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Interestingly enough the Breckers are on both the AWB Pick up the Pieces and the Sanborn track.

Look at this line-up. Bang has some interesting details about how this cover came to be.

Now I get it. This is the Griff & Lock track, only it's not on the expanded Griff & Lock CD I have. It's from Tough Tenors, a different album all together. So Junior Mance on piano and the Monk quartet members Gales and Riley. And the Sanborn was easy enough to sleuth. First track from this. It's got to be how his saxophone was processed in the recording because it gives off an electric tone at times. So that makes track 10 sleuth-able as well. First track from this. Sammy Figueroa on congas was all that I could find regarding other personnel. Discogs is pretty scant on details about this album.

The lovely Linda:

Paula Morelenbaum is one of my favorite singers. Her supple voice, her graceful phrasing, the confident and competent choices she chooses. . . she comes across as majestic and masterful to me, and also humble. She’s just something else. I love to listen to her. The SWR Big Band creates a beautiful, interesting tapestry for her artistry here. “Bossarenova” Paula Morelenbaum SWR Big Band 452×452 54.7 KB

My daughter has a BS in IT - her college was the first to offer a 4 year degree in IT. She was in their first graduating class. She works in the world of web design, mostly front end stuff, but her skills range across most everything you could do with a website. She was laid off in June by a large fashion company with a huge web presence. They laid off half their web staff. We all figure it's due to AI taking over their website, but there's no way to know. What we do know is that she has applied to a ton of jobs and been unable to get past the 3rd round of interviews. There are just so many people out there looking right now. She's getting extremely frustrated - me & my wife don't blame her - and it's certainly gotten me to like AI less and less. Anyone in the software/web design industry is probably screwed at this point. It seems like it's only a matter of when they're going to be replaced, not if.

Joe Pass “Intercontinental” MPS cd with Eberhard Weber and Kenny Clare

Original Mono LP

The collection of the final Calvin and Hobbes strips.

I recorded some of the shows when we carried it, but I missed some and I'm not sure that we aired every season. I'm glad I brought up the series with Lewis Porter.

Those background vocals are credible!

I’m resting from about an hour of shoveling. 8 inches of snow or so overnight. May get some more tonight, but likely not nearly that much. I’m chilling with a great batch of music–Basie on Roulette. He had a great band during these years (and before, and after!) and Roulette really recorded the Orchestra well–I have always enjoyed the sound of these recordings. And this 2 cd set is a very good sampling of the Roulette years. “Count Basie and Friends–100th Birthday Bash” Roulette/EMI 2 cd set, disc 2

Great stuff. Listening to the show with Etta Jones and loving it. Billy has a natural interview style that works so well.

My favorite by them, a superior cover of an already-great Isley Brothers song:

And "Cut The Cake" went to #10. Their Soul Searchin'" album went platinum as well, and they made a not-bad album with Ben E. King They actually crossed over a bit to Black audiences as well, for a while. So...in the air there for a while.

The AWB album with 'Pick Up The Pieces' was released Aug 1974, and the first Sanborn solo album came out in 1975, so 'Pick Up The Pieces' likely came first. 'Pick Up The Pieces' was the #1 pop single in the USA for the week of Feb 22 1975.

Excellent, thank you!

Whenever I do Google searches now I type the words or terms I'm looking for and then add -ai to the end, which takes AI out of the search. Not because I'm worried about the fiscal health of a corporate entity that has strayed so far from its original "Do no evil" credo, but because the AI results are frequently inaccurate or misleading. There's also the environmental impact of the humongous data centers that are being built to serve the AI industry (not to mention the impact on average Americans' utility bills) and sucking up so much energy. One thing about AI--the dislike of it is strongly bipartisan (among said average Americans, anyway). I don't want to be a Luddite, and obviously AI has enormous potential for condensing all sorts of tasks that's already being utilized. It will also be utilized to eliminate lots of jobs, which probably accounts for some or much of the widespread antipathy that polls seem to indicate. Technology's gonna technology, and this Pandora is well out of the box now, with a disturbing and powerful ability to distort reality or simply recreate it. I really worry about what governments and big business will do with it, particularly in authoritarian societies where there's not even any media around that will or can push back on deliberate misrepresentations. The pop-culture reference I always like to use is from the 1987 film The Running Man (astonished recently to see that it's been re-booted!), in which the government frames the Schwarzenegger character by using digitally-altered footage to make it seem as if he defied orders and opened fire on a crowd of civilians, when in truth the exact opposite occurred. (That movie has proved to be frighteningly prescient in other ways as well.) In a world where the halls of power were concerned primarily with promoting the collective good of us all, AI would be rigorously regulated, but tech billionaires have placed huge investment bets on AI and said halls seem to be mostly concerned that nothing stand in the tech lords' way. I dunno, man--the future's so dark, I gotta take off my shades.

That's the first volume of Cecil's Montmartre session, and a great one. Nefertiti looks like this: I agree that the Freedom/Polydor/Fontana/Debut/Spiegelei series is more than a bit confusing.

Well that's great--we all should be able to live our lives as we please ideally, as long as they are not harmful ways. I myself no longer enjoy the night life, I'm an early to bed early to rise guy from decades of work and now it's just how I live. I lived in areas so devoid of good live jazz that I don't feel the need to see it. Don't need to be at clubs or parties. It's been something I haven't needed for over twenty years. . . really this second half of my life, thirty-five years ago when I first married my first wife it started to end. . . and it's not missed. It's no longer about money so much as it's about temperament and living methods. Certainly if I were earning money as a musician that would be different, though like you without alcohol, but my days of performing were brief enough and ended 35 years ago.

Continuing to read this massive "tome" (salute to poster Hardbop if he's still around at all--he favored that term in his posts) in celebration of the city's new era that began today:

Can't believe my wife is tolerating this record, she's allowing me to keep this on!?! MAL 1-4 are excellent...this would be "MAL-5"? I forgot, maybe this would be "MAL-4".