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This will be a print book, right? Count me in if so!

Frankie Pokerton - A New Suit Of Blues!!!

I called TMobile the other day and they told me that the free MLB TV offer is coming on March 25. So get in that on-deck circle!

That should be a permanent installation in all the "jazz programs" in the world, have a holographic Earl Hines doing that and then throw all the happy boys and girls what have been studying their books so hard but have never even heard of Earl Hines up there in it and tell them YOU GOT IT!!! Pop Quiz, motherfuckers!

People die, sooner or later. It's just another form of moving on to other things.

I think it is safe to say that Larry is not doing well. That's about all I feel safe in saying. Paul Secor kinda fell victim to a delusion that I was coming to his house to shoot him and then decided that maybe he needed less stress in his life. It was all very public here. People are getting older. Some old people get weird about shit. Some work with it, some don't. It could be you. It could be me. My suggestion is to roll with all you can, and laugh at the rest. Oh, aloc. No idea what happened to him. I do hope he's well!

Thanks John. I really don't traffic in "personal attacks". Ideas on the other hand are fair game. But if I tell you "that's a stupid idea", it's not you that's stupid. It's the idea. Hell I have stupid ideas all the time myself.ore than you know. But. you know, cop to it and move on Chewy lurks. Bev is enjoying retirement. MG is, I think. Slowing down with age Soulpope has volunteered his absence ....

To insist, with...heightened assertiveness. Especially when the game seems to get an apology for something that didn't happen. Some folks act like they expect to be right all the time, to get apologies than give them Personally, I think it's vanity. If you have a shot take it. And then move on

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This is deep, imo: I think since the middle of the 1960s moving into the 70s, certainly there was a complexity where political men and women, African Americans in this case, would begin to push this way of thinking that improvisation is more important than composition, is more important than symbolic languages. And more and more, the African-American community, especially the artists, would come to a point of stall. That is to say, it would stop evolving. And to this day, in my opinion, the African-American community, especially the artists, have stalled, and as the result of stalling, suddenly this idea of “improvisation is more important than anything else” would emerge. But I have never agreed with this idea. In fact, I wouldn’t say I’m against it, but I would say, when applied to my own work, this idea of runaway improvisation was never what I was interested in. I was interested in being the best student of music that I could be. And how can you be the best [if] you reject notation? After all, notation is just a record of how you built something — the foundation of how you built something; the foundation that can help you discover the meta-reality of creative music. There's a lot more...

It's on YouTube. And Discogs shows no CD issue of it yet. This is the kind of thing I don't mind getting, but do mind paying for if you know what I mean. Likely to be a needle drop no matter what. The Foster thing, I have no idea about. Good lineup and produced by Billy Mitchell!

Ah, well maybe save your money for a Blizzard then, because that album was originally recorded and released by JVC (Japanese Victor). Catalyst was an interesting label. Pat Britt was the founder and he had previously worked with VeeJay Internation of Japan. My guess is that the Japanese masters on Catalyst came through that connection. Although the involvement of Springboard makes anything possible... Pat Britt seems to be somebody with a story: https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/14499-pat-britt-albums#:~:text=Patt Britt was born January,scene until%2C at age 16.

DQ?

Otoh, when somebody gets "aggressive" about something that they misunderstand and then double down on that aggression after the misunderstanding is clearly explained, I just figure that for whatever reason they are looking for a "fight" of some sort, and, no, sorry, not that fight, and not like that. Participation here is is entirely voluntary. We've had to ban...less than 10 people over the years, probably around 5, maybe even less. So if anybody wants to leave, that's their choice. There are no "victims", other than self- inflictions. One pretty basic rule of common courtesy though - don't demand an apology for something that didn't happen. Rings don't get kissed here.

Repeated listing to this one has really brought enjoyment and illumination!

Soulpope is welcome to resume posting at any time. Bibbitty!

Good comment ....

Excellent!!!

That would be me, most likely. Something about misinterpreting my use of the word "bullshit" (or something similar) as a general comment and he seemed to be convinced that somehow I meant it personally towards a friend of his. He sorta demanded an apology or something and refused to accept that his interpretation of the comment was simply not correct. So there, I'm an asshole and you should never believe me. Tell him Gomer says hey. We got grits on the stove.

That doesn't look like Mel Torme.