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I was, and they were, but only in certain circles..to me it seemed like accoustic Weather Report more or less, which sounds like damning with faint praise but really isn't. Still, where they were going wasn't someplace that was calling my name, if you know what I mean. Still, I would not mind revisiting those Don Grolnick BNs, and Mike Mainieri's is a fascinating story. None of those guys came out of nowhere, far from it

Qwest (jazz and Classical) is now available for free as "live tv" on The Roku Channel, as is all-classaical channel Vivaldi. All three are a bit of a mess as far as seamlessness go, commercials are inserted at random ( and only sometimes logical) intervals, on-screen menus seldom match what's actually on, stuff like that Not content is often quite enjoyable, an on Qwest Jazz, eclectic in a nice way, and pretty diverse in terms of chronology. I've seen everything from Coleman Hawkins to Sun Ra to Kneebody. And Library Mutual commercials aplenty All three channels make nice background tv, especially if!when something comes on that you want to stop and listen to. It looks like they all have monthly programming content that gets staggered throughout the month, so drop in, tune on, and turn off. Bottom line - if you have a Roku already, you have this stuff 24/7 now, for free. God bless America.

RIP Ronnie. There was a real voice there.

In the famous words of Jim Perry on Sale Of The Century before starting the Big Money round, "Ok Allen, we're all with you now!" or of Summer Bartholomew on the same show when somebody decided to bite on the Mystery Money game and she walked their case over to them, "Good luck, Allen!!!"

Quartette Tres Bien was an interesting group...still not sure how much (or if( I like them, but that's kinda neat in and of itself.

seconded

Probably a "supplemental" Ra record, but it's a good one, intimate and thoughtful. Plus,any additional unmask the batman is always welcome here!

I get the unenthusiastic statements about "sameness", but it's a superficial sameness. Like any piano trio (as opposed to a pianist with accompaniment) worth a damn, they were all about arrangement, architecture, not simply solos. I have a lot of their stuff on LP, and a serious listen to one side of any given LP is, if you really listen, very satisfying. It's not unlike Ahmad Jamal's trios in this regard, although, of course functioning with a totally different polarity. It's true trio music.

Coldwater Flat with Oliver Nelson is another favorite of mine.

We're living in an age of hyper-aggression. I think it's just an inevitable result of Earth having reached critical mass in terms of population and the planet's ability to hold all these people and give them all what they want, so everybody turns into self-contained gladiators hell-bent on being the "last one standing", and THAT'S become the sport today.

Make those gigs, man. Make those gigs. And then get some more!

Any for-profit magazine (hard or virtual) is living on ad revenue. I've heard of publications "encouraging" artists/labels to buy ad space in return for favorable articles/reviews. When that's your model, it can easily turn the other way, that the publication sets a tone of "politeness" of their reviews so as not to disrupt ad sales. It's all part of the game, but it's also one reason I don't flock to buy the magazine these days. There's people on this board and elsewhere that I trust to shine the light on good stuff, as well as to be objective about it. and they don't take up any space on my closet, just on my screen!

Great work, a substantive contributive legacy. RIP.

It has been...but I wonder when/if they are going to get some of those great 72-75 "electric jungle" shows out. We know they're out there...

Dude, that's the driver they're talking about...

Ed Flesh - Old Hands, New Broom

Jim Rice Zack wheat Catherine Millet

Need to correct the record here, cranial flatulence. It is Jazziz that I never liked from Day One, not Jazz Times. I actually used to like Jazz Times in its earlier iterations. But as the OG writers dies off and/or moved on, their replacements seemed to increasingly make an inoffensively neutral blandness their ultimate goal, and at some point (10-15 years ago?) they achieved total success.

Nobby Totah Marshall Tito Totah, Josie

Architecture! My favorite single track by them, period, still, now, probably forever. No, the entire album's not like this. But this is the album it's on.

There was/is a lot going on in this regard that generally doesn't make it into the "mainstream jazz press".

No problem, totally ok imo. I'd feel the same.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/10/entertainment/betty-white-cause-of-death/index.html Looks like she died after a stroke...not so wonderful a way to go... But still....check out the old Life With Elizabeth shows, amazing. And that's just for started. This was a truly gifted person.

An angle to the whole Mtume/Bartz was the notion of Black economic self-sufficiency. In this light, were they selling out or buying in? Obviously(?), capital was being generated. do we know to what extent it was used for family/community, as opposed to vanity/self-indulgency? I don't, but anytime I hear accusations of "sell out" within the worlds of "jazz", I always wonder - selling out or buying in? An independent community does not depend on others for capitalization.

They generated capital.