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That's a good observation, yes. Follow the money, of course!

Don't overlook the 45 jukeboxes, though. 45s were usually mastered hotter than LPs, so sound really great on a jukebox. and there ARE jazz 45s!

Also add the ongoing technological reprogramming of our brains to the paradigm that we are not just the center of our own universes, but that we are the ENTIRETY of our universes and that anything disrupting our self-induced reality is a violation of our own Holy Sanctified Reality Order. We can expect the worse possible outcome. Somewhere inside, people know better but don't care. And if that place inside no longer exists, hey...

Chewy, you need to supplement this with a jukebox...78s and/or 45s. That's on my wishlist of things I'd love to have but likely never will, so let me live that part of my dream through you, ok? LOL. Seriously - bigass speakers, bigass grooves on the records, that shit can knock you on your ass.

When empowerment turns to entitlement, bad things.

Check him oud on Red Garland's Red Alert on Galaxy. Whoa!

Paul Motian – Dance (ECM, 1978) Carla Bley Band – European Tour 1977 (WATT/ECM, 1978) Charles McPherson – New Horizons (Xanadu, 1978) Sam Jones – Something in Common (Muse/32 Jazz, 1978 Good records worth multiple listens!!

Some things cannot be faked or replicated. Here was one of those. RIP to a real musician.

I remember them existing, never went to one. The Kool Jazz & Blues Festival was another such thing, began life as the Kool/Newport Festival, and which became less "jazz" (even tangentially) as it evolved, but if anybody wants to trace the sociology of "where did the Black Jazz Audience go?", trace the chronology of these types events. There was definitely a transition too, it's not like it happened all at once.

It was already getting to be a hit, and the title tune was used in a Dodge(?) commercial during the World Series.

TipTop Tippy and the FlipFlop Flimmy - The Complete Hardwicke Recordings Haven't we waited long enough, all of us?

like a mo!

Indeed. This is like Jaws/Griff Ben Riley, which is not usually what you get with Monk Ben Riley,

Wow, this one was in print up until the end. Is there really a shortage of even latter/last day pressings? I mean, that one used to go for, like 5-6 bucks tops in used bins, that's how many of the there were.

Will there be water pistols?

Time to tune in to that "T.B. Sheets" marathon!

"truth to power"....I think that "truth" always ends up being somebody telling you what you think to be true, whether it is or not, but this whole "to power" thing, uh...you make a record, you're speaking to your audience not any real "power". Music industry powers give a fuck about how much you sell. Real-world power don't give a shit about you or your record. Eartha Kitt spoke her truth to actual power and that was that. Helluva lot of good that did. So let us, please, stop romanticizing the pop stars, past, present, and future.

He no doubt knew them from his prior life in LA. Same with Arthur Blythe. He was around there, then.

Anointed with oil on troubled waters - Oh heavenly grid, help us bear up they standards, our chevron flashing bright across the gulf of compromise, standing humble on the rich field of mobile American thinking here in this shell we call life. Angels 3 Devils

Ok, if the only Miles Davis cut I had ever heard in my life was this and if somebody told me just that Miles Davis was the leader, composer, and keyboardist, I would still think that this was one badass crazy motherfucker, this Miles Davis guy, oh hell yeah, why how come he don't have more records, I want to hear more of THIS! Trumpet solo really not relevant to the badassness of the music here. And fullest props to Teo for making the record out of the music.

The culture that Crouch was part of "then" would, without too much of a stretch, be seen as a parallel to some elements of "now"'s hip-hop. Or, for that matter, "other side of the tracks" redneck culture then and now. I'm sure there are equivalents across all cultures. Point just being, projecting "strength" involves a lot of thigs that are pretty distasteful today, because definitions of "strength" are evolving as populations change. Survival of your culture fully equating to the need to breed is a reality that has only quite recently become a pretty obviously non-essential universal need, and the more "up against the wall" one is, the slower it becomes evident. Crouch, though, he got out of that world, supposedly, but his mindset did not evolve, and most likely fueled his grudgefight with Cecil. He gets no excuse from me. Mary Lou Williams was at least subtle about it. But to single Crouch out for his homophobic attitude is, I think, taking a too easy shot at a too obvious target.

Or maybe that's just a fact of life for a certain subset of the culture/time/place that is only somewhat evolving

Well yeah, he definitely caused harm to people, not usually(?) directly or intentionally, but that shit definitely affected people's earning potential (note - potential). So... hurt people are not predisposed to being kind, not should they be expected to be. When they are, hey, more power to them for rising above it all.

This is a damn good record. 1 Palo Alto > all the Columbias by this band.

Well, that was something! His good thoughts, where they existed, were quite delightful. Rest In....whatever it is that he would want to rest in.