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  1. Tom Storer

    Ralph Moore

    I remember Moore mostly from live dates, particularly with Roy Haynes' quartet (they made a nice album recorded in Paris, if you can find it). I have his first LP somewhere in the basement, and some others he's on too. He disappeared into the wilds of California, if I understand correctly, where he can be found occasionally in clubs. Is that still true? A very fine player. I regret his disappearance from the international scene.
  2. Actually, it should be CD quality sound. Assuming that the original source from which the FLAC is compressed is CD quality to begin with.
  3. You know, I lived through the late 70's/early 80's too, and the "Swing Kids" thing for me was barely a blip on the horizon. And I was a hard-core young jazz fan. Wynton and that first batch of neocons was hot, David Murray and Chico Freeman were hot; Miles was still hot although he had been out of circulation for years. Ornette and Prime Time were hot. Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin--hot! Comebacks! Tommy Flanagan etc. rediscovered (remember that double-album, "I Remember Bebop"?) Meanwhile, Concord was putting out Mel Torme and George Shearing and Scott Hamilton and Gene Harris and who knows who else. I was vaguely aware of it, but I didn't pay much attention, nor did any of the twenty-something or even thirty-something jazz fans I knew. Certainly it seemed a lot more marginal to "the jazz scene" than the Pablo catalog, let alone the trendy stuff. Obviously there was a whole slice of life I was unaware of, as concerns both the "Swing Kids" and their audience.
  4. I'm pushing 50, and no longer have to listen to jazz all the time, as I did when I was younger. I progressively opened up to other music over the years. Now I just let my mood take me where it will, whether it's jazz, country, Indian classical, Sinatra, gospel... whatever I get into. As a result of being less exclusively a jazz listener, I find I'm less involved in new developments. Once upon a time I had to listen to everything that was happening if only to decide whether I liked it or not, but now I have less time to do that. I'm no longer conversant with all the brand new stuff that believes it is blazing new trails, and in general have accepted that there's no way I can cover all there is to cover in the time remaining, so fuck it, I'm just looking for pleasure, not necessarily discovery. I also don't feel any need, as Jim does, for the music I listen to intimately reflect today's changing life, etc. I personally am pretty much stable, and as life goes on I feel I can continue to evolve without at the same time having to change my musical tastes as well, any more than my dining habits, wardrobe, address, etc. Therefore I don't feel like I'm running away from life or anything by still listening to a lot of stuff I've listened to a lot before. The fact that I had to give up my iPod to protect my hearing means I've been listening to a lot less music, period, over the past year. I was philosophical about it for a while but it's starting to get to me.
  5. Yet the law says that if the deer is in season and if he is appropriately licensed, this man CAN kill the deer. The law doesn't specifiy good or bad reasons for killing the deer. It doesn't say, "you can hunt deer for food or for sport, but not for sex." So that's what we have to determine: Did the man in fact kill the deer? Was it hunting season? Did the man have a license? But if he did kill the deer, then he lied to the police when he said he found the deer corpse in a ditch. Looks to me like this is a shady character no matter what the facts turn out to be. I would be interested to hear the candidates' reaction to this.
  6. Pile them up on the sidewalk, drench them with gasoline, and torch 'em. Not only will you get cool, black, sooty smoke and an interesting odor, it will leave a fascinating and long-lasting residue!
  7. Noted.
  8. Yeah, but he pleaded no contest. "A plea of guilty or no contest waives all nonjurisdictional defects and defenses." Personally, given that he had already been convicted of killing a horse in order to have sex with it, I wonder if he really happened across a dead deer in a ditch or in fact went sprinting and leaping through the forest after it before finally bringing it down and killing it with his bare hands, and then had sex with it.
