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The cool thing about this issue is that its also the one with Greg Tate's first article about re-evaluating Miles' electric music. Kind of a pivotal moment as far as "mainstream acceptance" of that music.

I think Hannibal was still in Tezas at the time?

Yeah, you got a point there...

In one inning? WOW!!!!

That Oily Rags record? Interesting?

I'm in no way enamored of Joe Farrell, but DAMN is he playing on this one. Totally dealing.

In place of Freddie or in place of Dewey? Or in addition to both of them?

Happy to he able to help.

Longtime fan and advocate here (especially for that particular record). Good to have company!

Here's one I didn't see coming!

Hope this helps. Wish it could be bigger...

Scott Service Horace Silver Wilbur Ware

Absolutely!

Bingo. And what we do with it as we hear it. And even after. Maybe especially after?

There's a whole book about 4:33, its origins, its formulation, and its aftermath. that is quite illuminating: No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33" (Icons of America): Gann, Kyle: 9780300171297: Amazon.com: Books Highly recommended. Bottom line - with 4'33", Cage was very much about everybody paying attention, not just to one thing at a time, but everything all the time. One of the more penetrating insights from this is that "composition" is essentially an imposed, discovered construct based on the limitations of the hearer. The more open our ears/minds, the more "composition" we "discover" ("discover" being a misnomer, because how do you discover something that's already there?) It's a bit of vanity, really, to imagine that we "discover" or "create" music. All sound is always there, somewhere, past, present, and future. All we do is process it as we find it. Nothing more than that. Now, for the sake of reductive conversation, we label certain things "music" because we don't know any different (or jsut don't want to work that hard at any given point). But if something would be considered "just sound" (or even NOISE) in the 18th Century but is accepted as "music here in the 21st, what has changed? The sound itself? I don't think so. It's the individual and collective awareness and acceptance. So yes - all sound is POTENTIALLY music, and it's not necessarily a "composer" who can make it so. It is ANYBODY'S prerogative and privilege to do so. Ultimately, we are our own composer. "Organization" is what we make it to be. Ot let it to be. That may or may not be a "rabbit hole", but I've found it to be more of a thought that once engaged cannot be unthought. Or more to the point - yes, "music" is indeed "organized sound". But - whose "organization"? What organization? And if we don't sense it, does that mean it's not there?

Well, if you want to go full-on Cage and posit that all sound is music, I'll go there, no problem.

No. There's still architecture, math, acoustic science. That's all a part of "music", and it can quite often enough be quantified. Same as with any other creation. Do we require a subjective reaction to a written word to catapult it into "thought" from the land of "squiggles on a page". Or verbal communication? Music is a language.

Only if "experience" is defined as a reactive act to objective data. Two people who have different reactions to the same input/data are "experiencing" the same stimuli, but are reacting to it differently. The difference may be as quatifiable as a difference in hearing or even mental capacity, or as impenetrable as some neurological/brain chemical reaction that triggers "memories" or some such. Increasingly, I find myself hoping that people can separate the objective from the subjective, but that's one hope I'm afraid I'm going to have to abandon.

Each of those records (these two and the ones after) has a different "slant". Same basic flavors though. I'm kind of partial to Not In Our Name, albeit for no particular reason.

Manfred Eicher is putting you in his will as we speak! When reaching with both hands 😃

Liz Dreppy - Fragile Impressions

Something else from 1972: Upper right, third down. There is/was a lot more to Michael Cuscuna than "Blue Note"/Mosaic.

whoa...

Note the endorsement of/by Michael Cuscuna. Quite correct, imo (even if he was doing work for Atlantic around that time). Structurally sound, as they say. Quite!!!

Sounds like "casual" overdubbing of the boombops or whatever they are.