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Baxie Biloxi - Headin' Down South!!! Had I known that this was a party record, I would have never brought it home.

Lockjaw Davis just don't give a damn!

Another great album cover on a record with Bill Perkins: never on vinyl(?) but don't let that stop you.

I can tell you from experience, that if you set up damn near any jazz artist station in Pandora and don't give any likes and then fall asleep for a few hours, you're going to wake up to Blue Note/Prestige/Riverside going and on and on. And on. And on. I am not exaggerating. Part of the reason why I switched to Spotify (with ads!!!! Just like radio!!!) I wanted to deep dive into New testament (and beyond) Basie, and they got pretty much all of it there (except for Have A Nice Day, but I got LP on that and don't recall caring for it at all, but who knows now...). Point just being, the kids today, they don't want to accrue a big bunch of shit if they don't have to. So, like this old fucker who doesn't wnat to do it either just to discover some stuff I don't know about, streaming is a great way to go. Effective and efficient. I still want some stuff, but now I can get it knowing in advance that I wnat it.

You know, if I wanted to encourage and/or develop an appetite and/or curiosity in a new listener who was wanting to immerse, I would just advise them to go to Panora and set up a Lee Morgan Radio and just let it play. Listen, take notes (mental or otherwise) and then get back to me over a sanwhich. Or coffee. Or whatever. Maybe you can do this in Pandora as well, but in Spotify, you can definitely get a variety of "Blue Note" playlists. Same thing there, turn them loose on the vast expanse and tell them to let you know if they need you and/or want you. Not unlike an acid trip. #psychedlicsally As for Big Bands...Turrnetine/Nelson Joyride, and Duke Pearson's second....Now Hear This was it? and of course, Thad/Mel, but those are not technically BN, except for that one, which is, relatively speaking my least favorite of the bunch. But streaming for newbies? Yeah, I think that's the way to go. They can hear in a few hours what people like me spent decades pursuing in hard copy form.

I recall my son playing F-Zero on the SNES. Did they use the same tracks when they ported it over?

Sacrilege in some circles, but I've always found Holdsworth to be very shreddy...but not in a bad way, that's just how he plays. For the time, al De Miola was the one who gave me the creeps with RTF and beyond. Pretty early in I stopped caring/listening, so maybe it sounds tame now.

F Zero was a video game, right?

Deliciously so.

Music from what was left of Miles' orb from the time when it was not clear if he had an orb at all. No overt MilesMusic (except the melody of the title cut), but a few things sound like they were coming from there, and maybe could have gone there, had there been a there for them to go. all in all, not a great record, but a good one, and another piece of the electric Miles Diaspora Story.

No idea if this qualifies, but I LOVE this one. If you want to piss off as many "jazz purists" as possible, lead with this one, see how many are left by the time it's over, and then award points accordingly.

and some us don't drink.

I guess these days you would recommend a playlist instead of a sampler...unless your friend is old, in which case, tell them that vinyl sounds better and get busy brokering some deals that benefit everybody, especially you!

Would they be asking to learn about the music or to have a new hip lifestyle accessories? Those are two different questions with two (or more) different answers. And that's why I don't like to answer questions from civilians, at least not unless they ask more than once and/or show that they want a serious answer and not some sillyass shopping list. They got beaucoup sampler collections for that. Actually...you could recommend them five such samplers and do them a favor ..

Bu Clakkie - I Feel Pretty?

So, by jazz, you mean...what, exactly? Or Blue Note, for that matter, but my hunch is that the first question answers the second? Also, no two friends are the same...not that I have that many.

It followed Darlene.

There's a Volume 2, ya' know! For a quick minute there I thought about collecting all the LPs, but soon found out that there were more than I had expected.

Zoom, Twitter, Tik-Toak, it's all sorta the same thing. Less so zoom, maybe, but still, it's built on the premise that if you can see me, that's all it takes to get something done. For office meetings, hey, yeah, sure. but for music, hey look at me, this is what you want, so here it is, stop me when/if you don't like it anymore....this is what it is. The ultimate in 21st Century Pop Music. All The Hit All The Time. And nobody should be surprised. Narcissistic bias-confirmation is built into the entire social-media paradigm (and has long been both predicted and proven) . If you can "build an audience" this way and then monetize it, hey, why wouldn't you? "Road" long ago lost whatever meaning it had, "road" is dead. Nope, nobody should be surprised, and really, nobody should complain, especially a Twitter user who's probably hoping to go viral. Sorta proving the point, that one is.

What does "road time" look like these days?

I think that Twitter is its own satire.

Afraid not. Never even seen that one....still looking.

He's done a good number of original, and, most importantly, interesting (both to listen to and to play) originals,

Dave Matthews has a lot of fans, sold a lot of records, and has a lot of imitators. So somebody's getting it, a lot of people apparently. Not me, but...you know, I still think that Elvis was and is bullshit, so, again, I am not the target audience for any of this stuff. And that's perfectly fine with me.