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I aggree, 100%. Good news, though - the pure versions have been leaked to one of "those" sites. Truly magnificent. As the song says, ragged but right.

David Boykin Reads Sun Ra https://www.dustygroove.com/item/113568 The wisdom and knowledge of Sun Ra – read by saxophonist David Boykin, an artist who is definitely carrying on the spiritual legacy that Ra began on the Chicago scene! The album is all spoken word – no music at all, but instead these really well-done readings by Boykin – who clearly embraces all of the ideas in the writings of Ra, and delivers them with an understanding that really makes the words leap off the page! Selections include writings from the late 50s through the start of the 80s – with titles that include "Of Variable Universe", "The Empty Space", "Sound Silence", "The Sounds Of Planets", "The Space Age Cannot Be Avoided", "We Hold This Myth To Be Potential", "The Visitation", "Visions Out", "The Three Dimensions Of Air", and "On Solar Planes". A niche item, but...I am not at all turned off by Ra's writings, nor his philosophy (once "decoded", which I may or may not be getting all wrong, but...it makes more sense than anything else right now). Boykin does justice to the words. In particular, I like "We Hold These Myths To Be Potential". Indeed.

yeah, a drooly smile is SO inviting, right?

Chicago Creative Music Scene Sex Tape: Vol 1 - David Boykin Let's make some noise!!!!!

It's important to keep our obscurities in order. Otherwise they become post-obscure.

Is that Strata-East or Strata?

Plenty to like (like the rhythm section, especially when the Rhodes come on!), not a whole lot to love. Recommended for the listener who loves to just like.

Lisa Bell - Gone But Not Forgotten, The Clapper Memorial Album Truly, she died too soon. But this album fulfilled the contract.

"fusion" was at first a description, but it soon turned into a marketing term.

I remember the first season the Astrodome was open, a lot of talk about the ground rules that would be in play if anybody hit the roof, the beams, or bigass speaker module at the apex of the dome. To the best of my knowledge, it never happened, but they had ground rules on the book if it did. And to the best of my knowledge, the ruling would been, you guessed it, live ball.

It's not for everybody. Lots of vocals and stuff. But the vocals aren't Herbie's.

Mister Hands is very good. And for some reason, I like Magic Windows, although that's a pop record as much as a fusion one. Steps was actually premised on being "acoustic fusion". To me, if you electric up those songs, you can get fusion out of them, just as you can acoustify a lot of "fusion" and it will still work.

Togashi Masahiko/Steve Lacy/Takahishi Yuji 2000.10.16 Hall Egg Farm

Brecker Brothers, if you can handle the NYC Glaredom. All that Herbie Hancock, if you can handle the uninspired records to get to the good ones. Steps/Steps Ahead, if you like acoustic fusion.

You know The Association also did "Snow Queen", right? https://youtu.be/GLFgOnX7kpo The BS&T version wasn't a hit at all, coming as it did on their first post- David Clayton-Thomas album. The album resulted in a resounding yawn from the popular record-buying public, and this song was the last cut on Side 2, part of a medley that easy-led into a mellow Rhodes y tremelo version of "Maiden Voyage". Don't ask me how I know all this, youthful folly and foolish investments, all that. Just suffice it to say that if you find anybody who knows this song, hey. And if they do know the BS&T version, ask them if the the worse that band's records got, the sticker of Chicago they got. Hey, do you know these two? https://youtu.be/oxh2cGs7jok https://youtu.be/gjp5-scAtYA that second one, I'd like a bit slower, but, you know, they didn't ask me what did I think...