  9. You guys are pretty picky about your cheap YouTube humor! I just thought it was pretty funny.
  10. Jesus, Mary and Joseph! It's jesus marion joseph! I had a friend who received a hunk of money mysteriously in her account. She bought a motor scooter with it, and then went to the bank and said "Where did this money come from? I wasn't expecting it." They looked into it and said, "Oh, sorry, a mistake. It should have gone to this other account." But by then she had spent it! She had to come up with it then, of course. She felt she had somehow been ripped off by the bank. When I pointed out that it was the intended recipient who would have been out of pocket if she had kept it and said nothing, she got mad at me.
  11. Thanks! I'll get this in my March download.
  12. Mine came this morning, just in time for the discussion thread to open. Now listening, and it's *great*!
  13. Good news, Weiz, you don't have to go to all the trouble of a trip to New York. Just pack 'em up and send 'em to me! I'll be more than happy to take them off your hands.
  14. Just to be a nitpicker, if a location is "near the town" how can it also be "remote"?
  15. Thanks to this thread and Mr. Litwack's generous assistance, I've discovered Inez Andrews, the Caravans, and even the Andrewettes. Amazing stuff! So now I'm on a bit of a gospel thing. I already had the Golden Gate Quartet (40's recordings) and the Soul Stirrers with Sam Cooke. Where should I go next?
  16. OK, OK, I'll bite... what happened with Jack DeJohnette in New York City's downtown Tower Records, circa 1990?
  17. PM sent.
  18. My speculation, based on no external evidence whatsoever, is that Marlo will somehow cross Chris and/or Snoop and that will be his downfall.
  19. Who'd've thunk it? I remember being undecided and finally figuring, "This will just be another Wyntonian album that I'll think is kind of good but never listen to more than twice." Better than "Deep in the Shed" was "Blues for the New Millenium," which was much the same idea but a few years later and done with a larger group and a bit more bite. If I recall correctly.
  20. I have it, and enjoyed it a lot--but I haven't listened to it in a while. I think Roberts is a fine piano player who has somehow never really burst through a Wyntonian self-consciousness, that tendency to take himself so fucking seriously. The thought that what he's up to now is recreating that album is kind of depressing. It was a good album, but performing the whole thing four times over a weekend indicates an inflated self-regard, as if the album was historic and this is a serious cultural event. I mean, what the hell? Move on! Do something different! Surprise us!
  21. I love it. As for the Greeks, when they allowed Marlo to pay them "insurance," they were tipping him that they wouldn't take Prop Joe's side against him--he promptly took advantage of this and eliminated Prop Joe. Remember as Marlo left the Greeks after that meeting, they looked at each other and said, with slight contempt, "He's not Prop Joe." I took that to mean that, raw and unsophisticated as he is (despite his viciousness), they believe they will be able to rip him off somehow.
  22. When she wants to rearrange some aspect of life (furniture, routines, whatever) and I voice reservations, if she smiles lovingly and says, "We'll just try it this way for a while and see," it means "You'd better get used to it because I will not budge an inch on this."
  23. I see what your passage quoted from the book means, and agree with it, but this example confuses me. They put the emphasis on the first syllable of "strawberry" and the second syllable of "forever"--just as one pronounces them in conversation. The only "unnatural" thing is stretching "fields" over two beats. No?
  24. I'm surprised to hear that, outside of some obvious eccentrics like Dylan, rock lyrics' phrasing clashes with natural spoken rhythms. I would have thought rock lyrics would take after blues lyrics in that respect. But I haven't done much research, I admit. However, one thing one notices when listening to rock music in French is that the French language really doesn't fit rock phrasing. I think English lends itself to an iambic pentameter kind of deal, with every other syllable accented, more or less, the same way that 4/4 popular music accents every other beat. When French musicians sing rock, they use the same beats and it's usually glaringly obvious that they're mangling their own language, singing with stresses that just sound wrong, in order to make it fit the rhythm. Not every song, but often enough to make it really obvious. So when you hear Francis Cabrel, who sings romantic rock that makes teenage girls dewy-eyed, it sounds (in comparison) really good because he manages to use elegant French with its native rhythms. Or maybe it's because it uses its native rhythms that it sounds comparatively elegant.
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