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Sad but nice article, BTW. Clearly written in the days before it became a cliche to call Mobley "the middleweight of the tenor sax." Who started that middleweight thing anyway? Blumenthal?

Metaphor of the day!

I heard that the hour format was forced on Serling by the network and he hated it. (BTW, I always thought the music was perhaps the best thing about the series.) You can't be serious that the music was "the best thing" - or else I'd have to guess you aren't that much of a fan. I mean really - the music is good and all but its like saying the best part of M*A*S*H* was the laugh track. The laugh-track on M*A*S*H was the same ol' dead people laughing. But the music from The Twilight Zone was memorable in its own right and very arguably the most memorable thing about the series as a whole. Just sayin'...

With a twist. What key?

Steven Millhauser - Dangerous Laughter. My man has still got it! Don't miss his Edwin Mullhouse. If you dig that, proceed from there...

The latter. Sounds good, though. They were a great band. He was on a couple of talk shows recently promoting his new album and he talks with the accent then too. I recall hearing him interviewed on "Fresh Air" a number of years ago, and Terry Gross asked him if he actually pronounces the words "turning" and "burning" as "toinin'" and "boinin'" like he does when he sings "Proud Mary." He said no, he does not.

I saw them at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston last weekend and they were something else, exceeding my expectations by quite a bit. Lovano and Harris were as good or better than I've ever heard them live. Everyone was in top form, and they sounded like a true band rather than an all-star get-together. Perhaps it was a particularly good night, but I did experience those moments of transcendence that Joe felt were lacking at the perfomance he attended. I'm only sorry that I missed them in previous years; I won't make that mistake again.

The latter. Sounds good, though. They were a great band.

Yes!

She said "yes". Was it Eddie Condon who said that Bix's tone on cornet was "like a girl saying yes"?

"I'm Coming Virginia" was the tune that Bix won me with as well.

Thanks, Allen!

The original Moten version is my favorite. Eddie Durham is a favorite of mine, too. Wonderful arranger, fine trombonist, pioneering electric guitarist. I've been a big fan of his guitar playing since first hearing the Lester Young "Kansas City Sessions" back in the early 1980s. Allen, when you say that he's one of your "all time favorite people," does that mean you actually hung with him at some point? If so, I'd love to hear more about that!

I have heard the same.

$$$$$!

Young's head looks like a gol-durn parade balloon in that pic.

Just pulled out the Bynum album and damned if she isn't one of the highlights of the thing. I'll definitely keep an ear out for her from now on.

I actually used that word in my live review of the Maria Schneider Orchestra, in reference to her use of actual birdcalls in one of the pieces. (And, I would add, I don't find Messaiean's use of birdcalls to fall into the realm of kitsch.) To my mind, the much abused term "kitsch" is just a pedantic/Germanic way of saying "corny." It should probably be retired, as nobody seems to be sure what it means in the first place. I'm curious, TtK, as to how you employ this word.

After the first dozen or so reviews I wrote, I realized that I had used the word "angular" in nearly every one of them. A Google search of my name coupled with the offending term confirmed the worst. So for the next few articles, I made sure to substitute another word or phrase when the word "angular" came to mind; For a little while, I either avoided the issue entirely or substituted "zig-zag," "darting," or some such word or phrase before giving myself permission to use the word "angular" again. After reading through this thread, though, I have to pride myself on having largely avoided the offending cliches. Though it is hard to avoid the laundry list of band leaders with whom the musician has played in the past.

Yes. Whaooah! Never seen that before. Cool! I first bought this album in college, circa 1981, and listened to it obsessively. My mom grew up in L.A., and a friend of hers had jammed with Ornette back in the early days. When I first became interested in jazz in my high school years (Monk, Miles, Mingus, and Brubeck were my first loves) my mom would occasionally mention Ornette, always in the context of being difficult and cacophonous. By the time I got to college I had gathered up enough courage to listen to his music and figured that I'd start at the beginning, with Something Else. I was struck immediately by how traditional it sounded overall, given the fact that I already had Coltrane's Ascension and the Art Ensemble's Arista and ECM stuff under my belt. Still, Ornette's and Don's solos did stretch my ears. And to this day I still find myself humming these beautiful tunes now and again.

Only on this forum would a thread headline identify Scheider as the actor who played Dr. Benway in Naked Lunch, rather than as the dude from Jaws. I guess that's why I love it here.

Whooah! I want one. Thanks, Jim.

Oy! Definitely some Gilliam/Python influence there. Thanks!

Never saw them on the road, but when I was young my family used to visit a transportation museum in the Boston area that displayed some of the sign sequences.

The best!