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Paid in full and in cash. Perfect ending!

Probably not the same guy?

echoi is one of the great performances of the 20th century, this i do believe.

There was an opening act. And unless they just drove in and went straight to stage to hi, they would have had opportunity to see the house. Don't know how may one set non-festival gigs they got booked on, but just the venue and the timing of this gig could have made it stand out as being a little "different" in some form or fashion. And probably the promoter had a chance to meetgreetpay with the band. Or manager (was Columby there to collect the bread?). Very unlikely that a gig like this pays the band in full without there being tickets bought and in the door and in the seats, and also very unlikely that the promoter, in this case a high school kid, doesn't insist on paying the band directly and saying thank you and a few other words. And I'd die right where I sit if the didn't get paid until after the gig, or more to the point, that they went on without being paid. No idea how that plays to the "racial awareness" of the band prior to or during the gig, but it's not like gigs get played in a vacuum, you don't get beamed down to the stage from the mothership or anything, you gotta get in there off of the street/road/elevator. Even on a club date, you gotta walk in the door, and often through the front door, because these musicians are so damn filthy, don't let them in the same room with the food, not only will they stink on it, they're liable eat it too. My only hope is that if they did try to fee the band that it wasn't chicken spaghetti from the cafeteria.

The Monk Palo Alto album is a treat, because it takes a band/period that has up to now been documented as mostly rut-y and show them to be springy alive and frisky after all. The Dex records, yes, I love to hear top form Dexter, it's always a pleasure, always a blessing, but perhaps not always a surprise or a revelation.

My wife and I each have our own car.

Still 10 years younger than Sonny Rollins!

Any mention of alternate takes for "Everybody's Jumpin''" ?

What surface noise?

Shit be swingin('/g)!!!!!!

I like them both, really. But Bobby Hutcherson on an Andrew Hill Blue Note that was NOT from the "golden age"....that just gives me another lens through which to listen, and you know me, I like my lenses.

I like Eternal Spirit because it was kind of a "comeback" album as far as Hill as a bandleader. I guess he had been playing around with bands that were a bit on the sloppy side, under-rehearsed and not all that concerned with playing the heads with the attention they deserved. With this band, with the new kid in Osby and the old guard with Hutch, I felt that Hill's music was once again being played by a band, not just a group. There's a difference, because a band playing these compositions really highlights how much detail there is in them, detail that is at once oblique and familiar, the way Hill's music is best played/heard/experienced imo. The obliqueness usually takes care of itself, but the familiarity needs the attention of good players who work on it first and get it internalized. Not for nothing diod Blue Note rehearse its dates before recording... How it would hold up to somebody who wasn't there to hear it in its time (or, I guess, to people who were), I have no idea, but I found it a kick, and still do.

Now you'll want to find an affordable copy of the Perkins/James Clay record. Trust me on this one.

It still gets a nod here, but it's neither the top choice nor the only choice. The first Blue Notes are foundational, both as a group and as individual records. But...they imprint, strongly imprint. So they are not necessarily where I go first to relax and enjoy an Andrew Hill record, although yes, any "list" of "essential" Andrew Hill records begins with those, especially Black Fire and Judgement!.OTOH, fuck lists. So....my "go to" Andrew Hill records, the ones I go to when I'm not wanting to study or binge are these: + and then two that are not really "definitive", but ones that I like for their unique personalities

Indeed there is!

Final Note: Danny Pucillo Sr. https://www.afm47.org/press/final-note-danny-pucillo-sr/ I'm thinking 2000-2001, very late in Perkins' life.

Hey Larry, long time lister, first-time faller...hey, I just have a question for Joe there,,,what made you want to go into the Linotype business in the first place? TRACK ONE - Is that Shafi Hadi on alto? No it's not. Or is it? TRACK TWO - Floats like Ran Blake, stings like him too. A man of at least one Hat, one of them Is Blue. Hell yeah, Horace! TRACK THREE - Some kind of "Succotash" variant. No idea who the tenor player, or as the piece goes on, who the band is. No idea. It's a band full of good players. I think i like the piano player best, and it sounds like a personality with which I'm not as well-acquainted as I would perhaps like to be. One of those little tremelo things sounds like Herbie, but what does that mean these days, when everybody knows how to sound like everybody else any time they feel like it? A good BFT or other sampler cut. Dave Kikowski on piano? TRACK FOUR - some weird hybrid between Mal Waldron and Jan Hammer, but the real antecedent here for me is Pearl Kaufman/Oliver Nelson, neither of whom are Mal Waldron nor Jan Hammer. Not Joe Zawinul by any chance? TRACK FIVE - BALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but not quite....REAL close, though. Sounds too much "like" him to be him, you wither are are you aren't. I don't know, Robin Kenyatta? Probably not, but somebody who did honorable work but never broke all the way into a full-fledged identity. There's a bit of Ornette in there, so who sounds like Cannonball thru Ornette or vice-versa. I do like it. TRACK SIX - some weird hybrid between Mal Waldron and Horace Silver. But this is a club date, so that narrows it down. TRACK SEVEN - yeah, I like this, sounds like it was made by somebody with a lot of decades let to live, not just one or two.This whole constrution technique fascinates me, I could not put something like this together, at all. I mean, I can hear the end result just fine, same with the starting point, sortamaybe, but how do you build all of this? Yes, I know, a lot of repetition, but big effing deal, you still gotta put it together, right? This shit don't make itself. And I don't know that this is particularly sample-heavy, that shit's even more amazing to me, that way of thinking. Anyway...there's so many different names for this general type of thing, I don't know what the actual "genre" is, and truthfully, I'm glad don't, it's nice to hear music that all I can really hear is the music itself, at face value, more or less. TRACK EIGHT - Land Of The Rising Solar?I hope this is some really older person, a younger person would have no excuse and should probably get Old Yeller-ed. Oh shit, now the left hand is starting to rush. TRACK NINE - I like this. TRACK TEN - Oh my. "Stormy Weather" with a concept, and a concept with a conscience. But really, no improvisation is needed, you got a complete statement already. not that the improvisation hurt it, but I don't know what it adds, either. But true to having a conscience, there isn't really that much of it. Very much appreciate this one! TRACK ELEVEN - Is that a MPS record? Or an early Tom Scott record? Not both, of course. Or it could be Eric Kloss, he made a lot of records. TRACK TWELVE - Fats? That's beautiful. TRACK THIRTEEN - Ok, that's Lee. So that must be this. those two worked VERY well together, and I do not yet have this record nor did I know about it, need to remedy all that....https://www.amazon.com/Cherokee/dp/B0874W1DT8 TRACK FOURTEEN - there's a standard there somewhere...and i wish i could call it...pretty strong Bill Evans left hand...this sounds like the way I want to think that Bill Evans actually played but handle ever did...and if this is him, fuck him for not doing it more often. But I don't think it is, there's too much patience and not enough naif-ness, all of which makes me like it. TRACK FIFTEEN - It's a rephrased "Cottontail"....did they change it to keep the royalties? Rhythm changes no matter what...there's some Milt Buckner in that registry change (if that's what the term is), gut i don't think it's a player of that vintage, or maybe not even close to that vintage. But it COULD be a later Jimmy Smith record, one of those obscure ones that only Joe knows about. Hey Larry, thanks for taking my call, wonder if you could ask Joe one question for me - what is the difference between Linotype and Lithograph, never have been able to get that straight, ok? I'll hang up and listen, great show tonight, guys, ok, bye!

