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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse_Records Nippon Columbia? 32 Jazz... Let's not be shocked at Concord, ok?

But jazz itself is equally to blame for producing a more than endless supply of boring records of indistinguishable masses of played who go out of their way to found like they're 50 years older than they are. I mean, an endless supply. The only way to tell who anybody was was to wait for the back-announcing, which got more clueless and unenthusiastic with every generation. I will very much blame this "program director". Before he took over, you had a chance to here some good stuff. After he took over, things got homogenized rapidly and irreparably. I actually called the guy up once to vent about this bull shit, and he was very pleased with himself that he was keeping "unfamiliar" music off the station while giving "new names" exposure. It's a very lab-band-ish mentality, very controlled and incestuous, brand Uber called, and as with all inbreeding, eventually shit just collapses.

KNTU is not in any way "public" . It's university owned and functions as past of the school's radio-television department. There are "underwriters"', but the last I could tell, they were local businesses, no foundation grants or anything. It's not at all sorrowful that they've abandoned their version of jazz to all but streaming. What's really sorrowful is that they're replacing it with a genre that was abandoned by the commercial market here in 2016. Different snore, same snooze. My son is 36 and has moved on to different music's, so who is their real target student demographic, kids who were born to teenage parents that have happy memories of that?

My wife is starting to ask questions. I don't want to lie, but the truth is just too weird. Am I the only one again?

Tapper Zelrod - The Book Never Closes

Handclaps won't hurt...if they're good handclaps. I think that should be part of an audition, let me hear your handclaps. If they're not good handclaps, it will all go downhill from there. It's inevitable Too late do I learn these things for myself, but you kids, hey

The Cobblestone/Muse catalog (both Fields' and Schlitten's) was too large (and frequently too important) to have died the way it did. It's like there was an ugly divorce and nobody wanted custody of the kids. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.

I gave up decades ago. Tried to listen on short trips to the doctor, grocery, etc. but it only made me madder than ever Everything that I hate about jazz today was non-stop on KNTU. And vice-versa. But oth, my son (who sent me the tweet), said that when he tuned in, he heard Stone Temple Pilots and U2 before turning it off. This was stuff that he heard in his teens, so... is this what college students are into? What did that kid say in that move... I see dead people? Well yeah. And hear them too. No wonder zombies rule.

Mel Powell, you say? https://youtu.be/Y7MDtwvisYE

https://mobile.twitter.com/KNTU881/status/1553115524044693507

Don Hoople - Stained By Love

What's the first?

I'll say that how can it be when the musicians themselves don't know how to shake their own butts? Jesus, I look at all these people making records today and I ask myself why they are playing jazz, when they really aren't, they're playing something that they think sounds like jazz. But I don't care where on the "out" spectrum you may or may not be, shit's gotta move. And if you yourself can't move....abandon hope, etc. I know a guy whose theory is that handclaps make any record better. It's not a bad theory, actually. But let's not let the audiences off the hook either. Motherfuckers in the 21st century be programmed in all kinds of ways, none moreso than in terms of sound and time. Don't kid yourself.

One of those jazz-flamenco things that is neither fish nor fowl - and is exponentially better because of it! Check it out, it's a pretty good record.

I think you can hear Roayal's clarinet w/Basie on "April In Paris" for one example, one of the bridges. It's not like the charts would have him on it all the way through, it's jsut a color.

Royal frequently doubled on clarinet, so that's quite possible.

from 1960. interesting...this guy was picking up on Coltrane (or Wayne...), like, right away...or trying to....either way, interesting.

You'll want to watch this, then. It's a bit of a time-load, something like 12(?) episodes, but the points about drugs and human trafficing do not go unnoticed,

I would start with getting people to loosen the fuck up about things like dancing and body movement and otherwise interreacting with the music instead of thinking you're supposed to be some kind of a passive recipient of jazzwaves. I know too many people who think that having a genuine verbal exhortation in the middle of a performance is rude and uncouth. I mean, really!

Oh yeah....more than touches on it....

"dumb" seems to infer an issue of intelligence. What I'm hearing is more a matter of sensory openness to, in this case, all types of music. That's more a spiritual//psychological matter than it is intelligence. Even in the best of times, people were not particularly open. These days, the incessant propaganda of always-on noise has people programmed to only hear a limited range of the various elements of music, They're not dumb, and they certainly don't need to be made dumber! What the world could use is a good de-programming/re-sensitizing. And that includes musicians. Especially musicians!

Secrets of Playboy I never liked Hugh Hefner, just on instinct. Well, this confirms my hunches.

That could be good.

I'm not sure I understand "dumb:? It's the regurgitive hollow re-creative stuff that I find to be dumb.