Dub Modal

Lol. Of course!

I hear that. But it probably works best when I’m not around though. and she really doesn’t look like TC which makes it even more weird and funny.

Some sort of nice tequila. Around $50 worth

I can't recommend it highly enough. Best thing I've listened to all week.

Yeah, $60 is a good gift amount. Speaking of Carrere, my GF got mistaken for her in a SC liquor store last year by the clerk. He ended up not charging her for one of the bottles. We couldn't figure out if it was just a mistake or a fanboy move, but much appreciated regardless.

Ha, I see Jon Lovitz is on there, Jack! That would probably be fun. I immediately thought of a friend currently on chemo who's had to move to a new fast-tracked drug b/c the other wouldn't take. Outside of the box stuff like this could help cheer them up if the timing's right. For the expensive ones friends could go in on it.

First listen. Incredible. Tears are in my eyes man. Ridiculous.

Kenny G for $295. Um...what? But yeah, this seems more like a gift idea. Like if you know someone that's really going through it right now. Every celebrity seems like they're up on this.

Billy Bang Vietnam: Reflections

I went back to Lonely Star last night (I also have the other Prestige comp, On A Misty Night) and wouldn't say I heard torpid playing from Chet, but will say that I remained more interested in what Coleman was doing (and the rest of that rhythm section too). I don't have much with Lightsey on it, but damn he's good. I tend to enjoy most Chet I hear although I remain lukewarm on his vocals (just feels like folks let him indulge because of who he was).

You guys have probably seen this before, but it's a recent discovery for me (well, I just saw the entire thing now as I had just seen a performance before - the interview section in the beginning was brand new for me). Chet & Getz live in Sweden '83. Performance starts at about 7:33 if you want to skip the beginning which includes a Getz interview that gets a little awkward. Chet comes on at 26:30. Chet owns this IMO (and damn, dude has hands like an NFL QB). My favorite part is at 1:18 (hour and 18 minutes in).

FWIW, my original intent was more about the machinations behind the movement that created the aforementioned astroturfing/scapegoating etc. and how hopefully it's in the past (at least at its most aggressive) rather than the individual provocateurs themselves, but I guess that's really inevitable. They're still alive and pretty vocal and it's also inevitable that jazz forums address the Burns Jazz doc since, despite its faults, did and does seem to have caught attention.

I'm currently listening to one of those Prestige sets (on pause for now) and am enjoying Coleman mostly. Will have to listen closely when I start back for Baker's form.

Thanks for id'ing this tune! On my second listen through this BFT I repeated it like 5 times because I thought it was so good. Searched for every sax player who recorded What's New, even tried to find it in Flanagan's leader dates from back then and could not find it. It was driving me nuts. NO ONE started the song like Jaspar does here. Totally slays this standard.

Between the 2 of these discs there's about 30 minutes of Body & Soul combined... And now: Hey, got the image to work without the "allrovi".

Nice. I couldn't get that to work last time I tried. Will try again though

All Music puts that "allrovi" suffix on their photo links which prohibits image sharing. Hate that b/c they have some good scans...

And didn't they all kind of get it from Murray?

Who could forget his turn in Mo' Better Blues? Bring back fun Branford is all I'm saying.

I'd love to see that revival as well, along with said book. In the meantime if you read any modern day interview with Branford, you'll see he continues to throw shade on current jazz musicians in some weird effort to continue this jazz war. Or hilariously bad mouth Blue Note recordings in favor of Prestige because those were recorded better, and that because he's an audiophile he notices this. Said book that compiles the Jazz War articles might should just give a whole chapter to this guy as an example of a modern day windmill tilter.

Ha, well it's definitely short on details. What I got out that video was exposure to that Tone Dialing album which was playing in the background throughout. I'd never heard it but was digging it the whole time. So I YT'd it as well. Interesting comment from someone on that Harmolodics video too about running into OC at an uptown train depot, with OC relating he moved uptown b/c he got jumped. Sad. Now if you'll excuse me I need to replenish the mild & honey on my OC shrine...

JM's with John Gilmore, Victor Sproles & John Hicks.

Mandrill is pretty forgotten these days but what a monster band they were.

Has his Rejoicing album been mentioned yet? It's a great one. I'd put anything with Lyle Mays here too.