Music Dude corrections

You all don't know this. But I have a blog ombudsman, here name is Sumaya. Whether I'm innacurately accusing KG of living the good life or quiting wrong songs, she's always there to correct me. Usually punctuating her correction with something really smarmy like, "But I really enjoy your blogg, Vee!!!!!!" She's precious.

Anyways, she is right "Dance" is the song off Nas' God's Son album that solely addresses his mother. But my tune, "Heaven", only partially does so. My mistake. But I don't "Dance" too much, so let's just say the portion of "Heaven" that deals with Nas' mother, is the illest mother-related hop moment ever, to me. That was just a really moving song. But, once again, many thanks to May for keepin me on my toes.

Of a far more egregious matter, my long ramble on Wayner Shorter's "Lost" contained a glaring mistake. My man Stick's Shorter reprise was of "The Bug Push", not "Lost". "Push" is the very next song after "Lost" on Wayne's Soothsayer album. Everything I said about "Lost" I stand by, it's just that, while I was rambling on-n-on, I wasnt actually listening to "Lost" which is unexplainable and inexcusable. I can't really tell you what went on in my mind to allow me to ramble on for three-novels about the Strick reprise...I really can't, but forgive and thank Vino, (the only Jazz Jedi to consistently read the blog (the other three are stuck in 1756)), for bringing this to my attention.

He alerted me in a message the day after I posted the Kanye review. It was also very smarmy, since he tried to make it seem like he was earnestly seeking this song he'd never really heard, when, in actuality, he was basically saying "Yall know I got everything, so if I ain't heard it, then it probably don't exist." The message went like this:

"Yooo. Yo Twist, I mean, I gotta hear this Strickland version of Lost. I mean, where'd you get that? It ain't on Brotherhood and I'm pretty sure it ain't on At Last...so I mean, YO, put me on. Where'd you get it? I mean, if there's another version of Lost out there, then I'm tryin to hear it. But, I mean, where is it? I know I've never seen it. So, YO, hit me back and let me know what's the deal." Click. After me and Vino talked I immediately figured out my error.

When me and Vino sit down and listen, I still do some light teaching, but he is definitely, the undisputed Kop King. That niggas has more albums than he can fit in his house. And the CDs are scattered all over his apartment too. I wonder how his wife deals with it. I mean, this dude'll use a Charles Migus CD as a coaster for his beer. I think I found a Weather Report CD in his snack tray once. That's how music he has. So he's rightfully grown a nice-size chip on his shoulde when it comes to his collection, since it's that much more exhaustive than all the rest of our exhaustive collections.

So his message was much more of a statement than it was an attempt to locate some recording he wasn't down on. It made me smile.

Anyways, sorry for the mistakes yall...maybe it was the Shiraz.

Meanwhile, for all interested in jazz of for those who like to say they appreciate jazz -- head out to Borders or Tower right now and kop Wayne Shorter's Soothsayer it'll change your life.