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Did it specifically say "Jim Hall" or just "Hall"? I've see lyricists get composer credits on non-vocal versions, go figure that one.

Born without a uvula!

Those were really good records!

Remind me...how did they get 9 LPs on this one? What else was added?

Face? A change has long been overdue, but....Guardians? Is that really a "sports" type name? They could have gone back to "Spiders". That could have been all kinds of fun. Ok, Guardians Of Traffic, a local angle. Interesting.

Bad & Beautiful...impulse! version was my first Ra record back in the day. We Travel The Spaceways didn't get "here" until this Evidence issue...revisiting both again has been revelatory. Again. and Gilmore on "Searchlight Blues"...straight to the core, all the way.

Guardians?

Not a lot of her later records on YT, for some reason. If it was there, I would have posted the "Willow Weep For Me" with her and Wayne. That one is 100% zone Or the later 'I'm A Fool To Want You" with Gil, same thing.

per: https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2021/02/whats-old-is-new-welcoming-four-scores-by-charles-mingus/ Mingus responded negatively to the Three or Four Shades of Blues LP but listeners loved it; the album sold 50,000 copies in just two months.[1] per: https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=1379 Mingus saw the public beginning to catch up with his genius precisely at the moment of his physical decline. In 1977, his album Three Or Four Shades Of Blue sold 50,000 copies, the first of his records to come close to that figure. His last few years of performing were attended by the most enthusiastic audiences of his career (including a full, 9,000-seat house at the 1976 Berkeley Jazz Festival); last year, he was given a standing ovation at a jazz festival staged on the White House lawn, and an all-star big hand played his music to several thousand people at the Newport Jazz Festival in Saratoga. During his life, Mingus was all but ignored by the major press. When he died, his obituary appeared on the front page of the New York Times, while Rolling Stone, a publication which has been jazz-conscious only to the degree to which jazz brings in ad revenue, noted Mingus' passing with a black border on the cover. The anecdote was that Mingus was bitching at Nesuhi Ertegun for making him make a goddam rock and roll record (or something like that), but the next time they met, Mingus had on a big/new Rolex and was all happy about it. So yeah, in and of itself, fees on the upswing not important in and of itself, but as an indicator of rapidly increasing fortune (no pun intended) and what a blow it was for him to have gone pretty much his entire career making, at best, "jazz money" and then, BAM, it's totally relevant to the overall arc of the Mingus story. Imagine what fees he could have commanded if he had lived through the Joni Mitchell record...he was crossing over in a way that was only really possible in the 70s. You gotta think that for a guy who thrived on attention and the rewards that came with it, this was really going to be a happy ending...until it wasn't.

I think it would be a big deal that Mingus went from being put out on the street to being a reasonably lucrative draw, especially after that Atlantic record with the guitar players that put him into another tier of earning potential altogether. Or are career considerations not relevant to musicians, just to their accountants and managers? That's how people get screwed and their biographies are sad stories about never making any money. I'm perfectly happy to be able to read a different type of story.

I like her singing better the older she got...to me, that's part of being a real singer...or human in general. Know what you got, know what you don't got and then make the best/truest that you can with it. If that means having less to do less (but better to yourself)...perfect. Bodies are not meant to last forever, especially voices.

A bit disappointed to find out what this is...that type bass playing (low action hyper aggression) sits worse now for me now than it ever did...which is why I was going in the direction of Eddie Gomez, in particular. That guy lives there (or used to, anyway).

I'd like to know when/if she came out against the NEA. If that's where she's really coming from, she can and should refuse that $25K. Otherwise, we're talking about implicit "loyalty oaths" (sic) and shit like that, which is odious as fuck, as is the notion that denying funding for embracing wacky conspiracy theories proves that there are no conspiracies. Finally...thinking that there have been not any significant number of significant African-Americans who haven't embraced the notion that the United States Government is to a totally dangerous (to them) full-of-shit lie...seriously? Oh, but this is different because there was/is a halfassed criminal "revolution" by delusional idiots involved? Again, seriously? All revolutions are halfassed criminal "revolutions" oby delusional idiots involved, except the ones that actually succeed. Remember who writes the history,.. What is she, a 21st Century Jane Fonda? Americans have no sense of their own history, just of their propagandas. Which Slide Are You On, BOY? Present her with a check that's got that insurance claim legalese on it and with a plaque that says, hey, Cassandra, you gone crazy, but you have been a great (seriously) voice for over a quarter century, so here's some spending money, don't spend it all in one place LOL, Srzly - UB trippin', but we LVUNEWAY! Signed, The Jazz Masters Plantation Division of The NEA (a wholly owned subsidiary of the United States Government). And then everybody go home and cook some dinner.

So...you don't know what it means, but you're against it? We' re not talking about her actually wanting to refund the NEA are we? We're just assuming that because she's gone down this conspiracy theory bullshit that she's totally opposed to federal funding of the arts? Do we know that are are we just assuming that, that if Person A believes Idea Z and Person B also believes Idea Z , then Person's A & B will then automatically will believe Ideas A-Y? This whole "alligns" thing...I guess that since I support basic Palestenian rights that I "allign" with Anti Semitism, therefore I want a new holocaust or some stupid illogic like that It's a sloppy word if not fleshed out with real/meaningful/provable detail. Sloppy language, sloppy thoughts Can the discussion be about what she has actually expressed belief in, and leave the "alignment" to the tire stores and the chiropractors? It's a word that has a real meaning there.

Penn-Strype

Hope she's doing well, I'm a fan!

How does one "align with" a group? Is it a question of actually belonging to a group, or is it a question of showing up on a Venn Diagram of shared beliefs? If it's the latter, how much of an intersection is needed before the alignment is considered irrefutable proof?

Stinks McDonovich, perhaps?

Superhero movies, propaganda? Surely you jest!!!!!

You could say Joe Farrell, but I don't think that's a "major" player, although he certainly was a comp[etent and prolific one.

No valve, it just collects at the bottom of the horn and you pour it out. The bottom of the horn is a "U" shape, same as a plumbing trap. The physics is the same, too. Water/saliva collects there. It's good to pour it out frequently, because if you play a hard, long set, there's sometimes a LOT of accumulation, and, you know, turn your back when you do that...it can be pretty gross if somebody's not expecting it.

I liked the Santoro book quite a bit. It's quirky, to be sure. But it tells the story quite well, imo. As for fees and such...if the guy was getting paid better than ever, that is relevant, because it shows that somebody who was getting evicted a decade past had become a worldwide draw, and showing it in tangible, not abstract terms. "Everybody loved Mingus", well yeah. But how much money did that love actually bring in? Because as the old folks say, you can't live on love. So, money, yes. That's very much part of this story.