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Well, you know at some level that when it comes to choosing a partner, you like and want that safe falling on your head thing. So that's what you went with. Cost-benefit, anything not that would have not cut it for you, I'm sure you had options for finding/trying that out. Too much cost, not enough benefit. I mean, don't get me wrong, you're not alone in this preference. Other side of the coin - I'm convinced now more than ever that people who keep making bad/"bad" choices do so because whether they realize it consciously or not, that's what they really want. If it's not, they need to figure out how to want something different more than what they currently want or else just deal with accepting themselves as wanting what they want. But, you know, at what point does an "apology" become nothing more than a really personalized excuse. which itself is nothing more than a distraction designed to buy time to get it going to do the same thing over again and again and again? The really powerful people in life, the ones who have real power, are the ones who are honest with themselves about themselves. They can be killed off, but they cannot be beaten into place. Me, I try to keep that in mind when picking both true friends and true enemies, and everybody else in between.

Yeah, we definitely learn more by owning our decisions and their outcomes than by looking for justifications and other excusatory shit.

Did you refuse them the privilege of your patronage?

At root, yes I do. Gotta remember, some people go for pain, others go away from it, and most of us will take a mixture. But in every case, we go for what we want in the most efficient way we know -or have learned - how (and whether or not we realize that or not...people spend years in one kind of another of therapy figuring that out). But let's look at this another way - if we know that there are people out there who have no compunction about hurting us, why do we let them do it anyway? If we are not willing or able to meet them on their own terms, cannot it be said that we do "deserve" what happens to us at their hands? If we know what's coming and just let it happen, and don't bother to resist, repel, revolt, and/or relocate, either them or us, whose fault is that? I'm tired of blaming other people for simply being who and what they are. Making excuses is a waste of energy and a dangerous diversion, especially when it comes with a "value judgement". We know who they are, and apparently they know who we are.They have done the math and are proceeding accordingly, why aren't we?

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There was still yet another reason for making the opera, one that resonated with Malcolm X’s own advocacy of black economic self-determination: to create jobs for black opera singers otherwise limited to a career of “Porgy and Bess.” Black singers, Davis said at the time, “are dying to do opera, demanding operatic roles . . . I thought I was providing a great opportunity for twenty-eight singers.” Cannonball smiles.

Yeah yeah yeah, but nobody makes a move for power without thinking they're "enlightened" in some form or fashion. Nobody. And everybody makes a move for power, even if it's a move for the power to avoid power. Some moves work, some don't, but always, there's moves. Besides, do you think anybody is capable of behaving without a "cost-benefit" analysis factoring in the mix somewhere? I doubt that any able-minded individual is, to be honest. It's just that some people set different acceptable margins than others. We all make choices, simple as that. What we might want to consider as a meaningful variable, though, is how different individuals measure. Metrics for everything, no room left for intangibles, if it's not measurable, it doesn't really exist. And/or if it exists but is not yet measurable, we've just not broken it down enough, it's there, we just need to keep analyzing until we find it. And then, at some point, "man" can indeed begin to function as "god", not just in attitude, but in performance. Because the ability to define "is" is the very essence of ownership, and the very essence of ownership is absolute control. "Stewardship" is for suckers. I suppose we can also look at what this whole concept of "binary choices" (i.e. - digital not just as technological tool but as essence of soul) is doing to us. But it's easier to just blame the boardroom. Not that they don't deserve blame, but, really, they're not different than the rest of us, they are just burdened by fewer non-binary choices than the rest of us.

and therefore of life.

I think it's called "enlightened self-interest", and it's hardly a new concept, nor is it necessarily an "evil" one. What should/could be examined is a determination of what has driven evolution (of every kind, especially cultural) in the direction it has gone all these eons. Seems to be that the there's a constant back-and-forth between what constitutes the "self" in "self-interest", to what, if any, extent the individual can be benefited by the collective. Does "self" = "me","us" or a combination of both to be determined at any given era? Any attempt to determine how much the collective can be benefited by the individual inevitably/eventually fails unless/until the individual sees the benefit in belonging to the collective, and to what degree. Short of that, it takes coercion, and that is not a desired outcome...unless it is, in which case, BOOOOOOO!!!!! We seem to be at a point where there seems to be a permanent (for now) division about how individuals feel about how much and what kinds of benefits they get from belonging to the/a collective. I think we all know how this ends, but we'll see, if we live long enough. It might take a while.

