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Is the problem what he's doing or how he's doing it?

How small are those tables?

Why it always gotta be the basement?

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Does anybody seen Trebek hosting Classic Concentration? A bit (or more!) of a jerk! A different time of course, but good god. Now that we know better... I applaud him for growing with and adapting to the changing notions of what constitutes basic respect, at least publicly.

Rev. Dick Purpose - The Second Coming Is Here

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Spaulding with Ra...J-Mac inspired, but for sure he had his own thing developing:

People might forget that he was with Sun Ra before he was with anybody, in Chicago.

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The horn/string arrangement on "In Search Of My Heart" (which is knocking me out today, actually), is credited to Jerry Hey & Bill Reichenbach which is one more time why I think that I should have liked Seawind more than I did. It kind of reminds me of Charles Stepney. Always good, that is.

Appently, the rather sketchily named "VJ International" was a Britt-based affair So who WAS this guy, and how did Fresh Sounds get some but hardly all of his material? The Stitt-Holloway record is a real treat. One of those things where rote playing would have been enough to meet expectations but they weren't having none of that!

Lucas Frame - All My Friends Are Dead (Except You)

A cursory look at Discogs suggests (to me), that McCoy went through the 1980s without making a really impactful record, so maybe he had some shit going on that distracted him, or he had misguided management or something, who knows? But after having revisited it today, I can say that I now have two opinions about Looking Out: 1. Phyllis Hyman was never consistently produced to the advantage that she was here. Explore her you definity should, but be prepared for a lot of, shall we say, frustration and missed opportunities. When there are triumphs, they are magnificent. But... 2. As a McCoy Tyner record, this sounds like a surrender with no resistance. None whatsoever. That was painful then, and it's painful now.

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McCoy could have had a career writing game show themes: Upon revisiting, Looking Out is a very good Phyllis Hyman record!

You're not wrong, but...jesus, how can I explain the revulsion that came from being "told" that THIS was McCoy Tyner, the same McCoy Tyner that used to be a part of a guiding force of damn near primal impact? Also, the very early 1980s...more than "just" music was in play. This record was like, oh, ok, next year Robin Leech interviews McCoy Tyner...

On a Norman Connors (or even/especially a Phyllis Hyman record), that would be fine (enough). But on a McCoy Tyner record, that just did not - and does not - uh....resonate with me. It just made it seem that McCoy was just trying to be a pop artist all along. Actually, hearing it now, I kinda like it. But not at all as a McCoy Tyner record. More as a Phyllis Hyman record. Is that fair? Does it have to be? This is Phyllis Hyman's wheelhouse, and she is superb. But McCoy Tyner?. If I was coming to this for the first time in 2022...my reaction might well be different, now that everybody's dead, hey, it is what it is and it was what it was. But when you don't know where McCoy Tyner is going and THIS happens... Yes, they're both dead now. Proceed accordingly. And relish THIS!

And more easily than one could bypass Oscar Peterson!

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"Senor Carlos"...that record came out when I was living in Albuquerque, and soon became a jam session favorite! On its own, ok. And maybe that albums is going to be less wrteched in 2022 than it was in 1981 or whenever it was. But maybe not? I would never say to not give it a shot to make up your own mind. I'm just saying that at the time, it really felt like, oh god, if McCoy Tyner has become a whore, then there is no virtue left in the world. And really, there isn't, not really. But that's got nothing to do with McCoy Tyner, then or now.