JSngry

I transitioned from Beatles-to-Henrix-to-Zappa with random but meaningful bumpings into Soul (which was a whole other story...) It was a window in time...jazz-rock was about to become fusion (but had not yet), the big bands were still going (on all guides), the avant-garde was rapidly evolving. Europe was teeming with Americans and natives clicking decoratively and together, and most importantly...so many major voices were still alive, gigging, and recording. And the reissues were just beginning to get rolling! I like to use Wayne Shorter to illustrate - just about a year in. I knew of Wayne from records by Blakey, Miles, and Weather Report. I was too dumb to realize that it was not basically all the same person. Silly me.

But some of the Pablo box is mislabelled! Some is actually from Birdland?

It was 1971 when I started listening to jazzes, and a little bit of everything was out there, and that was what I liked. That turned into a lot of everything. Stories about people places and things real or not worlds known and unknown. I have few complaints about that, and there's still more and other musics, some are quite engaging!

Narcissism (or the appearance thereof) is not political in and of itself.

Just hold everything up to a light. If there's even the tiniest pinhole, it's game over.

If one just follows the notes, one will always hear some surprise notes that seem to go out of their way not to sound like surprises. Same thing with most of his writing. On an otherwise dispiriting record, this happens: Oliver Nelson was a very stealth guy

No idea what the science is, but I have corrected innumerable glitchy CDr s (and regular CDs) simply by ripping them on my PC. Not always, but mostly Where you hit a wall is if there's any irregularity, even a pinhole, in the reflective surface on the top of the disc. That's game over. Aftermarket self-applied labels are especially insidious that way. Avoid at all costs!

Grooves harder than the Mizell-produced studio albums.

Dark.

RIP 'em first.

That's a superior record!

Ron Carter, not Richard Davis. My bad. They also did this one: Not Ohio. But this one was: One side Stokes, on side Oliver. Both are interesting!

I remember Ohio. Oh, that one's got Richard Davis and James Spaulding

This is a REALLY good set!