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Not sure what my expectations were (or why) but they were exceeded!

Not for its intended purpose, I hope?

My daughter insisted that I play this. Good call, DAMN good call!

I meant no such thing. SCOTUS refuses to hear the case and defers to the lower court's ruling.

Same thing, imo. If you have little to no control over something that negatively affects you, then you are victimized by it.

In the context of Jamal and dynamics, sudden and wide-range, check this one out: Don't get lulled by the opening, before it's over it's done all kinds of things with dynamics and textures. and Johnny Desmond then....better than Sinatra, imo.

Ok, so on that stage, there is a way to connect Jaco Pastorious & Israel Crosby.w/o interruption by anything except death, But in this game, death is not a factor. I like that! Imagine being one of the hired guns who showed up to play that session, you got blahblahblah all day long from different sessions, this one's no different, yeah, read it down tweak as needed, then take it, and then ok, next, downbeat, and THAT starts happening...WHOA!

It was an inspired session!

This seems to be the only issue: https://www.discogs.com/Larry-Young-Unity/release/6222209 There should be a record of just the alternates, an EP, called In Order To Form A More Perfect Unity...

Besides, how often did Elvin rush? Talk about possible synaptic overload...

There's two alternates of "Moontrane", although one's just a breakdown that makes it into Woody' 2nd chorus, where he flubberjubs just a littlebit, so they stop the take.

Oh, so he was a victim, then? This is funny to consider, because more than one Evans Worshipper (the highest level of Evansfan) I've known has gone one at great length, and with no small passion, about how "balanced" he was, his playing, his ethos, everything about his was "balanced", and I've always LOL'ed pretty hard at that notion from the first time I heard it, if only because I don't know what the fuck that is supposed to mean. What is this, The Three Jazz Bears, not too this, not too that, just right? That line of thought seems to tell more about the advocate that it does the subject....all these people unsure of their balance and needing to look to Bill Evans to provide it. Wow....people done gone full-on crackoplestic with that shit.

So...the thoughts were coming to him faster than the bands he had would allow for him to play in one pocket, so he had to rush? Doesn't that sound a bit...undisciplined (as a player and as a bandleader), especially for an artist who made so much about discipline and esthetics and balance an all that stuff? If that's all it is, the bill Evans had a great mind but was too fucked up a person to really deliver to his optimum potential? I mean, that may well be right, but that's not what all of his fans, devotees, worshippers are going to be able to get with... Give me Ran Blake anyday - better harmonies, better time, plus he's living a good long time, the better to prove his points.

God, I hope it's not some pettyass legal bullshit. But if they're pulling/snatching downloads....what's wrong with the world today?

You won't be enlightened, you'll be set! The rushing, it didn't just come on all at once. It was a gradual development. Like, the first Montreux album with DeJohnette, on Verve, is a beaut. The next one, on CTI, not nearly so much. It was just sort of a developing situation, as they say on the TV News, But the Bill Evans that played so truly awesomely on Blues And The Abstract Truth, that guy...he went away and never really came back. Some of us mourn his loss, actually.

Calling TTK - the next time you feel like having a Tiki Party AND playing some Bessie Smith, here's your record. I find the whole thing quite enjoyable, and drinkable as well. Don't be surprised if a scenty moisture overtakes the room and leads the way for the rest of the evening. Enjoy!

Then you need to get the LP.

It's a matter of pocket, which, I know, no objective measurement about that, but sorry Digitals, there are things in between that you haven't gotten to yet. The word "pocket", you think about the implications of that word, it's something that is enclosed, finite, but with a lot of room on all sides, it can even bulge, it can fold up on itself, it's pretty damn flexible, a pocket is,, but when something comes out of your pocket, it's no longer there, it's someplace else altogether. It's gone from one place to another. When you're in the pocket, you can be an infinite # of places, but when you're OUT of the pocket, no matter where else you might be, you are NOT in the pocket. Time/pockets, yes, it is subjective to a certain extent, but at some point...if it comes out, it's just not in there any more. Something's gone wrong. On top of the pocket, good, deep in the pocket, hey. OUT of the pocket, though, UH-oh. I started out saying that Bill Evans' pocket changed, and it sure did. I don't know that he ever lost it relative to within himself, he was too much a musician for that to happen, but something happened for some reason, and he definitely started playing with a pocket that was arguably too far ahead of the group's established beat that it was ..unpleasant. I get that there are many respectable opinions who either don't hear this, or aren't bothered by it, or actually even like it, so, you know something for every taste and all that. What i do hear is the harmony, that could be pretty interesting, but that time....it displeases me in a basic way. But that's just me, right? Above all else, though - if you want to learn about time - don't rely just on a metronome or any other measuring device that is so freaking literal. You need that, but not just that. Time is not a literal thing, it's a constant, you can never go where time is not. So pay attention to the in-betweens, the seemingly irregular, not everything lines up in standard measurable symmetries. time is a WHOLE, not a part. Nobody can get it all at once, because if you did, WHOAH!, right? But be open to time as a concept, a process, not just a measurement.

TENACITY!

On top of the beat and ahead of the beat are two entirely different places....especially when it's not really part of a manipulation.

whoa...

I don't know if it's accurate to equate playing on top of the beat with "aggressive". Wynton Kelley played on top of the beat and nobody thinks of him as "aggressive"? Later Evans, it's not a question of aggression, necessarily, it's just that the motherfucker rushes. He doesn't just play on top of the beat, the plays ahead of it. For anybody else that would be a disqualifying trait, but for whatever reason there are plenty of people who aren't bothered by it when Bill Evans does it, so...He got into that habit at some point in the 60s, then it took root and grew. I'm loathe to equate it with simple drug use, but the question of psycho-neuro changes are real enough, changes both mental and physical. And it also raises the question of whether or not that was his natural self to begin with, if maybe the reason he was so chill to begin with was peer-pressure to not play so goddamn rush-y? But - unless any of us were there, none of us will really have any insight into the truth of what it was, and those who were...well, what's the old saying, gentlemen don't tell? And that applies to ladies as well. People. The whole thing seems sordid to me, actually, and there's not the music to make up for it, not for me. Same thing with the whole Chet Baker thing, but at least Bill Evans at one point had a vision.

Yes?