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And I would add Teddy Wilson to the list, but there's a strong case to made for that one in terms of the "traditional" Mosaic mission. Crosby/Clooney, as great as they were, not nearly as much. With Cuscuna appearing to not be as much of a driver as he once was, the "new team" does not seem to be either interested or dedicated to anything newer than that particular "sound". Sunday Gazette entries reinforce this notion that if you want "modernity" in its many guises, Cuscuna is your guy, and if you want roseybingle and shit, Scott will get it done. I hope I'm wrong. Not about Scott, but about there being a void forthcoming on the other stuff.

I've been seeing the ads for Vice, and truthfully, they've been tempting me to get out of the house and into a theatre for the first time since...I can't remember when. The Cheney/Bush dynamic was nothing if not a deeply dark joke on humanity and it looks like that's how it's played here.

Exactly what it says.

Season 12 is on Acorn now. Canada sees it on Sunday night Acorn gets it the next day seems to be how it works. Still loving it - they've moved out of the hotel into a Frank Lloyd Wright house in which Murdoch has had installed a "potato cooking room" (some kind of prototype microwave-y thing) in which a man is promptly murdered.

Starting to hear the name a lot...anybody else also hearing the name? Or the actual music? I might be interested.

Super Dave followed by Richard Pryor!

Ok, if you can see data (.cda) files, that's what happened - you bought a data disc, not a music disc. Kevin probably knows about this much better than I do, but I think that what you're going to have do now is try to convert the .cda files to a music format and then burn a new CD-R from the converted files. Google shows a lot of topics about this, none of them complicated. You just have to know what you have and how you want it to end up. However, it might be that there is no music to get, since the .cda files might just serve as "markers" to the actual music itself. And if you don't have THAT data, then I think you're gonna be screwed. .cda files explained: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cda_file

Not perfect, but pretty damn good. And by the time it's over, the imperfections don't really matter.

I regret that my first exposure to him was those Command records. It took me a long time to disassociate his other playing from the impressions left by those records. What finally did it (or started to do it) was his CTI records of the late 70s (I know, irony). Anyway, now I get it.

Another loss...RIP.

How is a B-3 a wind instrument?

I'd like to see a Gene Ammons Prestige set of somebody gathering together all the existing LPs on planet earth regardless of condition and then parcelling them out into as many complete sets as possible and then taking what's left and making complete sets by era and so on and so on. Either that or somebody come correct with it. Mosaic maybe, but what kind of a Gene Ammons set do you expect from them now that they're all Binglerosey and shit. And Concord...they got a 21st century business to run. But, you know, just get a big recycled toaster oven box on your doorstep one day, open it up, and there's all these used Gene Ammons LPs, including 10", some of them fucked all to hell but with the OG labels and covers and liners, they all been lived in, and if you can't get lived in with Gene Ammons, you're not getting Gene Ammons, period, nor do you deserve to.

It's a CD-R and you bout it in it's current condition? It sounds like you bought either a data disk, or else a CD-R that was never finalized (is it an Audio CD-R)? Have you ever gotten it to play on ANYTHING? Where did you buy it, in a store or online from a "some guy" type seller. If the PC read the data, what kind of file(s) did it say they were? I'm looking for some way to say that you didn't get screwed in this deal, but right now, I can't find that.

Still think it's a meaningless comparison, if only because Bitches Brew was indeed a record, and somewhat a "created" one at that. But that music was also being played live, quite more intensely than what came out of that one record, and if that guy didn't have access to those live shows, then what does that opinion count for, really. It's another case of people conflating records and music. And it's also kind of like, who was it from Kenton's band, Buddy Childress, or maybe Kenton himself telling Dizzy that "we're playing your music better than you are", I mean, who even thinks like that to begin with? If that's the right answer, then it's the wrong question. As for Gruntz, well sure, why not? But even more importantly, why? So nobody "cuts loose", but it's still a record that changed the world (so to speak). Priorities, please.

Flimsy but fun/Fun but flimsy.

Mel Martin? The same Mel Martin? How old is this record? Ok, I thought it was an old West Coast record, but it's pop/disco. So yes, THAT Mel Martin, that makes sense.

This is a great movie, William Farnum is mesmerizing

This came on the radio in the rental car, and I was almost asleep when Garzone started playing. No sleeping through that!

