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15 minutes ago, JSngry said:
I watched college football much more than pro last year but ... I got the distinct impression that in the college game they weren't doing the measurement thing nearly as often as before? Just a total eye-ball it and say its a first down kinda thing. Anybody else notice this? Did the NCAA send a memo out?
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15 hours ago, Stevie Mclean said:
The ultimate irony (tragedy?) of it all is that all those friends exclusively listened to rap music. Playing some grant green was my olive branch to help them find the source of all that's good about hip-hop. I would assume that a repeated phrase wouldn't phase them considering all the rap songs that sample a single phrase or bar from a jazz song and repeat it endlessly over the ENTIRE song.
But in rap it's expected. It's the wallpaper of the song. They are hearing jazz and can realize that the notes vary so that "repeating" becomes obvious.
I don't love hearing the repeating but I don't hate it like Kevin does. What I wonder is what Alfred thought of it. It's apparent it didn't grate on his ears or he would have told Grant to run it down again and don't get "stuck".
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21 minutes ago, JSngry said:
Is that notated anywhere?
Did Buddy play bari anyplace else?
Says he played bari here (and looks like an interesting record given bass and drums only):
https://www.discogs.com/release/2934621-Buddy-Tate-Bob-Wilber-Sherman-Shuffle
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So to update my experience, the BN cover shirts from the etsy store are on their last legs ... the Bobby Timmons is losing the lettering, the Mobley All-Stars is generally degraded and the Lou Donaldson Swing & Soul has that bad looking collar they used for the TV spot a couple of years ago.
(It's unfortunate because along the lines of the story above about the Dolphy cover T, I was wearing the LD shirt and waiting for a Chinese takeout order, and an older dude asked about him. I didn't know you could be in your late 60s, a long-time jazz fan and not know the name Lou Donaldson, but there it is. I gave him a quick rundown of the different eras of LD from bebop to organ/soul jazz and beyond.)
I should also note that a while back these shirts went into heavy rotation, pretty much each being worn every week during remote workdays and washed every week.
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Sad news. Perhaps not a favorite but definitely had my respect and the TV show and talent he brought on should be remembered for a long time.
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On 4/30/2024 at 5:39 PM, Brad said:
I sent an email to the Times questioning whether their account of how MC acquired the Wolff archive was correct and, surprisingly (because I didn’t expect them to respond), I received the following response from Giovanni Russonello:
”I went back and double-checked with Cuscuna's inner circle, and it appears that the photo archive was not in fact given to Michael Cuscuna by Ruth Lion. Instead, it was sold to Cuscuna by Ruth Lion after Alfred died. But the actual act of recovering Wolff's photographic negatives from the dustbin (or, at least, the attic) occurred in the mid-1970s, after Cuscuna started rooting through the Blue Note tape archives out in LA. The photo negatives were not with the tapes; they were in Alfred Lion's possession, as Wolff had left them to Lion in his will before dying in 1971. When Cuscuna started putting out old Blue Note material in Mosaic boxes, he asked Alfred to go into the collection of photo negatives and see what he could find from X or Y recording sessions. This is what started the process of going back through all those photo negatives and discovering just how much never-before-seen beauty they contained. Eventually, Alfred got tired of digging for pictures every time Cuscuna had a request, so he invited Cuscuna to take possession of and manage the collection, in exchange for a portion of the profits on whatever he might license out to people. Cuscuna himself didn't come to own the collection outright until after Alfred died, at which point Ruth did sell the collection to him (and Charlie Lourie), with the caveat that she would retain a portion of any profits that came their way until her death.
Hope this helps to clarify things, and explains why we feel comfortable leaving the article as is. While the tapes and the negatives were in separate collections (the former having been sold by Alfred Lion to Liberty Records, and ultimately subsumed into EMI; the latter having been left for years in Alfred Lion's attic until Cuscuna came knocking, according to what I'm told), it still seems factual to say: "Mr. Cuscuna’s archival dives at Blue Note also turned up tens of thousands of photographs taken in the studio by Francis Wolff, one of the label’s founders. Mr. Cuscuna organized and administered the photo archive as well."Thanks for sharing this Brad - only seeing it now as I had stopped following up with this thread.
I can't comprehend why the Times writer thinks its factual to say that photographs weren't with the tapes but "archival dives... turned up ... photographs." The only imputation to that statement I've set in bold is photographs were found with the tapes when photograph expeditions didn't even happen concurrently to the BN tape expeditions in the 70s.
