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Ska Christmas music? That could be either brilliant or torture.

Given that I love Sonny, it would be easy to overreact to this. Suffice to say I respect your opinion but don't agree. I find Rollins work to be both uneven throughout his career and all of a piece. He always struggled to get his mojo working in the moment and always tried many different approaches to get there. And I enjoy his later work more than many even as I acknowledge that it has issues but struggling with them can be an artistic statement of its own. He could be guarded and was not immune to getting hung up in any number of ways, but to me there is always something very human in his playing that I just love for that very reason. I even love his playing on the Stones' Tattoo You, certainly better than Miles' cameo with Scritti Politti.

Yes, they've been busy. But then they own a huge catalog and mostly stick to the tried and true.

It's part of Concord, so yes it's legit.

Aretha was to my mind beyond category as a singer and a far better songwriter than she gets credit for. Good to Me as I Am to You

Colin's his own distinct flavor, but it's not really my thing. but more power to him for doing it and finding an audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJXz7CQ3xVk Carla Bley Band, 8 1/2 from Amarcord Nino Rota

You're aware that Greg Tate describe Jimi as 'the R&B sideman's revenge'?

I've heard a little of this, they certainly did a nice job recording his trumpet.

I can remember seeing George Reed play and my dad was a huge fan. Even though he was from The States, he stayed in SK after he retired. he'd tell you it was a far from perfect place (which is true), but he must've loved it.

Totally agree, that's what I was talking about upthread.

I just bought this fine album on CD, presumably her last. How do we not have a thread devoted to her?

I'd not be as absolutist as Allen, but I basically agree with him. Even when I enjoy post-basement tapes bob, I don't hear much new in it. 5 years as manically and deeply creative as anyone ever was, followed by a lifetime of trying to deal with it.

It does benefit from being more up-tempo than Red Clay, but for Jack DeJ from that era it's still merely ok, IMHO YMMV

Never had pierogi poutine, but when I was in downtown Buffalo for a Sabres game I had pierogi nachos. I may have mentioned that I find Buffalo to be the most Canadian place I've ever been in the States. And that when I was a kid in SK we didn't have proper poutine, just fries with vinegar and gravy. Vinegar I'm good with, gravy no thanks.

This is far and away my fav Freddie on CTI, and i don't go for CTI generally but if you're going to go that way then don't hold back, go for it. Red Clay, etc. I find far more stilted than groovey, half-hearted going through the motions music, YMMV and I know many feel differently but there it is.

Lovely.

Whatever Stan Wants is ok by me. Also, Peacocks with Jimmy Rowles and the one with Albert Dailey.

I too would like to see this entire session issued.

So much great work, and I'm sure I haven't even heard the half of it.

RIP

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, I know you've thought this through and worked it out in practice to a degree I've never even attempted. Nonetheless, I can only go with my own responses in the end. There are solos that could be called 'all over the place' that I do enjoy, so maybe that wasn't the best description of what I'm hearing or not hearing here. I could give it at least a promising direction that he unfortunately didn't follow up on, which would put us not so far apart. For a music that's supposed to be about improvising, there's very little close analysis of not just what exactly happened in particular performances, but why is that good - the first is hard for more or less technical reasons, the second for more philosophical ones. And I agree about bebop being a closed little world, even if you think 52nd St. back in the day was some sort of Eden, you can't go back there and playing like Bird done it doesn't mean now what it meant to him or his audience. Thanks for giving me something to think about, as always.

It's an impressive solo, but I honestly don't think it's a very good one. Too all over the place for me.

I've loved RR and The Band since way back in the day and, if anything, that's only grown for me. Saw them just once, with Bob in Seattle in '74. It worked in the room better than it does on the live album that came from that tour. Collaboration was the key to what made the first two so very special, and I have to think John Simon's involvement played a role just as Jimmy Miller's did for the Stones. I've got the box set, the deluxe versions of some of the albums, but not all the bells and whistles, yet. I'm a bit bummed about RR's passing, but not overly so - good long rum, did what he wanted and if that meant not revisiting what he did with The Band except to curate the reissues, well that's his perogy. As a guitar player, he was right for that band and for Ronnie and Bob, but I wouldn't have hired him as a session player. As a songwriter, when he was good he was great, but when he wasn't it could be unintentional bad self-parody awkward. RIP and thank you.

Go Riders! I somehow managed to not watch any CFL when I was in SK briefly earlier in the summer.