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Trying to remember if the India Navigation catalog is still intact in terms of ownershio?

Ok, Mosaic is partnering with Dot Time. That could be a new business model going forth, working with a co-producer, sharing the expense, right?

Lou's "disco" (I guess?) records deteriorated in quality, mo, not in playing, but in terms of production. Just...unimaginative, bad choices made, not good ones. DULL choices. When he "came back", those records were "better", but the die was cast - Lou would make the same record, just with different songs. Over and over. AND over. I mean, I love the guy, who doesn't, but let's be honest, he's comfort food. The recipe never changes (including the specific ingredients), and it's not something you want at every freaking meal for the rest of your life.

Alto Tatum Jimi Tenor Barrie Chase

Sanford and Son Steptoe and Son Hines, Hines and Dad

The only way to forget Carla Bley is to have never known of her at all!

Spending the day with this one and volume two. Totally transfixed by Moffett's dancing drums. Plus, he got that hat just right.

The same conversation can be had about "classical" composers. If nothing else, it should illuminate that greater opportunity leads to a bigger talent pool, which in turn opens up the chances of new/different perspectives.

Diver Dan Doc Sturgeon Baron Barracuda

So what happened? Shit be all zippediedodah today.

And thus the quick acceptance of various "keyboards". I still have my Rhodes, still play on it from time to time, it's like my good dog that will live with me forever. But there's a reason why it's in the same spot not and forevermore...that bad boy weighs more than I do, I believe, and is even less flexible.

Cocaine, for sure. Not getting into any more detail than that. Plenty of people do that and do it well, but body/brain chemistry make it a minefield. As for the chutzpah...yeah, he knew what he could do, he knew what he was doing, he wasn't standing down in the face of competitors and or/marketplace demand, I saw him doing his Tai Chi moves during a gig, no hesitancy at all. The one thing Woody Shaw would not do would be display weakness about his position in life. Truly a brilliant mind, an inspirational presence with an as-it-turned-out fatal flaw.

Mental health issues, failing eyesight, substance use issues, just an unfortunate combination for a brilliant mind.

Esperanza Spaulding has a new record out. I bought it, it's on the way. I'm curious about where she's going. Perhaps not "jazz/improv" (or maybe so?!?!?!, but bottom line, wherever she goes, she takes that with her, it's always in the mix there somewhere. On the whole, I am very much interested in whatever new perspectives can be/are being added to music/life in general. Pendulums do swing, and the what seems to be "nmasculine" model of learning to play every permutation over every change and doing so with a "warrior" mindset has, to me, devolved from a necessary survival mechanism to an insuluar inbreeding of inanity. New perspectives are needed, period. "Playing like a man" is really NOT needed today, but neither does absence of a penis guarantee any particularly necessary insight. What is really useful is for new voices to bring themselves to the existing arenas, and for those in these arenas to embrace those who bring a useful evolution to the mix. Evolve or die, as the expression says. Time & Space have no limits, and they particularly have no gender.

So far, just two records - Luftlucht and The Heron, but both are very much "on point" as the peonies of proctor like to say today. Comments? Observations? Profiles? Impressions?

Maro Ajemian was a formidable talent.

Play for Halloween!

Has anybody heard Hefti's excursions into World/Ethnic music?

As mentioned elsewhere, The Atomic album on the whole doesn't really do that much for me. Again, some really fine "hit singles", but the whole albu - as an album - not so much. I'd be perfectly ok if he rather soon fell into the "job trap", you know, he knew that even his less distinctive work was still going to be "good enough", so he just put it all out there instead of holding out until he had a record's worth of gems. We should all have that kind of problem, right? Just sayin, though - I've never hear an entire album of his - as leader or as arranger - that really sinks in and stays in all the way through. Again, not a fault, just a reality, at least for me.

For my taste, Hefti's the composer-arranger equivalent of a "singles band", albeit one with a ginormous number of quality hit singles, more than many. Post Herman, that is. That was a good time to be associated with that band. Plus, he married (and stayed married) well, so excellent skill and judgement in that regard. No small feat that.

Not at all "avant-garde", just forward looking inside playing. Tenorist Barrett Friedman (still very active,, btw, I got durious and looked in Google) catches my ear as somebody who appears to have, intentionally or not, found a personal variation on Booker Ervin. I like that, and all in all I like this record

Congratulations on the baby. I suggest letting it get acclimated to quiet (or at least your home's version of it) before introducing outside sounds. Coming out of the womb and into our world is a bit of a transition!

Played the Dennis CD today...those quartal voicings put me in mind of Richie Powell. anybiody else hear that?

That makes #7 Ron Affif, #8 Lorne Lofsky, & #11 the Al Haig/Jimmy Rainey quartet (on Spotlite).

The opener, "Loco 47" is one my "desert island" playlist/mixtape/etc.Of anything or of anybody. That's jsut....mastery, ultimate mastery of life as found through music.