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Just the titles. I see that Beck is credited on both as composer, so it's all good

A nice little twofer that I picked up for a buck at the library the other day while dropping of some donations of my own. Mostly very nice, but Joe Beck bothers me more now than he did then.

Shepp, discussing a period when he was sick and playing poorly, said that "it was free jazz, so no one could tell." yeah, well, HE could tell. If he couldn't, then fuck him. But I bet he could...

Fox is using AI now. Humans are too risky.

I know that. I just tested, and my phone auto-"corrected" my correct initial, correct, spelling. So no longer is it enough to know right and to do right, but now we need to ensure that our technology does what we want instead of the other way around. Hardly news, but things are getting worse not better. Oddly related to the topic of this thread. Grrrrrr....

So... AL Central?

All this talk about context and composition is going to make me dive back into Mantana Roberts Coin Coin series. That's the stuff right there! Call me jaded, but it's time to move on. A few people already have. Many more can't/won't because they don't have the imagination or other skill sets to have an idea of what that would sound like. Move on to what? But don't look at me, I'm just as clueless as almost everybody else. All I can do is try to pay attention. But yeah, context matters. And a 21st Century context matters even more.

Straw men (and women) are a classic diversionary tactic. The real issue is why people are not getting smarter as time goes by. But hell, EVERYBODY makes records these days, so how can you really tell?

Harder still is to have a head into which substantive notions are able to pop.

I like his comping even more than his soloing!

Doris Day could always win when she wanted to.

Something else that's extremely easy to do - blame the musicians and the music itself when you neither get it nor like it to begin with. Nobody has a right to insist on being sold to before yielding their interest. That's just some kind of deeply flawed lazy vanity. Figure shit out on your own, do THAT work.

Ok, now that we've remembered him, let's forget him again.

Competently mediocre people will make competently mediocre music, regardless of idiom. The world is overrun with competently mediocre people these days. That's why AI is not going to get any substantial pushback. And why should it? Remember analog aspirationality? How quaint it seems today. Quaint, yet true

Don't forget Andre Previn.

Going to wait for Last Chance and then think about it. Not initially compelling for me.

What does the Hoffman board recommend?

1995 was a long time ago...

I Oh my!!!

Maybe he beeped when he should have bopped?

Keeping the status quo and staying off and out of all of it. And not thinking of doing it. Resolutely actually doing it. Or not doing it, as the case may be.

Lester Swinjee - Trost Jaoung Flotte

Amanda Patrick - Just Say Yes...

Wonderful music!