As do we all, just don't look for that song on that LP, if that's the type of thing you might do.

Schools, bars, either way, unformed young people with no good sense.

But there are no Aretha Franklin Atlantic 78s....

I don't plan on being a first-wave vaccinee, just because I am still doing very good at not getting into a risky environment. I don't get innoculations as a matter of course, only just a few years ago that my doctor talked me into getting flu shots based on age and other factors. It made sense to follow that advice and the science was there. But i will be paying extra close attention to the first wave ov COVID vaccine(s), efficacy, because you should not have to worry about the FDA being run like Trump University. But I do, if only because to think that there's all the resignations of career gigholders everywhere you look is some part of a political conspiracy in "provably" more irrational than suspecting the other way around. There are long-term track records here, you do the math about which one is more rightly "suspicious". This shit's too important to be left to clownshows.

Ok, I'll play, although why, I don't know. Maybe I just need the laugh before bed tonight. "Sometimes", yes, because nothing is 100%, not even 100%. But given the evolution of science and medicine since the days of, say, Columbus (hey, those were the days, right?), what are the odds today? Who is more likely to actually be right? And if you're taking what is certainly the long shot on who is NOT going to be right, is that nothing more than, at best, an isolated individual choice that may or may not (nothing's 100%) impact people besides yourself? I think most people are going to play the odds of who's got the proven record, not of being perfect, but of being more likely to be correct, and, if not 100% correct, being more likely to be in need of further refinement, not being all the way on the wrong fucking planet. But we certainly do need to be wary of "science" and "medicine" that is only partially such a thing. Yes, there are agendas everywheree, but the people with the demonstrably trustworty track record DO go to great pains to keep that shit out of their process. I've seen that type of purity of objectivity dwindle down at a frightening level over the past, as long as I've been alive, really. But the people who hang in, they are not the people looking to serve an agenda. From white supremacy to fundamentalist dogmatists to military-industrial complex to big pharma to today's...whatever the hell this Ignorance Machine is supposed to be, THOSE people do not get dealt with kindly by history. The people who stay true to science, objectivity-driven truths - and failures - those people have earned the right to have more cred than those who did not (cf AIIDS/AZT Gallo/Redfield. Duesberg, and yes, Faucci). Nothing is 100%. But 90% beats the hell our of 53%. Always. Hell, yes, I am sometimes going to shit everyday. But I may not shit every day. Still. I buy toilet paper, because I still have bowels, I still eat, and I know how that shit (no pun intended) works, so if I go too long, I know how to fix that. There's science there that will point me to the correct solution, and it doesn't involve waiting for science to be wrong oe betting that, no, they won't be right THIS time I'm not saying that any individual who takes this "well, sometimes they're wrong, so fuck 'em" position is stupid. But I will say unequivocally and unambiguosuly that the argument itself is stupid. Not just stupid but dangerous. Nobody's going to be right 100% of the time, but predictive behavioral outcomes are pretty damn close to as sure a thing as you can get these days, especially when playing the long game..Preponderance of the evidence, and as evidence accumulates, so does the increased certainty of the predictability of the outcomes. Long game always plays the odds because that's how one truly wins the long game. Save the wildass side bets for games of cheap thrills, penicillin shots, and zero lasting impact. If you can't do that, there's surely SOME kind of 1-800 # for DoingStupidShits Annonymous out there somewhere.

45s of the vintage we're talking about (up until the early-mid 70s or so) are really not intended to be played on "hi-fi" equipment. I mean, i do it because that's all I have (well, not even "hi-fi", but a home stereo system) and they still sound different enough to notice, but 45s are best heard on AM radio or a bigass jukebox. and they will sound totally different in each place, but they will sound SO damn good either way.