I gotta tell you, that #4 track ended up cracking me up. the first few listens, I did not know what it was. It sounded "familiar" but I could not connect any dots...I do remember thinking about the tenor player, that is was the way I would have liked to play if I had the chops to play like that. But felser kept saying these weird things, like pay more attention to Track 4, and I'm like what is this motherfucker talking about? And then after several days, I don't know what did it, but a dim light came on and said, oh, hey, is that ME? And then I listened some more and realized, oh yeah, that's me, listen to how raggedy the chops are, I guess I DID have the chops to play like that, too bad they weren't better, I'd have played better. But then...what record was this? I still couldn't get that. But you know, internet has it all and soon enough ah, yes, THAT thing. "Bullwhimp" was a Mark Menikos composition that had a whole lot more to it than made the record, it was a full on, multi-sectioned take on Western/Cowboy songs that ended with the very little bit that opens the cut. That type of editing... Anyway, it's funny how you hear playing one way when you think it's somebody else, and then a totally different way when you know it's you (or anybody else besides who you thought it was). True objectivity is a challenge, to put it mildly. As for Mark, our paths have not crossed paths for 30 years or so now. We both played in an edition of the Beledi ensemble. He's a great player, with an intense "perfectionist" personality and here's the best bio I can find of him: http://www.brothers3.us/mark.htm Burnett Anderson...that's a story...he was - and still is, imo - the most organic trumpeter I've ever worked with. He was a master at playing changes and playing "free", the type of guy who didn't have to change voices to change idioms. Just a wonderful player and person. He was a respected band director in the area, had a family, played all the gigs, sitting on a certain top of a certain world. And then one day he was gone. Literally overnight, nobody's really figured out the specifics, but he literally disappeared. We found out that he ended up in California and maybe had a plan in going out there, but you talk about a mystery... All I can find out about him now is this: http://www.nighttunes.net/NightPeople.htm I would call him the Dupree Bolton of Texas, but he didn't have the vices that Bolton did. Something else, maybe, but at this point, irrelevant. He was a sweet guy and a beautiful player. End of story for me.

That's kind of a meaningless comparison, because Miles himself kept moving. Bitches Brew music was not Fillmore music was not Jack Johnson music was not Live-Evil music was definitely not On the Corner music and for damn sure was not Agharta/Pangea music. Miles drew up a buttload of blueprints for others to build houses by. No matter how well-built the houses were built, they existed only because the architect designed them that way. I'm having a hard time remembering "the entire fusion movement"...it never seemed monolithic to me. Not at the beginning (especially not at the beginning) and not at the end, either. Too many formulas devolved as it went along, and that's the drudgery. I do, though, remember plenty of cheap efforts, too many. But I also recall some pretty good records as well (again, less as time went by), and if they were going for $$, they had the decency to do it well.

whoa...

And if he's long gone with it by then, order one for yourself! Seriously, I've seen her live three times now, the first one in a solo recital, the other two as soloist with the DSO. She is a truly great player, somebody I want to hear at every opportunity. And quite apart from that, I think it's a blessing that young people today don't have to pick a musical "ghetto" to reside in. They have access to all of it. If that means that "street" jazz is disappearing (or relocating, which is what seems to be the case), so be it. There is so much musical knowledge available now, so much, when I talk to young kids now (and my kid's friends all seem to be into some kind of music or another at a pretty serious level), I plead, cajole, harass, berate, BESEECH them to open themselves to things beyond what they already know and to just grab that knowledge, any of it and all of it. For too long, it's been kept secret, kinda, you had to know that it even existed and then you had to figure out where to go to START looking for it. Not true today, at least not as much. So much of it is just THERE. I mean, hell, you get on YouTube and free-associate, my god, before you know it, you might have heard damn near ANYTHING, and none of it in your pre-existing knowledge base. It's glorious! It can also lead to a genetic, non-principled eclecticism, but at some point, personal character will start kicking in and then, uh-oh, look out people start elevating that. It's a great time to be young right now, enough old people left to tell the truth about what they saw, and enough young people to eat it all up and shit it back out. But always remember - manure is the best fertilizer!

A savvy call. Some serious, possibly impossible, remastering might be needed, but other than that, yeah.

And I don't/won't fault them. I'll just buy less from them.

I've grown into Sextant over the years, and now tend to prefer it, actually. But it took time.