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And Herbie doesn't have the bank to sustain Mwandishi for as long as he did, because also "Maiden Voyage" was a bit of hit also, got used in a Yardley commercial or some such. Twice the money is not something to surrender if you don't have to.

Structurally Sound was from Pacific Jazz, produced by Richard Bock, same as Booker 'n' Brass. Booker only got moved to Blue Note post merger, but his contract was originally with PJ. Now, Texbook Tenor, that was another fine, FINE one from BN, I forgot about that one.

How about McCarthy beats Humphrey and then Nixon in 68? Then the world's a better place? Only it's not. The world is never a better place uless/until its inhabitants are and forcibly call the bluffs of those who aren't. I don't know that Blue Note not being sold to Liberty gets us there?

Comprehensive? That's a lot of labels to cover (although I guess there's only, what, 3 left these days?) and a lot of not-so-popular records. I'm still not totally convinced that a post-Roulette Basie set wouldn't be a "winner" of sorts, although how far past Verve (or even if you would go past Verve) could be problematic from a "taste" standpoint, although a more mature listening has gotten me to appreciate how good an arranger that Chico O'Farrill was at taking just any damn tune and making it sounds like a classic Count Basie tune. But how much of an audience does Basie have these days? Or anybody, really? Truthfully, though, I don't know how much their heart is in this any more. If not their heart, their wallet, hell I know what's in my wallet, and it ain't all that much, so them, probably even less at this point. They're probably living paycheck to paycheck just like the rest of us.

And have Rita Hayworth on one arm and Betty Grable on the other. Those were the days!

You mean, like when a new set has only two tracks that you don't already have?

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12. He was 12 years old.

They need a hit. Seriously.

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In Hologrammic Total Immersion Surround Visiosound, I hope. Just not at Slugs, please.

Hey, it's all good while it's all for the fun of it, but, you know, eventually it becomes about Name IT & Claim it, money, provenance, "authority", and all that crap. And that never happens at first, never. But when it does, all the fun is done, because then the money drives the music instead of it going the other way. I mean, Smithsonian, they do good work, but it seems that the selection committee is, rightly, probably, being pretty careful. But no matter what they do, at some point, in their aftermath, a whole bunch of uninformed but (sometimes) well-meaning naifs will start replicating and calling it "authentic" and then, oh my, drop the "Latin" it will indeed be "Jazz". History repeats itself, you know...

Yeah, not that one, the other one.

Steve Jordan close enough?

That's my favorite Booker album. Tunes, playing, BN sound, Bobby Few. And tempos. Those are my favorite tempos on a Booker record. Well, maybe not my only favorite, there's also the Candid record. But, one of two, then. As far as Booker having two solos, sure, yeah, why not, but...ok, then what? Then he plays one of those (allegedly) two solos and...it's all good, right? If not, don't blame him.

Clave is basic, fundamental. Took me a while to fully digest this, and probably still haven't, it not being my native tongue. But playing the music, I came to get some insight into who phrases from the clave and who doesn't. That's when I realized that you don't just play be-bop licks and call it "Latin" anything. It's more subtle (and therefore, deeply rooted) than doing just that. Which is not to say that you can't play bebop licks over a clave beat and have a groovy time, sure you can. But....there is a difference, and once you get into Name It & Claim It Land...people can't be faulted for being protective of what is theirs, because the implications for the future are infinite. Everybody wants what they like, but liking it/sharing it, and taking it away are two different things, right?

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Mylar gets no love these days.

I get the point about the diaspora, but, for starters, Spanish and Portugese speak differently, and that feeds into things like phrasing and timbre. The linguistics of music. For that matter, Cuban Spanish is a whole different language in terms of sound, seriously. You can speak Spanish well enough, but if you've not heard Cuban Spanish...whoa Not to get to dark about it, but also...colonial slavery was practiced differently in North America than in South America, and really different in the United States...but this is not a criminal trial. The African Diaspora is not to be taken lightly and cannot be overestimated in its still-continuing effect on global culture, but...Airto & Chano Pozo...branches of the same tree, perhaps. But you know, there are trees that are individual trees above ground but share a common root system underground. That's how I look at this, different trees with common roots. The OG mentioned cumbia...Columbian-rooted source that became pop music that made its way north to become the dominant for in Mexican pop music for a good while. Hell, I was playing in a cumbia band in 1979, had no idea what it was until Eddie Palmieri did that thing on his Columbia record, and then I had to start digging. But to be honest, looking at Cumbia as "African Diaspora" might take more convincing research than what I've did. It's a trifecta - Indigenous people, Diaspora people, and colonia travelers, all ending up putting down roots. And THEN the games began. Point just being....language (aural), regional histories (over the centuries), cultural clashes and meldings, all that extra-musical stuff that forges the musical end results, "Latin Jazz" is at best an umbrella term, and as generally used today, I think it was more interesting - for the most part - before it became all codified and shit. Name it and claim it, if you know what I mean. It's a Grammy category now!

Can't recall the last time I bought anything (music) off of eBay. Discogs is where I look first. The whole auction thing just got tired to me. It got to be a spectacle, begging almost sometimes. Fuck begging. Feet, knees, etc.

Ok, one guy says: I would have much preferred buying an all analog LP version of the set. "All analog"...seriously? I've got those, sounds like Mark Stryker does too, a bunch of older people do. They're called records made before digital mastering was a thing. Mosaic is not a record store. Better get to crate-diggin', fool.

Is Brazilian the same as Latin?

Maybe need a different/new category for Audacious?

I don't get it...has vinyl/analog developed superpowers to deliver all this hi-res digital data better than a digital format? Did I miss that issue?

OMG, people are clamoring for vinyl on the Mosaic page. Excuse me while I find my glasses, I'm going to spend some time reading my audio book.