robertoart

Well if it was way back in the past and he was acculturized White, it's probably a moot point. Did he grow up poor? Then again, I always took the 'Jimi Hendrix was Native American' stuff with a grain of salt, until I read his people actually maintained connections to their NA family, and JImi spent a small amount of time with them on a reservation. So you never know, until you get more of the big picture. Wasn't a very 'Bluesy' guitarist was Johnny Smith, was he

Yes, I regaled myself in Dick Cavett show dvds for weeks on end a few years ago. Just so much more satisfying to see them complete, with juxtaposition between 'all' the guests, rather than spotlighting only those remembered today.

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Great LP but I'd actually file it among the then-burgeoning New Haven creative music scene. Maybe so, but was Michael Gregory not on the Wildflowers comp, perhaps there was some cross-polinisation going on? In the spirit of the OP's enquiry maybe you could elaborate? Well, New Haven and NYC aren't too far from one another... a number of New Haven cats played at the New York Musicians' Festival, so sure there was regional cross-pollination. And Gregory is an especially interesting character because he got into the Black Rock thing in the '80s with a group called Signal, which played in NY (and elsewhere). But Clarity is a very New Haven LP, even if it's not CMIF-related. (CMIF = New Haven musicians collective, Creative Musicians' Improvisers Forum) That's interesting. How does the approach differ between New Haven music, and music one might have encountered in a NYC loft. I have a few Michael Gregory/Oliver Lake albums, and also a very lovely - almost folk/jazz Lp, with a lot of singing. A very interesting musician indeed. Who I believe has started playing publically again recently. He was a bit of a mystery man from this far away actually. And a very talented guitarist/improvisor.

Ok you've made your point. Fair enough.

you've actually got a Grace Jones album? Really. I find that hard to believe. Is this a side of MG we don't know about? If I were a jazz fan... But what I like is commercial black music, some of which is a bit like jazz. And I have 2 of her albums. This is the other one; very interesting. MG Actually of course I should have guessed that MG. And yes these are very savvy records no doubt. May I enquire if you have Michael Jackson's Off The Wall or Diana Ross's 'I'm Coming Out' Any Chic era sounds of Nile Rodgers and Bernard Evans - kinda happened at the same time as 'scary Grace' No - never really dug any of the Motown superstars. Nor Nile Rogers. I just have a couple of Stevie Wonders, 'What's going on' and a few Jr Walkers. MG I knew that would be a bridge too far MG

I am not claiming 'a false sufferer'. Just putting things into a bit of perspective and questioning the way this 'syndrome' is being 'presented' to the public perhaps. Yes it is a serious thing...is there something humorous about it as well...yes there is. You are such a bore.

you've actually got a Grace Jones album? Really. I find that hard to believe. Is this a side of MG we don't know about? If I were a jazz fan... But what I like is commercial black music, some of which is a bit like jazz. And I have 2 of her albums. This is the other one; very interesting. MG Actually of course I should have guessed that MG. And yes these are very savvy records no doubt. May I enquire if you have Michael Jackson's Off The Wall or Diana Ross's 'I'm Coming Out' Any Chic era sounds of Nile Rodgers and Bernard Evans - kinda happened at the same time as 'scary Grace'

Perhaps so. That maybe right. But you're still being a bit precious compared to the overall tenor of the Chinese or French accent in an Aussie person. FFS. But this 'syndrome' is either an Acquired Brain Injury or it's not. ABI is not simply a 'syndrome'. Perhaps a visit to or moment with some people who experience actual ABI challenges, might relieve some of these syndrome sufferers of their anxiety and depression. Anxiety and Depression themselves are massively subjective areas when you get into the root causes being 'environmental' or neurological. Very different to Psychosis and Bi-polar.

Yeh, I mightn't be able to identify HP on a blindfold test unless I could deduce from the sidemen or timeframe or whatever. But I reckon I could identify his sound as that of a great player. You just can't fake the funk. Generic players of a different generation rarely have the big sound projection of the older guys.

you've actually got a Grace Jones album? Really. I find that hard to believe. Is this a side of MG we don't know about?

