JSngry

Wait, are you conflating the need for strong and efficient law enforcement with the complete irrelevance of who provides it? I mean, ok, if my girlfriend is lousy in bed, does that justify me getting it on with my sister? Immediate needs supersedes means of fulfillment? Kinda not okay, right? Even in private, but especially in public? Maybe I should get a better girlfriend, or at least deal with the one I have to see what's not going right and try to fix it? But MY SISTER? EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For that matter...POP QUIZ! True Or False? - People gonna die because of the Coco, and that's just life, life is tough and innocent people die through unfair menas. Yet life goes on. Too bad about that, but life goes on, can't disrupt the basics structures of society just to keep that from happening.

Yes, let us aspire to a non-statistically shameful level of mediocrity in all things! As for missing baseball, the Rangers are still undefeated and the Astros have yet to win a game. What's to miss?

Which posts are those? I'm the only moderator on right now and I've deleted nothing. Here's one that's still here. Here's another. and a third. one more. and this. Accusations of thread-tampering are very serious and are not taken lightly (it's not a crime, but..) Please advise if your claim of your posts being deleted by anybody other than yourself are accurate.

Accused felons. Period.

Looters of course are criminals. Thugs are generally, but not always criminals, thuggery itself being an attitude, not an act in and of itself. Being "Radical Left" and "other forms of Lowlife & Scum"....what criminal statutes does that violate? So...1 out of 4. 75% Fail Rate, not good, even in baseball.

American criminals are not American citizens? Do tell!

I'd wager lunch that if Sonny did do the gig at all during this period, it was just for a night or two, and maybe done as a "favor" to either one by the other, certainly not anything involving an ongoing commitment lasting even as long as a full engagement (like they used to do, you know, a week or two at a time). Surely there would be beaucoup documentation of that....

This is - and has always been - my favorite period of Mobley. The earlier stuff, yes, that is extra-special in all kinds of ways. But this stuff grabbed me by the gut from jump, and nothing about that has changed. so yeah - if you don't have this, please consider getting it. The rest of us, hey, we like to buy stuff, so thank us for keeping the market going for people who really need it. With any luck at all, it will be your turn someday!

Exactly! I do think there's a discussion to be had about the original intent of the releases that were signed and the current usages of materials so obtained...not so much about right of ownership (which i should think would be pretty much cut and dried., but about when I signed this with you, did anybody involved foresee that was it really going to lead to this, and tell me again why I'm not getting paid now (other than the fact that I'm dead)? Not saying that there's a forgone conclusion here, just that there is a discussion to be had.

What was the jurisdiction of a Blue Note contract? Was there specific language pertaining to international radio & concert appearances, or was it just to do with studio recordings?

When there were lots of gigs, a lot of times you had to drive to get to them. Some of them were close, some were not close. Sometimes you shared the driving, sometimes you did all the driving. Sometimes it was easy, sometimes it was not. Sometimes the ride was comfortable, sometimes it was not. Occasionally it was fucking miserable, occasionally delightful. What it always was, was driving. I have done a buttload of driving to and from gigs in my life. Too much. But I have never had an accident, nor been in the car when somebody else did. Not everybody drives to my liking, nor I to theirs, but the object of the game is to get there, get paid, and then get back (or to the next gig, as the case may be). As long as that happens, it's all good, ultimately.

Wasn't/Isn't it standard practice for a release to be signed by the performer(s) prior to a broadcast that essentially cedes all ownership of the broadcast and its recording to the broadcaster? Use of those recordings has certainly changed over the decades, but the contracts/releases have not. Moral of the story, perhaps - think about what you sing before you sign it.

Hello!

There was something on PBS back in the day. Put a lot of pieces together for me, b/c I only knew him from Strata-East, had no idea about "Robert Northern" until then. so yes, RIP.

Hey, it's not the mistake that matters, it's how you fix it!

NOTE - Produced by Ray Brown, NOT Norman Granz! This is a really good record. They all are. If you had 20 or so Milt Jackson records that all sounded about the same and were all REALLY good, which ones would you get rid of if you had to, and why? That's not nearly as easy a question as it might seem...because they are all REALLY good. I think the answer might be to just put them on a flash drive, that way you could keep them all AND get rid of them all!

Bags is great. Is Bags ever NOT great? The only "qualm" I might have about this record is the pianist, who gets a little splashy-flashy in spots for my taste. But hey, Bags.

I just did!