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Alice E. & Spunky Lou - Let's Make A Little Lovin'

It's only going to be able to do what it's allowed to do by the people running it. So if all it's allowed to do is a micro-dissection of Bach, then that's all it's going to do. More of the same. In the meantime, the real world is happening. hopefully somebody's thinking about making something new instead of just endlessly wanking on cumulative past data. Making technology in our own image. How White Man Got A God Complex #LastPoetsCalledIt Create or Re-Create. Most people are nice enough, but seriously defective in the imagination department. Thus they turn to somebody else to do it for them, and since they have no idea what's real and seemingly unfamiliar and that which has been provided to them to keep them in place, they go for the "flattery" of the familiar, join the crowd, and forevermore live the live of a slave to somebody/something else. I don't fear technology, I fear people. So far, I've not been impressed with the bulk of the lot.

When did painting Smiling Black People with there eyes always closed get to be such a thing? What's up with that?

Yeah, but if they did it your way, the size of the audience wouldn't get bigger, it would just change faces. I'm kinda like, fuck it, fail on your own terms and not on somebody else's.

Stitt was his own AI. I listened to the Bach Sonata linked to in the article and didn't like the pianist at all. She played like a computer. Seriously. So, what's gained? Just because a dog can lick his balls doesn't mean that I aspire to lick a dog's balls. Or even my own.

The Lungers - This Wheel Is Mine!!!

This is a damn good record.

He's alive and well, living here in Dallas. Busy guy.

I've long wondered if silver played material from his 70s "Silver 'N...." albums live, and it looks like he did. It's a lot of good material on those albums, sometimes in spite of the production choices, and this is not at all a bad band to play them. Any retro band looking for still untapped material to cover can find a buttload of it in those records.

Who was managing them? Anybody?

This is nice and good and all that, but I'm in the middle of deep-ish dive into later Carla Bley (specifically the Big Band, the Lost Chords, and the trio with Swallow/Shepherd), and it's pretty funny to hear this tribute to her earlier compositions played in a style that would have been totally appropriate in, say, 1965, maybe even 1975. In the meantime, Carla Bley herself has been through a lot of evolutions and has created a whole other set of compositions that have a distinctly different "vibe" than this. There's a whole other set of "tributes" to be made using her later work, and it probably won't be played like this. Still, this is a good record, and Barry Altschul is always a treat.

Genius if for nothing more than Richie Powell's intro.

Teeny Tiny Tina - Hold My Chair, Please Millions did just that.

The Darkest Impulse of Humanity - Feelin' Good, Feelin' Fine

Orchestra Huffy Puffy - Doin' The Mucilage Mambo (fully illustrated instruction chart included )

I'm impressed that Graettinger had a say with the Capital art department!

of who?

I've heard those KOB alternates. "Variations" is certainly accurate. "No improvisation" certainly is not.

"jazz indication"....that's an interesting phrase....

I would think so, but, you know, the express written consent and all that.

except when they make records...and believe it or not, there's been a discussion about "should jazz REALLY be recorded?" in some form or fashion from, probably, before any of us here were born. Seriously. That got countered in the middle 50s or so, the idea was floated the the best way to make a jazz recpord would be to just roll tabe, let people loose, and then edit together the best choruses, licks, whatever. Too much math for R&B, imo, but it should be noted that that's pretty much what Teo Macero did (quite artistically, imo) on Miles' 70s records, but the conversation wasn't about that type of music, lol. It wsa about shit like Al & Zoot and all that. Sonny Rollins, even. So, just....you know, know what you're getting and let it be that. If it's not right, do something else, BE something else.

i ordered through the baseball site, but it looks like it was fulfilled by Cryptogramaphone. That's what the return address was on the package.No idea about bandcamp, but it seems like it should be in there somewhere, unless this is a really limited edition for baseball people.

originally on Ictus

What was he wearing on the cover? As for the Hickory House circa 1954, I'm perfectly OK with Marian McPartland of that vintage, but the Marian of recent times wouldn't self-restrictively play that way. So if I'm right about what Charlap has found himself doing on "Stardust" and similar outings, what the heck is his motivation for doing so? It's not like it's an approach that can have intense musical appeal to him in this day and age I would think, nor is it an approach, though I may be wrong here, that would have a potent enough nostalgiac vibe that it would draw in listeners on those grounds.