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JAZZ Magazine - Summer 1976...so sad that it was not to be...

One of the unsung architects of Black American Music, the man who translated James Brown. Plus, a pretty damn good tenor player RIP and thank you. Beyond that, words fail.

Welcome to The Age Of Narrative.

The story of how the got nudged out by The Bananas Splits for the Hall Of Fame is one for the more heartbreaking stories in show business history.

Waxy!

Ah, I have always guessed that it stood for Domaine Republique or something like that. Because I don't speak French. Now I know, thanks you!

Thinking about it...might not have been the whole band, but there was some deal where "The Jazz Messengers" got a record, and then so did "Horace Silver" and "Art Blakey"...there's documentation of this deal somewhere, but I couldn't point you to it off hand, sorry.

I've got that on a cardboard record that came on the back of a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes!!!!!

Pambone - Bear Trap

Seems like maybe Jackie got most of that band one-off record deals...not Billy skinner, though, but enough to look like how When Columbia signed the Jazz Messengers as a group, the band members each got a record of their own...or something like that. New York Calling is indeed a wonderful record, and hearing it in more or less real time was a very uplifting experience.

It's also got a typically pointed Baraka poem, "Heathens and Space", delivered as only he can deliver it.

How did KB want his burger cooked? One the question of "niceness", yeah, that's not a question that can or should be answered by a random encounter or two. It's in private situations where the truth really lives. Swimming!

https://site.tunxis.edu/podcasts/page/14/ Tunxis held their 4th Annual Jazz Night on April 11, 2012. The guest performer was Khalim Zarif who performed on keyboard and between sets, shared some of his experiences working as a professional jazz musician over the years. He was accompanied by a local group that features Kevin O’Neil on guitar. Dr. Kevin O’Neil is the teacher of the Tunxis Jazz class and students in this class also performed as a group at Jazz Night. That bow tie says it all. An older, short, thread about the whole Cosmic Brotherhood band here:

Pambone - Ass In You Face

This is a good record..

That's why you get all up under them speakers, so they dodn't have to go anywhere but striagt to you ear - but they still got JUST a teence of air. Look - I've had genuinely good audio equipment for about a year and a half out of my entire life. My apartment got robbed, and ever since then...settling in some form or fashion. So I've learned how to hear great things on shit equipment. Great music is there even if great sound isn't.

I actually was at the right time/place to watch Fireball XL5 on Saturday mornings, NBC.. I thought it was at once super-weird, super-corny, and kinda fun anyway (mostly because of the closing theme)...the whole thing was like Johny Quest in space with puppets and women, all of whom's heads were too big to take seriously as anything but freaking puppets. NOT cartoons, definitely NOT. Like if Brian Wilson had gotten some Saturn 45s on his turntable in his formative years, before he got deeper into harmony, maybe if Mike Love had gotten those Saturn 45s, but would that be one of those When Worlds Collide things that negate all history, past/present/future? Hey Cover Band Project Yet To Happen - , here ya' go, do the Fireball XL5 theme with these instrument sounds!

Yeah, I know that one. I like it well enough, but it's a "jazz record', if you know what I mean. This Blue Note record, you can actually have it on at a party, like if it was 1965 and it was a Ramsey Lewis record. That kind of an energy. Say what you want about Don Was, but he's not afraid for his Blue Note records to sound like the times in which they're made!

Read the liner essay, it"s actually pretty deep

Bad equipment can actually sound nice at a low volume, especially if you get right up under it

RIP. He broke a mold, several molds, actually.

Electric Spanking Of War Babies, it's a real thing.

How about that Ahmet Ertugen, eh?

The CJB was a big band, period. Other "salon bands"....Raymond Scott, John Kirby (although the did well enough in a barroom....just any ensemble that is all about color and not necessarily about dancing or drinking..."chamber jazz" if you will. And the volume will never really ROAR, if you know what I mean, although, blame the drummer if it does.