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When you hear Bird in person for the first time, don't be like Tony Bennett. That's as simple as it needs to be.

Did the Rob Lowe DirecTV campaign not get national saturation? It was a classic! The variant without Rob Lowe:

Yes, because then you can make magic happen.

Right, that's all part of the story. But still, don't be like Tony Bennett. Or like Rob Lowe, for that matter. Don't be like Rob Lowe.

Mark said: I just want to know what it was like to experience the intensity of that sound and creativity in person, to feel the air move in the room when he played the alto saxophone. According to Tony Bennett, it made him vomit. Don't be like Tony Bennett.

I'd see no reason to feel guilty on the consumer end, nor necessarily on the supply end. It's just that it's shaping up to be one of those cases where everybody's been acting in good faith except the original "original parties", and even then, maybe not actual bad faith, just...not clean - or any - paper trails.

Actually knowing actual stuff is SO elitist.

++ Seems a little, uh...unlockedin...i think it's the guitarist?

Wow, that was one tightly-wound motherfucker! He's one of the few (and maybe the only, at least to these extent) people I can listen to and the deeper I engage, the less I "feel". And yet I keep listening. On this set, it would be easy to credit the superb rhythm sections, but it's not like he's getting led or otherwise being subordinated by them. Quite the contrary, what he's putting out and the way they're respond without getting in the way (and vice-versa) is nothing short of masterful. And when I say "tightly wound", i don't mean "tense" or otherwise uncomfortable, it's just that, for me, with damn near everybody else, you start with what you hear on the surface, and then you can both outward and inward. With Art Pepper,, I don't know how much you can go in either direction ("outward" for damn near anybody worth their salt, "inward" for those who have real substancemeat). But it's not monotonic either, there's a lot of detail (and oh BTW, is it just me, or was this cat one of the most in-tune alto players ever?), it's just....tightly wound. And these are fine, fine records, all five of them. I do gotta laugh at the liner notes, though. Ron Carter gets told to "lay out" until cued, and Ron Carter does the early-late 20th Century equivalent of checking his cell phone, knowing full and damn well that he can hit anybody's cue at anybody's time, and apparently that's causes a psychodrama . And apparently a psychodrama that carried over to the liner notes/track listings, but cause, oh, there IS that slow version of "Yesterdays" on here after all, and the personnel listing for all the various outtakes of that session is, uh, "erratic". So wow, Ron Carter could be aloof, maybe even vibe somebody. Wow, who knew? Dude plays on 50 bajillion records a week and checks his cell phone while waiting for a cue. LOL!!!! More speculative - it seems to me that "My Friend John" has it's roots, its basic formative roots, nothing more - in "All The Things You Are"? Certainly not a derivative or a contrafact, but between the opening variant on Bird's (Dizzy's?) Rachmaninoff -derived intro, to the first little bit of changes (after which it goes it's own way), anybody else hear that? Maybe it's just coincidence. It's a nice cone if it is! Reread the initial thread about this set, and people were on the fence about if they have the complete Galaxy set do I need this for the alternates and others were like well, I don't have the complete Galaxy set so maybe this is just right for me, and I'm kind of in the middle - I bought some of the Galaxy LPs back in the day, and other than getting the complete VV set (ELVIN!!!!!) that has been ok with me, enough for that. But this one is just right for me. I certainly like Pepper, but don't "lvove" him the way some people do. This box expands my existing AP collection without bulging it. Glad I bought it!

If you want to make sure that you always have your music, keep hard(ish) copies and hardware to play it on where you can put your hands on it at any given time. Convenience is only convenient until it's not.

Georgia Anne now has a "down beat interview"!!!!! https://downbeat.com/news/detail/georgia-anne-muldrow-charts-new-path-as-jyoti/P1

I like a guy who works at their own pace and in their own space.

Well, there have been legit CD reissues from the master tapes, that Snow Bird series was from the masters, iirc. But lord, what a tangle the rights thing can turn out to be. What the true legal relationship between Dick Schory & Gene Russell ended up being...if not even Dick Schory, who made a lot of money from making and selling all kinds of records, surely a normal businessperson with no loose ends in any of his other deals(?), if THAT cannot be documented, then everything that follows from that just exponentially cloudifies. Moral of the story - own your shit and lock it up tight. And even then, hey, if somebody wants it bad enough, they can try to get it anyway.