Simplified to the point of leaving a false impression with the reader which is shitty writing.
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49 minutes ago, GA Russell said:
Thanks very much, Dan! The cd arrived yesterday in tip top shape.
I opened it up today. My kind of music! Great lineup.
Glad to hear it.
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Got word of a nice short piece promoting the website at Flophouse:
Hopefully a nice surge in traffic will come in the next days and weeks.
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I know that Blakey got very deaf by the end of his life ... a result of so many days in a band that he was kicking everybody's ass in?
But I am wondering about the topic in a more general way and in particular ... the one time I went to Smoke my wife and I saw the George Coleman Octet, with Harold Mabern and a group of relative youngsters. Jim Rotondi was playing next to Gary Smulyan and I couldn't help but notice how often he played one handed, with the hand closest to Rotondi plugging his ear to block out his high notes.
Do jazzers (especially in larger bands) tend to lose their hearing?
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It's not hard for me to say to "no" but not due to duplication but more for the fact that interest in Hutch went up with his return to a more straightahead style in the 80s/90s.
Doesn't a Lee Morgan 60s have to be next given their business approach and who hasn't gotten this treatment? Especially with LD using mostly organs which I think was determined to not be worthy of Mosaic treatment.
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Kindly post your reveal for this track!
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1 hour ago, tkeith said:
I'll go back to BFT001 if they are available.
True enough (though, for the record, it's online-only, no DLs), but I know I'd actually go back and take ones I missed. I'm not planning on dying all that soon, so in theory, this could be in place for awhile and would be a neat document to the history of the BFT here on the forum.
Here's where I should remind people that there was a data loss at some point. Before an old BFT gets archived you should check the forum and verify if a Reveal thread exists. Putting up a BFT without the answers would just be cruel.
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I think maintaining the archive is good going forward and for the immediate past but I wonder whether anyone goes into it and listens or downloads a compilation from 8 years ago let alone 10 or 15 or 20, if they were archived.
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2 hours ago, JSngry said:
It does seem that she has a cult following though, for whatever that's worth.
I think it would have to be surprisingly large to move units the way the usual suspects can.
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Already on it but we need to know what the ump said in defending the ejection
And I gotta say "you've been bullshit all game" is absolutely a "don't say that if you don't want to have the rest of the day off" thing, and even if you are walking away.
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16 hours ago, tranemonk said:
There's an Emily Remler live bootleg set from the Four Queens (I think) that I WOULD LOVE someone to resurrect and clean up. I can't believe there hasn't been one reissue or, "find" of her live material. I suspect she would do well commercially.
I don't know that I would suspect that, like, at all. She recorded five times for Concord in the 80s and died at the age of 32 in 1990. A fine player but is she a household name even in jazz homes? I think it would take monumental PR to make a reissue enticing at $30 per LP or whatever they are going for today.
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We'll need a Jomboy breakdown on this.
https://www.mlb.com/news/aaron-judge-ejected-for-first-time-in-career
But I could tell Rizzo yelled "That's the softest shit I've ever seen" at :33 on the vid at the top.
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1 hour ago, felser said:
WF definitely wouldn't like!
What Felser Would Like - Not Me
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14 minutes ago, rostasi said:
ummmm, I don't think watching Miles Davis
is the most common sexual fantasy of women.Rape is and that's obviously what I was referring to.
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49 minutes ago, AllenLowe said:
; he once also said that women who saw Miles spread their legs while they were watching him play. This is past disgusting to a level of rape ideation.
First, I think I have read that is the most common sexual fantasy of women so ... but regardless I would say its a huge leap from spread legs to "rape ideation".
Maybe Crouch took something that was said to him by one woman and he expanded from that small sample size?
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Happy Birthday.
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11 hours ago, Д.Д. said:
His own album "In the Idiom" is excellent: https://www.discogs.com/release/5445589-Randy-Brecker-In-The-Idiom
Available gratis to a good home in the lower 48. PM me.
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To have missed Fathead twice in a couple of months is just pathetic.
Trying to figure out the release but discogs is not functioning for me.
From The Blessing ... don't think I have that one so there's that!
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Neat trick, new book with a forward by a dead guy.
This has been in heavy rotation on various channels we receive ... I certainly prefer the original.