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the laz has a most splendid show until mitternacht featuring a smattering of sims and some very tasty selections. those were great sounds while watching the world series.

...thanks, i didnt know that but will give the zooter a celebratory spin. that way i'll get more than a hint of prez, too.

24 hours of clifford beginning tonight at midnight eastern. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/

last night, at the end of his show, laz played 2 'live' performances from a 1962 tonight show, with skitch henderson, now being paraded as some sort of new discovery. these were nothing more than the voice tracks of 2 'the concert sinata' selections overdubbed with solo piano. i guess that 'was' the tv performance. i am sure that this crap isnt being marketted for what it was. for one thing, 'the concert sinatra' itself was a magnificent, but already heavily doctored document with magnificent nelson riddle arrangements and huge orchestra. for another, the voice tracks from this recording were used innumerable times that i know of in 'live' specials and probably more in live shows. i wish that sinatra had been like sibelius and just stopped when the quality of his output declined.

several comments are better than the article. http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/prof_maria...fset=8#comments

i used to try to avoid that a&m sound, repertoire, and label, with very few exceptions. it was barely, if even that, tolerable, and then, there was that dreadful overdubbing of strings to make the string sections bigger. did A&M start that junk?

thanks for all the exquisite choices and reminders. i am embarrassed to say that a few of them are already in my collection. the jenny stardust is a jewel, 70 years old and still remarkably fresh. thanks.

bob's titles, and the instrumentation of his small groups, belie his musicianship. his playing and spacious arrangements on vocalist helen schneider's 'right as the rain' are most sumptuous, several of them swing quite hard. 'right as the rain' is a little known treasure.

So aloc, is "devastatingly depressing" what you get from the Israel selections? I might go with "hauntingly beautiful" or something like that. I find the beautiful trombone ballad to be a comfort on a gloomy day. Like JJ's Funny Valentine from Proof Positive (Impulse). Or Carl's Polkadots and Moonbeams from The Great Fontana. Or Teagarden's St. James Infirmary. Or Rosolino's Lover Man. Or Urbie's Ave Maria. hauntingly beautiful----------your absolutely right. i made a VERY poor choice of descriptors.

i'm familiar with that one--great choice.

maybe it was because today was cloudy, rainy, and gloomy, but several trombone ballads hit me just right. the culprits, this time, were bill harris and paul brewer. i would like some more trombone ballad selections for that next gloomy day. into my mix, i also added 3 or 4 devastatingly depressing selections from kai and jjs israel. i'm looking forward to your suggestions.

wkcr is playing sirone now and for a few hours to come.

leaves, you say?

long and short? omg think of the album covers that could have been, or perhaps the pair could have been options traders.

thanks for the pronunciation. http://www.chantalegagne.com/

i was recently very delighted to hear a circa 1960's savoy recording by barbara long. her voice was feathery, light, even delicate, with effortless swinging. some of her backing musicians were reasonably well-known at the time, al harewood being one.

....listening to the talented young canadian pianist-composer chantale gagne. i am very favorably impressed. i especially love her very rich slow stuff. class and chops wear very well with me. i am sure that some of you know something of her.

thanks-- you very well described rouse playing, which i find to be a marvelous ccomplement to brother monk.

last night, in listening to some of monk's live recordings from france and some earlier one's from the 1960s, the empathy between monk and charlie rouse is more than striking, and some of my most favorite music. to me it is very beautiful, even mindblowing. i even generally prefer it to the monk-coltrane collaborations. i was also was reintroduced to the monk composition, locomotive, which i seem to have forgotten.

i am not sure there is a more magnificant beautiful complimentary relationship in the wh.. ole musical literature. tell me more.

http://jizzrelics.blogspot.com/2009/01/black-unity-trio.html

after laz at blue lake is done with his big band monk tribute at 3am eastern, wkcr will be doing another 21 hours of brother theo music. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/ as for me, this 4 pack is now a 3 pack.

agreed. sofia, bulgaria 1958 one of my top ten recordings, ever. all other solo versions pale..................

you captured that wonderful special moment in time beautifully. thanks for sharing.