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Thanks, Joe, it's good to hear Hardman in the vido. Intriguing Bennie Maupin solo - he seems to try to seize that theme and it keeps escaping him.
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Tammy Grimes Leann Rimes Emily Dickinson
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Intriguing looks at a recent sub-genre that I'm unfamiliar with. I enjoy David Whiteis's writing and often agree / disagree with him. Denise Lasalle's foreword is a charming history of the blues.
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He used to play a lot of notes, but they were really musical notes - more rewarding music than some virtuosos trumpeted. I interviewed him in Down Beat in 1976; nice guy, serious.
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Lance Armstrong Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy A Jackson in Your House
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Scarlet O'Hara Bridgid O'Shaughnessy Maxine O'Flaherty
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Let's Take A Walk Inside Dusty Groove, Shall We?
johnblitweiler replied to JSngry's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Very good people there. The owner is a former WHPK disk jockey. -
I've never heard "Sweet Slumber", but Little Willie Jackson was Joe Liggins' alto man. Thanks, Paul. And was Jackson's brother the tenor player for Liggins? I don't have the albums any more, so may be wrong about about L.D. sounding like Jackson. But Jackson had a singing sound. The Lush Life CD may be a reissue of an LP that originally was titled Sweet Slumber.
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Gene Ammons made a recording of "Exactly Like You" that was popular around the early 1960s or late '50s. In the 1970s Blue Note issued a Lou Donaldson LP in which L.D. phrased the theme just like Jug - very distinctive. The trick was, Lou had recorded that one before Ammons had recorded his version. Other pieces now and then, "Blues Walk" for ex., suggest a real felllow feeling between the two. That lovely Lou Donaldson version of "Sweet Slumber": Who does he sound like? It certainly reminds me of the alto player in the Joe Liggins 1940s band.
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Aloc, I hope you weren't covered in snow and ice there in Ohio.
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I wish that the LPs I lost in the fire were on CD. Cecil Taylor and Byrd-Gryce at Newport, for example, and the Indiana Hoagy Carmichael anthology box.
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Are you savant, enthusiast, casual or indifferent re music?
johnblitweiler replied to BillF's topic in Miscellaneous Music
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Mark, thanks mightily for that Public Collectors link. It's true, Malachi was certainly one of the non-musician MVPs here in Chicago. And reading this reminds me of the despair we felt during the long, long Bush-Iraq War years.
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Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey Tour 2014
johnblitweiler replied to CraigP's topic in Live Shows & Festivals
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Long ago in a Chinese-Filipino restaurant I ordered the cheapest shrimp dish on the menu. Took one bite: it tasted like a garbage truck smells. Tried to wipe the taste out of my mouth and heard a bunch of people laughing at me. They were the non-English-speaking employees of the restaurant behind my back - they apparently liked to snoop on gringos who made the mistake of ordering that stuff. It was apparently fermented and apparently a familiar dish back home.
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Worst telephone "Music on Hold"
johnblitweiler replied to Michael Weiss's topic in Miscellaneous Music
I spent much of today in at&t telephone-hold hell. Prolonged exposure to awful music wears down the soul, so that even a pre-high-school-level version of "Girl from Ipanema" was welcome relief from the rest of the stuff on the line. -
Boots Mussulli Walter "Foots" Thomas Thomas "Fats" Waller
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M.Night Shmalayan Gary Smulyan David Schnitter
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Which artists have you seen live the most?
johnblitweiler replied to Hardbopjazz's topic in Live Shows & Festivals
Yes indeed. In so many different groupings, too. Wouldn't it be great to hear him again with Mobley, Ammons, Dexter, Stitt, Art Pepper, Konitz-Marsh, Jimmy Raney, etc.? Too bad we're too young to have heard that quartet of Monk-Griffin-Ware-Campbell. Let's see, there are records of Wilbur Campbell with Ira, Von Freeman, E. Parker McDougal, Muhal - who else?