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And that's exactly the type of thing I have every desire to avoid, especially when it's offered to me from other people by an algorithm.

and there's one more RCA, look for it if you like...the cat got a 3-record deal with RCA. It's actually called Cornbread...

simultaneously exciting and depressing. The energy level is high, and Red Holloway is in his primest of prime forms here, but Sonny Stitt, in keeping up and not falling behind, sounds...tired, and old, like an aging warrior who is doing this because there's nothing else he CAN do...he's still got skills, but you can also hear that he's wearing himself out. No matter how good it is, hearing Stitt here can possibly ask the question of it this is all there is to this, maybe there's something else to be had out of this life. ? Records like this need to exist, because that's a question that should always be asked.

At this point, just do it. If people want to do it, they will. If they don't, for whatever reason, they won't. I really don't see the point, though. If we need Facebook to connect, then we either don't need to be that connected or else we aren't trying very hard. I have contacts with people here, people here have contacts with me, I have an email address listed in my profile, here, anybody who wants to have theirs listed can have the same. It's not complicated to do that, a helluva lot less complicated than letting Facebook suck you into their...whatever they are doing. What we've learned already is creepy, and what we've yet to learned can't be any better. Again, if that's what you want to do, just do it. The current poll is showing an at best mixed results, so...build it and see who comes.

Hell, he owns this motherfucker, he can do as he pleases here!

But if I didn't put my FB account in there, the whole thing would be invisible to me and/or anybody else who didn't want to do that, correct? So in order to get an update, a person would have to engage with a platform which they have no interest or pleasure in engaging, correct? I click the O=Board link, nothing happens and I say oh shit, now I gotta join Facebook? Again, the idea is dandy, but Facebook...yuck. Gotta be a better way.

Yeah, they did that here, unleaded the land line biz, but they also threw in the FIOS operation. I love FIOS, don't think I'd want anything other than fiber, but great performance and an unstable business supporting it aren't exactly complimentary dynamics...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but...have you looked in there lately? In a perfect (in my mind, anyway) world, Jim Alfredson would post notifications about board outages on the band's FB page.https://www.facebook.com/organissimo/ You don't have to have a FB account to look at that page and it would also...how many people on the board follow the band's actual activities? I know I don't, and certainly should, and...did you know he's doing streaming from his basement every Sunday? That might also be part of a perfect world, to get engaged with the activities of the guy who owns this place?

But you already have a Facebook account, correct? And you use this existing account to join in this group, or is there some other way to get into it?

Eric Reed, yeah. Eric Wyatt, not exactly a revelatory player, if you know what I mean, but on these two early records (and really, I can't find them at all on the internet), he's playing with passion and sincerity, and in a dialect that sounds natural rather than adopted. Works for me. And he plays with slammin' drummers, E.J. Strickland on one, some guy named Noel Parris on the other. Googling the latter would indicate that he's either a dentist or else the son of one. https://www.zocdoc.com/dentist/noel-parris-dds-7847

Going through boxes of unshelved stuff trying to cull JUST a little bit and found two Eric Wyatt albums in CD-R form that a friend sent me at least a decade ago,. One is called Family Business, the other one A Covert Operation, both obviously very self-produced and both pretty much invisible on The Internet Of Today. If these would have been label-produced, I'd probably have let them loose, but they're so raw and burning and edgy (and obviously self-produced). James Spaulding guest on two cuts of the former (and is intense on one of those two), Robert Glasper is on both, playing very well indeed, and the notion that this guy is not in anyway a kid now, nor was one then...the two are going on the shelf and not back in the box. And then I'm probably gonna be done with Eric Wyatt, but that's ok. Now I know who is is, can give him props, and no longer think of some ex-Wynton pianist when I hear his name (who would that be, anyway?).

I lack the perspective to be able to do much more than "appreciate" this one. although I certainly DO appreciate it. However, as with so many things, Stan Kenton should have been getting THIS guy to write for him in the 70s. It's really interesting writing in more than a few spots. But the the solos happen, and that's where I drift off. Again, I lack the perspective to really get it then.

