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I gave up on them years ago. Used to be you could pay on a per-item basis (fair enough, right!), then you had to subscribe (all or nothing, BOO!!!!) to do ANYTHING, so i said fuck 'em and haven't been back for years. Before that, though, I got (paid for) two memorable Newport gigs - Cecil Taylor with Bill Barron, and Maynard with Wayne Shorter. Both are exceptional, and recommended For the Maynard, don't short yourself by falling into the "oh, Maynard Ferguson, high note trumpet, yuck" bullshit. That didn't come for many decades later. Not saying there aren't high notes, there are (of course there are), but so, so SO much more. As for Cecil w/Bill Barron...speaks for itself. Can't wait for that Bill Barron Mosaic! Oh yeah, there's a Max thing from the late 1960s, with Odean Pope on tenor. He's a bit unformed yet, but hey, it's still Odean. I'm wanting to say that the files I got were FLAC. Cost a few pennies more, but just a few. Don't quote me on that, though.

That's the scary part of it...most all of us start to slip a little in some cognitive functions as we age (the ones who don't are to be feared like gods!), but it's really hard to tell when normal slippage devolves into true Dementia/Alzheimer's. Just because you space out on shit sometimes doesn't mean that you're losing your shit. But it doesn't mean you're not. And if you're adopted, or otherwise have "uncertain" parental lineage, you have zero family history to reference. So you just don't know what to expect. Laugh until you can't. And then, let other people laugh. They'll need it. And fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.

Can't say that i know about Byron Bowie?

Yeah, not sure where it happened, but the player is sorting by first digit only. You can, if you like, play the intended sequence by clicking each track individually rather than letting the player move them along for you.

I just rejoined AARP (gonna be getting a nifty 4-piece organizer as well as eligibility for Medicare supplements, supposedly the best?), maybe I'll get that issue. Wishing him - and his support network - all the best, and hope he's still painting as well as singing. Anything to hold on to a connection to the continuum. It's a horrible disease, made all the worse by knowing that it only ends one way - when it does end, how ever long that takes. You don't want to be a first-hand witness to what it does to it's victims...and as we get older and start to feel the mind drifting more than usual, there's always that "god, I hope it's not happening to me" feeling that you cannot shake, because you don't know until it does, if it does.

Hey, i accumulated $100 of Bandcamp credits over Christmas and have been wondering where to drop them...last year it was Tyshawn Sorey (money well spent!). This year, it's going to be this world/scene/etc/whatever. Lots of interesting, non-recreative music happening!

Is there a Hall Of Coulda' Been?

Yeah, I saw Roomful Of Teeth live, and they fucked up my head, big time. So, door opened... Nah, that's when they put two (or more) existing records together. I t can be glorious or it can be ghastly. He calls it "collage", which is accurate enough, except he's not , that I can tell, working with pre-existing ingredients. That, imo, ups the ante quite a bit.

A lot of words, but really good results, in my limited experience. Ultimately, seems quite lucid on both counts.

Will take them all, please?

I said three, it's actually four - "Shimmering Desert" and "The Collusus" (from The Colorado Soundtrack), plus "High Done No Why To" and "Amid the Minotaurs", one from each of the Roomful Of Teeth records. Roomful Of Teeth has been my gateway drug into this whole scene (and I think it is a scene of sorts at this point, enough different people and works over enough time to call it that). Definitely a lot happening on New Amsterdam Records: https://www.newamrecords.com/discography Brittelle's Wiki page is interesting, how he got to where he is, musically: Brittelle was raised in rural North Carolina, and often cites his upbringing in a small southern town with a conservative Christian environment as in opposition to his Brooklyn-based, agnostic Buddhist adulthood, a dissonance reflected in his musical output. Though a trained composer and orchestrator, he has often expressed frustration and dissolution with the world of academia and the classical industry in general. In undergrad, while enrolled at Vanderbilt University as a composition major, Brittelle experienced what he has referred to as a psychotic break, in part as a result of academic artistic constrictions, resulting in him briefly dropping out of school. He has claimed this breakdown, and his subsequent recovery, to be a formative experience in the development of his collage-based, non-developmental, genre-fluid style of composition. After being enrolled in a D.M.A. program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York for a period of two years, Brittelle dropped out and re-enrolled privately with his primary teacher, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici, for two subsequent years as a non-matriculating student. In addition to Del Tredici, Brittelle's musical mentors have included Mike Longo (longtime pianist/arranger for Dizzy Gillespie), and punk guitarist Richard Lloyd of Television. After dropping out of graduate school, Brittelle found himself attracted to pop, hip-hop, and punk music as a way of connecting more viscerally with an audience. This led to fronting a New York post-punk band and working at Sin-e, a heralded New York City music venue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. However following a severe vocal injury he returned to composition, armed with the desire to incorporate disparate and oppositional influences into one vision. Brittelle has stated that his first album "Mohair Time Warp" written in the wake of his vocal injury, is the first example of work that represented the full breadth of his musical vision.[2] Definitely a 21st Century "mindset", I should think! But without skills, nothing. He's definitely got skills.

