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I would like to see MoFi deal with 45s in THEIR original mastering.

Anxiously waiting the MoFi version of this:

which essentially means that he was getting gigs again. Those "lost years" or whatever you want to call them, late 60-early 70s, when he didn't have a band because he didn't have gigs becuase he didn't have a band etc, he still had that flame but he didn't have a band or the gigs. He'd be calling cats up to make a hit here and a hi there, and if he was lucky, he'd get some known (enough) quantities. But apparently he wasn't always luck. It was the overalls band where he started working again, although how or why that started happening, I don't know. Some agent or backer or somebody got busy getting Art Blakey busy. But even that band...I'll definitely give "you" all of James Williams and some of Bobby Watson, but the only real function they all had was to be ready willing and able to play Messengers Music, wear the clothes of whatever band it was, and to be on time. In other words, don't fuck up the Art Blakey gig. I think it was Keystone 3, the one with that Toussaint guy on tenor where I thought that maybe this was going somewhere new, but it didn't, not really. Again, if Blakey had died in 1975 or so, his "legend" might have been even more solid than it now is. But living into and in the age of hype, he benefited from that, and I'm so glad that he did.

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Hey, let's not defile the well-meaning and ethically produced porn of the world (where and if it exists...) by associating it with this sort of piffelooxication. THIS is EuroMusiPorn, a category quite unto itself! Not that I don't understand such temptations myself. But...you should never pay for porn. Never. Ever.

Trust me, they got it from somewhere else, possibly/probably Japan. These types of companies never do their own work.

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The kind with franks, at that!

thanks, will keep checking websites.

1989. When all that OTHER nonsense was raging, some people were doing stuff like this. Thank you, Gary Thomas (and crew).

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I hate that I missed this.

Hey Ken - what's the Indian classical concert series site? Is that still happening?

The Porter Milque Socktet- Brownshoe Stomp b/w Slake It!!!

I like this a lot.

Interesting alto chairs... Do I miss Marshall Royal & Bobby Plater? Not sure, but I definitely notice their absence. OTOH - LOCKJAW APLENTY!!!! And George Duvivier!

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Ok, figure out "Nihon Bash"!!!

I hate that the best we can be is dead. We need him or her or it or them to be alive and walking the planet today, in the flesh and in the blood. If love conquers all, perhaps we no longer understand love. But Louis never forgot.

It's wonky as fuck, which I tend to like. Not forever, but for a while.

This is pretty much the band that I saw live in December of 1970, captured in a pretty reasonable recorded representation. To call them powerful would be a gross injustice! If I had a time machine to go back to any gig I ever attended, that might be the one.. first live jazz, and LOCKJAW!!! Harold Jones still does not get enough credit. Hell that vintage of Basie doesn't get enough credit. Blame it on the records. But not this one.

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Yeah, I wasn't moved at all by either the overalls band or the suited up guys. Apart from the marketplace, it was over by then (generally, and of course there would be exceptions). So if you mean it's "important" in that he caught a commercial wave that he rode for a looooong time, then, yeah. Otherwise, no, not important at all, at least not to me. Like I said, if he had died in 1976 his legacy would be assured. Might even be stronger, because my god, look at who all he had before then. Then look at who all he had after then. There's a pretty distinct difference. Yeah, well, that's a totally different type of "jazz", and it's one for which I have nothing but disdain (and worse).

Different human personalities as well, different lifestyles, different goals and executions of them. And believe it or not, not everybody who worked with them was totally enthralled with the overall experience. There was talk about Max wanting to play too fast and loud all the time, and of Blakey being, uh...as Curtis Fuller put it, "a rascal". Eliminating either one from the picture, or even elevating one over the other, creates a gap that the other one does not fill. In all honesty, I can do without any Messengers record from about, let's be very generous, 1976 or so onward. But so what? If Blakey had died in 1975 (which of course he didn't), the point would be moot. But for my purposes, from a musical standpoint he might as well have. And now, most assuredly they are both most assuredly dead. So...yeah, my Max interest extends further chronologically than does my Blakey interest, but within my Blakey interest, that interest is quite keen. First tune on my first Blakey record, which was my first Blue Note record, which was one of my first 30 or so jazz records. How the hell does that not indelibly burn itself into your heart, mind, and soul.