So, what was the big deal about The Devil going down on Georgia, anyway? That kind of thing happens all the time, and not just in the American South.

Yeah, seems to be a Frontier-only thing. Frontier has been rumored for a few months now to be on the verge of filing for bankruptcy. apparently their deal with Verizon hasn't been the cash crop they had hoped for...

Ok, so...how do you get members here to get on that page? What if their existing FB account is uber-private (such as it is)? Would people have to then create a new FB account, probably using their real name (or existing board name), either way, you got people entering into the Facebook ecosystem just to keep up with the board if there's ever an outage? And if it IS for members only, this Facebook site, how do prevent people from picking a random member (or other) name? What's the vetting/verification process going to be? Am I who I say I am? What kind of confirmation of identity are you going to require? You do not - can not - create any kind of a Facebook account without entering into their ecosystem, if just can't be done. Some people (many people) don't mind doing that, but some do. Seriously, Facebook is not your friend, they make it easy for you to put it all out there, but that's why they make it so easy for you - so they can take it. It's a good concept, just not for Facebook. Doesn't anybody have some kind of home page or an unused blog set-up, something they can set up to make announcements and allow for comments? That seems so much more non-intrusive a process than does Facebook...and to answer the question about how will people know to go to that site if there's an outage, well hell, how will they know to go to a Facebook page? Are you going to contact each member personally? It ain't 1998 anymore, the internet is no longer free, and is really no longer your sincere friendbuddy, unless your good friendbuddy from back in the day is now your crack dealer and you his ho, and I know that shit happens, but...

Art Davis, Elvin Jones, and presumably God, all in the same place at the same time doing the same thing. and yet...

To the entire continent?

Looks like it's a Frontier thing: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/tech/internet-provider-frontier-experiencing-outages/2360031/

Hey global citizens, what's been up with your internet within the last 1-2 hours? Ours here, we couldn't get but 1-2 sites to connect. Rebooted all modems/routers/devices and still nothing until about 15-20 minutes ago, when sites started loading, not all at once, and not fully immediately, but now all favorites are back, including this one. But before that, nothing except my very local email server. Nothing. Was this just a local/regional thing, or did it happens where you are as well?

a working band, not a project, unless making a living and creating a legacy is a project, and sure, it is.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8488365/Go-like-wind-Hollywood-icon-Dame-Olivia-Havilland-riding-bike-age-104.html

https://www.facebook.com/organissimo/ That part of it is a good idea. It's having it on Facebook that gives me the creeps.

I never walk away from a record with Mickey Tucker on it.

Yeah, you can do that, but AFAIK you can't set it up to only be open at certain times. Once you create it, it's always open, and it always belongs to Facebook, not to Jim Altredson and the community. So, once you create your page, how will you notify members that it's open and how they can get there? What if they don't have a Facebook account. and what if the one they have is already private because they don't like the way that Facebook takes even private accounts and starts trying to link you up with people who are friends of friends of friends (and yes, they do this, my account is set to the most private settings possible, and I still get that shit, and how does THAT happen?) And then there's the evolutionary issue - it might well be that many people prefer the "wall" model to the "forum" model, but...just think about unintended consequences, that's all I'm saying. I just despise Facebook, I really do. I don't like them, i don't trust them, I think they're predators, liars, crooks and just bad for society in general. Not the concept, the company. They would be the last place I would want to channel this community to. But that's just me.

Finished yesterday up with this one, which is one of the more...stealth (or just out and out deceptive) records I've come across in quite a while. So, ok, cheesy tinkly mood music for late-night seductions, right? The explain this: By the time it's over, you're in some really "out" notions of space and silence, the dynamics of interruption and insertion and specific textural gravities: and a McCoy Tyner cover in between (in 1965!): and the one nod to the Poinciana beat gets really opened up. Vernell Fournier, don't sleep on Vernell Fournier! But what about the strings? Well, the arrangements are by Joe Kennedy (a "legendary" figure about whom I don't know nearly enough) and they are lush, but not JUST lush. It's a stealth record.