Yeah, same here. WAAAAY too long responding, but life is what happens, etc. TRACK ONE - Clifford & Kenny. Unmistakable sounds each. And Wilbur also, right? Equally unmistakable. Not just sounds, voices. Not just voices, sounds. Serious at any age, at any time. TRACK TWO - Harp recorded this well in this style almost has to be Brandee(sp?) Younger. I have her record and it's getting a little bit of airplay on the local college jazz station (which usually doesn't skew this way at all). That tune sounds familiar, is it? I hope she has enough in the tank to go past this, becuase although this is refreshing, it's not exactly new, if you know what I mean. But it's a great place to start, if not to finish. We shall see! OTOH, if the young people like it, good. Let them have their music. TRACK THREE - I like the pianist, but the bassist pulls it more into a Bill Evans zone/area than I really like. I recall from reading along as the responses went up (sorry, but after a while, I gotta look in) that this is Paul Bley & Gary Peacock...not sure when this was recorded, but I know their work together to be not at all in this bag, and I prefer them in that freer bag. But oh well! TRACK FOUR - "In A Sentimental Mood", no idea by who(m?), but this is nice, I like the right hand going one way and the left hand neither following or jumping on board, just continuing to anchor. That's very mature playing, imo. TRACK FIVE - Yeah! If you go far enough back, seriously enough, there is no way to avoid this cut, nor this band either, to one degree or another. What a blend, what colors, Ellington was famous for that, but listen to this, this is every bit of all of that. "Organ Grinder Swing", there's words to it too, I have an Ella version of it and the words are cool and all that, but this..THIS!!! TRACK SIX - I'd go with Harold Vick, and hard, if I didn't know that it had already been I'd as Nathan Davis. I don't feel bad about being worng that way either, becuase they both deserve fullest props. And it's a GREAT tune too. TRACK SEVEN - Takes a while to get going, will it be worth it? Guitarist has a little "Rainy Night In Georgia", for some reason? Piano is pleasantly generic in a post-70s kind of way, and now there is a synth, which neither adds nor detracts, imo, possibly adds in that it's in tempo, so "trance" effect is not disturbed. So is it all going to come together and work? DAMN, IT'S OVER. we'll never know!!! TRACK EIGHT - I already know it's Garbarek, but not if it's still early. I think it is, because it's still got that Ayler-awareness going on. I like this a good deal, and I liked Garbarek until at some point it seemed like he got all MOR-ish in his own way, not in sound, but in energy. But even as he went hardcore "icy", I still dug him, because of that SOUND. But this is pretty early, right? Not SUPER early, like with George Russell, but like pre 1974-ish or something? I know it's up there, the answers, but I'm really trying to look as little as possible. But this one, yeah, that's there. TRACK NINE - "Flamingo" in a kind of Jamal bag, but I don't think it's Jamal, Jamal is a LOT more fragmented and spacious than that. This is kinda hardcore linear, like, homage/plow/homage/plow...I'm laughing, I'm crying, if it were earlier in the month I'd order a jumbo popcorn to see the mystery revealed. But that almost has to be Jamal (I'll laugh) or somebody doing an outright cop (I'll cry) or one cut on an album of nothing else like this as an album cut just as a "novelty" cut (I'll be glad I got the extra popcorn!). But all props due to Ahmad Jamal. TRACK TEN - oh dear, that has a 70s or Gary Burton thing going on, of which I am not at all particularly fond. I've been revisiting the RCA & Atlantic Burton Quartet to see what I might have missed the first time around, and so far the answer is maybe a little, but not THAT much, earlier impressions illuminated but not changed - a groovy group except for the leader!. But I went there from totally getting into Carla Bley, and with Carla Bley, all roads lead to Steve Swallow (quite by design, as I understand it, he was her first, and remains, her staunchest advocate, and for that he's done God's Work in his lifetime), and I have come to REALLY dig the ongoing evolution of Steve Swallow as bassist, but I don't think this is him.There is way too much preening vanity in this playing. Steve Swallow would evolve a masterful ability on his instrument that is not without pride, but is totally without vanity. I have a hunch that finally getting together with Carla as a life partner got him there. So I really hope this isn't Steve Swallow. In fact, I hope this isn't anybody, to be honest. Sorry. TRACK ELEVEN - Sounds like one of those 70s guys who were into Pharoah and who had some of the chops, maybe a lot of them, but not all of them. I'm wanting to say Carlos Garnett? But Garnett had a fatter sound than that...this is derivative, but it seems from the heart, Close enough for this purpose. TRACK TWELVE - All rise for the National Anthem! Well, no, it's not that. It's a pop song that I can't remember (not that I want to...). Kind of Ibrahim-ish, but only kind of. On the whole, I like it well enough. And it is a good closer. Thanks for doing this. It's a really quality collection, and I apologize for being so late to the game. No reason other than shit kept happening, some of it planned, some not, none of it bad, but all of it took time, right? Still, worth the wait on this end.

Is this recognized as a masterpiece or anything? Because I swear to my soul I believe it is, if only for the orchestrations. But not only, and not just.

Doris Troy Helen Ward The Beaver (about whom I am worried)

Impeccably conceived and executed, probably an exemplary release of this type of thing. It's not my thing, not at all, but...that's not their problem. EDIT: ok, one fault - the string quartet can't swing 8th notes to save their ass. Other than that, though, no problem, they play everything else, especially the whole notes, wonderfully.

Ben Whitecliff Bobby Byrd Marva Whitney

Herbert W. Armstrong Garner Ted Armstrong William Talboy Wright

Them Thelma Lou Louise Sawyer

This is a good record. not perfect, but good. Is Wallace McMillan still with us? That "cat" is "throwing down" pretty seriously here..

There's been legit commercially released DVDs of the entire first season. Maybe the second too?