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Y'all gonna be posting a LOT more than me soon. The changing economy is affecting the Lovely & Talented Brenda's job scenario, and Mr. Jim is gonna step in to pick up some slack. I'll still be around, but you guys are gonna have the show a LOT more that me. Just remember me at my best, whenever the hell that might have been! :rsly: :rsly: :rsly:

Did I follow Ohsawa's diet? HELL NO! And I'm not sure that that is an accurate description of it, either. But I never got into him too much anyway. Instead, I really, REALLY dug a thing by Michio Kushi called "The Book of Macrobiotics". That book makes a lot of sense in terms of it's basic principals, at least I think it does. Pretty much, what it all comes down to is recognizoing that all life, including food, has opposites that make up the whole: sweet-sour, hot-cold, ying-yang, etc. The ideal in diet is to eat WHOLE foods that are indiginous to your general geographic zone, and to avoid processed food, additives of any kind, or foods that could not be consumed in whole form some how. Flesh was verboten, although a little fish/seafood could be allowed since it was of the water and not of the earth, but only if REALLY needed. Staples ARE brown rice, miso (NOT soy sauce!), tamari (which IS soy sauce), tofu, and lots, LOTS of vegatables. Fruits had their place, but it was mostly grains and vegatables. No meat, no dairy. After you detoxed your system (and believe me, we can ALL stand some of that!) and lose your appetite for all the crap we all eat (look at an ingredients list and tell me that THAT is what our body functions most efficiently on!), the macrobiotic diet offers a wide variety of recipies that might use a lot of the same ingredients, but all taste different due to a little twek here and there. Your tastebuds return to their natural state, and food tastes like FOOD again! By the same token, crap tastes like crap, and the few times I lapsed, I was shocked at how funky all that fast food tasted, and how cooked meat really tasted like what it was - charred flesh. Yuck. But I lapsed, and I remain lapsed. so who am I to talk. I've not kept up with macrobiotics in over 20 years now, so I don't know what's up w/Kushi or if there are other schools. I suspect the whole altrnative medicine thing might attract some new followers/ideas, but it's really not a "system", at least not as I practiced it. It's a general philosophy about the nature of existence, and the diet is just an application of that philosophy. The whole Feng Shui (before it became so damn "fashionable") trip has a lot of macrobiotic-esqe concepts to it. Look for "The Book of Macrobiotics" by Kushi, and check it out. If your prof doesn't know about it, he/she should. Kushi had a LOT higher profile in America than Ohsawa did, and that book was kinda like the macrobiotic Bible for a while. Hope this helps!

You hip to Ornette? If not, might as well start there. Shepp's Impulse! sides are good starting places, because they're not always "free", so there's some context there. Same w/early Cecil - you want/need to make a transititon from the hard bop to the freer stuff, these are sides to assist. How far have you gone on the Trane ride? INTERSTELLAR SPACE is one you'll probably listen to for the rest of your life once you get on board. Simply some of the most fully realized music ever captured on record. AEC - ANYTHING. Do you and Chuck BOTH a favor and get his AEC box while he still has it available. PLEASE check out Henry Threadgill - a guy of your intelligence and humor should be able to scope this guy out in nothing flat! There's SO much more, and plenty newer things as well. Geez Moose, what got you on this kick anyway?

Sounds like my kinda guy!

Yeah, me too. Harmless enough on it's own, but still.... ".com", dig?

Maybe, but I don't know...................................... http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread....s=&threadid=563

OK, I'll show my ass - who's Jack Purvis?

The technical criticisms were somewhat justified, but I just don't give a damn. I like the guy's feel. Sue me!

Can you feel the hot tip of my mouse pointer constantly poking you in your cyber-eye to see if it will cyber-bleed? Oh, the feeling of cyber-impotence...

I was, very briefly, "Mr. And Mrs. Truth".

