JSngry

Only three previously unissued alternates...but only 5 CDs = $85.00...sounds like a Last Change decisioning for me...who is doing the notes? A really good book could persuade me to jump sooner. A basic track-bytrack color commentary won't do it...tell me more about Joe Henderson, not Joe Henderson's records, I already know about those. Still....really not a particularly inspiring set choice.

Leon Huff Puffy Leslie Ann Downe

Yeah, I was just about to say something about between delmark and Nessa there's probably several handfuls of qualifiers.

Still, not all that many, relatively speaking. But Farmer might not have been one to naturally allign with the "repertory company" approach once getting away from it at Prestige? Farmer certainly kept busy, just not with a lot of those type records.

Dave Pell Mel Powell Kings of Comedy

Not you, the summation of the think piece(s).

A debut band LP, a debut label (but not Debut label!) LP, jazz in content, pop in result (or is it the other way around?

Dizzy Gillespie Pee Wee Reese Herman Lubinsky

nothing like the blue notes that followed.

Well, for real, my dad DID get me that toy service station (although maybe not for Christmas, I think as a company employee he might have gotten dibs to a pre-seasonal supply), and it was labor intensive. It came with, as you see, a lot of minutiae, and damn near ALL of it had to have stickers/decals applied or else it would just be blank plastic. For $3.50 ($31.32 in today's dollars), I guess maybe a 5 year old wouldn't have to work so hard, but then again, you know, we had to dial our phone calls and actually know how math worked, so a little struggle was ok, it's not struggle if you don't know any better, it's just work, period. But that Esso shit, hey, totally true. Them was some low-life creeperillos. I hate to see Pops' legacy soiled by that exploitative relationship...Joe Gasier and the Rockefellers, Illuminati running jazz, and you know how they do - once they think they have your soul for a minute, they think they have it forever. Pops knew better, though.

Found that one a while back in a totally random/lucky browse in a suburban Half-Price, somehow a buttload full of Brazilian LPs - not America issues either, either, OG label stuff - had ended up in the "International" section there. A totally incongruous find, so carpe diem, right? The thing on that record that really trips me out, to this day, is the one where he plays around with the recording of the soccer announcer. That is just...genius. And we should call it what it is - sampling. It's not a dirty word! Pascoal is somebody to whom I have learned to never pass over. But, Pascoal-less and ordered pre-dawn this AM was John Lewis & Mirjana Lewis _______________ CD Chess Game Part 1 -- Based On JS Bach's The Goldberg Variations John Lewis & Mirjana Lewis _______________ CD Chess Game Part 2 -- Based On JS Bach's The Goldberg Variations Carter/Schuller/Fine _____________________ LP Eight Etudes & A Fantasy For Woodwind Quartet/Woodwind Quintet/Partita For Wind Quintet -- New York Woodwind Quintet Carter/Shapero ___________________________ LP Sonata For Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord/String Quartet No 1 -- Anabel Brieff/Josef Marx/Lorin Bernsohn/Robert Conant/Robert Koff/Paul Bellam/Walter Trampler/Charles McCracken Porter/Carter ____________________________ LP String Quartet No 8/Eight Etudes & A Fantasy For Woodwind Quartet -- Stanley Quartet/New York Woodwind Quintet

The Chanels Coco Crisp Chocolate Armenteros

Last I checked, Pharoah Sanders was still alive? And, you know, what's the point of having a long career if you can't do something with it? What's the desired outcome? Retirement? Obscurity? Death? The latter is probably preferable to the vulture types who love to "rediscover" dead people so they can claim the cachet of "ownership/curatorship" without the inconvenience of the real person getting in the way., you know, here, let me tell you about the tragic tale of a great talent who died alone and forgotten to all but a handfull, most of whom are also dead now, so, here, let ME tell you all about it. Hell, I hope that Pharoah lives to be 100, has bigger and bigger hit records, and dies a worldwide, household name.

Holograms. They're the whole package.

I read it on my phone, which I carry with me everywhere.

That's a start.

Your sample size being?

Zach Ertz Bill Utz Ray Wetzel

I passed on the Live RCA/Columbia set, but was relieved when that store had the Decca All-Stars set a few weeks ago. That was one I couldn't afford back in the day. So, come onna my house. And I did get the Decca big band at Last Call, because...the pull pulled harder than I could resist. But live Louis? My god, they got records of him playing live at Esso stations all across the country. NEW records! And I can't have those, my dad was a proud employee of The Texas Company, those Rockefellers....not our type at all. They'd lie about who they were, "Esso", "Humble", just ANY kind of name to suck your wallet dry. No, The Texas company did righ, you COULD trust your car to that man that wore THAT star, not the sherriff, you could at best only sometimes trust him, No, the big, bright, TEXACO star. Look, see that one little boy down there? The one NOT trying to go into the bathroom (CERTIFIED clean, btw!), but the one ready to just break the motherfucking door down RIGHT NOW because you know there's an Esso guy in there pissing all over the walls, that's the kind of lowlifes those Esso people were, wallpissers all, each and every one? That's me, Little Jimmy S. I knew that station, both real and toyish, inside and out, literally. No room for Esso on THIS kid's floor house. Sorry, Pops, not your fault.

This is interesting... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_Man_(composition) Hancock's first version was released as a grooving hard bop record, and featured improvisations by Freddie Hubbard and Dexter Gordon.[1] A single reached the Top 100 of the pop chart. So it looks like the song/record was already making waves, and Mongo's version is what got them to crash onto the shore. It is a catchy tune!

The Yankee Clipper The Barber of Seville Edward Scissorhands

Hey, id t works for you, let it work. But yeah, a stereo sound source is only going to have two cahnnels. You can have as many speakers for them to come out of as you like, but you're only going to have two channels of sound to play with.

somebody else can have that record.

Vic Chesnutt The Friars Club Mel Torme

Is "out of our constrictions" an overt George Clinton reference?