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What is catching my ear in the most surprising way is the guitarists. Not sure when Lion finally "gave in" to electric guitars (or why), but there's some playing here that is really catching my ear.

Ok, screw it, I'm buying this thing. the S&H is more than the record, but it's still about the same as a generously gluttonous "by the pound" salad from what was the work cafeteria, when we worked in the office (apparently garbanzo beans are some heavy fuckers, who knew?), which we will do again, dammit, I'd rather have a Charles Lloyd 45, my wife can make me the same salad for a lot less than that, as could I except that I'm lazy when it comes to things like that. She loves it, and, by the same token, will probably hate this 45, so, symbiosis, right?

Yeah, hunting on the internet is a real thing, if you want it to be.

So it's your neck. Get a known quantity of a surgeon/clinic, follow all (ALL!) post-op instructions, and you should be fine

Actually...rhetorical safety valve vs inciting actual death-inducing behaviors...you tell me which is more harmful. No absolutes on any of this outside of contexts. And looks like for all of Shepp's and Gayle's "discourses", things are still waiting to change, whereas, how many dead people from COVID-denialism? How about a damn near violent overthrow of the US Government (and next time they're coming with guns, they say!? This false equivalency stuff is a runaway train of jet-fuled suicide, there's some context for your ass.

Where there's a need is in QC work for closed-captioning services, especially with older movies and shows where the captioners only use their ears and what they think they hear with no context about time and vocabulary to realize that, hey, mostly old people are watching your work, and they will all know how full of shit and ludicrous what you put up there is. That's where there's a need, but I doubt there's a market...but, just sayin'...

Yeah, it says taht. But you go here: https://concord.com/labels/milestone-records/ and it tells you to go here: https://craftrecordings.com/ and I don't see shit there. But wait, there's this! https://craftrecordings.com/products/mccoy-tyner-sahara-lp?_pos=1&_sid=d50a2724f&_ss=r and there WAS this: https://craftrecordings.com/collections/vinyl/products/joe-henderson-alice-coltrane-the-elements-180g-lp other than that, bupkis. Fuck thee clowns. And fuck the scamdorrans too. I will own the responsibility for getting this music, and I will not be taken for a chump in so doing. I will neither screw nor be screwed in the process. One McCoy Tyner record, and a $20+ LP to boot. Just how many gullible hipsters (especially gullible white hipster - cf all those Chet Baker records) are there in this world, anyway? Rhetorical question, please nobody try to answer.

Find some way to leverage your skill/contacts and become a "consultant". I see people doing that and laugh at how easy it is for them to pull that off. A big selling point is, apparently, that you work as a contractor, so they don't ahve to pay benefits. Also, I think?, sorry that your decision to retire was not voluntary. I'm 65.5 and wanting to go until I'm 67, but a severance package, under current company policies, would not hurt my feelings one bit, and would almost get me there anyway. Knock on wood...I'm looking very much forward to having my time back to myself, but am totally paranoid about running out of moeny, becuase I'm the type of guy that should probably be dead in about 5-6 years but will probably live for 20 year past that. And my wife's got the constitution of a Clydesdale. Just my luck...

And Abbey Lincoln thought that The Beatles were an orchestrated conspiracy to kill jazz. She was right about the "orchestrated conspiracy" part (for what is a mega-successful publicity/mega-marketing scheme if not exactly that?), but to kill jazz...probably not. Although I doubt anybody involved was shedding any tears as the audiences dried up. People are generally not that thoughtful, they just want their money wherever they can get it. Oddly enough tho...I read an interview where Barry Harris alleges that one time Bird pissed off/insulted some millionaire who told him hey, fuck you Charlie Parker, you wait and see, I am going to spend the rest of my life killing jazz, you just wait and see, and then per Barry Harris, hey, it worked, because jazz died. You hear all kinds of shit from all kinds of people, and how they get from Point A to Point D....sometimes Point B is kinda wobbly, and point C is moreso, if it exists at all.

That was the album he was touring with the first time I saw him. His band, too, not a local pickup group. La Bastille in Houston (RIP). Yes, I saw Richard Wyands about a month after graduating high school! And had no idea who hey was, except that he was in Kennyy Burrell's band. And I remembered the name, couldn't do that with any of the others, though. Return with us now to the golden days of yesteryear etc. Burrell's 70s Fantasy output is all strong, and apart from the Ellington sides, all of a piece. I shudder to think about how all 5 (minus the Ellington records) are all going to come to market, but legit pop labels have no problem packaging 5 LPs of 30-40 minute (or less!) duration into 5 CDs with original album packaging and seeing them for enough to get by on. He probably played better "jazz" before and after, but that run from Argo/Cadet-CTI-Verve-Fantasy made for better records (except maybe Verve, but Creed Taylor did him right, finally, on CTI). If there was to be a next-gen Mosaic, one that was less concerned about the old traditions than the new, developing ones, that would make for a good steamer trunk, especially if you start at Columbia (and maybe you should!). Just very...listenable records for most all levels of audience.