I don't know that I've ever seen any specific names mentioned in the "charlatan" charges, other than the occasional dis at Cecil, Ornette, AEC, etc. It's always been a more generalized thing. BUT - the loudest cries came, from what I can gather, in the fallout from the whole "October Revolution" movement. And, like John said, from the perspective of those who criticized, it WAS legitimate criticism often enough. I mean, Giuseppi Logan was NOT a badass motherfucker of a saxophonist from a traditional standpoint - his technical fluency seems to have been very limited, at least on the recorded evidence I've heard. But he had a voice, and he expressed that voice VERY distinctively. And for the time he did it, that was enough. In my opinion, if it was enough then, odds are it should be enough for today. "Not aging well" is really more about the judger defining his/her personal evolution than it is any intrinsic worth on the part of what's being judged, I think. Something we all need to do, sure, but hardly an absolute standard. In terms of established artists checking out and commenting on the free scene, it's also worth noting that "free jazz" is by no means whatsoever a monolithic or monochromatic music. The range of the music is just as vast, maybe even moreso, than any genre. I'd not expect any established musician who was soloistic in their concept to have much, if any, intrest in collective "energy" blowouts or pastoral explorations of the implications of space and silence. But I can see them checking out some of the devices used, as well as checking out the types of free jazz that focus more on looser forms and more open-ended harmonic concepts. You stop growing, and you die. Sometimes that growth is stimulated from within, sometimes from without. Besides - I HATE playing Free Jazz. Show me some money dammit! :rsmile:

Is that really Greg? I recognize the speakers and the sparse decor in the picture, but not the person. Somehow, that's not surprising....

Most I ever made for a nite was $1000.00 - New Year's Eve 1999 going into 2000. I've got a cuppla society and party bands I work with that usually pay in the $150-$250 per gig range. Unfortunately, they only work a few times a month each. No matter how much you make - when you got teenaged kids, it's NEVER enough!

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Now THAT'S information! I always thought was "Cuss - Koona". Although, I suppose the double "S" would have been built into it, eh? Anybody know of a good deal on a calcamoolator? I done rolled one Braxton album too many offa mine and it done broke.

I doubt it's you, Ed. I've got a VERY small amount of "name recognition" over there from my musical endeavors over the years. That probably accounts for whatever welcome I've received, that and the freindly "cross-posters" like Kevin, Omar, Uli, Jim Dye, and a few others who know me from both boards. But it IS a more diverse bunch over there, "socially" speaking, than I had imagined. Pick and choose (and wait), I suppose, is the way to break in over there, if that's what you want. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - I VERY much like the vibe here, and that it's a ".org" rather than a ".com". Even if this site never blossoms into a megasite (maybe it will, maybe it won't, it's cool either way), it's great to have a place to hung out with old friends away from the outside world, cyber or otherwise. I've always dug hanging at after hours clubs, and to know that right now there's an after hours joint open 24/7 is just WAY too cool!

But FUZZIER? I doubt it...

FREE is where you can hear "Lucky Southern", if you dig that tune.

Red. Does he have any leader albums as Kyner?

You're a freakin' EVIL GENIUS, you are!!!

Or in the words of Hank Hill, "BABY WANT A BOTTLE? A BIG DIRT BOTTLE?"

Do you feel like Kal-El and Jar-El watching Kryton explode from afar? Last time I looked, the last post was a response to lp by Franz Vichi. The old threads might, MIGHT remain archived and available. It's so wacky over there now, I'd assume nothing one way or the other.

FINGERS is just a really cool, really groovin', somewhat wack Airto album. Hip tunes, great solos, and very "Brazillian". Nothing at all like his other CTI album, FREE. HIGHLY recommended!

I've got about 5 snappy retorts ready, but out of respect for good customers and cyber-friends, I'll let sls make her own joke, if she wants too...

For me, the two (mainly the first) Hubbard/Turrentine things (Stanley almost sounds "out" in spots!) and FINGERS are the "essentials" of the bunch, although AFRO-CLASSIC is a really well-done date with some interesting writing and some great flauting by Laws. I'm just not that much into Laws as anything other than an "appreciative" experience. But hey - FINGERS is BADASS! (and jazzbo, it sounds SOOOO much better on CD than on a wornout LP!)