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THIS is where it's at! Just think about that.

Are these from that album? I like it well enough and would pick it up as a cheap used lp, probably. But all I hear, really, are the essentially the same charts as the originals with occasionally thicker voicings and some extra "clever" instruments thrown in like mallet instruments and harp, and the occasional BONK. Clever. Kinda of strikes me as the musical equivalent of a colorized movie. It's a novelty to my ears. I mean, the band plays great (if I do pick up the record, it would be just to hear that) , and the writing for the core is fine (as it was to begin with!). I do appreciate the difference in tempos, but the whole "hi-fi" angle, good god, no, that sounds like a record waaaay more than it does a band. You know, I grew up hearing all the Miller stuff and most of the Goodman stuff echoed up and shit, and the fiorst time I heard "In The Mood" in good oldf ashioned undoctored mono, that was like whoa, why have they been keeing THIS a secret from me? And all that "extra" stuff..."clever" indeed and to my ears, it adds nothing. If anything, it detracts. I mean, the originals were plenty badass, they stand on their own. And I know, Ellington revisiting etcetcetc, but that far more often than not illuminated rather than trivialized. I wonder what drove this band to be created and then what drove it to be like this. Because both of those guys could do better (or certainly different) from this. But yeah, no "fantasy" needed on these. There ya' go, they got it right the first time. More than right, actually.

Finegan alone, great. Sauter alone, great, and then more great. And then even more great. Together, though...not for me. Point of diminishing returns, perhaps. But no questioning the excellence of execution of the band(s).

which at that point is not either of our's problem

The guy who built my current machine labeled the SSD as C:\ and both it and its contents are fully visible. He was also very insistent that I understand to not store data on the SSD, because doing so will be a drag on its functionality and true usefulness, which is simply to hold all apps, including booting files. Data storage is not its forte. But the drive is there, C;\ and if I wanted to play on it, I certainly could. As far as the OP's questions, it seems unlikely that you're seeing two drives without having two devices. If you're using Windows 10 (and I probably hope you are), you can make the D:\ drive your default storages: https://www.howtogeek.com/245706/how-to-change-the-default-hard-drive-for-saving-documents-and-apps-in-windows-10/ with no difficulty (once you know where to go to do it). In the old(er) days, it was normal to set up a virtual portion on the same device, wither to use as a swap file or some other kind of need (none of which I can think of at this time). But now that the HDs are all space age ginomous/fast and shit, that's no longer a thing, is it?

from your post to scott's brain

How much SF record was theres? They seem like a prime project for the "new Mosaic". Hopefully there's not enough material to invite them.

I see that also named were Lynda Berry & Suzy Ibarra, two other, each in their own way, great iconoclasts. Embarrassed(?) to admit that none of the other awardees are on my radar, proof(?) yet again that so much is happening everywhere and so little crosses over outside its own world. Or maybe I just don't know shit, that's quite and entirely possible. Any, Roscoe has been, is now, and always will be a hero of the highest order.

If I'm not really jazzed by S-F in general (on the grounds that the writing is just too damn clever for its (or at least, my) own good, would this record be an exception that proves the rule? When I her/read the description "inventive fantasies", my spider-sense gets a little tingly.

no idea, it's been too long.

Ok, but how do you like Harley's tenor playing?

DOH! Circles, not Corners! Dumbass...

Brilliant Corners vinyl (like HutchFan, I have the Arista-Freedom LP) sounds "better" than the CD, but - don't think it sounds "good", it doesn't, only by comparisopn. Definitely one of those sessions where it's a good thing the music is so strong!

Hmmmm...I'd like to think that such advanced thinking is perhaps not best undertaken by a general populace that seems to be making the removal of any and all personal discomfort and inconvenience, regardless of the source/reason, their collective primary motivator? From there, can you really get THERE?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/16/escape-overthinking-trap-stop-juding-yourself How to escape the overthinking trap: stop judging yourself Before Christmas I took a young relative to a jazz concert. The thought of it ruined his whole day. He scuffed around the house like an alt-right voter at a refugee camp. In the event, even he acknowledged that we had a fine time. But neither of us would ever get back the dreadful hours that preceded it. He’d fallen prey to a cardinal paradox – poisoning the present by agonising over a future hardship that never materialised. So I'm thinking that the lesson here might NOT be to stop judging yourself and if anything DO judge yourself, as in, hey, I just assumed that I was going to hate this shit, maybe next time I should withhold judgement until after the fact, when I have something to actually bounce it up against besides my own personal ignorance. Maybe I am a dumbass about shit that I know absolutely nothing about, ya' think? I guess that's too harsh or something. No matter - jazz blamed for an ignuntass kid's emoness. Not the kid, jazz. Not saying the kid was/is wrong in principle, I mean, I don't know what concert they went to. But hey - jazz terrorizes emo-kids into a whirlyfrenzy. Blame jazz for that, or thank it? Hmmmmmmmm.....

George certainly came along, and John's singing was always his strong suit, but just sayin', listen to the Purple Chick stuff, hear the raw tracks, and there it's ALL about Paul/Ringo. You know how people used to talk about Stones being all "dirty" and Beatles being all "clean"? Well, hear those records before George Martin pop-ed tehm up and realize that that's bullshit. Paul/Ringo were driving it home, hard. http://www.webgrafikk.com/beatles1/pc/html/deluxe.html Ok, let me get this right - it's "Hold Me Tight - Rehearsal", it's five seconds, and there are vocals on the track. Other than that, though, no corrections. Loop it for about 2-3 minutes and let it soak in.

Or you could do the right thing (from every angle!) and get a copy of Black, Brown, and Beautiful.

Never mind desert island, that one's a whole continent unto itself!

Yeah, this. One of the beauties of the Purple Chick sets of the 1963-1965 Beatles albums is getting to hear the rehearsal takes, and then the basic takes that they did all the post-production on top of. And yes, there is no rhythm section there except Paul & Ringo, and they are playing there ass off all the way. You think of a garage band in the best sense, some crazy motherfuckers just jamming their ass off because that's all they know how to do, this is it, and it's STRONG. They were just giving it up, and if they didn't have as much to give up as a lot of players playing on a lot of records of the time...there's something about the "all in" thing that I find compelling on its own term (sic). There's a, like, seven second bit of "Hold Me Tight", jsut band, that freaking levitates, and I first wondered wtf is THIS on here fore, it's a bit OCD,right? But I kept looping it, and if you get me in the right mood, I'll posit that it is the secret key to unlocking Beatles Mystique, it's ll there in the 7 seconds, no vocals, just some basic rhythm guitar over Paul & Ringo having sex with BeatleTime. That shit unlocks this universe, it is real. John & George both contribute nothing instrumentally to the group - at this point - except basic ball-less gutarings (again, George Martin's post-productions obscured that as a real issue, that guy held all kinds of keys along the way), but the soul - and swing - of the Beatles was in the Paul/Ringo hookup. Of course they evolved/grew/etc, but that part of it never went away.

Flawed, but fascinating, at least as much the latter than the former.

I happened upon Jimmy Ford with Maynard on the first few Roulette 2-fers of the early 70s. Had no idea of his history, which is obscure but interesting. And to find out that he's a hub for direct connections between Milton Caniff/Steve Canyon, Tadd Dameron, Maynard Ferguson, and Arnett Cobb is just too freakin' weird. Here's the one solo of his with Maynard that has stayed with me. Then and now, he struck me as "spurty" in a really oddball/compelling manner, like there's something going on inside that could blow at any time.