I don't trust people who don't understand drums/percussion. I mean I know buttloads of them, and even like quite many of them. But I don't trust any of them.

Why don't they do like the did during that other war thing and let the girls play? In skirts and stuff. A war-weary nation is hungry for a healthy diversion!

We all know what we can do. Perhaps the consideration should be what we as individuals will do, and why we will insist on doing or not doing it. For me personally, "Wuhan" sounds like the name of a old-fashioned restaurant that wasn't very good to begin with, A word seemingly more fitting for food blog-ish convos than a serious public health discussions. Last time I looked, thee were plenty of words that meant the same thing, so it's not like there are no choices.

You're not the only one. Although to be honest, I think it's the most potentially upsetting Coltrane on record, so much sustained, unrelenting energy and invention...there are a lot of implications in both the music and in the decision to bring something like that to the market place....

Two good/very good records that I'm glad to have heard a few times each now, but don't see returning to at any point.

Yeah, I'm picking up on a strain of thought that this is killing mostly really older people, so everybody else should just get back out there and get that economy pumping again, let the old people die, too bad about that, but, you know, we got to get on with our lives. Which, you know, if that was the way it was going to work, I could almost see that as one of those "tough decisions" that we get called upon to make in life. Civilian Death Panels By Consensus, hey, sure, why not. I can see Alaska in my freezer. But you know...that is NOT going to be the way it works.

It was from a '65 Half Note radio broadcast, so it was not an officially sanctioned recording. For some unknown reason the piece was not included in the official impulse! issuance of some of those recordings. Go figure. I think it's the highlight of all of them, but they don't ask me what I think. The one(?) CD that I know of that had it is indeed a grey-market/bootleg and is long gone.: That CD did see an earlier life as a bootleg LP:

More from Maggio Music Press: https://www.amazon.com/Music-Score-Maggio-Stage-Development/dp/B01M4HL5GZ/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1590171247&refinements=p_27%3ASteve+Spiegl&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Steve+Spiegl and of course, if you've been around trumpet players of a certain temprment, you WILL know this one: https://www.worldcat.org/title/basic-course-for-trumpet-the-original-louis-maggio-system-for-brass/oclc/465191442

Acquire it? Hell, they WROTE it!

I'd like to think of this as a/the Sarah Lee of jazz records, you know, "Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sarah Lee".

Here's that "Outta Sight" chart...I gotta say that I think we played it better than this, all things considered. But maybe it just felt that way because of teenage energy.

I was expecting a little bit higher of a notch, but still, not bad. Ted Dunbar plays really well on here, though.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IDQhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA541&lpg=PA541&dq=benny+golson+maggio&source=bl&ots=pxAr8lJ1A1&sig=ACfU3U01N4HhH9sq0Hy3dNN_7WGCzSsUDw&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=benny%20golson%20maggio&f=false You remember the Lennie Niehaus etudes? I think those were pretty successful, actually. Seems like other writers tried to do something similar.

Hmmmm... My initial hunch was that this was some kind of "stage band" related thing, which is kinda borne out, maybe, but finding this, here: https://www.worldcat.org/title/two-part-inventions-for-trumpet/oclc/12398801 Published by Maggio, which published a line of stage band charts, at least one of which ws by golson ("Outta Sight", we played it in Gladewater, Tx!!!!). L.A. writers, stage bands beginning to boom, publishing, yadayadayada. No idea how Bobby Troup enteris into it, though. I think that might not be accurate. Yeah, check this out: https://www.amazon.com/Brass-Quintet-Music-Second-Trumpet/dp/B001JQ0Z7W