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Search? Nobody told me there would be work, much less a test.

Jumbo Jesus, bigger than Elvis and Glen Miller combined!

Well, then, it should be truly free. Are they giving it away? Can I just go back my car up and load it into the trunk, like Goodwill in reverse?

The Zwed bio made reference to a lot of the literature from around this time, hope this expounds even further. Maybe it's online someplace these days, some of it...I know that when I went to the Black Images book store in Dallas just to see what was on the shelf...not much if anything. But it's important to know about this stuff, and, as possible, know it. So, here's, again, to hope.

Like Jesus, only bigger.

Same!

https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/how-we-ll-forget-john-lennon/

People say, why you keep them old records, it's all on the internests, and sure, as long as they want it to be. And i do not have 100% confidence that they always will.

Sugar Hill? Say it san't so, Sylvia! Our American heritage is being robbed from us. Again.

not THAT kind of player! Playa, to use the contemporaneous spelling.

Carl Jefferson actually did pretty well, got the product out there, get it into the hands of the radios & press people who were disposed towards his product, they did really well. Not sure why he sold (or whatever he did to/with it) to Norman Lear, but my guess would be a combination of getting out while it was still fun and just getting old and wanting to retire. There was a certain type of jazz fan who loived for that label, just as some did for Blue Note or any other "cult" label. I can tell you, there was no shortage of Concord records in the stores and on the radios. That label was built up and out very well, as an indie. And then, hey, make the money, take the money. And then run!

yeah, that label is often overlloked in terms of hitmakers. The Chordettes!

My favorite Patton BN, hands-down. Total band action, not "solos + band"!

Are you into Arthur Prysock at all?

All of it, or just his stuff? That would/should mean that he owns the Candid catalog? Or did Bleyer sell that off before, seems like Alan Bates got in that mix when CD time came?

and Nessa.

Oh god, i envy anybody who has time and space to sit down and actually wear real headphones....best I get is an occasion demand to use earbuds on the phone/discman. Otherwise, it's just "turn it down, I can't hear the TV back here" and I'm like, if I do that, then I can't hear the record player out here while I'm working....what are you doing, by the way, retired person? Besides, hearing's going anyway, so headphones....thrill now to the memories of yesteryear, etc.

When do we get a "Plays For Players" series? For when everybody who thought they had a lover found out that they had just been getting gamed? Or knew all along that they were gaming?

I believe today's term is "influencer"? Or is it ineffectual to pursue a dead body with a living word?

I envy you guys having a space where it matters. My shit these days just plays out into the room and by the time it gets to me, it's all mono of some sort.

There was a Tiny Desk Concert that I started a thread about a year or so ago....the sameyness was obvious, but the ban was just throwing himself ALL into it, so it worked for me. none of this post-modern "detatchemnt" or anything, that space was fully occupied and totally kinetic. Again, his own records....yes, but not really over the long haul, imo. But in spots, hell yeah.

Donny McCaslin has played some good stuff on some Monday Michiru records. I find his solo work to be kinda same-y in terms of solo vocabulary and structure, but it's a not-unattractive same-y. But put him on a Monday Michiru record with fixed confines, he's magnificent. Oh yeah, he worked with Bowie at the end too, did great work there. some jazz players are better in non-jazz contexts.

Would the "declining assets" game actually incentivize locking up the catalogs from market availability? Like,, they're not going to let any of this out because if they did, it might increase value? Or is that too simplistic?

Access to capital is also important, to have a support system in place to create viable working outlets for people who do not want to play that game, either as producers or players. I think it's a sad comment on the species that there has not been a natural migration of capital to such a model/models. I'm sure people are trying, but....try harder. Don't expect "the system" to change. Make your own system, hard as it may be, And at some point, confront this - do you want to do good work, do you want to be famous, or is there no difference for you? If there's no difference, hey, you have a path forward already.