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It's real easy to flag a spammer, and once flagged...but 11,000 is a bigassbuttload to do anything with more or less at once. I also wonder if a legitimate user from 2016 would still give a damn in 2025. If it was me and all of a sudden I got an approval notice 9 years after the fact, I would probably feel more than a little fuquitous about it. Or else I might think that I was being spammed. So I think that Dan's idea is in fact a good one and a practical one.

I do love Ernie Henry!

Same. Good work continues to be done!

Look, if an artist can do what a paid model would otherwise do, that's money saved.

ECM is darker and deeper than this imo. Certainly more mature, adult. Windham Hill maybe. I have not been following this guy at all. The things I'd heard were not in the least encouraging.

Checking that one out as we speak. Not bad, very sincere. But it's telling me a story to which I'm afraid I cannot really relate. I'm old and the notion of "jazz" today is often one that feels alien to me. But oh well about that. The piano playing itself is pretty frilly. Frictionless. And I need some friction in my life. Not conflict, just friction. Friction is what makes things stick. This music is very pleasant, but it ain't sticking. Sorry, but this still sounds like children's music. Maybe as he ages his music will follow suit. Or not. None of my concern one way or the other

Yuja Wang...I had 3rd row center seats for a concert she did here. Her playing was like a machine gun, which was an interesting approach, ultimate valid as a personal interpretation. But initially arresting. But what was really arresting was how she was able to maneuver that dress so the obviously any-second-now crotchflash never occurred. Piano is not all that she has practiced!

Year before last was my first time making it. Our daughter has moved up there so that cuts the expense considerably! I think it's a great festival, and all free, hey.. I don't know that KG has made a record that shows him at full power in guite a while. But live...yeah!

He definitely left a mark. RIP and full tributations.

No need for details, but the poem/,recitation of the male vocal rings true to various life experiences I've had l. Yes it's horrible, yes it ends in a tragic murder. But Emmit still wins because he DENIES the murderers their evil desire. And believe me, denying people like that the satisfaction of bending that knee...it ain't a legal triumph, but in the battle for your soul - THEY LOSE. You can never let them win.

Also note that THAT Young Lions record was released thru Elektra-Musician, which was under the aegis of Bruce Lundvall, whereas post-Lundvall Columbia jazz had mostly fallen to George Butler, who was being picked off by the Crouch/Etc. crowd. The wounds are old, and not yet totally healed.

It was a time when marketing had yet to be finalized. You can see that decisions were made, and here we are.

I thought it was a great set, made more great by the active engagement of the audience. It indeed felt like church more than a few times!

That's more like it!

You mean on CD or on LP? In the LP days, only Complete Communion stayed readily available IIRC. I remember the other two being "finds" when I did find them. When was the Don Cherry Mosaic released?

Blessie Smock - Allow Me My Joy!!!

I don't do social media so I have to ask - why was he removed in the first place?

I like the whole thing, musically and visually. That pair was special for a lot of the time before it soured Bottom line for me - if your body language is telling me you swing, I believe you. And if you can do that while doing an "act", you win!

I don't pay attention to :critics" anymore, but I keep hearing about them anyway, mostly thru advertisements for records or gigs. That's definitely "hype". And I mean, I just don't care. Their world is not my world, and I'm sure that we're both ok with that. But - I think my vision of the world heading towards total real hell with increasingly alarming acceleration is more "real" than theirs' of nirvanic wonder and awe. Now, for my granddaughter's sake I hope and pray that they're right. But as they say, hope is not a strategy, Wayne could write "Lester Left Town" and Mingus "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" because they knew Lester. Literally knew him, ran into him on the street, heard him play in clubs, talked with him, drank with him, all of that. I hope that somebody who did the same with Wayne will do the same, but I don't know that something like "Wayne's On The Astral Plane Now" is going to work as nightclub music (Wayne's own phrase, remember). I would like to hear the music of somebody who watched movies with Wayne deal with that information, supposedly that was a BIG part of Wayne's life esthetic. And people like Wayne and Herbie, people who were well-versed in "modern classical music", yes, you can/should definitely do that, but to balance that with nightclub music...there's gotta be real nightclubs, ranging from swank joints to JOINT joints, but not playing joints at all...that's an essential ingredient being removed from the recipe for which no equivalent substitute has been found, at least not for my palate. Ultimately though, what I'm missing is stuff that is gone and ain't coming back.

Those guys gigged. Pretty much everybody could get some kind of gig. And pretty much everybody did the work in the woodshed AND on the bandstand. A broader set of experiences will give you a broader perspective on life, and therefore on music. Even if your were in a relatively small subset of the population, playing with people in the same room as other people with whom you are not playing is just a fundamentally different type of life experience. I don't think this is particularly complicated, but I guess the fact that being a "young jazz musician" today mostly means being a different type of human than it used to upsets a lot of people and their economies.