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This shit be ALL kinds of crazy.

Nope.

Mostly by/for, in real time. This list is the first time I've seen/heard og those archival things.

French label, mostly early-mid 70s recordings of veteran Swing/Blues/Jazz players playing their collective asses off. Some of the best Arnett Cobb on record, Milt Buckner, Lockjaw, Bill Doggett, Gatemouth Brown, just a lot of really good no bullshit music of a certain vernacular, you'll not hear it played better. The clioset parallel might be the old Prestige Swingville/Bluesville series, only of the then-current scene. Can't say that it was ever widely available in America for any real sustained length of time. A wee bit of it made it to the US via the Inner Citty/MMO Classic Jazz imprint back in the 70s. I have vivid memories of a good buddy of mine back then, a tenor player, discovering Arnett Cobb on one of those LPs, the dude was damn near literally seeing god. I'm really struggling with this list to get it down something affordable and storable, my money is not infinite and my spaces almost exhausted, but there's that much good/great stuff on it. I've been blessed with friends who have shared some of it over the years, and my urge to buy it myself, legit, is strong. I'd not be feeling that with any halfass or okie-doke music.

my god....so much gold there...

Not really. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321405.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichilemmal_cyst

Look, 1985 was terrifying, and for many reasons. But Miles was not one of them.

and Phil Collins gets all his deliveries direct to the Alamo, at no extra charge.

I'm thinking nothing but the best Beans for the Hawk from here on out.

Dude, you're rich! https://www.axios.com/chewy-ipo-valuation-e4054940-94f9-4e80-b45c-5ca388321327.html

A wen: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wen

The plot thickens...

Well, I wish that were the case, but...Kenya is Lalah's younger sister (unless Wikipedia's is confused, and that's always a theoretical possibility)...so who is Loleatta Holloway's older sister that falser is talking about? Let's remove the confusion and focus on what might well be the greatest disco record ever (from an outfit that made a lot of the worst disco records ever!):

Totally skippable, save for a blond Carolyn Jones saying "I don't look good in black"...I was like, the hell you don't!!!!

What does Kenya Hathaway have to do with Loleatta Holloway? I thought maybe felser was referring to Brenda Holloway, but there's no relation there. This is all getting confusing, the record's probably going to be good-enough but totally non-Miles-y. and it's Friday. Time for a nap!

who is that?

I listen to those records and have images of Mongo and the guys playing at some exclusive party up in some penthouse in NYC, all tuxed out and grooving politely, quietly, yet VERY strongy, and one fatfuck pigguest is asking the equally fatfuck pighost who this band is and the host says Mahngo Santamareer in a gravelly voice through his chomping cigar, found them through this Sheller kid's uncle, he gave me a deal, still more than I wanted to pay, but hey, you gotta pay for the best, right?. At the end of the night, everybody gets paid, the system works after all. Of course, that probably never happened, but unless you or I were there, we can't know for sure that it didn't.

Ok, I'm a churlish lout no doubt, but this loss of history upsets me more in the abstract than in does in the reality. Sure, there's some really impactful losses there in terms of original masters, but pretty much most of that has been harvested enough to where there are adequate backups if/when there's a demand. And all the stuff that is now "worrisome" in its loss now that we know about it, let's say the fire never happened and it's all right where it was left. Who's going to all of a sudden go looking for it? Who would even know about it? Again, worrisome in the abstract, but in the real world, not so much. It only affirms that collectors need to keep collecting (every so often, looking through the junk bins and the 78s in Half Price, I get a seriously WTF? moment, like a set of Myron Cohen Yiddish 78s, waaaay pre-RCA era, so, there's still shit out in the wild), listeners need to demand new recordings (or god forbid, make their own music) that matters to them right there in front of them as much as old records, and don't trust a business to give a damn about any of that. Look inward, and look forward. Looking back has always been an iffy proposition, because "winners" write the history, and there you go, most of us are not those type of "winners" - we are consumers, we are "losers", and who gives a damn for losers? Don't depend on a government or a business to "take care of you". For anything. Take care of yourself and then be kind to others.

you get a LOT of Hubert Laws (and on tenor!) and a good amount of Sonny fortune on those Mongo records, but you also get some pretty cheesy concpets too (not always, though!). Consistently great playing in the service of an ignoble concept, just the type of thing that requires the nichiest of niche marketers to do just right. But if they did it just right, at just the right price, I could go in for it. Hubert Laws was a helluva tenor player (big fat, soulful Texas sound and mucho muy fluente). As far as I can tell, this stuff is the most and best evidence of that.

Amandala's a bad sonufagun, don't overlook it. But this Rubberband thing...sounds like the type of thing I'll look to pick up as a cheap used promo copy or something. Started in a fit of contractual pique, soon abandoned for much better things (sorry, but Side 1 of Tutu is a masterpiece, and people who are stuck only having heard it on CD might have no idea what that means in terms of real time impact), what are they rebuilding here? This ain't gonna be Panthalessa, or even Big Fun. I like Ledisi well enough, but she should be doing her own thing, Same thing for Lalah Hathaway, although left to my own devices, I'll go to Loleatta Holloway. That Dingo, thing, though, that's a sad sack o' shit. And not necessarily because of Miles.

Did you dance to it? If so, in what spirit, and if not, with what spirit?

i've changed the thread title to FT to reflect that. An honest mistake, learning curve, etc. Anyway, hella good record, hope it finds a new home full of love, peace, and soullllll.