Yep. It's rather obvious there are no debilitating or irreversible symptoms involved. The article makes no mention of any other symptoms accept the speech change. Which when you listen with knowledge of a Brain Injury speech pattern, is clearly one in the same. My interest in this, is really, are the anxiety and depression the results of a life that has been changed because of a confluence of Brain injury related symptoms - or just simply a change of speech articulation. If these sufferers are only being highlighted for the unusual 'spectacle' of a strange speech shift, and not for the 'whole' battery of ABI disability, then it's actually not being reported ethically. Some people recover functioning from Brain Injury's with minimal long term symptoms. Migraines and speech change suggest a more serious injury, that would have added symptoms to those two. But the articles focus more on some kind of 'social stigma' or 'change in relationship to self' adjustment disorder. I want a hamburger.

If the sufferer has other symptoms and disabilities associated with an Acquired Brain Injury, then yes indeed it is very sad and actually quite tragic. Even 'mild' affects of Traumatic Brain Injury will be life changing and potentially tragic for the victim and their loved ones. However, this article does not deal with those debilitating and irreversible symptoms whatsoever. So if this person got away with a Brain Injury and all they (and their family), have to deal with is 'a funny French accent', then I definitely think grounds for humour and light heartedness are in order. If you are cognisant with 'Australian Sixty Minutes' - the most puerile and sensationalist of Right Wing propaganda, then perhaps you are Australian, and will surely see the hilarity of this almost 'Monty Python-esque' of circumstances. If indeed, the sufferer has, 'more usual' symptoms of ABI, and they are downplaying them at the expense of this rather 'inconvenient' - but funny symptom - then perhaps they are actually doing a disservice to the very real and disabling, 'other', challenges someone with ABI must negotiate on an ongoing basis. well, you can check the other articles, and see how the people who have this rare speech disorder feel about it. It's traumatic for them, and I'm sure it would be for any of us, were we to develop this problem. The vid I linked to clarifies what really happens, from a neurologist's standpoint as well as that of several people who have the syndrome. (They feel that it has pretty much destroyed their lives.) Just not funny at all. Like I said. Educate yourself about the other effects of Traumatic Brain Injury and how they effect peoples lives, and this rather extreme speech impediment will be put into perspective. Is this the only neurological disfunctioning going on? If these people are getting on with normal functioning, and their brain is still processing everything to speed, apart from having their words come out sounding 'Chinese', then they are very lucky compared to someone with a Brain injury. Who also have the added reality of not only diminished cognitive power but also diminished energy and physical capacity as well. It's still funny.

On this level it really is ridiculous. The golfer Greg Norman, someone gathered an American accent overnight. Germaine Greer never acquired an English accent.

If the sufferer has other symptoms and disabilities associated with an Acquired Brain Injury, then yes indeed it is very sad and actually quite tragic. Even 'mild' affects of Traumatic Brain Injury will be life changing and potentially tragic for the victim and their loved ones. However, this article does not deal with those debilitating and irreversible symptoms whatsoever. So if this person got away with a Brain Injury and all they (and their family), have to deal with is 'a funny French accent', then I definitely think grounds for humour and light heartedness are in order. If you are cognisant with 'Australian Sixty Minutes' - the most puerile and sensationalist of Right Wing propaganda, then perhaps you are Australian, and will surely see the hilarity of this almost 'Monty Python-esque' of circumstances. If indeed, the sufferer has, 'more usual' symptoms of ABI, and they are downplaying them at the expense of this rather 'inconvenient' - but funny symptom - then perhaps they are actually doing a disservice to the very real and disabling, 'other', challenges someone with ABI must negotiate on an ongoing basis.

I don't think there's much lost on Lennox Avenue Breakdown and Illusions. LAB sounds 'very' organic to me. Can you also elaborate perhaps?

Great LP but I'd actually file it among the then-burgeoning New Haven creative music scene. Maybe so, but was Michael Gregory not on the Wildflowers comp, perhaps there was some cross-polinisation going on? In the spirit of the OP's enquiry maybe you could elaborate?

Just youtubed it Amazing!

Blood Ulmer's first major 'Free' recording definitely. Although he 'guested' on Joe Henderson's awesome Tress Cun Deo La from the Milestone album Multiple. And before that Larry Young and John Patton dates.

and the recently released

I thought nobody liked that film except me.