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Ok, let's go through this window while it's open.. TRACK ONE - Branford? Somebody of that era? It's in tune, that's for sure! I miss Jean Carne here, btw. No, not Branford. Sounds sincere, whoever it is, but otoh, these questions have already been answered, so getting a 100 on the test is pretty much expected. Maybe the pianist is digging a little deeper, maybe a little? I hate that I'm getting to the point in life where sincerity alone no longer gets me to where I want to be taken, but here I am. TRACK TWO - There go them opening bass vamp agains! Kinda like 70s Miles w/o the electricity (otehr than the bass), kinda. It's a dead-end, but not suicidal, if that makes any sense. But - some electricity (other than the bass) would have helped, imo. That's one of the many things that Miles got in that music, painting a full spectrum with a full palliate. This sounds like a really good paining that's not quite finished. I missed Archie Shepp here, btw. TRACK THREE - Ok, this one's easy! SO many memories! SO much to say, and none of it is enough. This is one of the great musics of our time, ALL of it. https://www.discogs.com/Anthony-Braxton-Five-Pieces-1975/release/1035173 TRACK FOUR - Initial fears dismissed pretty early on.Real playing here, not playing-link, real playing. Tenor sound is a little familiar, but damned if I know from where. I like this a lot, both as music and as record. My guess is early 70s, and probably not American, at least not the entire band. Damn, it's good! TRACK FIVE - Sounds like a 50s Tito Puente RCA record, all three parts, 50s, Tito Puente, and RCA record. I could be wrong, though. TRACK SIX - Sounds like something Bollywood. There's a LOT of things going on in Bollywood, even the uninteresting stuff is interesting! TRACK SEVEN - AEC, I think. That shit is focused! TRACK EIGHT - Roy Buchanan? I don't dislike it, I just don't need it, it offers me no insight into anything that I find useful or otherwise inspiring about life and/or music. But i don't dislike it, really I don't. It's not evil, it's just totally not for me. TRACK NINE - Ra, glorious Ra! TRACK TEN - Good god, is that a Casio?????? That's the same tune as #9 and it might well be a Casio!!!! Not totally convinced that it's Ra, but a damn good tribute if it's not. TRACK ELEVEN - This is the kind of thing that everybody involved no doubt had a burning compulsion to do. So now what? TRACK TWELVE - "So now what?" is never a question that Fela leaves you asking. THAT'S what, there it is, right there. That was it, that is it, and that will always be it. Tony Allen is still alive and making records, which is great. Lester Bowie is not, and that still makes me sad. Neither is Fela, but you know, that's why you do it, because when you're gone, it's either been done or it hasn't. TRACK THIRTEEN - that's pretty sloppy...no real phrasing, pretty basic riff/answer, nobody breathes. Is this a rock band? What the hell is that drummer doing? He got a hole in his pocket! At least there's a little bit of dynamics, which give the illusion of variety, even though there is not any, not really. BREATHE MOTHERFUCKER! I know it's a guitar, but BREATHE DAMMIT!!!! I hate msuic that doesn't breathe, I don't care what kind it is. Even if the effect is to NOT breathe, you can tell it when it's on purpose. This is NOT on purpose, this is somebody about to die a musical death from not knowing how to breathe. Hope they fared better offstage? TRACK FOURTEEN - and now we get "exotic", ok....at least there's space, let's hope it stays there... TRACK FIFTEEN - oops, no such luck. And now a Bo Diddley-like beat. I miss Jerome. Oh well, can't win 'em all. The good stuff here was very good, and much of the rest was good to listen to form an opinion about, if only about that one piece. Good clean fun, thanks!

