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Where do you hear this Cannonball influence?

From everything I can tell, a sarussophone is a double reed instrument, like the bassoon which it was sorta designed to mimic. Did Bechet play any other double reed instruments? Or are there single reed models of the instrument as well?

http://www.contrabass.com/pages/subsax.html Instruments like this are great for orchestral use, as texture. As far as being viable for sustained improvisation that is not based around texture...hmmmm...at some point the physics take over and that shit just muddles into itself. Can't see the videos at work, but is this what Scott Robinson is playing? A tubax? http://www.contrabass.com/pages/tubax.html

Again? What's your hurry? Really, Larry. Save some for the rest of us!

Although I applaud the notion of humans to think they can perfect nature, I think it's telling that nature always winds out eventually, always. We will not destroy Earth. We might well destroy our ability to inhabit it, but it will still be here after we're not, unless/until another natural force destroys it. Asteroid, too many Monster Magnets in a landfill, that kind of thing. That stirs a suspicion in me that maybe "perfection" is in the eye of the beholder, and the fact that there is a beholder with an eye in the first place is an outcome of a perception that is one step removed from what it thinks it's trying to perfect. Hey, we took shame in our nakedness. What could possibly go wrong from there?

Hard as it might be to imagine now, Blue Note was actually spending money on Bobby Hutcherson in the early 70s. I recall one full page ad in DB in particular. A full page ad! I guess BH had made some kind of market breakthrough or looked like he was about to, I don't know. At some later point, BN seemed to put him on the back burner, but hey, Columbia took him and ran with it for a bit. Who was Bobby's manager? Somebody who did well by him, I gotta think, the guy never had any real periods of obscurity, except, maybe(?) post-Columbia, but that might have been voluntary, coming out of it as he did with that glorious solo album on Contemporary. Dude always had a gig, always had a record.

It's been my experience that life itself in its natural state is often enough violent and abusive, without any human intervention. Expecting humans to be better than nature is, uh...perhaps hoping for too much?

Or after stopping for breakfast on the way home. That was always a good time, you play a gig until 2 AM, get outta the club at some point after, maybe you been drinking, maybe not, and then after you get all your shit packed up, somebody says hey, let's go for breakfast, and it's like hell yeah, breakfast as the last meal of the day rather than the first, that's as good as life gets!

Isn't that the one that was recorded outdoors? Oops, no, that was Linger Lane, my bad.

Done.

Sarrusophone is a different instrument family than the saxophone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarrusophone Check this stuff out: http://www.jayeaston.com/galleries/Unusual_instruments/Unusual_p_rothphone.html There's a picture of Grant Green! but this is not it:

Hmmmm....if I come into my office after hours and fall down or something, it's not a comp injury. As for what other liability they would assume, I don't know. If I'm there as a private citizen of my own volition...I don't know. I don't know that I'd expect them to take care of me under those circumstances. Apparently he was there for an 85th birthday concert. Hard to tell if that would have been a case of him being there in the capacity of a university employee or as a public performer utilizing the facility on a rental basis. If it was the latter, the rental agreement might have had some kind of waiver clause in there stipulating that if you fall down because you got dizzy, or your drummer gets drunk and bumps his head, stuff like that, it ain't our fault. I honestly don't know, would have to see that contract. But let's not get tunnel-visioned on the medical coverage. Let's also look at the identity theft and the alleged mishandling of it by whatever financial institutions are involved. KB could have had the best health coverage imaginable, but it wouldn't cover somebody taking all his money. The laws covering THAT are not necessarily consumer-friendly. Burrell has always struck me as a good businessman, and I would hope/think that he's handled his money well. If he got picked clean from the machinations of identity fraud, and the remediation has been bungled, we're probably looking at more than chump change.

Was he performing there as an employee?

in or on?

Yeah, but did he ever have sex with Ike Quebec? Talk about the friendly stranger in the black sedan...

https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/charles-barksdale-bass-singer-for-the-dells-dies-at-84/ LOVE The Dells. Barksdale on bass. No bottom, no top!

Is this as potentially as interesting tune as it seems to be?

Vehicle, by a Mexican Afro-Cuban band playing at a Senor Taco in Singapore. I'm glad that everybody's staying inside their own culture.

Making my mind up for me:

Hardly a top-tier talent, but still...there's been a lot of trash talked about Dodo Greene over the years because all people know is that sleepyass Blue Note record and they have no context for hearing it what it is and they jsut dump all over it and her like she and it were all some kind of joke. They weren't. No need to like it, or even appreciate it, but I am here to advocate for both talent and context, past present and future. I don't think it's particularly wise to be without either, but I think it's dangerous as hell to eradicate both from a culture's collective memory. So that's where I'm coming from on Dodo Greene. That and imagine what it must have been like being Ike Quebec's girlfriend, imagine ALL that must have come along with that. THAT'S some "Blue Note" right there, getting off the gig and riding with Ike Quebec into god only knows what kinds of nights, waking up to god know what kinds of mornings, and then at some point, Rudy's. And then back out again. My Hour Of Need indeed! There could be a REALLY good movie there, Ike and Dodo and all that went along with being them, alone and together, if they made good movies about lives like that. If they knew how to make good movies about lives like that. As it is, there are their records, and some are better than others, but none are not real.

One for each cheek!

She could really cut the mustard!

I remember Jim Peterik from Chase!