JSngry

We've had multiple 78 advocates here over the years. I've had just a bit of exposure to them and I do not at all scoff at the medium. Them bigass grooves don't mess around.

Isn't Eicher almost blind these days? I've heard it speculated that the blinder he gets, the darker the covers get? Fraility has a power of it's own.

How much wizardry was conveyed via scratchy 78s and even scratchier AM radios? So what exactly is he saving the world from?

"ECM covers"...geez, there have gone through so many different periods,,,I suppose there a very broad underlying unifying esthetic, but That's pretty much a Blue Note LT photo right there.

Howdy! Let's have fun!!!

One of the all-time greats at fucking up your head before it was all done. When it's gone it's gone.

"Just The Two Of Us" is song that my wife and I consider "our song" from our early days. And like other songs on that album, it's a fun one to play!

Earlier than that... that's what was in the stores in the 70s...

I want a torpedo tenor please?!?!?!

The Matt Gaston Drumtette - Stick & Stay!!!

Trotters McAdowell - Pippin' & Trippin'

It's waaaaay too early for me to be pleased about anything with this team....

I do!

Solar CD from Dusty Groove, a few weeks ago. It was just sitting there on the website somehow.

Damn this is a good record!

Here's hoping that that Devers guy can wait one more game before snapping out of it.

If you are a skilled storyteller, you will incorporate that into your telling and give it impact and meaning. If you're not, you'll just be a poor soul who is SOL and who should probably go sit down and let the pros handle it.

I did most of this work thru the blogosphere back in the day and learned that when Bacharach was not deeply involved the material too often became filler quality, and there was more of that than I would have preferred. Not surprising, Pop albums of the time did that. There's less filler here than on many artists' albums and the stuff with Bacharach is truly wonderful. But he's not everywhere, alas Plus. The live stuff was not yet gelled. The gospel stuff I would have to revisit, but my recollection of it was...disappointing. But at the time I was deeply immersed in classic Hard Gospel and some contemporary mass choir stuff, so ..perceptions possibly skewed. Still, that's a really good price and the packaging will no doubt be good. If anybody thinks that the Warwick/Bacharach magic was limited to the hits, this would be the perfect place to discover otherwise!

Oh, the outcome is quite intentional. I can crack on Shepp for some things (like long-windedness) but lack of intention would never be one of them. If it was not controlled or intentional to one degree or another, the flow of the line would dissipate or otherwise break down. Shepp has always been as much a painter as he has been a player, and a still-life painter is just not what he has done, ever. Now having said that, he did have a series of physical issues that affected him. But rather than struggle against them, he embraced them and intentionalized them. That's why the line keeps flowing, and that's why it's intentional and controlled. That's also why those Venus records have such emotional power to me. They're true, because life doesn't always pull its punches. Sometimes they land, land hard. But oh well about that, right?

He's always played ballads like that, more or less. It's wobbly, but it's a controlled wobbly.

Sandy Scabbardito - Standing Tall!!!