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I must have missed this first time around. Interesting thread, especially Free For All's two cents. For my own part, I was more impressed by Anderson when I heard him live with Sonny in Boston a couple years ago than I was when I heard him with Sonny in Boston a decade ago. But I have a hard time imagining him justifying "95% of the spotlight." And in case you're wondering, trombone is among my favorite instruments in jazz.

Speaking of AACM and popular culture/music, didn't the funk band Earth, Wind, and Fire have AACM roots?

I This song is definitely one of the highlights of the anthology Stereo Jack mentions above: "Pet Projects - The Brian Wilson Productions" ACE 851. Highly recommended to the Brian Wilson/Beach Boys obsessives out there. My favorites on that disc, though, are by The Honeys. But those tracks must surely be available elsewhere as well.

Couldn't get past the poor writing of the first few sentences.

Bummer. I had the PJ Trios and the Gordon high up on my "to get eventually" list. I might have to go for the Braxton soon...

Put me down as digging him most for his, as Larry Kart says, "brilliant and attractively brittle" early period. I just listened to Live! at Cafe Bohemia today for the first time in a while and I remain disappointed by it.

Sad news for this fan. Larry Kart's piece on her, reprinted in his Jazz in Search of Itself, is highly recommended. Ran Blake is a big fan, too. Here's a review I wrote of an unusual tribute he put on for her at the New England Conservatory in 2007, as reprinted on her own website.

Been listening to Music to Listen to Red Norvo By semi-obsessively over the past few months. An excellent record (with a Duane Tatro composition as a bonus!) that sounds to me like a west equivalent of the MJQ, with added horns (Smith on clarinet, Buddy Collette on flute). Smith's playing is excellent on this one, as it is on another OJC I bought only a few weeks ago, Folk Jazz by the Bill Smith Quartet - Smith on clarinet with Jim Hall, Monty Budwig, and Shelly Manne - playing a range of folk material from old English tunes to American spirituals. An overlooked gem. I'll have to check out his stuff with Brubeck.

Somehow, hearing this news, I can't help but think of the comedian I saw years ago who did an imitation of Dylan reciting his prayers during his Bar Mitzvah: (cue your auto-Dylan impression now) "Ba-RUCH a-TAH a-DONOI, Elo-HENU ME-lech ha'OLAM..."

Yes indeed, brother!

If we accept the verse as being the recitative-like transition between the spoken part of a stage or movie musical and the full-blown song itself (as discussed earlier in this thread), then we can also expect that songs that were written for other contexts would not need a verse. Such, I believe, is the case for "Polka Dots and Moonbeams," which was written directly for the Dorsey band according to this website.

Inspired by this thread, I visited the Harvard Square Newbury Comics today and grabbed All Mornin' Long K2 and Rediscovered Masters, Vol. 2 for $3.99 each. Sounding good so far!

You are not alone, sir. Though Salinger could get plenty cutesy on his own. A number of years ago I dated a gal who grew up in Cornish NH and occasionally got lifts to school from J.D. Salinger well before she knew he was a famous writer.

Go to the Museum ot Television and Radio in NY or LA. There all there for the price od admission. You go to a private booth. I've seen Pres, Billie, Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, and many others (my memory is failing) I will do that. I never of thought to do that. While you're there ask for library assistance. It will blow your mind what they have for viewing. Ask about 'A Contemporary Memorial', which was a tribute to RFK after the assassination, and featured Duke, Horace Silver with Randy Brecker and Fathead, Bill Evans and symphony orchestra, Grady Tate with Richard Wyands, Joe Williams----on and on. It's in 2 parts, make sure to ask for both. This was never commercially available, to my knowledge. Whoah! That sounds like a real treasure trove. A couple years back I attended a presentation by the Library of Congress's Studio Engineer/Supervisor Larry Appelbaum (AKA the guy who found the Monk/Coltrane at Carnegie Hall tapes) where he talked about the amazing things he'd found in the Library's holdings, and speculated about what has yet to be found... All I know is, there's a lot of gold out there.

Actually, I parted with that set some years ago and grew to semi-regret it.... I actually semi-like it myself; So, do you have anything to semi-trade for it?

A huge fan of Kaufman, here. I recall seeing many of his television appearances during the '70s. It seemed to me as though he was punching a hole right through the TV screen... that's how fresh and audacious he was at the time! Steve Martin had a similar, however diluted, effect around the same era: they were both showbiz aficionados, pure products of the medium, arising to critique it from within. And they weren't alone. Blame it on Harvey Kurtzman...

I'd be willing to part with my Pacific Jazz Gerald Wilson Orchestra set.

Having only heard the "submerged vocal" version before, I have to admit that I've always been mystified by this record's renown. Now I get it. Thanks, Jim!

Mr. Mike's Mondo Video. Whoah! Michael O'Donoghue's 1970s TV special, unairable at the time. Makes Andy Kaufman look like a pussy.

Thanks to all for the fine birthday wishes. I was having such a good day yesterday, I didn't even look at the internet once!

My personal favorite, usually in print journalism: 'No new ground was broken here, but....' I always wanted to mail one-o-them yo-yos a shovel, or bring them to a ne new building ceremony..... Also I got a chuckle out of 'he worried notes'.....I believe from the muscular, dark, and impressive pen of Peter Watrous. WTF? Did the note acquire a complex after? 'Everyone's in Show Business', I guess..... I suppose I should be happy that I've never employed any of the cliches noted above. But while I have never described anything or anyone as "drenched," I have certainly used "steeped."

OK. I've been neglecting to check in on the Organissimo forums for quite a while. But this thread reminds me of what's so special about this place. Lots of food for thought here!

Besides, Armstrong always did seem to have at least a little bit of Kabuki in him...

The Jewish Jeff Chandler (born Ira Grossel) played Cochise in three different Hollywood films, as well as Indians in several others, I believe.

I loves me some Dick. (Wait, that didn't come out quite right...)