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Craft Recordings is a vinyl-only enterprise, iirc.

Exactly! If anything, they could have thrown in the Prestige sides with George Coleman...not quite "legendary", but overall a stronger set of music than these.

Wow, that's really naïve. Trudeau Tea now served! It's not about the music, it's about the money that has been made off the music and by extension the culture. Those are two entirely separate issues. If all that shit had been straight from jump (or had gottens straight since), the dreaded "cultural appropriation" thing would likely not be here. But no, people keep making excuses, and the more excuses get made, the more the pushback goes towards people looking at a history of people being brought into this world strictly as a type of cash crop. You start from there and work forward, waiting for a point to where you can say, oh, ok, here's where it all changed, stopped, turned around, and...still looking, still waiting. It has evolved, but it has not stopped. Sure, music itself is a gift. Most people like giving them, and most people like getting them, and EVERYBODY likes that cycle of getting/giving/giving back. otoh...records, sheet music, booking fees, artist contracts, anything having to do with the selling of the music (and that is what it is) is not a gift. Not even. As people who have experienced music both as feeling and as product, we should be keenly aware of that difference, especially if we wonder why everybody is so touchy these days. It's not just the "cultural appropriation" adherents that are simple-minded and tedious, it's the other side as well, The Deniers, the ones who insist that we're all beautiful souls and have only accepted the gift and done right by all. You as an individual probably have. But there is a collective reality, and the collective reality is that such a thing has not happened. It's not complicated. Really, it's not. It only gets that way when one feels a consistent need to make excuses rather than cop to the reality and then go from there.

Legendary?

Not that, but I did pick up a copy of California Concerts that I swear belonged to my high school band director (which he "loaned" me until he asked for it back after three years). I mean, the cover was split in the same places, the scratches and skips, identical to what I had imprinted on as a teen. So, pretty sure it's the same copy. Funny thing though, this guy was based out of Longview, Texas, and the record store was in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Don't know, don't want to know. Same store also had the only copy of the Orgasm LP I've ever seen. Again, don't know, don't want to know. Like some pawn shops, some record stores just have that vibe to them, go in, get out, don't ask, just buy and leave. At least they did when there were record stores like that around. Just be glad your records can't talk, that's all I to say.

This is not a first-time author or other entry-level figure. Allen has been doing this for several decades now., making records of original music (with commentary) writing books about the formations and evolutions of American musics, etc. He's been there for a while now. If you're not familiar with him or his work, it's not because he's not been there to be found. For all the changes in the various hierarchies around the orbs of this music and its peoples, one constant remains - that of the individuals who go there own way on their own path, willing to go on in spite of the fact that the "institutional structures/powers that be" obsessively interpret any/all unwillingness to kiss their ass as an attempt to bite it. Just saying - assume nothing about those you don't know anything about. Labels and such are there for sales purposes, not as a path to learning.

or... you could get to know a little bit more about Allen, and then maybe not take the path of least-resistance when it comes to reading people and the things they say? I know, life is shot (and it's definitely getting shorter). But that may be all the more reason to pay attention to the details? Or not?

au contraire! Au contraire redux, surta (might have been more a regional hit, 125 on Billboard but it got played a lot in these parts after JID had peaked nationally) But THIS one peaked at #57...and I have zero recollection of it:

There ya' go.

Dreamers, not Drippers.

Well, kumbayah and all that, but if something is sold, that pretty much disqualifies it from being a gift, right?

"Maiysha" intersecting with Rahsaan and/or vice-versa...just saying, nothing happens in a vacuum.

"He Loved Him Madly" has many ways in, out, and all around. This, however obscure, is definitely one of them.

Perfect fits in abundance.

This.

Here lies greatness.

Dave Smith:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/25/us/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-trnd/index.html -Elizabeth Anderson, philosopher -Sujatha Baliga, attorney and restorative justice practitioner -Lynda Barry, graphic novelist, cartoonist and educator -Mel Chin, artist -Danielle Citron, legal scholar -Lisa Daugaard, criminal justice reformer -Annie Dorsen, theater artist -Andrea Dutton, geochemist and paleoclimatologist -Jeffrey Gibson, visual artist -Mary Halvorson, guitarist and composer -Saidiya Hartman, literary scholar and cultural historian -Walter Hood, landscape and public artist -Stacy Jupiter, marine scientist -Zachary Lippman, plant biologist -Valeria Luiselli, writer -Kelly Lytle Hernández, historian -Sarah Michelson, choreographer -Jeffrey Alan Miller, literary scholar -Jerry X. Mitrovica, theoretical geophysicist -Emmanuel Pratt, urban designer -Cameron Rowland, artist -Vanessa Ruta, neuroscientist -Joshua Tenenbaum, cognitive scientist -Jenny Tung, evolutionary anthropologist and geneticist -Ocean Vuong, poet and fiction writer -Emily Wilson, classicist and translator

See if the Maltin/DB article is still here: What I can see at work and at home are two different things.

flashback

Because it's there. also because there's some really good playing here, mostly small combo bossa with nobody cheating on changes of solos. Nothing to look for, perhaps, but no need to avoid if it's there.

Summore that good George Tucker!!!

Yeah, same here. Trying on planning on going this year!

Is this a new edition? The original is from 1988.