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Best part is this is basically what most of them are like in the first place!

It's a two-LP set. In any case, the music is fantastic.     

Your words of the day: Offensive/Inoffensive. That's the best way I can describe a Felser compilation.  Listening to his BFTs over many years now, for me it reinforces the "music of my youth" cliche and today I was wondering, if I were his age, and he mine, would we have the same radical differences of opinion, only from a different angle of opposition?  It has to be recognized that the jazz I like was not in any way the music of my youth, but I did come to the music when neobop was in its ascendancy, and my earliest listening was a mixture of classic swing and bop/hard bop.  Something I pondered while swinging between degrees of offense.  On to the specifics: TRACK ONE: I think you had to be there.  Is there a jazz connection here aside from the sort of scat the vocalist briefly attempts? Inoffensive:  **. TRACK TWO: Sunrise, Sunset?  After two minutes I want to say NEXT but I did persevere (work emails helped distract).  Is that Elvin?  Piano is better ... I think because it is much harder to make ugly sounds on the piano (if you stick to, you know, the keys).  Offensive: Zero stars. TRACK THREE: Not my style of piano.  Inoffensive:  ** 1/2  TRACK FOUR: Really had to be there.  What the hell is he singing about?  Offensive: * TRACK FIVE: No notes taken, so  ... Inoffensive:  ** TRACK SIX: See #4, but final evaluation is Inoffensive:  ** TRACK SEVEN: Oh hell no. Offensive: Zero stars. TRACK EIGHT: Following up one of the worst with the track for me?  Is this a Cedar tune? Hutch? I don't think its his regular partner Mr. Land on tenor.  Neither offensive nor inoffensive - *** 1/2 (1/2 star removed for the congas which rarely thrill me that much) TRACK NINE: When the band came in .... I went out.  Offensive:  Zero stars. TRACK TEN: Wait a sec this is obviously the Dan selection.  Doesn't thrill me the way Gene would.  *** TRACK ELEVEN: More vocals I have a hard time understanding ... Inoffensive:  **   Thanks Mr. Felser and remember, if you were offended by offensive/inoffensive, you always get the last word since my BFT follows yours.  

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