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Nsjee can play.

Not even with some trickyass file conversion software?

That will be when Sonny goes....god forbid that's not within the next 100 years...

It's all out of Bird (and by extension Pres). Explicit influence, anyway. Different shadings, of course, but Bird is the source. Even Ornette, Jimmy Lyons, Bird. Not until you get to AACM that there's a clear break, at least in terms of express phraseology.

Should there be? I mean, Jackie's place is secure, isn't it? Does anybody who is serious about this kind of music not recognize that Jackie was, and always will be, an incredibly personal player of maximum significance? People who don't are either clowns, fools, and/or just uneducated about the subject. Or else their priorities lie elsewhere, for whatever reasons. But I'm kinda like, life is short, so leave them be to go their own way into their own world and let's hope nobody gets hurt in the end.

Regarding the Ruplli work...my first experience with such a thing was as a freshman at NTSU/UNT, fall of 1974. I spent hours in the music library (an expansive entire floor of the main library building). the first ones on the shelf were the Rust & Jepsen volumes. Rust...I was not really needful of that at the time (or so I thought...), and the Jepsen was really groovy (and hardbound!), but stopped too soon to be really satisfying. And then, there was this thing called The Prestige Label. Hmmm....a whole book about just one label? Prestige was a label that had always been easy to get back home, as a teenager, so I figured, ok, let's look at this, I bet I have most of this, surely. Well, no, I didn't. Not even close. Plenty of people and records in there that I never knew existed, and DAMN, what I have and what I thought I "knew" ws hardly a dop on the iceberg. Then, as now, if you want to get an idea of what you don't know, a good library is your friend, your close friend.

A life not wasted. Congratulations, RIP, and thank you.

Tomi Parliment - Broken In Two

About "songs" and "jazz"...Check out Charles McPherson on "The Chill Of Death" to see how the supposition that the "bebop" vocabulary requires "song forms" and other simple cyclic containments is a choice made by musicians, not a divinely imposed imperative. Most musicians, jazz or otherwise, aren't particularly ambitious. I would say lazy, but that's not it, a lot of people put a lot of hard work into learnting to play one very narrow and/or deep musical construct.

Bird, Trane, Hendrix, and Miles all playing together on an electric Miles session arranged by Gil Evans, with guest vocal on "Little Wing" by Billie Holliday. Birth Of The Cruell.

Which is exactly how it wants you to think it is acting.

I feel that way about the microchips in my salad dressing.

He did some meaningful work, not the least of which was being one of the first critic to reevaluate 70s Miles. He made his case with strength and insight, and it stuck. RIP.

This is how pop records have been made since they began making pop records that way, which is at least as long as I've been alive. So I take no outrage in any of this. As far as the word "jazz" goes...the music itself has done at least as much harm by what it does to itself as has Kenny g, I do wonder, though, what happened to the Kenny Gorelick that played decently enough on the Jeff Lorber records? That guy wasn't no amazing talent or anything, but...

I always took it as "here's what gets my lady/ladies to think I'm sensitive and/or vulnerable and that just makes my life SO much easier CD". And there's nothing wrong with that, because that's not about music, that's about human relations. Those things only sometimes are the same thing! #godilovemesomevenndiagram

A lot of musical substance! I very seriously doubt that a lot of what some might hear as gaffes are actually that. What I here more than a few times is Bird going outside the key, outside the time, outside the place. His sound is certainly a little impaired, and his fingers are occasionally not as reflexively impeccable, but...the ideas as still genius. You hear Bird doing these types of thing later on, in the 50s, only then he's sharp. If nothing else, his opening them of "Ornithology" is fascinating...I don't think there are but a few players ever whose "imprecision" would come out like this!

Timetha Ann Store - Songs From The Cedar Chest

5/4 is THE Pop Odd Meter, thank you Take Five, I guess.

You can improvise on anything, but improvisation and jazz aren't the same thing, and really, just because you can doesn't really mean that mean you should. I'm just like, fuck it, everything involved here is already dead, we're just watching it die in slow motion/real time, like, what did that man say, it's after the end of tomorrow?

Aaron Sachs Aarón Sánchez Erin Moran

Boston Blackie Whitey Bulger The White Rat

In keeping with American historical tradition, no doubt.

That guy bugs the dogpiss out of me, even when dialoging with Slim Galliard. OTOH...."hipster"-ism has always been an annoying schtick. I guess that Bubbles Whitman should annoy me too...he probably does but I guess I'm not realizing it yet Diddy Galippy! But check out Al Haig!!!

So, Dale Williams. Tell me more, somebody, please?

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