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Don't want to get into another discussion of ethics/morality/whatever, but I thought a portion of a previous post of yours was interesting: "I pointed out that, otherwise, those without a turntable (and arm, and cartridge, and phono pre-amp, and storage space for vinyl, and record cleaning machine, and... ) would be forced to obtain a digitized copy." Who is forcing anyone to obtain a copy of this record in any form? Is your life - or the life of anyone without a turntable based system - going to be appreciably lessened without a copy of "Big Chief"? Let's be honest. It's more like - You want a copy and you'll do what's necessary to get one. If you do obtain a digital copy, do you plan on sending royalties to Sunny Murray?

The Why Not LPs that I have also have Trio Records printed on the covers. Most say "Manufactured & distributed by TRIO RECORDS".

Just watched the 4th quarter of the Rockets-Pistons. Detroit came back strong (with AI on the bench), had a chance to tie it at the end, but missed two wild threes. I had the feeling as I watched that ESPN wanted to go on to an X-Games broadcast and hoped that there wouldn't be an overtime.

No connection to the Andorrans. Why Not was a Japanese label that originally issued these titles on vinyl in the mid 1970s. India Navigation leased Air Song for their release. No idea about the remastering.

:tup Good listening at the Nessa residence!

A number of Why Not recordings are being reissued in February. http://www.cduniverse.com/sresult.asp?styl...ch_Info=Why+Not Haven't heard the George Cables, but Air Song and Tell Us Only the Beautiful Things are highly recommended (at least by me), and Morning Prayer is probably my favorite Chico Freeman.

Jones doesn't get a lot of space on this record, but what there is sounds good.

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Archie Shepp: Bijou (Musica)

Walt Dickerson & Richard Davis: Divine Gemini (Steeplechase)

My copy sounds crystal clear - no background hiss. You may have a bad pressing or a copy that was played with a bad stylus.

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Just finished watching back to back episodes of As Time Goes By on two different PBS stations. Now, in between catching up with today's Organissimo posts, I'm watching the last minutes of the Knicks & 76ers. I'm not a Knick fan, but their games are televised here and at least they're usually entertaining to watch this season.

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Good to see that there's at least one person who hasn't been affected by the state of the economy.

I disagree with the first sentence. It's not that the great musicians' point-of-view is infallible. Far from it. It's that the insights are almost always valuable -- but often not for what they tell us about the musician who is the object of the analysis but what they tell us about the musician making the judgment. Tristano or Miles on Monk opens a window into the aesthetic preferences and the ears of Tristano and Miles more than it might about Monk -- and actually it offers an interesting perspective about Monk's ideas and choices, too, even if we might vehemently disagree with the thumbs up or down evaluation. It is often true that musicians make problematic critics because their own aesthetic point-of-view and values are so strong that it makes it hard for them to appreciate or understand ideas that spring from very different values. But if you remain cognizant of that, you can get a lot out of what any great musician has to say, both in terms of nuts and bolts and big picture philosophy. I can agree with that.

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I don't put a lot of stock in what musicians have to say about other musicians' music. There may be exceptions, but in general that's my feeling. I'd rather listen to Tristano, Konitz, or Miles than read their opinions about Monk or any other musician.

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Thanks for posting this. Good to hear Marion Brown on the video. Sad to see him looking so frail and debilitated.

If I could live out my wishes, there would be hundreds. But to narrow it to a few: Jelly Roll's first RCA session 9/15/28, so I could watch how he directed his band. Roscoe Mitchell's Pilgrimage sessions, so I could watch him interact with musicians from different backgrounds. Bud - 6/8/54 - "It Never Entered My Mind" Cecil - the Into the Hot Session - 10/10/61 Pres, Billie, Teddy & company: "I Must Have that Man" -1/25/37 Swan Silvertones: "Trouble in My Way" - 8/19/52 Jimmy Yancey: "How Long Blues" - 12/43 the second Monk's Music Session - 6/26/57 Steve Lacy/Don Cherry: Evidence - 11/14/61 - To hear the music and to meet Carl Brown. Elmore James: the first "Dust My Broom" session - 8/51 Muddy: "I Can't Be Satisfied" - 4/48 Trane: "Ascension" - 6/28/65 Mingus: The Ah Um sessions - 5/5 & 12/59 Blakey & the Messengers: Free For All - 2/10/64 OK - more than a few. If I'm going to dream, I guess I can be greedy.

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Happy Birthday to the X-Man!

Bought the two Giuseppi Logan ESPs when they came out - maybe I still have them somewhere - and bought Roswell Rudd's Everywhere when it came out, but I never could hear Mr. Logan's playing. It was certainly unique, but not in a way that moved me. That said, I wish him the best and I hope that Mr. Logan emerges to play music that I and/or others will be moved by.