JSngry

"Bebop" can be incredibly difficult music. But usually it's not. Especially if you don't listen to all the details and just ride the vibe. But hey, sometimes Bird or Bud or Dizzy can play some shit that is going two or three places at once, and then... whoa... Just my opinion, but when people started getting all chordy-scalar, the whole notion of "passing chords" got redefined, hell, maybe lost. Too bad.

How documented was it?

Overlay the two lead sheets.

Not at all a a cop, too many differences. But as an early bebop line on "Indiana" changes, yeah, it is that.

Ursula von Peen - Songs We Shared

RIP

Just sayin'...

Connie Mae Withered - A Double Shot Of Tomorrow (With a Chaser of Yesterday)

Both of them!

Do you run your laundry through the dryer and then through the washer?

They got some crazy little wimmen there.

I used it to mean cartoonish, but in the sense of allowing for a an un-real exaggerated or stretching of space and shape.

In real time, people were wondering why Wayne was not playing as much on those records. "We" wanted one thing but Wayne wanted another. Learn about what he was going through with his daughter, his family, all that other stuff What "we"wanted was one thing, but what Wayne needed for himself was something else. And it's not like Zawinul wasn't more than primed to step up like he did. But he knew that if he was the Yang that Wayne was the Yin, and they kept that balance through whatever extremes were going on. Besides, follow the live stuff. All this stuff about Wayne disappearing and all that was just a lot of passive-agreesive macho vicarious warrior-mongering. I saw them live .. 6,7, maybe 8 times, and Wayne was never anything other than locked in at the highest level. Just because he was less interested in making the records doe not mean that he was less interested in playing the music. Life is bigger than records. Oh, I see, on HIS records. I think he played more than ever, because of what he played by what he didn't play. He was not one of those people whose spaces existed only to facilitate breathing or regrouping or an imposed rudimentary symmetry. His spaces were his notes and his notes were his spaces. In other words, it was all music.

I don't see where Jack Bruce added anything other than a display of an interest in even a slightly more predictable outcome. The original trio had more than a few moments where it sounded like batshit crazy was on the way, and nobody cared to stop it if it did. Because if you don't know what NOT to do, you don't really know what you WILL do, never mind what you probably SHOULD do. I love that about it Dude, it's an organ trio, right? Does an organ trio EVER sound better with the edges cut?

Then you stumble over their corpse on the way down.

Not necessarily a bad idea....let's see the execution.

Weather Report was a truly great band whose distance from "fusion" becomes increasingly apparent as time passes. To what degree they were or were not "jazz" depends on whose lens you're looking through, but objectively, in terms of compositions, color, texture, rhythmic layering, and both individual and collective virtuosity, they were truly in a class of their own. And they had a real arc of their own, all the way to the end. No time to engage in the old arguments, especially the "Where Is Wayne?" thing. Wayne had his own life arc, and a portion of it did not involve being the star of Weather Report. But when he was there, he ws all the way there, being whatever Wayne he was at the time. And jesus, live, Wayne Shorter took no prisoners and suffered no fools - including Jaco at his worst. I saw that happen once and it was terrifyingly life-affirming! To know Wayne Shorter's music, you have to know all of it, even the stuff you might not think you like. His was a superior musical mind that militantly rejected triteness and cheapness. His output may now at last be finite, but it will also prove to be infinite (for as long as we can tell).

Actually, the honest version of that is that you run over the same people on your way up that run over you on your way down. 👻

check live footage this out (the early incaration of the Eaton/White group):

synesthesia

Again - Austin Cromer on this record is a bob Clampett rendition of Billy Eckstine. And Cromer's sole Atlantic LP is very worthwhile, imo. A bit of talk about him here:

Brubeck plays Brubeck was a much better listen than I expected, to be honest.

Gladys Knight Scottie Pippen Choo Choo Coleman