It's a Thanksgiving Davis vs. John cagefight today! We're pitting one of John [Coltrane- Ed.]'s famed "Duvet Of Sound" recordings Ballads against a late period [Miles - Ed.] Davis waxing, The Man With The Horn. Which is a way better title than Davis' original suggestion The Man With The Boner.
Who's gonna slaughter his opponent in this jazz-adjacent musical Bloodstock?
Davis, or John? Who'll be left standing after this Holiday Cagefight? You decide in the comments! Hoo boy!
To partake in this Holiday o' Horn™, simply state in one word or more exactly what you're giving thanks for!
ReplyDeleteright now a well stocked ammo cabinet and bar
ReplyDeleteCochise is in witness protection in Apt#2 above Irv's Tire World©, 1335 Forbush Ave., Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
DeleteThanks for the tip, our welcoming committee is already on the way.
DeleteHe'll never pick his feet in this town again...
...one word or less...
ReplyDelete...Holiday o' Horniness...
Wha---
Wait, scratch that. And that. Misread & misfired again.
Need new glasses.
Thank gooness for spiel chuck and the 99-Cent store.
Oh, and pie.
Oh, and....
ReplyDeleteIn light of the recent Friday the 13th "Davis And John" fest here on the Isle, mite I suggest that this is "Miles v. John, Round Too"?
a few of my favorite things after midnight?
ReplyDeleteSorry; my b.
Miles for miles, 'trane for humanity, and when they were together....
Two words: indoor plumbing.
ReplyDeleteNext year he'll get a toilet brush.
DeleteAnd the year after he'll decide that finally he prefers toilet paper.
Enough Canadia jokes, already. Sadly our border is still closed, but when we finally allow the 60s in, watch out!
DeleteThis place is getting to be more & more like the men's room wall...
ReplyDeleteIf you sprinkle when you tinkle be a sweetie & wipe the seatie.
Please don't pee in our pool, we don't swim in your toilet.
Thankful for booze and a liver that hasn't given out on me.
ReplyDeleteAnd, its John by a landslide since McCoy Tyner is on Ballads.
Much like pmac, I am thankful for booze - as we all know;
Delete"Booze is the only answer." -Woody Woodbury
And Trane in this match.
I'm waiting for a promised mono edition of Ballads, which is extremely hard to find. If it doesn't turn up, I'll post the stereo, which you probably all have anyway.
ReplyDeleteGee, pals, I is disappoint. The mono version turned out to be a stereo, and not a particularly great one, neither. So what I did, with youse, Mr. Freeloading Bum in mind, is to scout out the best-sounding stereo I could find on my internet, and upload it for youse @320, in order somewhat to ameliorate the disappoint what we are all sharing at this time. Even if you gots it already, download this, because it seems to me the best available. It sure sounds swell. The Davis album is at the usual shitrate which personally I have always found satisfactory. Quit yer whinin' an' drink yer milk.
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/PySYCAJNq4a
... and here's the deluxe 2 disc remaster of Ballads, the first of which may be the same as the previous upload - I haven't heard it yet. @320.
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/pP87UGQH95Y
Very Nice, AND @320!
DeleteI'm with Mr. Feather; "Trane" is Heavyweight Champion.
Thank you, Farquhar, very much!
Yer welcome, JKC! I think the double deluxe is a different mix to the previous, although still stereo - John (as we call him) has been pulled a little to the center.
DeleteIf anyone has the mon - do us a solid, right here in the comments! (*ulp*)
I take it that "poppish" is somehow bad.
ReplyDeleteThe thing about allmusic reviewers is they're paid (amazingly, they earn money for this vapid nonsense) to be snobs. They can't just write "another swell Davis album you'll play a lot" (what it is), they have to be a critic, approach the album from a standpoint other than pure enjoyment - what the music is all about. Here, the reviewer imagines "shaky" playing from Davis because it's a comeback album, so it has to be uncertain, right? I don't hear anything other than late-period, spare, elegant playing from the man. He left bop behind a few decades back. And neither can a normal human being hear anything "poppish" about it - perhaps he means accessible? Contemporary? We just don't know. He had to get his review in, and his priority - as it is for nearly all music reviewers - was to position himself as an authority, a thinking-type guy who sees beyond mere enjoyment.
DeleteAnyway, a swell album is what it is, from a man effectively incapable of turning in anything else.
allmusic reviewers are PAID...!??! That is SO depressing......
DeleteWhat are you gonna tell us next, that many "pie+rate" types make $$$s off of folks downloading music (what's not their own) which they "share" on their web-BLAH-g type sites???
Round up the usual suspects, indeed.
I am not pointing fingers, by the by.
I am SURE that there is NO way such a thing would EVER happen on Foam Isle...