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Yep. But RIP anyway. A lot of great work.

Probably a seance with Tony Scott.

Just now getting around to opening this one. Disc 1 is pretty cool actually, lots of Miles on both trumpet and keys, lots of blues with Miles playing altered changes, J.J.!!! Nothing (except for the opening cut) obviously intended as anything other than jamming. On to the rest tomorrow. But so far, so good. Miles playing chords is like Wynton Kelly coming back to life after woodshedding everything that he missed that he could have used.

Worse than missing it, I forgot about it...🤢

Yikes. Guess I missed that. What a shame. What a loss...

Pretty darn good! What's up with Charnette Moffett? This guy was a totally badass bassist, at least the equal of any of his peers. Where is he today?

Ok then, how does this new one compare to the US Savoy CD The Floater Syndrome? I have both it and the Japanese issue. Both have both alternates. Fwiw, I'm not a big Bill Evans fan, and agree wholeheartedly about Bley vs Evans. No contest imo.

Indeed.it is!!!

2-2 in my book.

https://www.discogs.com/master/1100381-Charisse-Moffett-Family-Jazz-Band-Its-Luv This time the Moffetts tune into late 70s-esque Quiet Storm-ish club jazz! And all originals at that!

Amazon or Discogs might still have it.

None of it is. I keep coming back to that album, sometimes for study, sometimes just to bask in it, but it always leaves me better than it found me. I've heard stories that there were also repeated attempts to coerce free concerts, and more than just one attempt to extort cash. The Mojo article (if it's the one I'm remembering) is pretty consequential and is worth finding.

https://www.discogs.com/release/19506895-The-Moffett-Family-Jazz-Band-Africano Nice!

They both continue to reward both scrutiny and study, as does the Greatest Hits album (which for my money is one of the great driving records).

Wyla Wisnikoff - Play Acting

And so it is. Kudos!

Other writings over the years have mentioned that Sly was getting a lot of pressure (financial and personal) from various thugs who associated themselves as being from the Black Power movement. Yes there were guns. One thing led to another....running away to get away as that song said. The Mojo magazine(?) of August 2001 had a pretty in-depth article about the making of There's A Riot Going On that goes into all of that, replete with quotes from the band. It was literally insane. One takeaway was that all the tape hiss and other audio degradation you hear on that album was the result of Sly and whoever just running whoever they were in the room with at the time onto the tracks and then immediately erasing them as soon as they left. Apparently there were a LOT of them, mostly female. I suppose that he could have cleaned all that up, but it seems he didn't want to. Talk about an act of militant passive-agressiveness...

Taking bets on whether or not the (hopefully) third volume will contain the one classical piece that Mel Powell recorded for Vanguard.... One the one hand, why should they? On the other hand, why wouldn't they?

Yeah third set, big bands and other larger ensembles.

Sly was a serious cat..until he took himself out of contention.

Expected, but still cause for pause. RIP.

Yes, that Discogs link is perfect,thanks!