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hmmmm....no thanks?

Well, that and Stella Levitt's cap, maybe? Or maybe not?

The JJ....it sounds to me like what a lot of late-60s "Lab Bands" (including THE Lab Band) were trying to do...a lot of fancy writing, no really distinctive soloists (or if there were, they were incidental to the effort)...their role model was always Kenton, and Kenton only went so far, but THIS record, this is what could be done by going furhter and trying ahrder...and doing better. Much of it sounds like "soundtrack" music to me, but...so be it. It's just so damn well written. And then played the way that type thing should be played, perfectly. And JJ was always a writer. Always.

So there's more....hmmmmmmmmmm......

One of the more fully realized lives we'll be blessed to have witnessed and shared. RIP, and let THAT be a lesson to us all.

So Captain Marvel band was the first, right, and then RTF? Seems that's what I remember?

Well, yes, of course. But quite apart from that, the reason this thread spent time in Miscellaneous Music was, I think, entirely my fault. GOM's OG thread started here, in Artists, and then at some point a few hours in pglbook started a new RIP thread in Miscellaneous Music. So when I tried to merge his post into this one, the OG thread, to eliminate a duplication of threading, I think I bimboppled it and did it the wrong way, merged the OG thread into his. When you merge threads, chronology of posts stays the same, so I saw his at the (then) end of the thread and assumed, quite erroneously, that I had done it right. Obviously I had not. It was not until the AM, when I looked at the Artists thread here for more Corea Convo taht I saw that the thread wasn't where it was supposed to be and said oh shit, did I fuck this up, i think i did. So I fixed what I have to assume was my own error.Moving a thread is easy, merging one, not so much, at least not for me, the logic is counterintuitive for me for some reason. Anyway, the thread is back where it started, and definitely where it belongs. Apologies to the OP and the artistic community at large for the quite unintentional - and definitely unfortunate - slight.

on the one hand...this type of thing has kinda turned me off for about as long as I got over it (and that was a loooong time ago). on the other hand....DAMN. It will never be better than this, not for this type of thing. Writing/playing, this will be as good as this type of thing gets. Period. Either way, quite apart from what I do or do not like, there is nothing cheap and/or trivial about this music. If you don't like it, that's your business. But if you don't respect the hell out of it, then you are just plain wrong about that. Sorry.

Look at everybody mentioned on that cover, and marvel at how all that music was alive and happening at the same time. And now, don't be surprised that they're all dead now, just marvel at how they were all playing at the same time, none of them the same, none of them re-creative, all of them viable, and all of them being covered in the same magazine. People wonder why I got so little tolerance for so much of this bullshit happening today, consider THAT coming in your mailbox every two weeks and just lapping it up thinking it was always going to be like that.., hey.

Yes, pretty sure I recall that Caught In The Act review (and totally sure that the issue is in my closet, somewhere...who was on the cover?)...remind me again, was the OG RTF band before or after the Getz Captain Marvel band (with Tony on drums)? After, right? The Getz band was the first fruit from the seeds of those tunes, right? This one? Captain Marvel is one damn good record...

Just got back from my 1st shot and I have to say, this was the most organized thing I've been involved in...damn near forever. It was like Disney, only free. Baylor Scott-White deserves some kind of global citation for getting this together like this, both for logistics and for execution. A-team at every level, I must say, even down to the parking garage directions (human and signages). 2nd dose was scheduled while signing in for the first. Could not be easier. The line was long-ish) but it literally did not stop moving. This is what you want to see, not just for yourself, but for everybody. This shit is working.

oh my...

https://www.discogs.com/Billy-Harper-Capra-Black/release/772625 Click on the "more images" thing under the cover image. Discogs is very good/useful for looking up album covers (front and back) as well as label variations and stuff. I use it more fore research than I do buying, and I don't exactly avoid buying there, if you know what I mean. Also, don't sleep on Cobham pre-Mahavishnu. Nothing there you need to drop everything and run to get, but he left a trail. and then there was Dreams...

!!!!!

That was where it began, and to there it has been restored. I think I know what happened, threads might have been merged in reverse, but am not sure. No matter, fixed.

w/Dewey Redman, Sirone, and, of course, Errol Parker.

I revisited the two Piano Improvisations ECM records a few months ago and...still fresh, often startling. Fully focused, open on all sides. Not very many people get there. No matter what came after (and so many...different things did...) I doubt that he ever went anywhere not knowing that he still had that in his pocket any time he wanted it. That's the hope, not just for him but for everybody who makes decisions.

Wow, that was quite the ride!

What I like about that one is how Stitt reflexively kicks it up a notch on the cuts with Ricky Ford. Stitt was a battler to the end, and quite possibly by nature.

I would bite on a cassette, but never on an 8-Track. Tried those for a quick minute when you could get them in Half-Price for, like, a quarter each, and...let's just say that they weren't built for the long haul, the 8-Tracks weren't. Buy those things at your own risk!

This is Red Box for records, only one-way.

I think it was Clark Terry who started using the Flintstone's theme as a head to play Rhythm changes.