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I'm still waiting for Chico Freeman to fully hit me. Warriors on Black Saint was the one for me.

Test those disks on multiple players and drives. Like Steve, I've had issues with discs that will not play in a CD player but I can rip them on my computer and the rip plays just fine. Strange but true.

I believe it was, yes. She's an adult now, and is/was(?) a professional dancer, I believe.

That's Roscoe's daughter.

Is Boris Rose's daughter married? Or does she have a daughter who's not married? There are ways to get money, only a few of which involve being honorable.

I hope that Hank wrote a tune called The Plop.

dude, you're missing the point - jazz itself is underground. Cedar Walton at his most popular was underground. Eddie Harris, for crying out loud, sold some records, but he had SO much going on inside and underneath...Eddie Harris at his most, VERY most popular...who really knew Eddie Harris,? They knew what they bought, and what they bought...they bought the easiest pages out of a very complicated book. "Eddie Harris" was not necessarily "underground". But Eddie Harris...totally underground. Any music - any action - that is not built exclusively as/for product is underground. It's not just about music, but a way of thought, a basic understanding of life. Look - this society of ours was, is, and may very well always be premised on cheap labor returning a maximum return on investment. Not saying anything's "wrong" with/about that. But not everybody shows up for the work of life seeing that as their job description. And those people (and their work) is the underground. The underground is not homogenous, not "avant-garde", not anything except the people who have thoughts and actions that are not driven by either serving the master or by being the master of anybody or anything but their own minds and souls. The underground will bring you both friends and enemies, exquisite clarity and brilliantly insane. Some of it works, some of it doesn't, and not everything for everybody. The underground has its core city, its outskirts, and a lot of stops in between. Sometimes the underground sneaks out of town for a day job. Things get blurry, but at the end of the day, you live where you live, you let other people live where they live, and the smart money is knowing where home is. "you can't go home again"....only if you leave, and in the underground, you can go any damn where you want to, but in the underground, you never leave home. Because you WILL need to come home again. And then go back out again.

Just don't resist the underground. It's not for everybody, and that's ok.

Be ready to be morphed into a Batman comic book.

Check the records and see who had the publishing for the originals.

Publishing, baby, publishing. Donald Byrd was schooling people to own their own publishing, not go for the old "label gets the publishing" model. Aries Music - that means that Herbie got all of his no matter who played it.Not just composer money, but publishing money right there with it. Hello ownership! Horace Silver was already doing this, and Lion would not do it for just everybody (in fact he dropped Horace Parlan over a dispute over Ronnie Boykins not giving up his publishing and Horace being n Boykins' side). But Herbie had leverage, Wayne had leverage, a few people had leverage.

Yeah, Woody was big enough in the 70s that somebody should have remembered. Mosaic/Michael Cuscuna have. Hardly an "industry", but they have done their part. But... Charles Tolliver spent the 70s running his own reengage label and then trying to recuperate financially and professionally from that. Billy Harper was out of Max World and was not interested in playing the big label game. Just NOT interested, nor, apparently, they in him. To this day, Strata-East has never had market-impact, and Billy's records...they are hiding, and not really in plain sight. The market/the business...if you want to know why these pollslistsetc are what they are, you must understand - people know what they know, and most people DO NOT WANT to do the work of finding things they don't know. That's why there have been labels and trade publications and all that - to put stuff in your face so you can buy it. NOT to elevate your spirit or broaden your scope, but to get you to spend your money on their products. For most people, music is an act of consumption, a lifestyle accessory that projects a self-image. Most people not now know about music, do not want to learn about music, do not delight in the unfamiliar (unless it is already familiar), most people buy what they want because they want what they buy before they even know it's there. Do not be astounded by the narrowness of the majority taste, just know that it exists, that it will always exist, and know that it is not where you want to live, ever. For that matter, they don't really want you there, you and your unconventional choices of people with names without images for them to put on a bevy of black t-shirts that will signify superior hipness in the world of sheeps and goats. bah bah DING go the behooved cash registers as they buy their own personal pieces of souls to put on display. Pity them, for it is the only souls they will ever have. Walk away, keep waking, and know that morass is not inevitable. Know that the underground will never go away. The deeper you go, the better it is.

Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett, and to some extent Gary Burton. Interesting(?) that Burton & Jarrett had both come off runs at Atlantic, even had that joint record that was a bit of a hit.

Yeah, where are all the Milescars now?

a somewhat uplifting start to a Friday morning!

Look for it on the Moon CD as well as the vinyl. Double the odds!

Never really answered...Jazz? Washed-up Jocks Gone Loony? Thuggery? Neurosis? Chumps? Buddy DeFranco? Thrill-Seeking Rich Chicks Who Get Cold Feet? It's never really clarified, which is probably all for the best.

Hey, it's got Buddy DeFranco as a jazz clarinet player playing jazz clarinet in a basement jazz club. That's all he does, is play clarinet. But he got a spot on the opening credits! Otherwise, interesting enough to watch once and not feel bad about it. More than once, though...

Duke's Pullman car...

I've had it preordered and am anxiously awaiting.

Plus it's got red upholstery. Yuck.