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I started listening to this months ago but today was relaxed enough to HEAR it. It is genius. 2 things jump out at me: 1. this was a little different than other recordings of this quintet in that they-Miles, Wayne, Herbie-played (blew) more on the tunes. The other discs were more about the themes and them being dynamically building showcases for Tony. 2. Miles's growth as a player from the 50s, when he was already great, is amazing. His sound and conception are much deeper. The way he gets right inside Wayne's harmony-pretty new then-is almost like he wrote the tunes himself. The solo on the first tune is poetry. People who say Miles didn't change his playing, just the settings, need to 'listen louder'. The other secret weapon is Herbie. His harmonic ear is amazing-also bringing Wayne's concept way out. Ron is an anchor for floating, lyrical music with built-in internal rhythm. These guys got to go to every job knowing they were paid to be innovators. Amazing.

You just broke O rule 787891.5l5: No direct copy-protected inspirational quotes w/o links. This offense is especially egregious in its reference to a book edited by a woman hitched up to one of the Cuomos. I'm TELLING!, LAAARRYYY!! Put down that copy Comintern Today. Front and cemter, there's work to be done (to be done...Strike up the band). (;

Re Tom Storer's observation about FB 'killing off trolls': ignore buttons on BBs do pretty much the same thing, plus it's a closed commity of like-minded folk. I don't need millions of people looking at my FB page, it kind of gives me the creeps. As I observed on a thread about FB detractors, when I get email 'notifications pending' messages it also irritates me b/c my email is for friends/business contacts and I get enough spam. Spam is what it is, too, invitations to gigs by people I don't know who could care less about me except as a warm ass in a seat-often in another city! Hustling is cool-musos have to-just not on my time and dime when I'm waiting on email I actually care about. As to trolls: like cats, feed them and they'll keep coming back. Click on Ignore and starve a troll today.

Jeez, the mind boggles. But seriously, ladies and germs, I and Bob Hope wanna tell you: the most irritating thing about FB is the emails saying 'Joel, you have notifications pending'. Number 1, my email is for friends and business contacts and I get enough spam. Leave me alone. 2, who asked? If I want to go on FB I can find my way fine. Which leads to 3, when I did bite it was always sonebody I never met trying to get my ass in a seat or hawk a CD, shit like that. I mean make friends first, right. I myself am super sensitive re invading even friends' privacy-even if I have a gig. It's basic manners, though I can dig that people need to hustle and self-promote. But most of the FB messages I get are of that ilk.. So what I do now is if someone contacts me and I want to communicate further I ask them to email me. I HAVE found old friends there and one even came to a gig and it was great to see him. But mostly it just ain't my cup of sake.

Bravo! BravISSIMO!! There's hope and validation for not only dinosaur fuckers like me, but young people also are thinking for themselves sometimes. A little eye contact can go a long way!

Hey, maybe me and the Angry Young Man could get together and co-host an MSNBC debate show. Starting Over. Like Elliot Spitzer and the pets.com dog-hey, everyone deserves a 2nd chance (;

I'm only 58-AND someone called me 'young man' the other day. I SWEAR.. Um, you wouldn't tell anybody the guy was 105, wouldya?

Weird. The post I just responded to (it said 'that makes no sense...') seems to have disappeared. Did the guy delete it? Maybe I was snoozing and the penny arcade genie from Big made a house call to grant me 3 wishes...

Read a little more carefully before you judge and snap, man. I never said Jobs had anything to do with FB. I DO say that the people walking around zombie-like lost in gadgets and walking into each other like silly geese are doing so with his products. And as a musician dedicated to playing outside every day partly for money but largely to campaign for real music done live for and by real people I have to work 3x as hard for 1/3 the money b/c people have buds in their ears, gadgets in their hands, and heads up their asses. Want music? No prob, click and steal it. Intellectual property? What's that, old-timer, and why should I give a shit? You'd be blowing off steam too if you were me. I don't understand it. It more than concerns me. It scares me-like looking daily into the face of stupidy and massive laziness that's purveyed by profiteers.

I wasn't denigrating people just for using FB. There are good reasons to use social networks. But the herd mentality and manipulation of same are pervasive. You don't NEED social 'connectivity' or the latest toy Barnum tells you you're nowhere if you don't purchase. And of course there'll a 'new, improved' one in 6 months, and the inevitable lines of cattle waiting to get it as the purveyors rub their hands and say 'c'hing!'. As W.C. Fields would say 'Fooled 'em again..'. Personally, though somewhat dim-witted, I've done all my own thinking since the age of, oh, 47-and prefer the company of similarly independent dimwits. (; Technology has its points, but is largely a lie. It's Only a Paper Moon..

