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David Boykin Expanse - Hazel Boykin – Big & Fine

Jeanne Lee sighting! Harold Vick is the reason to listen to this record, imo. Otherwise, it's proof that having a good idea is not enough. But yeah, HArold Vick got a wah-wah and he DOES know how to use it! But who the hell was Lou Courtney?!?!?!?!? What kind of hustle did THIS guy have going on? Do I really want to know? but even more...this whole Riverside/Orpheum thing takes an unexpected turn and Lou Courney and his buddy Robert Bateman are in the mix! and Robert Bateman can take us to Trevor Lawrence who certainly DID play on a Marvin Gaye record, oh yes he did! But, as great as he was on it, can you also hear Harold Vick playing all over in and around Trouble Man? I SURE as hell can! So yes, you can use this Compost record to get to the Marvin Gaye record that Harold Vick certainly could have played on to great effect, imo. Life IS Round!!!!!

It's coming.

Oh, that Dells album is amazing. highly recommended (and has apparently gotten kinda pricey). I love The Dells anyway, I love Bacharach anyway, and I for damn sure love Charles Stepney anyway. and look at these credits: Credits Baritone Vocals – Johnny Carter Bass Vocals – Chuck Barksdale Bongos – Derf Reklaw Raheem*, Ealee Satterfield*, Oye Bisi Nalls Cello – Karl Fruh, Leonard Chausow Congas – Charles Stepney, Derf Reklaw Raheem*, Ealee Satterfield*, Oye Bisi Nalls Double Bass – John Frigo, Joseph Gudstafeste* Drums – Donny Simmons*, Morris Jennings Guitar – Cash McCall (tracks: A5), Phil Upchurch, Roland Faulkner Harp – Edward Druzinsky Horns – Ethel Merker, Paul Ondracek Percussion – Bobby Christian, Charles Stepney Producer, Arranged By, Piano, Harpsichord – Charles Stepney Tenor Vocals – Michael McGill*, Verne Allison Trumpet – Arthur Hoyle, Bob Lewis* Viola – Arthur W. Ahlman, Bruce Hayden, Harold D. Klatz, Harold Kupper Violin – Elliott Golub, Everett Zlatoff-Mirsky, Irving Kaplan, Jerry Babransky*, Roger Moulton, Ruth Goodman, Samuel Magad, Sol Bobrov Yeah, Art Hoyle was definitely a top-shelf jazz player, and really, that's enough. But to take a full measure of a person's life, the ability to....circulate is something that not just everybody has!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4FNjQJpJR4

I get that it was mostly DeJohnette's thing, but listening today, one could be forgiven for thinking that it was in places a Bob Moses thing! I'm finding myself still liking it, even if with eye-rollings at any number of given moments. Too bad Harold Vick never played on a Marvin Gaye record.

I try to imagine guys walking in to read these charts and kinda looking at each other and going "mmmm, ok..." But listen to Art Hoyle there, playing it and giving it that good trumpet flavor. I know, not what "we" want to remember Art Hoyle by/for, but just still, studio musicians play lots of things and the good ones make it work every time. And that takes a certain innate musicality that is not all that common. RIP.

The Phoenix issue has been confirmed to be a half-step too high. What about the other two?

Kinda hard to believe that Kern got pissed of at these...much less that they're still not reissued anywhere(?) except on an old Phoenix LP..and these are allegedly in need of pitch adjustment?!?!?!?! (not sure about that, the keys are funny, but the timbres all sound right to me). Sorry, I still can't take Johnny Richards seriously...nothing to do with his gifts, which are obvious, just that everything he does is...nothing I can take seriously. But if you got an OG of this thing, hey, you got a little bank! https://gripsweat.com/item/174024581825/worldsrarest-bebop-lp-dizzy-gillespie-meets-kern-paramount-a-1-nm-top-copy yeah, those first videos are a half-step high. YIKES! It looks like a Mosaic spine!

To understand the police forces ringing Trump and the White House it helps to understand the dense and not-entirely-sensical thicket of agencies that make up the nation’s civilian federal law enforcement. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/05/protests-washington-dc-federal-agents-law-enforcement-302551?utm_source=pocket-newtab Citizens - Know your infrastructure!!!! The public has little understanding or appreciation for the size of some of these agencies, each of which has its own protocols, training, hiring guidelines and responsibilities. On the lighter side, few tourists know, for instance, that the National Gallery of Art—home to some of the world’s most famous artwork—has a shooting range for its police tucked away above its soaring central rotunda.

I wonder if Roscoe or Braxton ever heard this, or something else like it. Because if you start in the middle of a phrase.... Or Evan Parker? Probably so?

Was this recorded before, after, during the Almost Like Me session? By whom? Why did it stay unreleased for almost a decade? What's the deal here? The lack of detail makes it seem kinda Shady Grady as far as did they get paid right for this, the band, but I don't know. That trio..wow.

Not the mindfuck that is Almost Like Me....except when it is.

And that Penske truck was UPS-level washed, right? The one that came to my house sure was.

The New Wave Of Soundtrack Is On impulse!

You can tell them all you want to, but they don't listen. They want to get their version of "works", period. And then there will be no "right" or "wrong", just "is" (which is to say, the way of the coders will be THE way). It's more Get In Line shit.

"Systems" are just tools. No system is better than the people executing it.

That Postcards label had some interesting releases.

You lived in Chicago in '68, correct?

I really dig this Bill Swindell guy, sounds like he had at least one more gear than he got to go to on these records. should be at lest a little bit more recordings of him, but life is not fair. I also dig how Parker's playing here sometimes speaks the same language as later Lester Young.

What a gem of a record! The band appears to be mostly D.C./Baltimore in original and everybody can play. They are today referred to as "unknown". Pianist Yusef Salim went on to make an ongoing cultural contribution, he is NOT unknown! http://carolinajazzconnectionwithlarrythomas.blogspot.com/2008/08/brother-yusuf-salim-rip.html

And now we can pivot to one of the overriding issues of our day - does law enforcement need to be militarized/"militarized" in order to be effective? Because like Brad said, an effective military depends on people being able to sublimate their individuality, and there is no room for empathy once that happens. War zones, drug lords, yeah, that's shit's real. But so are a lot of other things. Protecting and serving is not by definition an act of aggression against a citizenry, it is an act of love, of empathy for and with a community. Your loved ones should not be your enemies, and that should be a reciprocal feeling. But how can there be love where there is no trust? And how can there be trust where empathy is repressed? Lord knows, I want cops to be heroes, and many of them are. But...there's a lot of culture changes that need to happen so we can evolve forward, changes from and in all cultures, citizens and cops alike. And money, THAT culture needs to change more than any of them because is it just me, or does it seem like when push comes to shove, the institutional structure is going to protect top-down, with money always determining where the top is? Like that mountain-top is just going levitate as the rest of the mountain underneath it burns and crumbles away? I'll call on Johnny again to ask the question that must not go unanswered, and once answered, acted on until all is ready to go, go forward?