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Even with the live recordings proving they had other ideas about this, that concept still strikes me as a salon band, and a damn good salon band.

Slim Sam Bornsun - Makin' Me Some Tea-Tolly

6 CDs is a lot, and it's a pretty big time span, so I will need to see hard specifics before committing. But let me put it this way - they're going to have to work really hard to convince me NOT to buy it, which is a very pleasant change of pace for Mosaic of late! ADD: just now seeing this: The 6 discs cover his early trio with Billy Bauer, his superhuman solo piano work, the sextet with Konitz and Marsh, the ‘50s trio with Peter Ind, duets with Sonny Dallas and live material from the Half Note in 1962. Yeah, that'll work just fine, thank you!

MJQ worked fine with Mickey Roker too. Differently, but still fine.

oh my....

YES!

Starting my morning with Poof...it's amazing how easy it is to listen to this music...it's not at all "easy" music, but is incredible easy to listen to and follow the stories. Truly this is mastery in every regard. And at under 40 minutes playing time, even more so. There is a time for every time.

Official them music for this thrad:

For that matter, Brubeck, behind Desmond. That was no accident, that ease of role-shifying he did, from exquisite accompaniment to Gonzo soloist. And dare I say...Gerry Mulligan, except when not, which was quite often, but far from always?

I've yet to meet anybody who drinks .Monday-Thursday and stays sober Friday-Saturday. The debilitating and ceiling influence of Capitalism yet again on display!

No, not suburbia - exurbia. You got The Colony (both words capitized, please note!), Frisco, Allen, Anna, it keeps going, all the White Flight from the suburbs! Seriously! Not just aggressive drivers, but aggressive Mega-SUV drivers, like, in vehicles of a size which existing roadway-size ratios were not built to accommodate being driven in ways that would have gotten my ads locked by my dad and/or my driver's Ed teacher. Shared space, what's that???? World gone wrong.

In tandem, Shirley Scott and Kenny Burrell on Hustlin'. Those two on that record...again, like a big band, only this time with sections!

Was Hattie Randolph singing?

That's a pretty decent band too, not ordinarily something I would make an effort to get out for, but under different conditions... don't know the bassist, but the other three might well still have some quirk left in them yet.

Putting Scofield that close to Denton is as close to a sure thing as you can get without actually putting him IN Denton. But then, that would have been, like, 40 years ago, at Dan's in the middle of the week for no more than 10 bucks, tops. And l would have been a lot more interested. Or maybe all the people that would have been there then are all teaching now (I can think of 3 without even trying...) and that's going to be the audience. Today's students laying out $20 is a bit of a stretch, maybe But maybe not, the guy's still an idol in those circles. Yeah, but somebody got the hookup with them, so maybe there will be a little bit of more forthcoming until they realize that even if they sell out shows, jazz is bad for their image in the community that is the place where they are, not just The Colony, but Grandscape to boot! Or maybe the Nebraska Furniture Mart crowd will drop the kids off at the water park and step in for a draw and a few times. The area is like, literally, 15-20 minutes from where I live, what with the Sam Rayburn Parkway cutting down the east-west time for but a mere pittance

Jim Herndon, to keep the original parameter but expand the (perhaps) range of instrumentation. Whole new and deeper appreciation here, lately.

Wynton Kelly played those big-band type accompaniments as well, so good call there!

Cedar Walton, John Lewis, and Sun Ra, when they are in the accompanying role. Herbie, back when he did that in the moment. and the king of them all, Sir Duke. Oh, Jaki Byard as well. Anybody, really, who understands what it means to actually support than to just be there playing the chords.

Denton's an hour away, if that. https://www.windmills-usa.com/ John Scofield Day & Time: Thursday, September 23rd, 2021 8:30pm onwards Friday, September 24th, 2021 9:30pm onwards Genre: Jazz Featuring: John Scofield - Guitar | Vicente Archer - Bass | Kevin Hays - Piano | Bill Stewart - Drums Synopsis: One of the principal innovators of modern jazz guitar, John Scofield is a triple Grammy award winning artiste with more than 40 recordings to his credit. He has expressed himself with ease and enthusiasm in the vernacular of bebop, blues, jazz-funk, organ jazz, acoustic chamber jazz, electronically tinged groove music, jam band style and orchestral ensembles. His guitar work has influenced jazz since the late 70's and is still going strong. He is a masterful jazz improviser whose music falls somewhere between post-bop, funk edged jazz, and R & B. Throughout his career Scofield has kept an open musical mind, punctuating his traditional jazz offerings with funk-oriented electric music. Entry: $20 per person And actually, The Colony is more like, north Plano.

Red Garland, and all the B-3 players who think like a big band.

I've had to try...back in the days of cheap srtaps (made with basic cord or chain), it was not uncommon for one to break, If that happened at school or at home, no problem, just rush out and get another one. But on a gig look out! And never mind it happening in a marching band in a parade...It's easier with an alto, but only somewhat. And with a tenor...yikes!

Ok, DEFINITELY this magazine. Mr. Foster himself remembers it! https://youtu.be/s3o5hHrXQVE?t=4853

aHA! I have a few sans of other things out of there from 2008. Here's the cover: and here's a review of a Shirley Scott gig from the same paper, as well as Maxine's rather, uh...aggressive ad slogans. The whole paper has that kind of vibe to it. It was already getting brittle...

And never stopped ringing! In retrospect, Cannonball's role as self-starting "Black Jazz Entrepreneur" becomes increasingly visible. At the time, many of us could be forgiven for looking at some/lots of that stuff as simple pandering/selling out. And maybe some of it was, ultimately. But the total body of work (check out Big Man, and the glorious contributions Joe Williams makes therein)...artists and businesspeople do indeed make strange bedfellows, especially when they're inside the same head. Ambitious idealism or Idealistic ambition...who knows? And what difference does it make, really. Judgement is one of those things that is seldom as easy as we'd like for it to be. At least about other people... Well crap, that newspaper is somewhere in my closet that I cannot immediately see, so...this weekend, maybe. A reasonable Plan B for researchers may be Coda, he did interviews there along the way that would have reached into that level of detail/interest. Wouldn't have been Cadence, I don't think, I wasn't reading it then with any regularity. So still going with the NYC Brittleprint.

He was flailing. He was flailing. Also - there were no changes to play! Just the mode. Changes come with cadences, and two modes don't have cadences unless you put them there, which is something that people figured out how to do (in some spectacular ways, cf 63-65 Coltrane), But here...no, Cannonball didn't have a clue how to do this type of thing. No shame in that, especially because for years after, "playing modally" usually meant playing so literal of almost derivation of "So What" and playing some kind of "urgent" sounding blues licks over it. Jackie McLean could win at that because hell, that was essentially how he played changes as well. But everybody else...bandwagons are fine, but over time they don't fool anybody except the same type of people the fooled in the first place. And oh my, don't ask Sam Rivers what HE though about "modal" playing!