I'm pretty well-known to be kind of anti-technology, but in this case I admit it's a good idea. To be able to have a large tome like Sondheim's Finishing the Hat or the OED made portable is a boon. I would miss the lived-in quality that, say, the highlighting in a used book has. What the hell, you can't have everything. Finally, it's nice when the zombies walking into you b/c they're distracted by playing w/gadgets are at least LITERATE zombies (;

No-but thanks for the offer (; Seriously, the book came first. But maybe Bogosian was how I knew the title. Hacks borrow, talents steal. Or something. I suppose I could Google it, Joel, but what the hell, I'll just ask. Who wrote the book you are talking about and when was it published? Thanks for asking, my bad. Guess I figured everyone knew-jazz fans being as big drunks as the musicians, what with poverty and unheralded genius (; It was written by 2 academics (and is not only very readable but hilarious. These 2 are hams from the old country), Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin and published originally in '82 by Free Press. I have the revised '87 edition.

Pete: Just for that YOU pay for lunch now. (;

I hear you. He was the last really interesting horn player. He took some of what people like McCoy and Trane did in the sixties, dug into 20th Century composition and found himself. what I like is that it wasn't just devices-4ths, pentatonics, things that were trendy then-he was lyrical. The song Katrina Ballerina was one of my favorite by anyone in the 70s. What an influence he was on Tom Harrell when he came to town. Tom was kind of doing Woody, among otherinfluences, then HE found his own great voice. To me Woody was like the cream of what was good in the late 60s-70s. He was good after that of course, but he was part of what was in the air then. And he never sold out

No-but thanks for the offer (; Seriously, the book came first. But maybe Bogosian was how I knew the title. Hacks borrow, talents steal. Or something.

Stanley may not have showed, but nothing stopped him and Francis from mud wrestling later. I believe Christiern funded the match and also refereed. I'm here through Thurs. Try the Chardonet-we can't GIVE the damn stuff away (;

This is too rich not to share: p. 5. (my set-up) The colonists couldn't get decent ingredients for beer-making. One wrote this paean to ingenuouity: If barley be wanting to make into malt/We must be cmtent and think it no fault/For we can make liquor to sweeten our lips/Of pumpkins, and parsnips, and walnut-tree tips. The authors' deadpan response: 'One suspects that the beers produced from such recipes were little better than the poetry'. Agreed, Ogden Nash can rest easy (;

Just piled in and I can see this is gonna be a page turner. Heard of it before but picked it up for that ever-popular price: free. History books can be a laborious read but I can see the authors are good at terse prose that moves and has humor-like Nell Painter's History of White People, which I experienced Readus Interruptus w/and will get back to. So being that I only just started feel free to begin w/o me. I'll be out doing, um, research. 'Where's my damn Rob Roy? What, the guy went alj the way back to get the Mayflower stash?'

Thanks, Paul. That was heartfelt and beautifully written. We're lucky to get to meet our heroes, luckier still when they turn out as Mr. Cavett so deliciously recounts.

Did anyone here see the documentary Electric Miles? I went to a screening at Lincoln Center Cinema when it opened. The filmmaker was there w/a panel of musicians and a critic. I remember Airto, Dave Leibman, and that silly writer Francis Davis (what the hell was Terry Gross thinking?). I don't think Stanley C. was there, except sort of in effigy (; , since they were all sort of ganging up on any writer that was against fusion Miles. I remember Airto strongly stating that to judge Miles then by 'jazz' standards since he wasn't playing it was wrongheaded and lame. Pretty interesting event, and as one might guess the audience had plenty of questions.

He got out too, just not in a GOOD way..

Ramallah? Jesus. Lucky he got the hell out of there. For us especially...

I have lowly cell phone and can't scroll enough to get every post. Why don't you just tell me where he's from?

Nabil. Thank you. What part of the world was he from? I'm guessing Mid-East. We were at the same party once but I didn't get to meet him. He was on records and bands I liked. The '70s were happening in NY..Lee had g gig at Strykers, so he probably did that. I used to see his name at Gregory's-don't remember who. With Not Chuck Wayne. Nabil. Thank you. What part of the world was he from? I'm guessing Mid-East. We were at the same party once but I didn't get to meet him. He was on records and bands I liked. The '70s were happening in NY..Lee had g gig at Strykers, so he probably did that. I used to see his name at Gregory's-don't remember who. With Not Chuck Wayne.