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A long while back, I make a rule not to discuss music with anybody unless I know that they know what they're getting into. And that's most people. We can talk about other stuff and we can still be friends.

I'm really hoping for an all-small(ish) market Series I don't know if Seattle or Toronto qualify, though?

Most "avant-garde" music is predictable to one degree or another. That's not at all demanding, it's quite the opposite!

I like that Genevieve Artadi!

He "heard" and "listened". What he meant was "this music is incomprehensible to me and that's their fault, not mine". It's always somebody else's fault. Nobody ever says " I don't like this because don't yet, maybe will never, understand it". You find a person who is that reality-based, you have maybe found a friend! Oh yeah, "demanding music" is more often than not a fun listen for me. And I know I'm not alone in that (and it's not just musicians). But a simple "I don't get" is adequate and honest. This "noodling" thing just bullshit. Period.

And it only took nine innings - and less than five hours! Now take care of the Dodgers, please!

You're giving them waaaay too much credit.

For decades, I played for a wedding band that was always "The Mister X Orchestra". Sometimes it was a five-piece orchestra, sometimes a sixteen-piece orchestra, anything in between, but it was always "orchestra". But there were never strings! Unless you count a fiddle player for honky-tonk numbers...

A Canadian 78!!!

This lady appeared to be in the 50-60 age range, so if "Ella Speed" is her real name, her parents (he Speeds) would have named her "Ella", that would have been in the 60s-70s. It's kinda weird to do that, considering the date of Ella in the song...

I cheated. It's a "local" band. I have the LP, but it's plowed, so this clean digital transfer is a revelation!

Indeed! And still I wonder -how did this person come to be named Ella Speed? This is 2025!

Tony is very present. He's never not!

The other day, there was a contestant on The Price Is Right named Ella Speed. I wonder what was up with that She didn't win anything either Ella Speed.

George Garzone. Turns out I have that record. George Garzone is a baaaaad man.

Earlier today; One cut with a nice spot by Gene Ammons(!) plus the entire "Little Pony" big band session. Definitely a good set to have!

The live music of this time as a whole occupies a weird space in Miles' recorded chronology. He had spent the first part of the 1960s releasing one live album after another. The repertoire had been set. So ..Miles gets not just a new band, but a new band that writes new material. That understandably took precedence. Who wanted to hear yet another live album with yet another version of "All Blues"? Besides, Miles was not in top form, his chops were down And once Butches Brew happened, Definitely who wanted to hear that old shit, regardless of how atomized it actually was? And then Mike's "retired". America was busy doing fusion and such, as was a lot of the world. But Japan,hey, Japan saw the value in this music and put it out, And from there it became a sort of cult classic. So what finally broke it into America to begin The Second Great Quintet? Perversely enough, Wynton, whose earliest records were ALL about a formalized study of this ban, this music, and quite a bit of the Plugged Nickel records. So in a way, this music was old and new at the same time. It's still standards though But it is also a more thorough delineation of the rhythm section than the studio albums. And Wayne is just NUTS!!1 And a weird thing happened during this vacuum -there began this fossilization of what "real jazz" should sound like, and for standards this was not that. And then there's the Lost Quintet, who picked up where the Plugged Nickel band left of and carried it over to the other side. But that's another story... All these Columbia records are helpful, but to hear the natural evolutions of the music, the bootlegs do that. The Bootleg series is helpful up to a point. That's funny, but...a major local newspapers "pop music critic" did a column about "the most overrated musicians of all time". The two I still remember two are Otis Redding and Charlie Parker, of whom it was said that if he sounds like he's just making it up as he goes along, that's because he is. So ..yeah

Sounds really good!