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Thanks, guys.

Does anyone know what happened to the merchandise Phil was selling on his website? He had a tape of a recording session I did with Joe Dixon that had a bunch of my compositions and arrangements going for $25 for sale. I came into some big money ($27.50) last night when I dumped all my pennies, nickels and dimes into one of those coin machines, and I'm looking to spend it somewhere...

He was also another house drummer for CTI. He's on one of those Turrentine records mentioned in the Creed Taylor thread.

Bob Bruno told me he used to play at a club in LA in the early 60's where MTM would be sitting right in front of him. Imagine Laura Petrie within touching distance for four hours! Rob was probably out doing Millie... Bob Bruno told me he used to play at a club in LA in the early 60's where MTM would be sitting right in front of him. Imagine Laura Petrie within touching distance for four hours! Rob was probably out doing Millie...

They never showed the Petrie's bedroom, just that same freaking living room, where he trips over the furniture every week, so we can only assume the Petries were celibate throughout their entire marriage.

Hey, little girl, Comb your hair, fix your make-up. Soon he will open the door. Don't think because There's a ring on your finger, You needn't try any more For wives should always be lovers, too. Run to his arms the moment he comes home to you. I'm warning you. You're telling me that Hal David warning women that they should behave like obedient little dogs is not dated and cornball. Even Michael Bourne (RIP) put this one down on his radio show as hopelessly outdated and anti-feminist! LOL!

I guess like Felser, I was reading too much into it. With that info from the re-issue's liner notes, it does make more sense that it was just wackiness. If it had been like his work for Ramsey Lewis, all instrumental, the issue wouldn't come up, but Hal David's lyrics are so cornball, giving them a hip treatment just comes off as comical, trippy,satirical, whatever. It's just hard to take the part where the Dells are going ba ba ba ba, and the lead singer is testifyin' in a gritty voice seriously. in a song like "Close To You". I mean, WHO DOES THAT? LOL!

He does some great Puerling- like things with it, but at the same time, he's making fun of most of the songs. The Dells were in on it, too.

I agree with you. It sounds like they/Stepney were making fun of Bachrach/David songs. The out of tune whistling, the weak sounding vocal on Raindrops, The morbid sound on Planes. the cornball stops on a few of them, the weird ending on Alfie, the mocking (probably deserved) of the demeaning lyrics of Wives and Lovers, the overdone dynamics, the snide comments that went by pretty fast, and as you said, the fact that Warwick didn't even sing a bunch of those songs, and they called it "The Dells Sing Dionne Warwick's Greatest Hits". Even the record cover has them laughing, not smiling! It's too much to be a coincidence. I wonder ho Burt took it? Hal David was already put down by some lyricists, but they were going after both of them here.The Dells got a new producer after this album...

I almost forgot about that Gilberto and Turrentine album, which IMHO was more consistent than Salt Song (other than the title track, of course) Stanley kills on everything, and there's always Astrud and great Deodato arrangements again. The pairing of Stanley and Astrud worked a lot better than the ridiculous pairing of Astrud and Gil Evans. He wrote back and said it's coming in the future. I hope we're not going to get another Al Haig drama...

No, that quote was from a post he made to me.I asked him where I could read about it, but he never got back to me.Maybe he's saving it for a future installment on his site. He could even be planning a bio on KH.

Sadly, just after he posted a story about Bird's birthday on Facebook, the Alto/Tenor sax player Lou Caputo suffered a fatal heart attack. I knew he had had a heart attack a long time ago, but had been doing well since then. He recorded a few albums with his own small big band, which worked a lot in NYC. He hired some great arrangers to write charts for the band, and he played lead alto and all the alto solos on them. I was used to hearing him on tenor on all the hundreds of gigs I did with him, but he was a fantastic alto player, out of the Bird/Phil Woods school: http://loucaputo.com/about/ RIP. old friend...

On the CD I bought, they had Vera Cruz, another Nascimento song that wasn't on the original LP.

The title cut is pure genius on ST's part and Deodato's arr.. And those great bass slides by Ron Carter!!!!! I was so inspired by it that I wrote a big band version of it, but I featured trombone playing ST's part, so it wouldn't be the same thing.So far, it hasn't been played, because none of the bands i play with have a percussionist, and that tune is all ST and percussion. We did an earlier version I wrote for my HS Concert Band, but just as we were getting somewhere, the percussionist (a member of the Latin Kings) took out a kid who took out his brother with a baseball bat, so he went for a little stay at Riker's Island, and never came back. But I trascribed ST's genius intro and solo (Jeepers Creepers!) and someday soon... Here's a thing on CT's Jet Set/specialty phase: https://www.ctproduced.com/the-abc-of-specialty-recording/ The writer claims that "There is a whole fascinating story about Hopkins and especially around his divorce which includes using binoculars to peep on neighbors, hitting his wife and more. One day."

Never heard him play a bad note, RIP.

It listed the tomorrow the 26th as the day of death on Wiki, and now it's today, the 25th. I hope this was a mistake. 51 years old? What is going on?

I went in there at about 3:00pm and wound up leaving after midnight! They had weird hours; I didn't know when they closed, but I felt like I went into a time warp.

Yeah, Back when I had to have it, it wasn't on CD yet, so I got it through the mail on vinyl. I transcribed the whole thing and had my HS band play it. They loved it! I never understood RW's hatred of it. I think it had to do with him playing the Rhodes on it, but it got such a great sound, and Freddie was smokin'. CTI was a great gateway drug to get those kids from the church into jazz. We did Red Clay and as much Grover and Stanley T. as they could handle. One kid was transfixed by a Grover video I brought in and said,"Man, that's what I want to do with the rest of my life."

He seemed to be fixated on bringing some great jazz artists to a wider audience by having them play material that didn't sound like straight-ahead jazz. He was even turned down by Mel Lewis for wanting to put out the first Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Band in a much different form than Mel wanted it in. CTI was built around Ron Carter as the foundation of the label, and would be built up from RC as the foundation with sidemen like Hancock and Cobham, and arrangers like Sebesky and Deodato adding strings to the horns His formula also included newer sound technology than other jazz labels, resulting in a more glossy sound than jazz records were used to being known for having. When the formula worked, which IMHO it did on one Wes cut, one Turrentine cut and the "Pure Desmond album, the results were fabulous. All three of those artists (plus Ed Bickert and Freddie Hubbard) never got such a strong,full sound out of their instruments (except Hubbard) than they did on that label. The two main controversies were the material he had Wes record, and the denunciation of the Randy Weston album by Weston himself. I liked Blue Moses, myself. RIP.

More sad news. RIP.

RIP, to an enthusiastic supporter of jazz.

Yeah, they have to get out of bed when their mommy wakes them, and go to the computer and record their 32nd youtube video hit. Hilarious stuff TTK!

Another West Coast studio player just passed, the guitarist Bill Pittman. He was 102 years old.

Martha's vocal nuances on Jimmy Mack still give my head a rush when the Vandellas come in on the second chorus. behind her. Ain't no hip-hop doin' that to me, No sir. RIP, L.D.

I played for a few years with CF in a theater gig. Very quiet man; he just drank a bottle every night, played poker, then did the gig.