JSngry

You can't bury Tony.

Best Monk cover ever?

To be honest, the OG two LPs are the highlights, enough for all but the hardcore ((for whatever reason) listener. But those two albums are not to be denied! And notice I said "denied", not loved or understood or any of that other emo crap.

Oh wow. THAT'S dumb! What it boils down to is that everybody is entitled to their opinion, but not all opinions are equal. And if somebody has an opinion rooted in ignorance and not at least a little bit of awareness, then I feel no obligation to respect it or (depending on how hungry I am) quietly tolerate it. Silence = death, eventually.

Of course not. I understand the basics, but that's it But I would never call it "noodling" or some such. Never. Because that's just ignuntass bullshit reflective of an ignuntass worldview. Period. A little bit of that goes a long way, and there's been more than a little bit of that for way too long. You can't expect anybody to like something, but the other side of that coin is that ignorance should not expect to go unchecked.

Now why would I do that? I decided decades ago tonir be that type of listener. I don't know if this is just an "American" problem, but music education requires critical thinking, and critical thinking has been disappearing across the board for decades now, and "pop music" has led the way. You know, you can enable programmed ignorance for so long before...never mind And btw - this has nothing to with individual taste Quite the opposite. It's about the refusal to develop any. Pop is not the enemy, the pop audience too often is. And btw, by your definition the perception of "noodling" is based on user ignorance. Q E.D. Speaking deconstructing Stella, that was underway before Plugged Nickel:

I know very well what they are doing. It's not the band's fault if pop audiences can't hear past the nose on their face. That's the result of decades of audience narcissism and industry cynicism playing into it. Besides, even if you don't know "the tradition", if all one hears is "noodling" and not something...different, then one is not entitled to have their opinion taken seriously. This i do believe.

It also took forever to come out. I placed a preorder as soon as it was announced, and, IIRC it took about a year (or more?) to actually be released. For such great, seminal (albeit in slow motion) music, Columbia has been stingy with it.

I'm going to hold off for a little bit in case some new people want in.

It is.

Yeah! That's what I would have liked to have seen used as a basis for the new covers!

Pro sports.

Those two records are the beginning of the concept of The Second Great Quintet as a thing. Nobody was thinking about that group as a live band, not yet. It was those two records that got the ball rolling. In 1976, after Miles was retired and after how many evolutions, and who was thinking about a 10 year old club date shaking up the world? But the they were. You could get them if you had a contact for Japanese records. I got mine in 1981 (after after hearing them fou a few years) at Jazz Record Mart, but I had to order a week in advance, such was the ongoing demand. That's been the consensus as I have heard it.

1976 and American Columbia wasn't interested for a while. There was no Second Great Quintet yet.

1976. Think about that.

That voice transcends any and all material.

It would have been cool if they referenced the OG Japanese LP covers for a concept. What they're using now is a bit "generic".

My suggested order is Bille(Clarke), Hawk, and Bechet. And then some cartoons to reset for the next round.

Chilto next imo.

I get that a tie sucks, but not as .much as a loss, right?

Overlooked AND underrated!

Is there a price for this?