Some of those guys could play. Very few were just hack trendsters, even though their records were. Even Kenny G had gas skills. He just has no taste. Or more accurately, very narrow taste Oh, 60s charts, add Herbie Mann. Atlantic had a reliable chat stable in those days.

What footage was used in the documentary? I remember it being video, not film.

There's a lot of them, so this will be an ongoing project. But I have most of them, often bought when released. Nobody knows the frustration better than I. But I keep returning to them because at the end of the day, nobody else played like this, and although there may be misfires and odd decisions along the way, there are no lies told on any of them. And imo, there are still profundities revealed every step of the way. For that, my gratitude far exceeds my frustration.

I remember those days. Fondly!

Mayo? Hmmm... maybe so!

Connick often had interesting charts behind him and sang well enough, but his huge popularity was the result of "When Harry Met Sally" and he rode it for as long as he could, which was longer than usual for such things. But was he worth all the oxygen he sucked up? Not to my mind. But nobody asked me. 😜

Real Kurds? WTF? Malt vinegar with chips is obligatory here, and years ago a friend from New Hampshire introduced be to the delights of fries with tartar sauce. Much better with fries than with fried fish, imo. Vinegar was not offered, but my instinct would have been to embrace it in the brown gravy more readily than the ketchup. But the ketchup worked, so adding on the vinegar is something I would have done, absolutely.