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https://bangonacan.org/long-play-2023/ Pretty meaty lineup.

Kudos as well for that badass cover, lest we be remiss

"Hoosier" Dondy Candelopis - Black Home Again

What was their "equivalent" of Tom? Was it Mark?

And more than implicitly here:

And what I love about Emergency is that nobody on that record had yet to try to (or figure out how to) dumb down who they were and what they knew in the pursuit of that goal.

I think that Muse (not Cobblestone) is the sound of a man slowly and inevitably burning out. His last Blindfold Test is almost heartbreaking. There's a definite poignancy to that.

I think this is still a period of growth. There was still plenty of "old Tony". I think it was all old Tony, expanded. The actual divergence came a few years later. Hindsight is 20/20.

Oh, but this IS the Tony that we hear on Filles, and the Tony that we might have heard on In A Silent Way if he had been turned loose. Mastery & invention abound. Abundantly so. And you get plenty of it all the way through to his playing on Captain Marvel. And then...he changed his mind about things, or that's what it seems like to me. I'm not a former drummer, but I have played a fair amount with some pretty damn good ones, so I think I know drummers and drumming reasonably well. and I can say with certainty that this Tony and the Tony of a few years later on VSOP and such are two different players...or styles, it's still the same player. Problem, officer?

Cobblestone, not Muse. It's a quibble, but a true one.

He wasn't playing the yellow drums yet. He was still swirling with a furious abandon, as was the entire trio. Whatever one thinks about the vocals, they hardly dominate the record. I don't think anything could dominate the playing on the record.

I see!

Can you get that old Verve BB pulled up? That place had a charm to it.

Vocalist and singer are two different things.

But it is a bunch of notes, just not just a bunch of notes, or noise, except if a listener has no context then yes it is. And that's not just for jazz.

After Bill Barron.

Same here, only I paid for it about a year or so before they actually brought it out. Apparently all sorts of QC issues, so many that they even sent it out with a single-sheet errata and such page included. Pretty sure I sent them the check in 1982, know for a fact that the set wasn't shipped until 1983. My age is not important. I'm one day older than I was yesterday, and one day younger than I will be tomorrow. A more germane question is this - when will my money run out? For that, I have no firm answer.

I wish they had a counterweight for Scott. He does what he does really well, but he's not as "modern" in taste as Michael, and Michael seems to have not a lot of appetite for too much past what he did thru the later 70s, all of which is good/great, but... They all seem to be super-nice and ultra-competent (or more!) guys and I love them (and Charlie Lourie RIP) until my last days, but this is not about that. That Fred guy seems pretty cool, but is he in the decision-making loop? The power of 3 is absent here, and it's really starting to show. Triangulate!!!!

Jessie Mae Luter - Let Me Turn My Blow Dryer On

I have come to actually enjoy the vocals. It's a flavor. I mean, if we can tolerate Bob Dylan....

Does some of that Numero stuff have a bigger audience than a Freddie Hubbard Mosaic? I'd like to see the data on that to be sure one way or the other.

Benny Golson, in some old Cadence interview, said that Coltrane wasn't anything unique for him at first, because he was just another Philly cat who was working on the same stuff at the same time. He was just one of them. Golson and Heath were too. And then there's Jimmy Oliver, whose name you hear a lot, but recorded evidence is sparse at best.

Not sure if everybody got paid right the first time. Sloppy at best. But speaking of Gramavision... Anthony Davis and/or James Newton and/or Abdul Wadud. Not on Mosaic though. They'd have no idea what to do with it. The music is too modern for them. Whoever they were, that was then But there's an amazing set to be done there by somebody with the appetite and the skills. That will not be today's Mosaic. Some day, somebody will do it, package the material, pimp the artists, and find the audience. We're here.

There is a younger audience today that is quite at home with the so-called "avant garde". it's almost "mainstream" for them. Ime moves on and people evolve. Sorry.

Tangerine records. A good set in theory. I would have to think that a set selling out means that Mosaic der and met their sales projection and therefore made the money they expected to make l. In other words, they knew the market and served it well.