Had a family member who also had a cervical fusion operation (quite recently), also with great success.

yeah, I had dabbled and picked up some pieces over the years, but just decided to go all in for a little bit, kinda get a fuller immersion experience. What it has done/is doing is reconfirming my foundational faith belief that Sidney Bechet was every bit the equal of Louis Armstrong except, you know, Bechet carried a knife and wasn't bashful about it. Luis sang a song about a guy named Mack, and he probably did too, at least for a while, but he knew enough to not let on to that as far as the general public could tell. Bechet just did not give a damn, did NOT give a damn. I love Sidney Bechet, now more than ever. Past that, some familiar stuff, but even more unfamiliar, and it's pretty much all excellent or better. Kinda reminds me of what drew me to jazz in the first place, maybe not this exact music, but the spirit. Times change, and our future cannot be our past, but...as things change and we change with them, it's good to remember what they're changing from as well as recognize what they're changing to. This exuberant fuquitousness of lifejoy should never be lost from this music, or any music, really. That's not a good change, that one. Wear your condoms, wear your masks, it has to be done, but keep your mind & soul naked and free - and carry a knife up in there with them. You're gonna need it!

OH my goodnesssweetjesus oh MY!!!!

He's like Steve Coleman only without the situational ambiguity/ambivalence!

Oh, peaches are in another class altogether!

Separate question - is Craft now the brand name that is going to be handling Concord's jazz/other catalog? What we used to think of as Fantasy/OJC/Etc? and maybe even a bit more? But not Concord itself? CRAFT RECORDINGS FANIA RECORDS FANTASY RECORDS NITRO RECORDS PRESTIGE RECORDS RIVERSIDE RECORDS SPECIALTY RECORDS STAX RECORDS TELARC RECORDS SAVOY RECORDS VANGUARD RECORDS VARÈSE SARABANDE but NOT Milestone?

Except in a pie or other baked item with a crust. Then again, can't say that I've ever been offered the option. And I'll generally turn down neither. But all things being equal, make mine pear, please. What say YOU??????????

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1st Ballot Album Cver HOF, imo. The LT-series covers...you either love e'm or else you hate 'em, and if you hate 'em, you are WRONG!!!!

I finally went back into a HPB the other Saturday, first time in over a year, and the supply was really depressing. They had obviously sold some stuff during the Covid Peak, but if they took in a lot of inventory....small sample size, and looking to be disproved as outward excursions return to normalcy. What I really need is for some sociopathic germophobic big-collection person to walk up one day and think, hey, I breathed on all these records, I might be breeding a new variant, I better get these outta here. I know, HALF PRICE!!!!

I gets a little wonky, some of it was studio/band performances with charts, some of it Konitz just sitting in at the Haig and either having the numbers to himself or else Bock editing out all but. I guess it would come down to personal preference...and cost. I gpot that PJ 4CD set for a little under $50.00, so good value for me. Maybe not everybody wants the Koniz & Ross dates (but the Ross is really above-average, imo), so...we have options! But don't miss those Fantasy sessions! I went fo years thinking they were lesser because of this stupid album cover: like, ok, what kind of back lot knock off crap is THIS? opps! My bad!

I don't "enjoy" the rituals, never have (except for when I smoked a lot of weed and got into staring at covers and watching labels rotate - Capitol Swirl 45s were dangerous in that regard - but that was a stoned thing, not a music thing)...but I do very much enjoy the artwork, full size, and the smells as well, as long as they aren't that of must...there's music in those senses as well as the auditory ones. One label I keep an eye on for new releases is New Amsterdam (niche music, but often very good), and I notice that more and more, their new releases are download only. There's a new record featuring Roomful Of Teeth that is DL only, and...I'll probably do it, but not right away. Just not feeling the love for getting a new record like that as the only option. Kinda feels like I'm being asked to work the pressing plant and THEN take the record home. But in the end....music.

Finally, the GNP record, the last one they made before the breakup, is now most readily found here: The tent stuff is non-essential for anybody's solos, but the writing is, as you might expect, full of enjoyments. The only quibble I would have about that is that it leaves out the cuts where Konitz sat in...but those are also available separately on https://www.discogs.com/Lee-Konitz-The-Gerry-Mulligan-Quartet-Konitz-Meets-Mulligan/release/3575456 One way or another, it's essential music, imo. Also want to shout out to Larry Bunker on these dates. The way he took over from Chico and found his own shading of that very distinct style is pretty impressive, imo. Those who only know him as an LA studio player, ...he was here first!

For the Fantasy material (which in some ways is more "important", there's this OJC CD: The band is associated with Pacific Jazz, but they recorded for Fantasy first, and that's also where "My Funny Valentine" ws, the hit that put them on the map. Also, some of the Fantasy sessions used this really intense reverb that plays well to both Chico Hamilton and Mulligna's bari on the low end of the writing. The Chubby Jackson material that fills out the CD is...historically important, I suppose. But the Mulligan stuff is where the action is, imo.

Ok...there was a nice 4 CD set of the PJ material that might be overkill for you, because it's all PJ Mulligan/Baker. But it's pretty much all good except for the "reunion" stuff, which is kinda anti-climactic. https://www.discogs.com/Gerry-Mulligan-The-Complete-Pacific-Jazz-Recordings-Of-The-Gerry-Mulligan-Quartet-With-Chet-Baker/release/2550180 don't sweat the collaborations" disc, it's a bunch of prime Lee Konitz, and then a better-than-average Annie Ross date. Shop around, there's reasonable prices to be had.