JSngry

Good. Because that would blow up on them in a BIG hurry!

If I'm going to be leaving this planet, I'm hoping to do it the Charles Earland way.

I do hope the "Trainwreck" session gets a carefully curated issue. There's certainly merit in the music, and Tyrone Washington remains of interest as a "story". This Blakey thing, if carefully assembled, and be pleasant. Past that, though..."not for general release" definitely applies, imo. Is Zev Feldman and/or Blue Note claiming that he's the one who discovered this Blakey session, or is he just "presenting" it?

You can reach out to Use3D to see if he's still around. I think he's Jim's brother, maybe? He was/is also an Administrator. Here, this guy: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/profile/14-use3d/

Hey, I was on the phone just yesterday to a CS rep for a PT billing department who was located outside of Harrisburgh, and when I asked her were they taking precautions about working in the office and such, here response was, "not really...we're just hoping it all blows over, to be honest with you" OOOPS!!!!!!

Or maybe he went away... But seriously...does he have any actual legal ownership in the corporate holding that is the Blue Note label? I mean, he served it well for decades, and is definitely a HOF-er for that (and other things), but as it pertains to the business itself here in 2020, is he Don Was' boss? Would this release even need his approval from a corporate/business angle?

Several discussions about this session over the years, but in this "new" context, refer back to here and go forward: It should be fine enough as a single album. The session as a whole is pretty hilarious, but if it's been culled and crafted with care, it will be a decent (enough) release. Not essential, by any means, but not nearly the comedy of the unfiltered source material. Exactly. It's a fun casual listen, but...

Ah, here we have it:https://www.discogs.com/Arnett-Cobb-Funky-Butt/release/7009630 This album was produced by co-project of Teichiku Record and Gus Statiras/Progressive Records. Recorded January 22, 1980 in NY, and released May 25, 1980. So they are both "original" covers in/on their respective countries and labels of origin.

Might just be an IP issue. So yes, Jim's the only(?) Administrator (is Use3D still around?), and you have to have Administrator access to deal with that type issue.

If it is, that's a question with a known answer. Otherwise, not sure,

Did Progressive license it from a Japanese label?

The top one is in line with all other Progressive LP cover designs of the time.

And yet, somebody let it get out and spread anyway. I say kudos to Blue Note for realizing the cat's been out of the bag for a while now and for trying to sell as many of the kittens as they can. And compared to what all was on the original out-of-the-bag cats, it looks like the kittens have gotten all their shots, have been wormed, and are all spayed and neutered. Perhaps Blue Note can handle other similar vault items under the tributive heading of The Bob Barker Series.

Delighted to have lived long enough to see this!!!! https://www.cbs.com/shows/bob-hearts-abishola/video/yVS3yBmnvbUZhX70KAcKg2D2WIjihk5T/bob-hearts-abishola-sock-wife/

Yeah, that was Moody's "Newark" record. To borrow a notion from Sonny Rollins, you can't get beeter than that, only different. You know waht is really badass about Moody on that one? How he plays trhough the chromatic substitiuions, he doesn't fall back on just repeating a pattern across the movement, he fucking plays through it, like it's the normal changes and he's just playing his melody. You'd be surprised at how many "name" players don't have the mental reosurces at the ready to think that freely about things like that in situations like that. James Moody = BADASS. Anybody who tries to get you to think otherwise, walk away from that topic, because they will be - and are - wrong.

That's a more thorough issue, but just for the mojo, Alamac AGAIN!!!! Note the deep luxuriance of the highest quality bootleg label too!

Administrative incompetence? That, and Institutional Arrogance: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/coronavirus/as-restaurants-close-in-collin-county-friscos-remain-open/2333989/ otoh, hey, maybe Texas will lead the way in THIS: https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2020/03/19/dfw-coronavirus-tracker-texas-restaurants-can.html

That would be me with the trio record with Hampton Hawes, only I still haven't warmed to it. But the Bohemia stuff benefits greatly, imo, from hindsight being 20/20. At the time of its release, I think this was the first document of the "new" Mingus and as such, the music might well seem tame and under-developed. And maybe it was. I mean, it seems like Mingus is still having some of his "old" approach in there. But hey, whatever problems there were with that took care of themselves!

Gonna try to get through all 8 discs today, so far, well into Vol. 3. The only preventative will be what else pops up during the day. the music is fine!

This reminds me of the height of the AIDS crisis, when there was a lively sub-set of scientific debate about whether it was HIV itself that was killing people, or if it was "just" that the presence of HIV was exacerbating existing/underlying conditions. Those of us of a certain age remember Dr. Fauci being in the middle of that world, and that he was the John Kerry of AZT - he was for it before he was against it. Point just being that then, as now, the science will be evolving (because that's what science does), but the rest of us need to be rooted in common sense and basic "math" - Avoid any and all unnecessary voluntary entering into uncontrolled environments or situations, and stay sane, or as sane as possible. This won't last forever, and neither will we, with or without this virus.

Any news of other new streaming efforts, live- or otherwise?

Yeah, I went of a "deep" Rushing kick a while back and was more than amply rewarded. There's catalog to be had, and it's all of a piece, a piece of essential substanciality!.

Did somebody say Don McNeill?!?!?!?!?

The Rushing Lullabies CD comes with this LP attached as well, a worthy addition, even if my preference would have been to have it second instead of first. Still, killer. If by :southwest blues" you mean an overall all-encompassing regional behavioral dialect for negotiating the rhythms of life, then yes, that it is!

I don't want to go to my death being all gloomy about my life. And I don't want to go about my life being all gloomy about my death.