JSngry

Yeah...have you looked at those issues from the 1940s in their entirety? They did up the game there for a while, but the last decade or two, it's mostly content driven by who's got good PR reps working for them. Nothing wrong with that, of course,, but I haven't taken them seriously as a journal of "serious criticism" for a good while now. There will be some value there, of course, how could there not be? But...

I want to know what those rooms smelled like. What combination of aftershaves and colognes and perfumes and cigarette/cigar some and god only knows what else was in the air at any given time? Similarly, wool suits and all that. all that absorbent material, not just on the walls and floors, but on the people, surely there was an acoustical factor at play? I mean, pictures are welcome, but vision is but one sense. The experiences of being in those clubs was more than just visual. I like a good picture as much as anybody, ok? And it may be worth a thousand words, a picture might be. But how many smells, and tastes, and touches are a thousand pictures worth? Sensory experience, baby, sensory experience.

RIP. Thanks for being there and doing that.

Mingus had principles.

Tile floors or carpet? Wool suits? How much glass was in the room, as opposed to plastic?

Just checked, and my record is in the right key.

Yeah, I mean, who the hell was Reuben Wilson, and what is he doing in this Half Price? But it was a Blue Note record, so I paid that 3-4 bucks and took it home. Carpe diem on that shit, just becuase. And always.

My college library had copies going back to the middle 40s. The magazine was mostly a joke then, to be honest. Not that there weren't articles of interest, but there was so much blather about show business/popular music/entertainment. Not at all a dedicated jazz magazine. Not really sure but that in the overall life of the magazine that it's got all of that much worth saving, to be honest. Some, to be sure.

I started buying jazz records in 1970-71. Blue Note was just another label as as far as I was concerned, and to be honest their covers looked weird! And the back covers even weirder! But when I got hipper to what was going on with the music, I began to seek out Blue Notes, not necessarily more than other labels but I knew there was something good there. It wasn't until about 1976 or so, though, when the reissues from the vaults started coming out that I really started paying attention to just how much was there. At the same time Bob Belden, who was a very influential character in our circles, started pimping Blue Notes like you wouldn't believe and started coming up with all this obscure stuff that none of us at the time had ever heard of. This is where the story really takes off! Bob did not have a car. And he had just found an old mom and pop store in South Dallas that was loaded with old Blue Note stock. He bought some, and wanted to go back the next day for more, but the guy who took him the last time was unavailable. And I had a car! So off we went. The place was loaded, not just with Blue Note but with so many different types of jazz records, only some of which I had ever heard of before. So from that day forward, I learned my lesson - always look everywhere. Everywhere! It's a lesson that has served me well. As far as Blue Note mystique, I think the experience I had is in line chronologically, mid to late '70s, with what a lot of people had, rediscovering the treasures that were on the verge of disappearing. Or so it seemed then. Nowadays, everybody's got CDs of it all. But before that happened, finding the LPs was equal parts musical revelation and good old-fashioned collector's thrill.

TS Monk knows music. Many drummers do.

A serious SERIOUS motherfucker of a record.

What's wrong with Down Beat?

Mostly, yeah, kinda comes with the territory. But dorky is ok if it's right.

EXACTLY!. and used LPs. and whatnot on them onteronets. $25 needs to get me something that is truly rare/unheard, not something I can get for less by just looking around in stores and on the internet. Or what you can really do is start exploring classical, that shit is DIRT cheap a lot of times because nobody want it. And it's good-to-great-to-transcendental music...I'm finding that one or tow pops on a Beethoven late quartet that I don't know all that well works better for me than a cleaner copy of something I already know by hear (and mind). And you get into "modern" classical, whoa more interesting than listening to regurgitated (fill in the blanks of whatever kind of jazz you like). It all has its limits, of course, but for $25, I can easily come home with 5-6 used classical LPs in REALLY good condition. Or a lot of CDs of anything that doesn't duplicate what I already know. $25.00!!!!!! What did Mahalia say, "JESUS, Duke!"? That.

Oh my...what's a bottom feeder to do?

Anybody know anybody who does the Farmer's Almanac thing? I've heard two people who do say that this is supposed to be a hard winter.

$25 is budget-priced?

There's some guy on the webernet tht has a buttload of exactly that about Paul Desmond solos. It's as dorky as it is illuminating, which in both cases is quite! And maybe, in Desmond's case it's bit of consciousness interpretation of a subconscious process, but as it pertains to Desmond, I would assume nothing either way. Here's where it lives, although not everything tht lives here is that: https://raggywaltz.com/category/desmonds-quotes/

Amarillo by tomorrow morning...maybe.

i laughed and cringed at the same time.

"Benson, long ago a convert to Charlie's brand of Christianity..."

Whoa...

Who is/was the "Left Bank" that got cold feet? Can names be named?

Since an octave has a frequency ratio of 2, a half-step has a frequency ratio of 2^(1/12), or approximately 1.0595. So 100%-1.5095 % = 98.4905% or .9849 Sound right, at least in terms of math? I'm too old to think this hard...

There, was that so hard?