JSngry

and one ignores Roy McCurdy's further evolution of that basic sound at one's own mortal peril!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was "in the air" as they say, a good example of the cross-pollination that we like about that time in music.

That almost sounds like a Maynard track!

What version of MS Office are you running, and on what OS?

I'm thinking it's mine too.

If I was picking a Barretto Fania for this list (and of course, I'm not!), it would be Que Viva La Musica.

Hey - right now, the Rangers are undefeated and the Dodgers are just a .500 team.

So...the Central (Texas) division has no Texas teams in it?

That's kinda sportsturbation, doing it just to do it while you're waiting for the real thing to come along. I mean, ok, but anybody who really gets into it...hmmmmm….

Or when you take your Ramsey Lewis Trio records to a party or seven.

Rangers are still undefeated.

Ok, just ordered from the label site, PayPal went to DJ Greene and Associates, does that sound right? Why yes, it does! https://www.dottimerecords.com/terms-and-conditions/

How graphic is it gonna be?

I know what you're thinking now... https://www.google.com/books/edition/Jazz_on_Film_and_Video_in_the_Library_of/NpQVuUAc1y8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Steve+Allen+Show+July+7,+1957+goodman&pg=PA124&printsec=frontcover

Or maybe let's see if we can't simultaneously pursue multiple micro-goals in pursuit of a larger macro-goal! Let's look at redefining both consumption demand and demand delivery! Short attention span is not an excuse. If computers can multi-task and parallel-process, surely humans can as well!

And one way to save energy is redirect what we use it for. Telecommuting reduces gasoline consumption, but increases demand on servers and such. So...try washing dishes by hand and hanging laundry out to dry, when possible. Yes, we have a clothesline in our back yard, and no, we don't use it nearly as often as we could/should. There's probably literally hundreds, possibly thousands, of little lifestyle tweaks than if done to scale would redirect energy consumption. At this point - no, there's not one BIG BANG moment around the corner that's going to end our dependence on fossil fuels. But out current behavioral patterns are only making The Wall Of Impossibility higher, not lower. It's not a question of "going green" nearly as much as it is one of maximizing personal efficiencies relative to the collective availability.

That's certainly one way to look at it.

Point is just this - yes, we know now what we know, but what we know is not the result of 30-40+ years of previous hardass all-in Mission to Mars R & D. It just hasn't been there. We have devolved into a culture that is very piss-poorly motivated to imaginate first, monetze second (and in the spirit of no politics, no comments about where that monetization could have come from....) That's always been a hurdle, of course, but...it's worse now than at any point in my lifetime. At this point, not all at once, but slowly/inevitably, we are going to have fewer and fewer choices. They're going to be made for us. that's what happens when available options continue to decrease, right? IMO, of course, and who knows when these Psaplusians are going to come down and put us back in their box, having gotten bored with this round of their game.

I bit on a Mosaic email pimping less than two weeks ago(?) and got my copy this afternoon. All thing considered, it might not be literally now or never, but if you don't want to find that out the hard way, carpe diem escondido, muchachos y muchachas!

And not only has it shipped, it has arrived, this afternoon. And VERY well packed, I must say! Video @ 11 on KOCO-Video Channel 19

Or ask this question - what would it look like today if we had started seriousass R&D 30 years ago? Too late for that question now!

Dude..that tune and a few others of Hank's like it, the ones that just had that cold hard whole-tone think lurking on allsides...to me, for a while, in my earliest days of BlueNoteObsession, that WAS The Blue Note Sound. I wrote a piece that tried to get in that zone, called it "Roll One, Stone Two" because Hank and because that was IT. I also have a really "tragic" story about my Caddy for Daddy LP based on that tune and that "thing", but these are not the times for "tragedy".

As much as anybody does these days...

I totally hear ya' about that. Maybe what helped me hear him on BN differently was having heard his Ornette record first, that's how it worked for me, Ornette before BN. The "Blue Note sound", a very real thing, and different once Frances Wolff took over from Alfred Lion (why, I have no idea). I think the Lion sound was "drier", not as much reverb, a more "immediate" sound and blend. Dippin' and, say, Sixth Sense, different sounding records, really. Or maybe just variations on the same sound. Still, different. Anyway, yeah, Billy Higgins, no doubt!

I've been mentioning this conversationally amongst my off-line friends for the last 5 years or so, that maybe the planet is just not build to hold this many people, at least not this many living this way, refusing to alter the way they deal with natural resource demand/delivery systems, and even my most "liberal" friends, the ones who love nothing more than to get all emo about "saving the planet" look at me like I'm loony. My saying "we will never destroy Earth, Earth will destroy us first"...many people just don't like to hear that. I suspect at some level there's a hard-wired vanity involved, because, you know, we humans like to think that we're masters over every damn thing, some of us over each other, but all of us over our basic resources. Well, we're not. Any agrarian society knows that. And if the enlightenment of science has gone a long way towards rightfully destroying the various superstitions that sprang from that realization, I think it's a damn fool who at some point doesn't contemplate that destroying a superstition doesn't destroy the reality that generated it to begin with. I had a conversation once about this with somebody and said something like maybe we don't have room for any more people, and their response was all roll-eyes Seriously? Do you realize how much empty space there is on the planet? And we can always build vertically! Not once considering that all these people take up, not just space, but resources, stuff like, you know, water. We ain't 3D-priniting water yet, ok? I mean, nobody wants to think that they're one of the people "taking up too much space", and I totally get that. But...whatcha' gonna do when something bigger than yourself doesn't care what ANY of us thinks?