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Isn't this two different ways of saying the same thing?

https://youtu.be/p1wtp6LYDi0

I get the impression that this particular conversion was done neither quietly or passively. Even allowing for the usual furor that often accompanies Trans-Abrahamic Transferences, this one seems to have permanently burned all sorts of bridges, possibly because the music was what ultimately got betrayed.

Ornette. But Tone Poet ain't doing that right either

Friesen appears to have had his brain fried by his religious choices. At least that's what the scuttle on the street was in NYC the one time in 1980 I hung out to consider whether or not I wanted to move their. "Killing swing for Jesus" was the way one player (who will remain nameless) put it rather acerbically. To be fair, I don't know the real deal, but it was the dawning of a lot of stuff like Windham Hill, new-age "tranquility" stuff, and hey be it crystals or be it Jesus, you usually get out of it what you come looking for, right. Until you don't, if you don't. All I know is that at one time he was a very energetic (sometimes annoyingly so, but ok) bassist who always dove in head first. And then he wasn't Really none of my business, but it's not an unfair question.

Can't understand the Odean thing without also knowing Catalyst. Didn't always make the best records, but the ideas/concepts were always there.

That Odean thing is one for the ages, not just the 80s!!!!!

Just off the top of my head and out of my ass, David Friesen?

Jazzy!

He actually plays well on that new Return To Forever live record that Georghe was pimping here a month or so ago. But it all sounds like a well-rehearsed show instead of a truly inspired spontaneous interpretations. Not meant as a dis, really. For those prices and with that lineup, anything else would be kind of dodgy, imo. You know, you pay those process for those people, you expect them to very much play very well, and you yourself can supply the inspiration, they've done their part, right?

and to that end, one beginning an exploration of this particular area of music can do far worse than to undertake a basic survey of the "Old Testament" Basie band, and associated small group recordings. SO much delight to be had there!

Hard cider on draft and Ponty/Anderson all at once?

Gotta love how they have an Honorary Producer, an Executive Producer, and an Associate Producer, but no actual Producer. Some of the earlier releases had appropriate source-crediting, but stuff like this is just not cool.

I will buy anything on the AB Fable that I come across (which isn't as much as I'd like). And Eddie South is somebody to never forget. So this record is a true pleasure, a positive treat, and a real delight!

I bought the complete Donte's thing and it pissed me off. Everybody was hyper and playing for the cheap thrills. A precursor to the fusion up ahead, perhaps. I do find it interesting to look at the paths of Ponty and Duke through both Pacific Jazz and MPS. Turns out that a very young Duke actually debuted on MPS, I had not known that. It looks like Richard/Dick Bock had plans for both of them before he stopped doing records (and why did he make that choice anyway? He had a roster developing with Ernie Watts, Pony, Duke, Groove Holmes, and of course Buddy Rich and Gerald Wilson. Then he just stopped).

I got thrown off the trail by the high school records, figured it was some kind of...educational output and that the band stuff was like a "facuty concert". That would not be fr me. So I was wrong about that, it seems. I do see there's at least one or two more band records with Hutch, so that drives my attention now. After that, the lineups become increasingly less interesting to me, but that's just me. On this first one, though, I was really engaged by the group dynamic, how everybody was on the same page for every performance. Quite a "band mind" performance, not just a "star jam", very nice indeed.

So what's up with that painting of Jack Quigley?

I would like to see a full-brained analysis dedicated to decoding the whole matter of headshots (in both painting and photography), like, the angle of the head, the direction of the eyes, the selected perspective, all that. It goes back, geez, forever, and we all just look at it. I wanna know the secret language of intent. DECODE THAT SHIT!!!!!

Lacking a real sense of urgency, I just now listened to it. I think it's excellent, worthy of repeated listenings. The compositions benefit greatly from a fleshed out frontline and having Bobby Hutcherson available both as an exquisite soloist and aptly applied ensemble color. Renee Rosnes stands out as well. In fact most of the band plays above what I have come to associate with their individual efforts. I think there's something about being part of a band that focuses people to bring it up a notch or two. Brian Blade is a mofo too, but I already knew that. I haven't been completely asleep for the last 20 years.

I was discussing this with a friend who's had a career in the financial industry, and he sees the long game here as being an eventual IPO, after which you can kiss your marvelously wide-open Bandcamp goodbye. The modern-day share holder don't give a damn about anything but getting dividends and such, I hope he's wrong about that, but isn't that the way shit works these days?

60s Prestige = Booker Ervin, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, Don Patterson, Pat Martino, Eric Kloss as label roster. Plenty of interesting one-off dates as well. Sonny Criss too.

https://quotefancy.com/quote/1297296/Wendy-Liebman-I-go-running-when-I-have-to-When-the-ice-cream-truck-is-doing-sixty https://www.just-one-liners.com/i-finally-have-a-dental-plan-i-chew-on-the-other-side/ Just Google the joke.

oops! Arlene Francis Martin Gabel George Gobel

Post the links of your choice here.

It's their jokes! Google a joke and often enough you can find it's source. Maybe not who actually wrote it, but that's another story, sometimes... Wendy Liebman has been around a whole. Janine DiTullio had too, but an old guy like me wouldn't know that, maybe? At some point... can't, so don't. Anyway, comedy has been a hobby of mine for a while now, so I like knowing whose work it is.