JSngry

That's a really good record.

Maybe it's my imagination, but critics polls used to skew, not necessarily "out", but more towards the "forward" than started happening. The assumption was that they got to hear more music than the average listener because they had access to more music than did the average listener. In the days of analog product/distiribution, that was no doubt a safe assumption. And then, the 80s happened...and that started to include not just a musical reactionary element, but also digital product/distribution, and now people hear what they want to hear, including critics. If you ain't hearing something, the odds are very low that it's because you can't get to it. I used to think that critics were by nature a curious lot, which explained their generally more "forward" choices, but to be honest, today, I don't know. Or care, really. When I read a review that's 90% adjectives and 10% historical name-dropping....of course I exaggerate, but only in degree. Different experiences, I guess. At least they're trying to live in a form of today, maybe?

Hey, recontextualized trainwrecks are a thing.

now there's a conceptual concept for an audio playlist!

But they are not yet yours, so...be thankful for that, right? Now having said that....2020 is getting off to a rough start...I hope it stops doing that pretty soon, please.

https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-jazz-audio-biography-mw0000174992

Ed Flesh - Like A Cart With A Bad Wheel

A nice record to wake up with, not like, get out of bed wake up, but ok, out of bed, getting into the day, need something to make a smooth transistion from dream state to reality (such as it is) state. Lots of layers moving at different trajectories, but gently so. By the end of the second listen, hey, I'm mentally armed and ready to face the day.

I use Shazam on BFTs, once I've done the initial listening and "exhausted" all personal hunches/sleuthing. It works except for when it doesn't, which appears to be happening more and more, and not just for private recordings.

I think you'd have remembered Pete Cosey if he was there, a very distinctive presentence. per http://www.plosin.com/MilesAhead/Sessions.aspx?s=730113 January 13, 1973 (7 items; TT = 57:10) Village East, New York NY Audience recording (B-) Miles Davis (tpt); Dave Liebman (ss, ts, fl); Reggie Lucas (g); Khalil Balakrishna (sitar); Cedric Lawson (keyb); Michael Henderson (el-b); Al Foster (d); Badal Roy (tabla); James Mtume Forman (cga, perc) The Davis group and the Paul Winter Consort were booked for two nights at the Village East. These were the first live performances since Davis broke both legs in an automobile accident on October 19, 1972 (NYT report), although there were several studio sessions in November-December. Despite Davis's immobility, the group continued its live bookings: Toronto (January 24); Michigan State University Auditorium, East Lansing (January 26); Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis (January 28); Tower Theatre, Philadelphia (March 2); Alexander Hall, Princeton University (two shows, March 3). There were also apparently a number of Columbia studio sessions during February, but none of the music from these sessions has surfaced. Davis was arrested on February 23 on weapons charges.

A truly great stand-up (impeccable rhythm!), and the Full House role was a great career move in setting all that up, although that's probably not what he had in mind when he took the gig. RIP.

I've always liked Tom Varner Don't know this record, but no reason to not check it out.

any idea how they would have been released? By mail, or just "among friends", or what?

Now i want my set to have gotten here already for the last week. This is the kind of "test" I really enjoy, deciphering what changes are what. I love playing "stump the listener" with those two The Art Of Improvisation albums of Warne. They've fooled some pretty good players here!

I'm supposed to be getting mine tomorrow. If I do, I'll take a listen to see what I hear. Maybe "Forever" = "Always"? Like I'll be loving you, always....that one.

It's been a while, but that's, I think, some of it? But the doc I saw might have had extra shots...I remember some party footage on the train while it was in motion that were just insane. Women with a drink in one hand and a shake everywhere else. Then again, I remembered Pee Wee Hunt instead of Phil Napoleon, so I'm not swearing to this. But 65% certain at this time.

It's been implicit in him from the almost-beginning with that tone that is a mind-meld (or something) of Joe Henderson & Dewey Redman. Would that he had embraced it sooner, but things are not always as easy as they seem from the outside, maybe. When he made those ECM records with Motian, I thought that that was where he was going. Turned out that he had other plans.

Sorry that he has passed (apparently?). What a great player!

I saw it on a documentary, not sure where. But it does exist and is worth hunting for.

Not at all bad, although it's a different lens today about stuff like all (and I do mean ALL) of the pretty girls are light-skinned or lighter. Never mind holding a "beauty contest"/casting call based entirely on body measurements (so come in a swimsuit, girls, we have very specific requirements!) But that's a sociology discussion as much as an entertainment one. Simply as a piece of purely "of its time" entertainment, this is far better than most, and there's plenty of Jordan. That alone makes it a treat, as his music is expectedly fine, an his ating is surprisingly at least as good as Elvis'! Plus, there's a singer named Pat Rainey who sings REALLY well. Apparently she had a cursed life, but on the one song she sings here...yeah.

Memories!

Have you seen the film of Gleason moving his operation from New York to Miami via a non-stop party on a train? It was a spectacle, anything but sad, music provided by Pee Wee Hunt. But that Jingle Bells is certainly melancholic, to put it mildly. Hooch mixed with Seconal, perhaps, in just the right measure.

Is the train saying, "And awaaaaaayyyy we go!!!"?

Bummer. A diverse career, to put it mildly. RIP.

Thanks. It sounded like a really nice band for the few moments they got to play regular swing. Also in this movie is a staging of Othello, staged in Harlem, that pretty much defies description.