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Confession is good for the soul...😁

My brother found this out when he applied for a job teaching at a CUNY school. I'll ask him where it's written down the next time I see him.

Back then there was a lot of prejudice against Italians. They were even lynched in New Orleans. In NYC, they're still listed as an oppressed group, legally. My father changed his professional last name to Carter, and his best friend, who was responsible for the New Yorker hotel designs on the headstock of D'Angelico New Yorker guitars, changed his name to Duke Martin. His real name was Hugo Ciamarelli, a very talented guitarist and jeweler, No one likes to discuss this: https://www.history.com/news/the-grisly-story-of-americas-largest-lynching

RIP.

You and me both!

Weird. I always wanted to buy that record because Phil Woods was supposed to be on it. Now I find out that according to this thread, Hal McKusick was the alto player! Thank you for revealing that fact. I would have had a violent reaction to hearing HM instead of PW. You probably saved many innocent lives.💀

Anything that isn't available on previous releases? There's no one else worth copying other than Wes.

Mitch Miller has been literally accused of destroying American Popular Music, in a book I read about APM in the 50s. As head of A&R at Mercury and Columbia, he ignored the sophisticated pop songs written by songwriters such as Alec Wilder,Tommy Wolfe and Fran Landesman, and others of that ilk, and championed gimmicky crap like, "How Much is That Doggy in the Window?" To quote music historian Will Friedwald: "Miller exemplified the worst in American pop. He first aroused the ire of intelligent listeners by trying to turn—and darn near succeeding in turning—great artists like Sinatra, Clooney, and Tony Bennett into hacks. Miller chose the worst songs and put together the worst backings imaginable—not with the hit-or-miss attitude that bad musicians traditionally used, but with insight, forethought, careful planning, and perverted brilliance.[12] It's no wonder kids turned to Elvis.

Well, at least that's something.

I could see putting his name on the albums where he sings some tunes, but if he didn't even arrange the tunes, what's the point? His 'composition' didn't sound like much, no matter how many hip-hoppers sampled it, and combining English horn with oboe, orchestra and guitar was hardly an innovation. It was just an ego trip and a money grab, because he was famous at the time. I fell for it, because I thought I was Illya Kuryakin, too. I wore turtlenecks and thought I was a spy ( I still think I'm a spy once in a while), just like my hero Illya did, but it reminds me of the Jackie Gleason 'albums'. What did Jackie Gleason do? Even Gil Evans did it on "Into the Hot'? What did he do on that album? I've also realized that Lalo Schifrin practically (not legally) ripped off Jerry Goldsmith on his Mission: Impossible theme. Goldsmith came up with a minor theme with a low pitched ostinato (although not in 5/4) a few years before Schifrin wrote M:I. This has been a highly relevatory thread.😁

What was he supposed to have done on that track?

Greatest 3rd baseman of all time. RIP.

Yea, the vibes entered the 20th Century music scene big time when I was in Uni. Composers were writing chamber music,and concertos for it left and right. Herrmann used it abundantly in the TZ in tiny groups to play his minor major7th add 9 chords to create that futuristic mood where you knew things were going to turn into futuristic nightmares for someone. I was surprised to learn that Adrian Rollini used the four mallet approach years before Gary Burton did.

Yes, the guitar is a percussive instrument too, and the piano tends to eat up all the sound if you let it sustain too much. Listen to how Eddie Costa comped for Tal Farlow; short, percussive stabs that bring out sound of the guitar. It's also good to stay out of the register that the vibes are playing in; that really gets in the way.

I dunno, but Shelly's Afro-Cuban beat on the "2-3-4 " album is so solid, it inspired me to write a chart on it. What a drummer!

Aaron Sachs was on that album, so I asked him about it. He said he was sitting there practicing Bach on the flute, and everyone else was getting high or something on the break. Then John Lewis asked him what he was doing, and he told him. John Lewis thought about it for a second and said, "Yeah, maybe I should try that some time!", as if it never occurred to him before...

I'm preparing a Tik-Tok meme around Schoenberg. If they can bring back 'jazz', they can bring back 12-tone.

To the vapid idjut that did that video, anything without a drum machine is jazz. He thinks that people need to feel connected to the artist so badly, that they don't care what the music sounds like. The first rehearsal for my Laufey Tribute starts tonight at noon. Be there or be squared. I just finished a book "From ICELAND TO New Orleans: The story of Laufey.... She had a past life.

We can only pray. I'm already forming a Laufey Tribute Band as we speak. I'm gonna call it "The Music Laufey Invented".

Best series ever made, period.

She uses all maj7, maj9. min7th and min9 chords and sus chords, she has an actual musical melody going on, something very rare these days. The music business in the US only cares about the kids. and the kids will say "OLD SCHOOL" and turn it off after five seconds. She does put the guy down. so maybe the Swiftian element will appeal to that crowd. Maybe Iceland's different. The music in their movies is listenable. It's Tik-Tok!

I'm reading "Yellow Dog" by Martin Amis. I'm finding myself to be devolving like Xan Meo. Since I started the book, I find myself appreciating rap music more and more, and throwing away my jazz and classical collection. When will this stop?

Here's one on CRI from Billy Jim Layton, the head of the music dept. at the uni I went to. It has some jazz elements to it (the cello playing a walking bass line, the long Dolphy-liike violin lines. He liked to use jazz elements in his pieces, but a friend of mine who was a child prodigy on piano, was 'arrested' by the music dept. police, and brought before 'judge 'Billy Jim' for the offense of playing jazz piano in the practice rooms. He was ordered to stop playing 'popular music', and concentrate on 'serious music'. My friend responded by transferring to The New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Jaki Byard. The second movement is a snooze fest, so I didn't include it, but it's available on the queue. I don't know if it ever made it to digital, but it sounds great on vinyl.

Yeah, he was one of the few bass players who could actually exert the strongest influence in a band like that! I saw them live, and he really stood out on everything.

That was the first ERM. the great Gordon Beck replaced the great George Gruntz. PW used the best.