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Yeah, but I'd prefer to vote for a progressive who will vote in my interests but seems personally "inauthentic" over an authentic wingnut.

Artistic "principles" are not static.

Changing the inherent racism in drug sentencing laws would also reduce the prison population. Consider the following: Indeed, and one dimension of the problem is the different treatment of drugs that are used by lower economic classes vs. the preferred drugs of the well off.

Great news. I wish I could have convinced my mother to move into an assisted living facility; I suspect it might have helped to slow down her precipitous mental decline. Now she's at home with round the clock babysitters, sleeping a lot and being confused when she's awake.

Ah yes, I owned that years ago, inspired by Balliet's book (American Singers). The only time I remember seeing Larkins was with Helen Humes at Barney Josephson's The Cookery, in 1975. I wonder if there are any recordings from that period of just the two of them; I don't have the Columbia album any more, but I have a CD with a New Years Eve Performance at Windows on the World (also featuring Eddie Jefferson). And maybe something with Mildred Bailey? I'll have to dig further.

Well, I agree with Allen 100% regarding Lou Donaldson. However, I find the whole question of authenticity in black music (and that category includes white players playing black music), along with its assumptions about class, is a slippery slope full of questionable assumptions that I had thought were put to rest ages ago. I also think that third parties judging the "authenticity" of other artists is just plain bad form. I'm not talking about aesthetic judgments, I'm talking about something that almost takes on a dimension of moral reprobation.

Uh oh, the "authenticity" bugaboo rears its head...

I know and love his duets with Ruby Braff, Ella, and Larry Adler. Has he recorded duets with other artists?

Sorry, that doesn't warrant an answer.

That quoted copy about the McPhee album sounds like Dusty Groove. Yes? Some amazing African music on tap.

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Getting rid of draconian drug laws would cut the numbers considerably.

Nothing Herbie ever did is as bad as that.

A great singer's accompanist. I believe I saw him with Rebecca Parris. And Shirley Horn chose him to play when she no longer could.

I'm a big fan of Soft Machine (2-5) and related stuff, but I'd say it's in a different corner. George Cartwright's Curlew was a great band that mixed Prime Time harmolodics, Canterbury influences and No Wave. And while I was fishing around on Youtube I found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSeiR5ByFk&feature=related

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For me Herbie was at his best and most exploratory as a pianist when he got to stretch out on live Miles gigs, especially the 1967 tour.

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What may seem "amusing" on the surface is really pernicious at the core. Yeah, prisoners in the U.S. are really pampered. They're really whooping it up about this at the tea party.

I can do without the vocals on Ayler's New Grass, but if he had gotten Little Richard to sing New Generation that would have been a brilliant coup (the tune is essentially Jenny Jenny).

Oh, I'll bet people have been fucking with it for years.

Quit dissing Wynton Marsalis.

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My first two Sonnys, not sure the order, were the Everest and the Prestige twofer. I bought oodles of those twofers. Some were just repackagings of two individual lps (all the Miles and Coltrane sets, for the most part), but I think the Rollins was a compilation drawn from multiple albums. Next Album was the first Rollins music I bought on first release, and then I saw just about every concert he did for New Audiences in NYC in the '70s. In the '80s he started doing dates at The Bottom Line as well as concert halls.

Now playing. Thanks!