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  1. Clifton Anderson - Decade

    in New Releases

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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.

  3. Glen Campbell - Guess I'm Dumb

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    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.

  7. Chris Connor R.I.P.

    in Artists

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    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.

  8. Dave Brubeck "The Riddle"

    in Recommendations

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    If you like this album, be sure to pick up "Music to Listen to Red Norvo By" on Contemporary, which has an entire side dedicated to an extended Bill Smith composition.

    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.

  9. Dylan Christmas Album

    in New Releases

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    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..."

  11. What's the verse that can happen?

    in Musician's Forum

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    Does anyone know if the tune Polkadots and Moonbeams has a verse (or refrain, whatever), and if so, is there a recorded version of it? Thanks in advance.

    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.

  13. Art Ford's Jazz Party TV show

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    Anyone recall this show or know more about it? The discussion came up at lunch while talking to one of the security guards.

    In my office a lot of sites are blocked including youtube so I can't check. It appears to have aired weekly from the Newark's Mosque Theater. This is all I can dig up at the moment. But from what I was told at lunch, I would love to track down these shows.

    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.

  15. Andy Kaufman on The Dating Game (1978)

    in Artists

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    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...

  20. Banned Review Cliches

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    "Muscular."

    "Impressive chops."

    "Dark."

    More to come.

    Feel free to add to the list.

    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."

  24. Now reading...

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    I also recall that much of it was a bit of a chore to get through, accomplished mainly because I was also a dutiful young SF fan. (That's also the only way I got through Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, which was still, THANK GOD, a trilogy back then.)

    Wow. I've read the Foundation Trilogy many times. I guess you're not much on the "hard SF" stuff, eh?

    Speaking of which, has anyone here read Hal Clement's A Mission of Gravity? It was a real struggle for me to read, and I have hopes that I'll never get the urge again, but in spite of that, I think it's one of the true classics of the field.

    Actually, back when I was a loyal young sf fan (the 1970's) hard sf was probably my favorite. And I didn't really consider the Foundation Trilogy to be all that "hard." ("Psychohistory" sounded pretty squishy to me.)

    I also read Clement's Mission of Gravity and loved it, but as I only read it once, and that was in 8th grade, it's hard to say how I'd like it now. Definitely a classic of its kind, though.

    8th grade seems about right as a definition of the "Golden Age of Science Fiction."

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