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Maybe RCA filed a C&D?

Guy must have the best publicist in the history of the genre.

I found those BN albums boring as well, which I didn't expect. I'll have to check those out. I've ignored almost all of his back catalog outside of that Resonance Slugs reissue.

On point about Marsalis. Also good comment on the Leo Gooden record - read & subsequently listened to that album after a write up about it on Jazz Wax.

I just told a buddy of mine that these guys are one of my favorite discoveries of the year. Absolutely love their grooves and style.

Lol, they love some blue/gray/black/white don't they? The ocean in the rest of the warmer world is blue too guys!

I can see that. My starting point for him were the ECMs and for some reason - maybe the modernity of that setting - I had/have no real interest in hearing what he did in decades past. It's interesting to me how his somewhat concurrent output on different labels is so starkly different. That's why a blanket dismissal of his work seems strange. Indeed. To me, there's some real magic on his ECM records.

Really? Wow, that's kind of unexpected. While I don't really dig his Blue Note output, his ECM albums are some of the strongest not just in his catalog but across that entire label's.

Down for the Arild quartet but damn, get some fresh album cover ideas ECM! Their themes of sparse winter/cold landscapes are played out at this point, and really are an antithesis of spontaneous group creativity.

Amen. Or read their respective 10-Ks and listen to the investor calls. Stock losses alone are poor barometers of broad economic indications.

Enjoyed it! Thanks for putting it together.

Tried Yes' Tales last night as a result of reading this thread and got about a song and half in. Not terrible but I couldn't hang all the way through. I dig their earlier albums and then Relayer which was after Tales. Holds up better for me than LZ.

Had a yard sale 2 weeks ago. No vinyl but an older guy showed up looking for it. If I advertised vinyl I bet it'd be a pretty good cross section of demos that would show out, esp if I spelled out genres available That advertising by way of craigslist, FB, next door etc. really worked btw.

Lol this is hot garbage. Is this what traffics in hard right circles these days? Unfortunately I'm not surprised. I feel sorry for you and anyone fooled by this nonsense. Dennis Prager is a fucking joke as is every blowhard sitting on those plush leather couches. They don't give a shit about democracy, just how they can fleece gullible ignoramouses and line their pockets. You're doing their publicity for them homie. If they're not giving you a check then you're a sucker.

Just to note I don't live in Beantown and don't pull for the Red Sox. Just went because that's what tourists do, esp in an old ball park like theirs.

About a year pre-Covid I went to a Red Sox game over Labor Day where they played the 'stros. Those Houston fans travelled in impressive numbers and represented their team well. On the other hand I've been to a Phillies game in the standing room area and those fans are passionate, as most Philly fans are regardless of sport. Hope to see a good series.

Sold by the Chive. Per a comment at quora, Bill allowed them use of this pic (from a Paul Thomas Anderson movie I think) bc he liked their charity donations. So people who think it looks cool to have a sticker of Murray on their car post it up. I'd bet if said folks actually met him or ran into him they'd think twice about that.

Haven't seen the Coltrane sticker but it's derived from another bumper sticker about the Mummy, which said something like (and I'm paraphrasing here): "I'd rather be watching the cinematic masterpiece The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz" - with the same sort of syntax and design as this Coltrane one. I'm surprised the GQ article doesn't mention that unless I missed it. Either way, I hope people end up buying/streaming Alice after seeing this.

Walter Zuber Armstrong's Alpha & Omega - Live from 1973 at Western Washington State College now Western Washington U in Bellingham, WA. Strong Pacific vibes on this one. I don't know much at all about the band: Dan O'Brien on bass, Michael-Ann Burnett - cello, Bill Grauss - drums, Martin Lund - piano with Mr. Armstrong turning in duties on bass clarinet, flute, alto & piccolo flute & percussion. Excellent album. Looks like it's never been reissued as it was on his own World Artists label. Armstrong passed in 1998.

I saw the 180 proof reissue in the bins yesterday. Passed on it but listening to the only track I can find streaming "Inside Ourselves". Good stuff. SQ on the LP reissue is supposed to be not great, but it may be the only reasonable way to hear this album unless the Japanese CD is that much better. Anyway, the title track is a nice morning tune.

From what I remember in his interviews, Evans seemed to prefer the trio setting as well. Seemed like he was always searching for that mind-meld that he and LaFaro had, and referenced trio settings as the only place he could really find that. I don't know a lot about it all, but I think LaFaro really pushed him both while playing and in life. Had LaFaro lived, he may have been successful in getting Evans off the junk and who knows what would've ended up happening at that point.

I bought all my Evans albums early on when starting to listen to jazz and for whatever reason I can hardly listen to them now. One of the exceptions is the material with Shelly Manne. The only box I got was the Fantasy one and thankfully at a hefty discount. I won’t be buying anymore in the near future.

When I first listened to this album I had a vision of Miles and Sly Stone going deep into this musical jungle and meeting up with Lee Perry. I never thought of it as controversial, but I never read Crouch either. Seems controversial would be saying that these loops and textures met the Mizell’s and formed a tributary to hip hop. I’m probably wrong though.

Wow. Snag it if you don’t have it

Going the horror route these days: Candyman remake/sequel - a must see Hellraiser 2 (super weird and pretty disgusting but also silly and campy - tighter editing esp toward the end would have helped) Creepshow 2 - terrible House - campy and kind of funny but also pretty bad More misses than hits with 70s/80s horror camp stuff but 'tis the season.