because he doesn't pimp his own work, here's a GREAT mix of vintage (and non-cliched) R&B by Rod Stasick: https://www.mixcloud.com/rostasi/random-radio-075-rockit88/?utm_campaign=notification_new_upload&utm_medium=email&utm_source=notification&utm_content=html Chubby Newsom - Toodle Luddle Baby Beverly Ann Gibson - Wait and See Pigmeat Markham - Your Wire's Been Tapped L.C. McKinley - Nit Wit Bee Bee Queen - Queen Bee Oscar McLollie & Jeanette Baker - Hey Girl, Hey Boy Rockin' Roy Thomas - Manslaughter Jimmy Milner & His Blue Ribbon Band - Nobles Shuffle Baby Dee - He Ain't Mine No More Rosetta Perry - Farewell Blues Jimmy Lewis - Let's Get Together Joe Lutcher - No Name Boogie Four Tees - Funky Duck The Crawford Brothers - I Ain't Guilty Hank Ballard - Broadway Al King - It's Getting Late Jackie Kelso & His Orchestra - Blue Moon Jack McVea - Wine-O Mamie Bradley & Group with Andy Gibson's Orch. - The Patty Cake Sam Meyers - You Don't Have to Go Booker T. Washington - St. Louis Boogie J.L. Smith - If It's Too Late Little Mummy - Where You at Jack Aaron Neville - Wrong Number Al Savage & Joe Morris Orchestra - Be Seein' You in My Dreams Finey Mo - Shake That Thing Betty James - I'm a Little Mixed Up Anita Tucker - Ring-Aling-Aling (Let the Wedding Bells Ring) Carmen Davis with Ernie Freeman's Combo - No, No Baby June Bateman - Come on Little Boy Marylin Scott (Mary Deloatch) - Rumors of War Gene & Gary - Baby Without You Bea Booker - Comfort in My Heart Ford Nelson Quintet - Little Annie Melvin Smith - I'm Out of My Mind Bobby Long & His Satelites - Mojo Workout Albert Washington - Ramble Louis Payne Orchestra - That's Allright with Me Fats Witherspoon - Hook Line and Sinker Carl Matthews - Big Man Willie King (Billy Gayles) with the Ike Turner Orchestra - Big Leg Woman Wailin' Bill Dell - You Gotta Be Loose Nellie Lutcher - Hurry on Down Irvin "Big Boy" Groves - I Got a New Car Eva Foster - You'll Never Know Louis Jordan - Jack, You're Dead Bernie Hardison - Love Me Baby Larry Davis - Whole World Down on You Bobbie James - Baby I'm Tired Charles Sheffield - It's Your Voodoo Working Tampa Red & Georgia Tom - Dead Cat on the Line Kip Anderson - I Wanna Be the Only One Arthur K Adams - I Need You Julia Lee - Snatch and Grab It Piney Brown - Talkin' About You Lord Tennyson - The Dance Marie Adams with Chuck Dillon Orch. - Ain't Car Crazy Marie Adams & Junior Ryder with Johnny Otis Orch. - Boom Diddy WA WA Barbara Lynn - Oh Baby Carmen Taylor - Teen-Age Ball Lemmy Johnson - Eatin' and Sleepin' Blues Jimmy Preston & Burnetta Evans - Oh Babe Elmo Nixon - Forgive Me Baby Richard Lewis & His Orchestra - Richard's Bounce Sam Price - The Dirty Dozens Team Mates - Crazy Baby Hop Wilson - Chicken Stuff Johnny Copeland & His Soul Agents - Ghetto Child Johnny Griffin and the Joe Morris Orchestra - Chuck-A-Boogie Danny "Run Joe" Taylor - You Look Bad Pee Wee Barnum - Rockin' Rhythm King Coleman - Alley Rat Eddie Kirk - Hog Killin' Time Floyd Tumbam Orchestra - Bashful and Blue Eunice Davis - Get Your Enjoys Bobby Robinson - Pour the Corn Drivers - Mr. Astronaut Johnny Moore's Three Blazers with Lee Barnes - Blues for What I Never Had Big Joe Turner - I Love My Baby Freddie Clark - Beggin' Papa Blues Dave Bartholomew - Good Jax Boogie Katie Webster & Ashton Conroy - Baby Baby Charlie Singleton Orchestra - Earthquake Fletcher Smith - Brand New Neighborhood The Three Riffs - Hard Ridin' Mama Morris Lane - Bobby's Boogie Lowell Fulson - Baby Won't You Jump with Me Tarheel Slim - Wildcat Tamer

Bobby Jones says to say "hi!"

