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Okay, I see. He's somebody who has done a buttload full of stuff that I never wanted to to know who did it.

Ed Sullivan? Hollywood Palace? Bob Brookmeyer?

So he's a guy.on Netflix, that's all?

I'm saying it. I love saying it. The best sounding shampoo ever, I daresay.

pannTEEENnn

Maybe fish be overbearingly passive-agressive in ways that only water can accurately elocute. Has anybody asked the octopi why they do that? Typical human assumptionalism. OTOH, I gladly eat them both, so I guess I am punishing them both, the way only a human can do. I mean, I don't eat no bear, or anything like that. Either way, oop boop dittum dattum waddum CHEW.

God bless the AFL.

To me, Zeitlin of that era was like if Bill Evans would not have gone as wrong as he did. Still wrong, just not THAT wrong. Ok, "wrong". There is no wrong in music, I'm told.

Okay, once again - who the hell is David Foster? Sounds like I don't really want to know, but I got to ask anyway.

Raney was, I've heard at least, an extreme binge drinker prone to long spells of doing God knows what and/or where and then popping back in like nothing had happened (and maybe that was how it seemed to him). So I don't know how sane that makes him, although of course that's quite different than being a list.

I believe in art. Artists...not so much. If a human creates a "perfect" work, it's not by anything they did...except to have the tools to get out of the way.

Package arrived today, looks like the USPS dawdled (not your problem, you did exactly what you said you would do), but it got here. No complaints, all's well that ends well. Sincerest appreciation for you getting this out like you did. I know you have other things on your mind and taking up your time right now, so the greatest thanks to you for doing this. Please take care and stay strong.

The record or the band?

Talk about John Wesley Hardon!!!!!

Stevie, Stevie, Stevie!!!

After Enchance, a little time passed, but he then did some interesting leader dates on Grammavision that cemented him, imo, as somebody who was always going to bring interesting, non-hackneyed concepts to his records.

did that link to the lengthy online chat/interview get posted on this board? almost 2.5 hours, and worth every second of it.

That's such a good record, and reached a broader jazz audience (if not a larger one, don't know how well it sold)...more people were knowing Dewey from Keith, and Pullen from Mingus, etc. but here's Oliver Lake, who a lot of people were not yet familiar with (unless they already were, if you know what I mean), in a very diverse program wonderfully performed and exquisitely recorded. I saw a lot of people who were hearing "freer" styles, maybe for the first time, on this record and liking it, maybe also for the first time, because of the overall structure of the record itself. Just a brilliant record in every way, imo. Horizon was a great label until, as the story goes, Quincy Jones heard the Revolutionary Ensemble record, took it to Herb Albert and asked him why he was putting money into THIS shit, after which, things got weird...but at least John Snyder was able to go and do Artist House for a while. So, I'll defend Quincy Jones against all the allegations of ghostwiters and all that, because sorry kids, that IS the way this business works if you want to have a large life. But still, fuck Quincy Jones for fucking up Horizon records.

Nothing like vivid hi-fi sound surrounded by hiss to make you appreciate evolution.

We're talking about playback mediums here, and I don't think that any existing analog recording or playback system can cover the frequency range of digital technology. I hated digital almost as much as I hate some stranger pissing on my bed for a looooong time. and I still like to hear analog sound to playback things that were recorded that way. But digital got figured out, and these days...LPs make no sense to me for new recordings. 78s & 45s, though....there's more there than meets the casual ear. Like Dimitry said, wider grooves and faster speed...45s in particular, from the days when that medium mattered in the marketplace...AM Radio, jukeboxes, and cheap record players, the people who made those products knew what they were going to be used for and proceeded accordingly. You really DON'T want to hear that stuff just in cleaned up digital sound, that's an artificial representation of how those records were propagated to their audiences' ears. But today? New music? Like all retro things, "again" is not a good idea. A dog chasing it's tail gets nothing. A dog chasing a rabbit might get something to eat.

Rediscovering Lafayette Gilchrist, that's been fun. btw - is he any relation to Cookie Gilchrist?

That's fine if you're into getting your bed pissed on...not really for me, but hey, different strokes, etc.