And I have no doubt about that - and have no desire. neigh, ability, to contest that assertion - which is why that version of "the scene" is pretty much repugnant to me. If that is the best that "scene" has to offer to my life (my time, because what is life if not time?) , then please, keep them away from me, by all measures and by any means necessary. Whatever time I have left to pursue that type of music has already been done better, real-er, and documentation exists. My life is my time, my time is my life, and I still got a lot of shit to cover in whatever time I have left. Eric Alexander adds nothing to my time that isn't already there. Tick-tock-tick-tock, time waits for no one, and I for damn sure ain't waiting on Eric Alexander. Hell, I could spend the rest of my time getting into Bartok, or even Brahms. Never mind Berio. And never mind ALL KINDS of String Quartets, or mid-30s swing players who never got out of the bop era alive, hell I figure I got about 20 or so years left, more or less, all things being equal, but the necessary amount of time to do just that, I don't have, no matter how long I live. But I got some time for some of that, to not waste that time. I for damn sure ain't got time for Eric Alexander, literally do not have the time. Nor Grant Stewart too, if push comes to shove. But at least Grant Stewart has good hair. I mean, I totally get and respect that other people do have that kind of time and are rewarded by spending it. Your life- your time - belongs to you and you alone, and your choices are respected as such. But please do not act like somebody who does not have that time for that thing is "prejudiced" or otherwise "missing out" on something. Bill Evans, Wynton Marsalis, Rolling Stones, etcetcetc - there is no deficiency in my life or my thought processes that has resulted in me not having time for that shit. My time - not your time, my time. Time = life. Waste my time =waste my life. I know what is out there to spend time on, and more to the point, I do not know what else is out there to spend time on. Do not know what might come along, I'm very happy having been on all the paths I've been on to this point, no regrets (although that prog-rock/Canterbury year or two exploration in the mid-70s has proven to be more useful as a "name recognition" tool than anything else), but NO GOOD OFFER WILL BE REFUSED from any world and/or any time. So between what I do know I still need to get to and leaving room for the total unknowns and what may or may not come with them...Eric Alexander and Grant Stewart are, like....no. Just, no.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/it-was-the-first-entirely-black-run-jazz-company-in-decades-but-was-black-jazz-records-actually-owned-by-a-white-guy/2020/08/26/a8c764be-e211-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html Clear claims of ownership cannot be established, even by Dick Schory (who was certainly the bankroller, but still does have any document-of-origin (is that a term?) showing that he actually owned the label, just that he paid for stuff, and oh btw, he has documentation of an "origin story" that he recounted to a friend years after the fact.. Same with past sales, nobody can yet show who bought what and actually paid for it in full, and now, who has the rights to lease this product out for this new reissue series. Also, the legendary James Hardge Craigslist Master tapes are still missing? Zev Feldman has asked to have his name removed from the project. I guess he's getting PaloAlto-ed again.

So the Postmaster General is NOT the Postmaster of Baltimore. So was a rejoinder to one comment targeting a totally different person that the subject of that comment? appears so! That is sloppy progression and displays undisciplined non-sequential though. That does not exemplify an objective control of facts and the ability to track a problem through to a solution by staying on track and on point from start to finish. Sounds more like Drunk Uncle thinking.

Is the Post Master of Baltimore the same as the Post Master General? Kinda like, words have meanings, or as that one guy said, facts are stubborn things? That's because there's no there there!

Yes there will be more Teddy?

Found that on James Harrod's site: https://jazzresearch.com/world-pacific-1957-new-york-sessions/

It's Louis, not Lois!

Yeah, something weird about how UK all of a sudden got it, y'all come get it now, but what the hell, let's see how that goes. I like a good magic show as much as anybody!

And the between music radiotalk is of great interest to me, timeplaceenrgy that we don't have today, and maybe not again anytime soon again. It's a real "slice of life" and i treasure it as such.

Let me answer in a different way about the Bertha hope record - if you don't yet know here, enter someplace else. But if you do know her already, go ahead and get this one. More, uh, "mellow" to use the euphemism often used to indicate that inevitable passages of time that don't dull the core of a voice. But BerthaHhope is (IS!) a treasure, not to be forgotten or overlooked. so proceed accordingly!

The Bertha Hope is satisfying. And the Flanagan/Monterose is too.

That one would be easy - Alexander would always be the one who almost sounds like Coleman. Coleman would be the one who always sounds like Coleman. It's not complicated, really, it's not.