J&J is a single shot vaccine, which is a big plus. At some point, yeah, we can quibble. right now, I'm like, let me get the best I can get, when I can get, where I can get it. None of these options on the table now really suck, and COVID is not an opt-in disease, if you know what I mean. We can quibble later. The science is getting there, it is not all the way there yet. Instant gratification is not available except when looking backward, something that This Modern World seems to have forgotten.

Yeah, I can deal with "mild symptoms"...hell I haven't "felt good" since one July afternoon in 1979. I don't mind not feeling good. Death and/or hospitalization and respiratory gummup, though....not wanting any of that, thank you. Make mine vaccine, please!

I like what Monk said.

My curiosity has been piqued enough that I'm about to drop all my Bandcamp gift cards on his catalog. Is anybody here further enough along into his work to encourage me to go ahead, or to stop before I waste my money? I've just heard three pieces but they have been a STRONG three pieces. Also/apparently, he's onf of/the founder of the New Amsterdam Records label, which itself has been putting out stuff to which I have found myself enjoying at a somewhat elevated level. Thoughts? Experiences? Recipes? Pictures?

Sorry to hear of this, but we did not get that show where I lived, nor, it appears, did many other people. Metromedia penetration was far from national.Too bad. sounds great! per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderama Wonderama aired on its originating station, WNEW-TV in New York City, as well as in five other markets in which Metromedia owned television stations: WTTG in Washington D.C., KMBC-TV in Kansas City, KTTV in Los Angeles, WXIX-TV in Cincinnati, and WTCN-TV in Minneapolis – Saint Paul.

Nah, there was a big tent set up to demo quad sound. Probably some hi-fi dealer, you know how big that used to be back then. Total State Fair concept, sell it at the fair, lol. That was their demo record of choice, on an 8-Track no less, IIRC. It played in a loop for hours on end. Go figure THAT.

Oh,Tommy I knew well. He passed a few years ago. Another beautiful spirit. Here's his memorial page: https://www.facebook.com/Tommy-Hopkins-Jr-Memorial-239130859558466/

Quad, State Fair, Tent, Sonny Sharrock, Fathead, have flashbacks of all of that EVRY time I see this record. And I don't mind, not at all!

Definitely wish I had heard Jimmy Colvin...we went around to a bunch of different places on our off nights/hours and heard a good number of "local" players. Probably just bad luck that I didn't catch Colvin, I definitely would have stayed and struck up a conversation. Rode an elevator with Prince, had a few beers with his roadies in a pool hall, heard Cleveland Eaton and Hank Crawford, went to all kinds of local clubs (one of which stayed open until 7 AM and had one of those "human jukebox" bands who seemed to know literally every song ever, somebody yelled "play some Tams" and they did, like a 10+minute medley non stop of at least 5 songs, just went right into it witout pausing...amazing...), Birming ham was a good music town then, but no, I never heard Jimmy Colvin, dammit. As for the record with Clay, other than Hayley, none of those tames are familiar to me. From looking at the record (when I was able to) all I can tell you is that the gig looked to indeed be on a lake (of which we have manyin this area) and at a "lodge" type thing on the lake (of which every good fishing lake has at least one. Past that... Frank Haley, as you mention, has remiand active and does indeed have product available. Ken Willemon (never heard/knew of him) appears to still be active in Virginia: https://www.asgardprod.com/wilemonbio.htm Doug Thomas, geez...I wonder...I knew a cat named Doug Thomas at NT who was a trombonist who was beginning to take up bass when I left....beautiful cat, spirit of an angel, and had a great ear...1986 would have been more than enough time for him to get his chops together to do a gig like this...I wonder if it's the same guy, that would be beautiful if it was. Wanting to say he was from Atlanta....wow, Doug Thomas! Cat was always studying, but with his ears, not his eyes, one of those guys (and god bless all of them, for theirs's is the kingdom of heaven). The other players, no idea. But this area, the greater DFW Metroplex, is horizontal, I mean we in Texas never had a need to develop up, we grew out, land on all sides. So we have SO many communities within communities within communities, and when you get out on a lake...point just being that back in the day, there were gigs everywhere, players to play all of them, and you didn't need to be known outside of where you where as long as where you were was meeting your need.

This made me sleuth just a bit, and the answer is a resounding, dual-calipered NO! The tune is actually called "Igbod's Shuffle". It's a Sonny Fortune penned original, and it's the leadoff tune from the Atlantic Long Player With Sound Reason, from 1979.

An Epic undertaking!

http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/Main.aspx Now working.

Arnold Sterling on #5? or #7? Yes, #7, from a Jimmy McGriff record. This cut kills!