Scott Dolan

Yeah, but goddamn do they have some GREAT recordings in their catalog!

OH! That Joelle Leandre box set was all you needed to say! Will check out everything else, as well. Much appreciated, brother. Did you check out The Selva yet?

Steve, you know what the funniest part of all this is? The first time we ran into each other was the old Freejazz.org message board (circa late 90’s?) where I used to drag you over the coals for abiding this “silly” European-style Free Improvisation “nonsense”. NOW! Not only am I turning you onto shit I’ve heard in that vein, but NOW you’re (by way of your last two posts) encouraging me to go back and listen, yet again, to the same shit because it’s worth yet another listen! Life is fucking hilarious! Hope you are well, my friend. Looking forward to your next suggestion!

I’ll have to give it a listen, too. My thoughts on the album were exactly the same as the ones expressed by mjzee. It was a “nice” album that simply didn’t do anything for me.

Perhaps it really is an age related thing, as you suggest. Because I didn’t get into Jazz until my mid 20’s. By that time I’d left behind my Heavy Metal and Hard Rock days, and was listening to far more mellow artists. So maybe if I’d been exposed to Ayler/Dolphy/Sheppard, etc.

Hope it’s a great B-Day, Beefy!

Yeah, Zappa was my gateway. While I love his through-composed pieces, the improv pieces were a major touchstone, especially during his epic length guitar solos. Then reading names and comparisons with Eric Dolphy, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane in Ben Watson’s imaginative and amusing Negative Dialectics Of Poodle Play got the Jazz juices flowing even more. It’s actually too bad that I didn’t hear Fusion until many, many years later, because with my ears tuned into Zappa, I may have clicked with Fusion easily. But I waited too long and my ears had moved away from that kind of sound and approach.

Those are still relatively tame and straight ahead. Not to mention an intentional crossover with Rock music at that point in time. Now, if you’d said something like Coltrane’s Live In Japan, then we’d have something!

So what were your first four or five albums? Mine were: Kind Of Blue Birks Works Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane Thelonious Monk Blue Note box

Not according to this, but I now see under closer scrutiny it obviously hasn’t been updated since the early 2000’s. http://www.nfl.com/history/randf/records/team/gameslost

He can speak for himself, of course, but there’s really no way to refute that. Pretty sure an overwhelming number of Jazz fans had a kinder/gentler introduction to the genre. Though Steve and I do share similar tastes these days, I think if the first Jazz I heard was a Parker/Guy/Lytton piece, I’d have ran screaming and never looked back.

I’m assuming he simply means the lighter, peppy, upbeat stuff. Like Vince Guaraldi’s Peanuts stuff. Easier for layfolk to relate to and pick up on. I mean, if all of our first encounters with Jazz were, say, Peter Brotzmann’s Machine Gun, I doubt many of us would have stuck around to see what Jazz is all about.

Is it possible for him to get a second opinion? Sounds like the audiologist might not be terribly competent.

Lions had 24.

Very entertaining.

Demented minds... They won’t make you abandon your main system, but they’ll keep you nice and happy while on your computer.

Klipsch Pro Media 2.1

Looks like all they make now are Bluetooth speakers.

My first exposure to him, oddly enough, was his voiceover work in the film, Magnolia. Entertaining and gifted dude.

I can live with all that.

Again. Proof, please. I’d stick with being presumptuous rather than simply believing something some nobody asserted on the internet without evidence. It’ll get you into less trouble. Hitchen’s razor, baby!

Focus. ”Surveilance-based ad delivery system”. Show me proof of one fucking ad that came from you using Spotify/Tidal/Apple Music. One.

You do realize how burden of proof works, right? It lies with the one making extraordinary claims. And I’ve been provided zero poof to support his claim. There is exactly no evidence proving paid streaming services are surveilance-based, NOR delivering ads. Ergo bullshit.

Right. So yet again my contention that the bullshit hyperbole of music streaming apps being used as surveilance to create targeted ads is confirmed.

OH! Yes, those are amazing speakers. Far beyond their price range. I didn’t know the name of the designer behind them.