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omg, there is SO much irony there... nor on the Columbia sides, really.

Also, I'm prone to liking musics that are "exceedingly" anything. I mean, I've never complained about music being exceedingly black, or exceeding hillbilly, or exceedingly Mexican, or...you know. Seems to me that the downside to being turned of by exceedingly something is a willingness to settle for something that is "sorta" anything. Careful with that, now!

I get that. felt the same way for a loooooong time. It took be a while to get comfortable with that. But I got over it. At some point, you either value honesty or you don't. And there's an honesty, a truth, even, to the aural physics of the basic space created by those harmonies, a big wide open, damn-near infinite space. In the end, I find it hard to believe that that type of space is only for white people. Infinity is for everybody. If it's not, then it's not really infinity, is it? Similarly, nobody can be all of infinity, so everybody plays their part, either in getting there or keeping us from getting there. Perception is a trickster of the most insidious and vile variety. It wants us to believe that all we have now is all we can ever have. And it wants us to believe that if we can never know it all, then it's foolish to want to know more. It wants us to stay who we are, because, you know, it's hard to hit a moving target. Gotta keep moving!

Is that a legit site? Roach produced that record on his own dime and then leased it to Columbia. I find it unlikely (but not impossible) that a site such as this has gotten permission to offer this record. cf: https://www.iomoio.com/help.html#q23 Q: Is your web site legal? Yes, the availability over the Internet of the Iomoio.com materials is authorized by the license # IT - 07/13 No IT - 07 - 1/13 of the Ukrainian Public Organization "Avtor" issued for Iomoio Ltd. All these materials are solely for personal use. Any further distribution, resale or broadcasting is prohibited. All these materials are solely for personal use. Any further distribution, resale or broadcasting is prohibited. Q: If your web site is legal, how can you sell music for $0.16/track compared to iTunes $0.99/track? A: Our company and licensing authority is located outside U.S. area and we do not have to follow $0.99/track minimum regulations.

Not sure what "lost" means if people who are interested are seeing it. Felser seems to think the thread is "arcane"...I think the same people are seeing and responding there as they would anywhere else (yes, I check it regularly, because I like all kinds of music, although not all music...I'm promiscuous, not slutty). Maybe it seems less lost because it's segregated out. But "arcane" seems to me to be just another word for "hey, no bothersome other in my way".

I think it was probably as basic as that it was the early days of bands playing really loud (remember, Hendrix's Marshall stacks were radical as fuck at the time) and engineers/techs trying to figure it out as they went along. Today, hell, piece of cake. Back then, not at all. That, and Clapton & Baker were both plodders. Fluent plodders, but plodders nonetheless. Only Bruce played with any real sense of swing.

Was he playing any differently than he was by the time the band went to Columbia?

I have no problem with seeing that - and skipping over it as needed (which will be most of the time, for sure). But why do you want to hide what you're listening to from others? I mean, a thread is a thread, you can't block anybody from looking at a thread. Is this like sneaking out back for a cigarette? I mean, you'll still smell like smoke when you come back! Speaking of the Airplaners, I tried to listen to Surrealistic Pillow again a few months ago and found it mostly gargantuanly pompous and damn near unlistenable. But then I heard "Someone To Love" on the radio and immediately got pulled into it. Go figure. As for Cream, I'd think their relevancy has passed? I'll still pull out the Best Of LP (talk about calling any vegetable!) on occasion and play a side and be done with it. But...my ideal what are you listening to thread would be like my ideal record store - all of everything, and what you don't like but have heard is still better than not even knowing it exists.

I think that "silly" is a better adjective than "arcane", but that's just me. It's bad enough that we segregate our "classical" listening from our "other" listening and our analog from our digital, but now we're trying to segregate even further. To what end, I have no idea.

Martin Kane, Private Eye A really fun early TV detective show sponsored by United States Tobacco Company. The in-program "commercials" are perhaps the most unique of any television series I've ever seen.

Don't know how exposed you are to the Singers Unlimited, but if you want interesting, check out the a capella sides...they did three LPs worth that are currently available on a 2 CD set. Here's a typical example: And if you want to hear what, for me, is the apex of the Fischer/Puerling collaboration, here ya' go:

That Max album was leased to Columbia by Max, via Bruce Lundvall. It's not Columbia's to reissue.

If there was a Mosaic-type company that did Soul Jazz (or whatever you want to call it), there would be a good set to be made of Jack McDuff's & Shirley Scott's Cadet sides. It wouldn't be perfect by any stretch, but it sure would be good.

Ok, I am SHOCKED that this LP never made it to an OJC, especially since a later, lesser record by this same front-line band did. Not at all "outside", just "modern", not unlike an early Woody Shaw record. Pete Robinson + Juni(e) Booth make this one kick in and stay kicked in. Should have been on CD a looooooong time ago.

Ah, THAT'S where that all that crap that is cluttering up the Half Price bins is coming from!

Ike plays a lot of guitar on this one. Really "just" a blues record, sort of stock, really, but Ike could play some blues now, let's not forget that! And Tina could do this in her sleep, right? It's funny though, how today, if Tina was to make a "blues record" it would be a full-blown event (and would probably be bloated by nonsensical playing). Back then, hey, just another gig, just another record. It's a solid 3.5 stars imo, 4 if anybody wants to get sensitive about it. Worth a listen just to hear Ike play.

This is a GREAT record.

Can't see the video at work, and if it's Footloose, don't want to. I remember the video, and played the song at umpteen googletrillion weddings over the years. Not interested then, more than happy to aggressively avoid it today.

I've heard the Milestone versions in some form or fashion since the old 24000 series reissues (none before that, though). The LPs sounds a little better than the CD, but none as good as this new one. Not that it's suddenly all hi-fi or anything, that would be impossible. But there's at least some presence there now, so I'm happy. Or happier, at least.

Amazon delivered around 9:30 last night, so plan executed. I like that I can feel Baby Dodds' wood block. More music there than in many other things combined!

Oh, ok. Never saw it. It's about wild and crazy white teenagers, right? Or am I confusing that with some other bajillion movies?

I have no idea who that is? Looks like Kevin Bacon? But why? Or if?

That people always dance. Be afraid of a people who don't dance. Not individuals, but peoples. Something wrong there. In my experience, very few general dancers know or care what they're dancing to. But I have come to learn and respect that really serious dancers do. They have a direct physical relationship with the music that only some musicians do, and I firmly believe that it behooves any musician to play any kind of dance music in the presence of serious dancers. It's a lesson that can't really be learned any other way.

People like IG Culture, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Afronaught, etc. are very much aware of what they're doing, and what they're doing it with. More "traditional" house mixers, eh, probably not so much, if at all. But you know me, "jazz" or lack thereof is not a deal breaker for me. Also...music that's "meant for young people to dance to"...that accounts for a good chunk of jazz history as well as house music. There was dance long before there was jazz, and unless things go all the way dark, there will be dance long after jazz. But while we're waiting...