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Sony Bono, Murder In Music City. Tonight.. 'nuff said. But - Nina is still alive! https://www.gazettenet.com/Mothers-react-to-Holyoke-Medical-Center-closing-Birthing-Center-34685539 She seemed sweet then, and still does. A sweet smile and a very pleasant voice. I hope she's having a happy life!

No love for the batshit-crazy Sandy Duncan Wheat Thins commercial? Or for Art Fleming in general?

Red Hood Jack Napier Arthur Fleck

Did he have Doug Watkins on bass? From what I've read, that was who he generally used during his pianist/leader period.

It takes a brave man to openly use a dog as an accompanist, but it takes an even braver dog to do the work needed to reach the necessary level of skill to not just get the gig, but to then keep the gig. Ultimately, there is no substitute for just doing the work. That Fiona dachshund could maybe take a lesson in character and perseverence from Micczyslaw Horszowski!

That Mingus SMU concert...I was a freshman at NT that year, and there was ZERO publicity. I only found out about it the next day when a classmate (Jim Lacefield, a gifted bassist, RIP) came into pur piano class all excited about I SAW MINGUS LAST NIGHT!!!! and I was like wtf? dude, and he said, yeah, I was in Dallas doing something and somebody there told me, hey, Mingus is at SMU tonight, so... I nearly peed my pants in envy, and how was it, it was GREAT he had this tenor player whose eyes rolled back in his head....so, George Adams. This was just before the Changes records dropped, and yeah, i got all over those...great records from a great band. Never had a chance after that, by the time I got out and about, he was dead, which was a real blow. But not as much as seeing that picture of him in the wheelchair at the White House. That was like, oh shit, this dude is going to die, isn't he. And...I really wanted to have the Mingus experience, really, REALLY did. But no. Not this guy, not in this life. Carpe diem, basically, because everybody is going to die. Including you.

to the live playing? Or to the sampling? Or is it maybe both?

Is it even live playing? A construction of samples, perhaps?

Well then, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this is a 21st century recording and that the players are not necessarily "organic" to the traditions they are putting forth here? I hope I'm wrong, because then I will be interested in finding out who it/they are, because I do like the track. But there's a part of it that feels a little "easy" to me, like they are putting this together because it was already there to be used. They did a good job, for sure!

Buddy Rich! Pacific Jazz could get with the times just like anybody else could...

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Les McCann too.

Nina is sweet, I like her a lot.

Is #2 Herbie Mann?

Agreed about the quality of the poetry, and the wordplay...YMMV indeed, as does mine on any given day. Which is why the braodsheet format appeals to me, it's very nature calls for cutting to the chase. That NYPL collection, that's where I saw the unpublished bit...check out these titles (and these are, I guess, all broadsheets): are you a hopeless case? mystery babylon is the negro judgement day continued for the negro there are two ways in the bible confessing is not repenting humans all the kingdom of heaven is now message from the god of israel to negroes only to the hypocrites!! israel is the negro the great sabbath-breaker there is war in heaven! the truth shall make you free negro, an emblem of suffering and shame the true origin of the so-called negro (god's chosen people) god says, "choose life!" the days of a tree wisdom from god salvation is of the jews question: why do white people separate themselves from negroes? the real truth timely questions all the gates are here! let there be light! israel, the son of god the land of nod jesus sentenced capernaum to hell...also, his enemies sinners will enter first in the kingdom of heaven judgement day...be careful what you say jesus is called the prince of peace ...the truth about jesus there's death on the cross hi ho silver how to live forever and never die should cause every being upon this planet to hide in shame the worship of the word "one" is a covenant with death mesh/net/sieve only true wisdom can save america there are two jesus in the bible i, jesus and jesus how the ethiopians deceived the world the way "The Solaristic Precept" [illegible] of china, japan, asia, and africa according the the bible: The negro is a beast the black curse [illegible title] None of this should seem really strange to anybody's who's been exposed to "Black Muslims" (of any faction) or any other non-mainstream African-American "religious" sect.. What I'm really hungry for is to see Ra's "extra dimension" which you know is almost certainly there. Published it the book are these: why don't you turn again! ...there are two ethiopias "a nigger is a mess" johnny one note big brother left you holding the bag! i have set before you life and death - choose life message to the spook the great whore the way of the cross the true way to life i don't give a hoot days of vengeance the stumbling block little i's i love you moms and pops the language of the gods ...spo de o de...hoc way neptune is rex...the ruler with the iron fork satan is the god of the spooks, negroes are the children of the devil a spook sho is a dragg, man...he's a dragg the poor little rich one; the prince of this world lucifer means light bearer jesus said, "let the negro bury the negro" Really hoping for a reprint, or at least a PDF.