And that strikes me as classic Jarrett mumbo-jumbo. Sounds great, but really? When did Miles ever have a "bad band playing terrible music" that he didn't get busy making better ASAP? Sounds like Keith was (is?) still working through his own seemingly quite enthusiastic contributions to a Miles band or two that totally flew in the face of the principles that Jarrett later loudly proclaimed to be sacred. Fuck it Keith, you were in an electric band playing electric music and you played the shit out of it, and sounded like you were having at least some fun doing so, Own it, man!

I don't recall the Gil Footage specifically, but I do remember the show. Jarret talked a lot!

Can't buy that. If you don't have what is correct, go with something else that is, like a talking head, a book cover, or a picture of an animal or something. It's just sloppy, imo, to not get it right some way. A lack of imagination and/or awareness of available resources.

I just find it disorienting as fuck when there's a discussion about Tutu and all of a sudden here's a clip of Miles and Bill Evans playing Jean Pierre, or there's a discussion about Kind Of Blue and up pops a still of a concert with Bobby Jaspar, or they're talking about how Miles made this new music called The Birth Of The Cool, which is not unlike saying that Jesus was a Christian. Considering the intended audience, none of this probably matters, but on the other hand, if it doesn't matter, why not just get it right. Can it be that hard? Surely not. And cumulatively, for the society at large, this sort of thing is one more nail in the coffin of general historical chronological awareness/sensitivity, of people thinking that anything other than that "then" was just one big time and place where everything happened all at one once. Yet another way we are being conditioned to be disoriented as a fact of life. I liked the movie, it was fun. But lots of things are fun.

Let's see what they got!

I'm sure there was a reason to make this record?

Yeah, I do the same for songs I hear on commercials that I can't tell if they're jingles or real songs. I only do that if I like 'em though, so I don't do that a WHOLE lot. Algorithms are useful!

Oh yeah, Fela, too, iirc.

Geez, I have that Bobby Previte record, bought it more or less when it was new, recall liking it a lot. But do I remember it 20 years later? NOOOOOOOO! And do I have the Conrad Herwig record? Well, uh...yes, I do...And I recall liking it a lot too.... I guess, maybe, that the more you get, the fewer repetitions you give to it, so the stuff that you like but doesn't, like, knock the bejeebers out of you doesn't really stick like glue the way it did when that was all you had to listen to. Broadening and deepening is a tough dynamic to keep even. But - that Randy Sandke record, I have never hear that, and now have an appetite to do so.

I'm thinking about Astro-ing a BFT. JUST KIDDING!!! but those darn algorithms are everywhere!!!!

Is it free for Android as well?

Had a quick speed listen last night, a few seconds of each selection. Artists that were immediately recognizable, in no particular order, were Anthony Braxton, Sun Ra, and Tito Puente(?).

These kind of structures piss me off when the visual chronologies go back and forth and back and forth and they act like they don't. Maybe that's just me, but nevertheless they do. I'm like Joe - where did that Gil interview come from, and what else is there?

No idea, but that's a drag.

Apparently NOT recorded at the Village Vanguard, boy do I feel stupid.

Reiner - Iron City, not Windy City. Blue Label, not Red Seal. SURPRISE!!! The debut recording? It says so. My ignorance, to be sure, but I was totally unaware of this record until finding it last weekend. You bet I snapped it up, and for less than a fin. Not in the best of conditions to be sure, but those old Masterwork LPs were built for the long haul. Not matter what the noise, the music always comes out on top, loud and (more or less) clear. It's on a few off-brand "historical label" CDs but that's it? That's a shame. Since RCA & Columbia are all the same company now, we COULD have both on a single release, and then history, as well as music, would be well-served. Oh well.

Damn good record. People who know how to really play a gig!

Foundational.

Good to see Gemini getting some love!

I should have heard of Johnny Letman before now!