Scott Dolan

I don't like this list. It does not cater directly to my tastes and sensibilities.

Nice to see a little more balance and sanity brought to this conversation.

I have subscription to The Washington Post. I use it in their app called “the print edition” which is an exact digital copy of the print edition. Ads and all. The Christian Science Monitor app used to be the same way. I’ve never dne a digital version of the NYT, but I wouldn’t be shocked if they offered the same thing. As for your “all at once” theory, you’re probably right on the money. This happens everytime Jimmy Buffett releases a new album. The Parrotheads flock to the stores and send it soaring into the low single digits on the sales chart week one, and then it’s usually not even top 25 the following week.

Maybe. I read a story last year about millennials picking up digital subscriptions at higher and higher rates the last few years. So who knows? The physical paper is dying, but younger folks are still seeing those ads.

First Meditations is just as beautiful and moving as Ballads, and an even better album (it’s actally my favorite Jazz album). But that takes nothing away from Ballads, which is a masterpiece all its own. I actually put off buying it for years because I wasn’t interested in the “slow stuff”. When I finally got it and listened to it I really how silly that stance was.

Oh! Now we’re asking questions! Alright then. The question is who HAS tried it, and who WOULDN’T try it? King me! Touchdown!

And who has tried it? Get back to me when some fast food joint loses money on their Billy Harper campaign. Checkmate.

A fair question. At the time we were on our way back from Orlando, so there's some more bizarre connective tissue...

In an interesting twist, I was once in a McDonald’s in Murfreesboro, Tennessee many moons ago and they were playing Miles Davis over the PA. Weird part being this recording was clearly a more recent one as the production on it sounded far too modern. So I asked an employee who they were playing. They checked. It was Wallace Roney. Playing the trumpet that Miles gave him. That was kinda freaky.

I’ll have to watch the video again, but the only thing I noted him “biting off” was at the end with his, “well shit, here’s the end of the bar” akward signoff. Though one has to wonder if he saw Monk out of the corner of his eye and was momentarily flustered. Hey, he’s only human.

OK, how about this. I’ll try to frame my argument in a more abstract fashion. Monk didn’t speak Jazz. Monk spoke Monk. I think of it as some kind of weird analog to Pig Latin. Yeah, it kinda sounds like regular English if you pay close enough attention, but at the end of day it WAS a different language. A “foreign” language. So let’s say you grow up speaking Jazz, and speaking it fluently. Not only is it your first language, it’s your only language. Next thing you know, you’re in an intense conversation with some patois speaking motherfucker, and the best you can do is speak your native tongue and hope for the best. Why? Because that’s your native tongue, and too late trying to figure this other gibberish bullshit out. So you speak YOUR language with him and make it work. Jazz was the only language Rouse knew until he started playing with Monk. But instead of simply shoehorning his own language into the conversation he and Monk were having, he actually LEARNED how to speak Monk. Whether you considered him fluent in it or not doesn’t matter. You go to France and carry on a conversation, even if in a terribly clumsy way, with a native French speaker? That’s pretty motherfucking impressive to this boy. Not only does that show off an incredibly flexible talent, but also a humility and sympathy that I find rather inspiring.

This is the exact album I listened to yesterday. A rather uneven affair, but the somber mood of it seemed fitting. Come to find out he died of lung cancer. OH! And greetings, Professor Bivins! Long time, no see.

But neither of us covered any new ground. That's all I was getting at. I mean, I guess we can revisit the subject every few months to see who has changed their minds, and why. But that seems pretty fruitless as well, because they really wasn't any grey area in this discussion, nor room from growth/change.

Which is why I wonder what the reason is for re-entering this exercise. Some people didn’t like Rouse with Monk. Some did. Was this really a cold case? I thought it had already been settled.

I recognize Chuck. Who are the other three chaps?

The way they are executed in concert with other by hardcore Jazz police? They sure as seem to be, IMO.

The ending was odd, but I thought it was a really coherent and consistent solo. Not his best, but certainly not a mess.

Oh man, Eric Dolphy’s solo on Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting from Mingus at Antibes. Coltrane on Afro Blue from Live At Birdland. Ray Draper on Clifford’s Kappa from Ray Draper Quintet (featuring John Coltrane).

I disagree. From about 1:45 to 3:45 he some really good stuff going on.

“Standards” being a rather approriate word choice.

Yeah, they have a video version of that album on Apple Music. It’s pretty cool.

I don’t know any of the details. Just that he was back home in Warsaw.

Just heard from Dennis Gonzalez that Mr. Stanko passed away this morning.

Checking it out now. It’s funny. I started listening and immediately thought, “eh, this really isn’t my thing”. But I kept listening and finally realized that while far more straight ahead than I tend to prefer, it’s actually a damn fun listen.

How silly. Especially since you didn’t listen to the entire album. mjazzg, yeah when I posted that comment I was still on the “first disc” so I didn’t realize the augmentation on the second.