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"tepid" was a joke about the Mosaic sound quality. somebody found them tepid...sure, I guess. I was too busy listening to the music to notice that. Didn't seem at all tepid to me, but you know me, I ain't got no kind of ears.

Lots of people on this record...and there they all are, including Dianne Reeves, she's in there somewhere, I think. But I don't know...

I still enjoy those tepid Mosaic LPs, actually. They sound like Blue Note LPs to me, only I was more careful with my Mosaics (and I got them new). But didn't one (or two?) of the CDs pick up some alternates that the Mosaic missed, something like that? Also...if you really want to go back and do BN Tina Brook on vinyl, you're gonna have to add them Jimmy Smith records, especially The Sermon, which is about as stoneclassicdefinitive Tina Brooks as there is.

Spent yesterday bingeing out The Irregulars, a new Netflix series. Very surprised that I bought in after the second episode, there's things here that would ordinarily turn me off) but the Sherlock Holmes frame that the story is built on...I'm always a sucker for a good Holmes consideration. The cast is young and gifted, the scripts tight, and the supernatural element never took precedence over the characters. As with any good Holmes reimaging, the story speaks to contemporary conditions in period trappings, and this one speaks clearly and strongly. 8 episodes, all around 50 minutes, so we were able to start at breakfast, and were finished in time for an early supper. A very easy watch, and a day well spent, imo.

Forever is a long time....but it's here to stay, like flu (finally, it IS like flu in one way!), and I trust vaccine science to keep pace. But too many unvaccinated people running wild...that only goes one way, we're not going to defy gravity or anything like that. But I got my shots, have waited my two weeks, and now feel free to go out to selected spots, wearing that mask, and getting back inside once done. Long way to go on this one...stil...

Mona Lisa Lisa Lisa Lisa Leslie

Not sure if that's a woman or an arm on a drum stool, but what is that on the side of Marable's face?

The Mosaic set is a beautiful, wonderful document from the time we're doing Beautiful, wonderful. documents was something that they did better than anybody else.

Sonny Wilson on DeeGee Records (and THERE' S a Mosaic set that yswecnhz plz? NO!). sonny wilson = Jackie Wilson.

What Jackie Wilson REALLY said was, ok, I'm just doing my thing, working hard for the people, and THEN they turned the lights up and all these white chicks swarmed in and it IMMEDIATELY was good to them, so good that they had to send out these white guys to run interference so I didn't killed, and that worked well enough, but, really, it was too late, and they cancelled Shindig anyway so hell, you know, just another gig as far as I was concerned. No matter where I turn, I'm getting fucked over. So write THAT song Van.

RIP to both Larry McMurtry and Leon Hale, who I recall reading as a pre-teen in the Houston Post, 1965-66. something about his picture in his columns that caught my eye, he looked Houston Goofy, if that makes any sense to a post-Space Race reality paradigm, and he wrote with such color and simplicity, yet deep interest, that even a kid couldn't help but get pulled into it. Those were a better breed of Texans, those were.

and as amply noticed in the comments, check out it getting good to Darlene!

The OG, from 1956(!), with a meaningful solo by Al Sears (the longer I listen, the more meanigful Al Sears sounds to me. Quirky, but meaningful). NO idea that this was the original - or that there even was an original before Millie Smalls), but the story here is...typical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Boy_Lollipop but check it out, besides Sears, Leroy Kirkland and Panama Francis. No bass, not needed and Panama Francis that guy,,,there's a whole code between R&B and jazz that...you talk about a dystopian future jazz, when that code gets lost, then yeah, dystopian. And dammit, we are SO about to pass the point of no return on that one. But oh well about that. Thing is, the code is not secret, you almost have intentionally NOT hear it, but...it is what it is, and it means what it means. Nevertheless, Millie Smalls, Ernest Raglin, they spoke the code. so here, it would be wrong to post about this without including this: MILLIE SHOW!!!

Sounds like a good $5.98 (or less) record, I'll look for it! But this raises the question - did Dorough ever play tenor? Or any saxophone? Or flute? Or was recorder his first instrument?

How much did they charge you for that extra "l"?

Stormy Dennis Yost Dannis Hackney

What's up with that recorder band? Are they all renaisannce-y or something else altogether? Not that far removed from a flute ensemble...

And "jazz" is not helping things any!!!!

That cartoon reminds me of Tom Tomorrow, minus the voice bubbles. That's a compliment, btw.

Yeah, seems that way, doesn't it... Like, I went to get the CD of the latest Tyshawn Sorey record and there wasn't one, period. At least not on Bandcamp. My latest area of exploration is the New Amsterdam label, and of that stuff, if there's CDs at all, they don't last long. Try finding the Ashley Bathgate CD at a friendly after-market price...carpe diem like a mo on that stuff if you wasn't a CD. OTOH, I am going to continue to check out "classical" music, and on that, there's so much I don't have in any form, or any good form, that a highest possible quality fidelity (in the true, not the stunt sense) experience would be appreciated. But as far as other stuff...yeah, not really interested...time is limited, so you gotta budget that time wisely. I really dug in deep to "a lot" (lol, really, what is a "lot" when it comes to music vs time?) of things over the years and I still have those records handy when that itch needs to be scratched (which it often enough does). I guess when/ if the time comes, it will come down to price, like, if a good SACD player costs about the same as a good CD player, yeah, why not get the additional flexibility for the future? I just hope that "the future" involves quality-ish components at affordable prices...I'll be damned if I 'm going back to vinyl as a medium for new music, and if disc-digital paradigm is relegated to the "Radio Shack or Millionaire and nothing in between" camp....fuck it, I'll just break out the cassettes and play them until they all break and then...live on YouTube. But frankly, deaths might be a better option! But as soon as I say that, I think of my granddaughter...shouldn't say stuff like that. Ok, this - I hope I live long enough for all the hipsters who are buying $50 LPs to scratch them up so much that they say, oh, we didn't have this problem with CDs, vinyl's a pain in the ass, and then say, but wait...physical objects are cool AND oh what about this SACD thing, I hear sounds EVEN BETTER than vinyl! And then, yeah, that Greg guy gets vindicated at last. A plethora of options become available to schmucks like me who just want to play their records. People who don't want to do the work of inconvenience will always get offered options to separate them from their money!

Ten years, wow... that's a decade worth of time...ten years ago I was only 55...do I even have another decade in front of me to make replacing a CD player a sensible consideration?

For new releases, or just back catalog? I remember when there was a lot of aggressive pimping going on for the format for a couple of years ago, that Greg guy in particular, making it a moral imperative or something, and then it seemed to stop. I'm starting to have a hard time finding regular CDs for new musics, much less SACDs, were I to want them, so what are they making for today's new release market? Serious question, as I'll probably be replacing my CD player in the next few years, so getting a head start on the scouting then.

Do they still make SACDs?

Future?