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Please buy the Bill Barron.

It's like hot sauces that way. Depends on what you want at any given moment.

The Modern Day Black Marching Band Ethos Refuses To Die (even when just playing in the stands)

The Seven Dogs Of The Heavenly Face Clowns - You Don't Know Why It Is Because It Isn't (That's Why)

Slim Stoppy - Falling Down, Falling Out

Oh my!

That Stites book is wwll worth owning, imo.

Speculated, yes.

Not irrelevant. Gato used to be somebody who functioned quite well in certain "avant subcultures" and not just with Don Cherry.

One could be far less shrewd than to use those records and the relevant BNs to veer off into an exploration of prehistoric (lol) Gato Barbieri...

The one that I really feel a need for a "sonic upgrade" is The Body and Soul of Freddie Hubbard. I only have that on an older LP, and although I think that Wayne might have over written the orchestrations, but maybe not? Past that, other than Ready For Freddie, I think Freddie was far more effective as a sideman than as a leader until CTI more or less showed him that people liked it when he did that. Then, for better and/or worse, he stopped diddling around as a leader Bonus points for Breaking Point, but the story about that band playing that music live and clearing the house in one set and Freddie pulling the plug on THAT right then and there speaks volumes, imo I think to be a real leader, you have to defy people to not like you, not hope that they will like you. Courage of your convictions, maybe? A great player though, undoubtedly. But these records are not really the meat of his legacy, imo

Plink Donkeluum - Auf Con Soir, Homme Boy

was that on the Lee Morgan set?

Hmmm...at what point does it become counter-productive to spend money on stuff you don't want/need in order to keep a company in business that is going to keep selling you stuff you don't want/need We ain't there yet, but this Hubbard set (a lot of good records, a few not that good, and a few great ones) certainly keeps the question active in my mind. Let's see what the preorder discount will be this time. I need much more incentivizing with this one than I did the Black & White set.

no doubt. But the new image doesn't convey the "one for me" meaning/defiance/poignancy of the record and its circumstances (and the reality of the aftermath, which was no Shirley Scott records for too many years, not saying that the record necessarily caused that, just that it happened).. No matter. It's a great record and perhaps the purest (ie - non-producer created) Shirley Scott record there is.

Weekend reading assignment: http://campber.people.clemson.edu/ping.html followed by: http://campber.people.clemson.edu/rsrf.html be ready to call in sick Monday if you need/want time to finish. It's one of the best online resources out there, period.

I mean, I think I know why they did that, and I think I get it, but....I wish they hadn't.

Not sure if Delmark has provenance for Ping?

That Max 70s thing, yes, but the logistics might be stooped convoluted. Horo, Fluid, Baystate, etc. Uniteledis?!?!?!?! I wonder if anybody's done a tree of that stuff yet. Surely they have?

After they do Bill Barron, they can look at a Coleman Hawkins 60s set....and a Max Roach 60s set. Or if they need to, both of those in one box. Hey.

oh boy! But seriously, they can do impulse! now? That raises some interesting possibilities...

I had the same thought... I like Mulligan's clarinet sound too. Like his bari sound, except on a clarinet.

Cool me out Vicks! Chesterfield done gave me the nagging cough. I like them LA dancers.

Cool me off, Chesterfield!

Ok, let me recommend something I would never recommend unless it was REALLY unique. Make no mistake, this is a Lyle Mays album, 100%. They literally turned the band over to him to make this record The results? Meh on the solos, there is no real pocket (how could there be) but the charts are a wonder, probably the first of its kind (and maybe the last?). Lyle left Denton to go on the road with Woody Herman, and we were all waiting for the next "great" Woody Herman record courtesy of Lyle Mays, but it never came. And Lyle never really wrote for big band again. The reason? The grapevine had it that his charts were too difficult for a road band with only some stable personnel to perfect. This was reality, college was not. With that in mind, I say on all seriousness that the greatest big band of the last quarter of the 20th century might well have been Weather Report. There's a reason a certain type of writer gravitated to electronics. Color and control of outcome. If you really want to get geeky about, this a good read: https://www.lylemays.com/lab75 :