I got this: https://www.dustygroove.com/item/978854?cat=books but would love a closer look at the broadsheets, just because of their format. I'm a fan of street-level pamphleteering, especially when it's less than even a pamphlet! I also found a link somewhere that indicates that some library collection has 90+ such items, only 25(?) of which have been published. Maybe next-gen research gets them all out at some point Ra was...multi-directional (no pun intended), often within the same thought I find it beneficial to let it all sink in before drawing any but the most basic conclusions. However, if you are comfortable with the total veracity of "Eurocentric" historical narratives of civilization and with the notion of Abrahamic religions telling The Whole Cosmological Truth, then... don't bother. Otherwise, hey. A lot of people have said a lot of things about a lot of stuff. Past that... archaeology keeps turning up things. Plus, if nothing else, Ra was a hell of an astute commentator on the nature of beauty and how society processes it

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Just looked up that Anthony Branker record...this as interesting as these players get, so....glad they have an audience

Great reviews, limited distribution. But it used to be findable.

Ok, seriously. That's a pretty good record and a GREAT band.

Ok, took a break after #4, gonna try to do the rest now. TRACK FIVE - A James Newton joint? Mingus-ian structure, harmonically. Maybe Nicole Mitchell, but I haven't kept up with her copious output the way I'd like to. But Newton....that guy can play anthing on his insterumen. Oh, it's live! Then I have no idea. Oh, John Carter? Is this off that new/old Roberta Miranda joint? Only listened to it a few times, not enough to really internalize the specifics. I like it. TRACK SIX - a staple of the Bob Steward all-nite jazz show. He'd play it during the day when he moved there, and again when he moved back to night, but it never sounded better than it did at night, before all the scratches got on the record. It's a Texas thin, for sure! TRACK SEVEN - I like it, and could like it more if....if I liked it more. Alto player is good, but...same thing. TRACK EIGHT - Sounds like Mangelsdorff & Heinz Sauer? From Now Jazz Ramwong? I got that on Pacific Jazz back in the day as a cutout, then sold it a decade later, then rebought after a decade after that. Some kids never learn. No, wait, there's a clarinet...no idea. but it has that mid-60s German feel to it for me. TRACK NINE - The unmistakable sound of Stan Getz, the master of melody...who else would play that song? or have a rhythm section of Stanley Cowell, Bob Cranshaw, David Lee, & Mtume? Who else indeed.... TRACK TEN - seems like Hutch, McCoy, Jimmy Heath (on soprano) trying to think of some Columbia superproject, not coming up with anything, though. That bass playing is a bit sloppy, no? Catchy tune...a TV theme, maybe? Or not. Leaves me wanting more, although I'm sure back in the day I would have loved it? TRACK ELEVEN - Damn dude, is that a 78? Sounds like Leon Thomas singing Gospel about Africa? But on a 78? Something's not adding up! Especially since it sounds like a Horace Silver tune! I give up, sounds like a timetrap! Pretty good stuff, thanks! DAMN! Who knew? I need to look for that one!

This #4 thing is fucking me up....it's either a Carla Bley thing that steals the hook from an R&B tune I used to love but have not forgotten, or else it's either Kenny Garrett covering that tune (at first I was thinking Charles McPherson...damn phone speakers... #2 would me a projection of Rahsaan overdubbing massively on a Mingus underpinning, with nobody having their best days. As a "concept", I like it, whoever it is. #3 sounds like one of those Blakey Overall bands. Good alto & piano, but otherwise, if I'm wrong, not gonna change my mind, it is what it is and nothing more. But this #4, I'm doing this one over again, there's something about it that is really familiar. Had to cheat, it was bugging me so much. Ok, shame on me for missing the alto. YIKES! That tune, though...the parts...they're back out there, someplace.

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