clifford_thornton

I tend not to pay more than $15-$18 for my food if I can help it. One thing is I usually cook at home, or eat the cooking of my partner. But not eat my cooked partner.

Yeah, you tip on that round as though it weren't free. Also I should have clarified - not "owners" in my friends' case, but managers who call the 'shots' (pun half-intended). Every city I've lived in I've had a regular spot or two, and that has always resulted in friend discounts. In one case I was actually rung up as "friend" with everything exorbitantly discounted, so the computer actually had that programmed in...

I tip 20% at least, sometimes more. I have friends who work at a bar and who usually give me fat discounts, in which case I figure what I was comped and tip on what the "real total" would be. I consider this borderline unethical. Why? You treat your regulars well. Your regulars then stay regular and keep the atmosphere nice. Also, living in NYC off tips isn't easy, though maybe at upscale restaurants a bit better. Being of a somewhat younger generation and having been broke with a lot of friends in the service industry or working freelance, I've realized that in lieu of livable wages, those tips matter. Y'all stingy. well it obviously all depends on the circumstances. If your friends who work at the bar are also the owners of the establishment it's not the same issue as if they just give their friends a generous discount on the cost of the owners. for a generous tip. As I said having worked in the business myself I have all the sympathy for the workers. On the other hand they are also notorious for cheating, Wow, I can't understand why you side-stepped that one, uli. The answer to the question is "because it is stealing from the company". That's not to say that don't also sympathize, but stealing money in that fashion is outrageously unethical. Not to mention grounds for immediate dismissal. You guys seem never to have heard of a free round, on which one always tips.

I tip 20% at least, sometimes more. I have friends who work at a bar and who usually give me fat discounts, in which case I figure what I was comped and tip on what the "real total" would be. I consider this borderline unethical. Why? You treat your regulars well. Your regulars then stay regular and keep the atmosphere nice. Also, living in NYC off tips isn't easy, though maybe at upscale restaurants a bit better. Being of a somewhat younger generation and having been broke with a lot of friends in the service industry or working freelance, I've realized that in lieu of livable wages, those tips matter. Y'all stingy.

It's a good record. I hope he got paid.

$3.00 would be 20% so I have no idea what the problem is there. I tip 20% at least, sometimes more. I have friends who work at a bar and who usually give me fat discounts, in which case I figure what I was comped and tip on what the "real total" would be.

would like to hear this. Should be easy to identify pre-free Bennink. listening to a track on YT - definitely Bennink. I think that was from slightly earlier in the year, recorded in Paris.

The ring is from '72.

an aging comic being bitter and angry? Naaahhhh....

would like to check out the Wilen reissues. And the Criss if it gets released. also: now following the OP on instagram.

$3 for the Totah is super cheap. Add a zero and you'll know what I paid!

You want the flipside, go to the 1978 orchestra and the Koln album. For that reason I much prefer it to the Arista (even though I love that one too, of course) The Arista is awesome, never had any problem with it from a listener's perspective, though there are Braxton LPs I dig out before this one. I don't find the Ring set that interesting but it was made much, much earlier before some of these concepts had taken flight.

Been getting into some Jim Pepper recently. Picked up some CDs with him on them, posted those over in the listening thread. I like one in particular with Mal Waldron. I have a few LPs as well. Yeah, he's great. I mean, as ubiquitous as it is, "Witchi-Tai-To" is an amazing piece of music. Now, perhaps coincidentally as I was going through some ethnographic recordings today as well, Music of the Sioux and the Navajo - (Ethnic Folkways Library) Songs of the Pawnee and Northern Ute - (Library of Congress)

I'd like to get that Pacific Jazz LP.

Haven't heard Boykin in years. Need to seek out some more of his stuff. Now: Pygmy Unit - Signals from Earth - (self-released US LP) Bay Area free improvisation featuring Jim Pepper and Darrell De Vore, pretty neat.

Crothers definitely is pretty engaged in free music, playing with people like Jemeel Moondoc, Ras Moshe, and others associated with the William Parker circle.

RLP 12-225 would precede Jazzland 11 by several years.

Agreed. These I did see not all that long ago.

An overlooked gem. Thanks for the reminder; been meaning to check this out.

Really dug it when I was a kid - it was on after school and on Saturdays in the late morning. Haven't really seen it in decades but there are still some very memorable episodes - tribbles being among the most hilarious, but some of them got into some heavy, dark vibes at the time. Sorry I can't offer more than that, but I would enjoy re-watching these.

some things should remain unheard.

I feel like this would be $7-$11 on eBay, but...

I see it went for $148.50 chewy, not sure why you didn't win. I didn't realize that test pressings were made for this title and a catalog number assigned.

Dizzy Reece - Star Bright - (BN UA mono)

Electric Byrd is cool. I guess it is increasingly rare that I pick out something to listen to because of the label that it's on. That said, there are of course labels with vision, which Blue Note had up until the late '60s - rare for a sizable operation. Sometimes I go days without listening to jazz because there's so much else to listen to. There are days I don't even feel like listening to music... it happens.