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Rick Ocasek Casey Casem K.C. (and the Sunshine Band)

Can't find the Miles Davis Radio Project available for download, but it looks like someone has made CD-R copies of the cassettes, and is selling the 9-disc sets here on ebay for $45.

Just a couple of nights ago a friend of mine was telling me about hearing a pre-rasp interview online somewhere. I'll check with him and see if I can find it.

"There's a Lull in my Life" also performed by: BENNETT TONY COLE N K/SHEARING G QUINTET ELLINGTON D GETZ S HORNE L SHEARING G QUINTET

one version from 1961:

Nat King Cole, Ella, Teddy Wilson, Chet Baker

Info from the Classic Movie Musicals website: "Wake Up and Live" 20th Century-Fox, 1937, B/W, 91 minutes A comedy based on the well-known, real-life feud between columnist Walter Winchell and bandleader Ben Bernie (both playing themselves). Singers Eddie Kane (Jack Haley) and Jean Roberts (Grace Bradley) manage to get an audition with Winchell, but things definitely go amiss when Kane faints from stage fright. Later, Eddie lands a job as tour guide at the radio station, where he meets "Wake Up and Live" advice program host Alice Huntley (Alice Faye). Learning of Eddie's botched audition, Alice suggests that he practice his act in an empty studio with a "dead" microphone. So, he does that, but unbeknownst to him the microphone is actually on, and his voice is broadcast live to the entire nation. Everyone loves the voice, now dubbed "The Phantom Troubadour," and the hunt is on to find out just who this guy is! Loads of laughs and plenty of music. Producer: Kenneth MacGowan Director: Sidney Lanfield Screenplay: Harry Tugend and Jack Yellen (based on an original story by Curtis Kenyon and the book by Dorothea Brande) Music Director: Louis Silvers Song Score: Harry Revel and Mack Gordon Choreography: Jack Haskell Art Director: Mark-Lee Kirk

Johnson & Johnson Vera Wang Phillip K. Dick

Original New York Blue Note LP's were pressed by a company named Plastilyte. The ear symbol on the runoff groove area indicates that this is a Plastilyte pressing. And I've always assumed that the thing that looks kinda like an ear is actually a curved, stylized "P".

I dig the unusual-for-an-African-American mullet. All business in the front, all party in the back.

mmmmm.....spaghetti I agree, Jim (S.). I haven't checked out the music samples from the artist/website in question, but the issue of having too much of your thing being comprised of copping stuff from the past is certainly something to be wrestled with. And the question immediately following that acknowledgement is "Yeah, but how much is too much?" I don't know. Different strokes, I suppose. Do you go for roots with a twist, as GregN alluded to, or do you go for a new thing with a dash of roots for credibility? And as far as Pop music goes, I think the retro-styles are best left to the guys who did it in the first place. I played a casino show the other night, backing up Frankie Avalon, Fabian and Bobby Rydel, billing themselves as "The Golden Boys". I'm a little young to have that be the "music of my youth" so it's not that meaningful to me, but the crowd was sure digging it, and there was a vibe of real appreciation and love and nostalgia in the room. I don't want to hear anybody else trying to cop a Frankie Avalon thing, and I certainly don't want to hear Frankie Avalon trying to get into a new bag ("Hey, here's something for the kids..."). But for those guys who did it originally, and for the audience that was/is drawn to them, that night we had the right guys for the right job.

Perhaps "Solo Fragment" = "Resolution"?

I think I related this story once before, on another thread: I was at a Michael Brecker clinic in the mid-'80s. He had recently started his fairly brief tenure on the Saturday Night Live Band, and someone asked him how he liked that gig. He replied by telling us that, since he always felt self-conscious about being a tall, skinny, pale white guy, the two things that make him the most uncomfortable are dancing in public, and wearing a bathing suit in public. His first week on the show, Eddie Murphy did the "James Brown Hot-tub Party" bit, and there was Brecker having to dance in a bathing suit on national TV!

I believe it's operated by Jamey's son, and includes CD sales and the DoubleTime record label.

That would be correct. It's a beautiful thing...

I have definitely purchased more music in the last year than I did before joining this forum. And, like FreeForAll, I really appreciate that I've been able to find less expensive outlets for the music, including several purchases from board members. I've also checked out some new (to me) music, thanks to recommendations and discussions on this board. And, in addition to all of the goofing around that happens here, when the serious discussions of music start, the insightful opinions that are eloquently shared by fellow members prove to be very thought provoking.

I was at a performance/lecture by Bloom years ago (at a conference of saxophone geeks) during the Art and Aviation thing. She was talking about how she was fascinated by the space program, and had been working with some folks from there, putting together "performance pieces". The "live electronics" (as opposed to playing with pre-sequenced stuff, or doing electronic manipulation in the studio, after the fact) included all kinds of effects. I remember that she had a microphone clipped onto her saxophone, some kind of do-hickey that responded to the physical movement of her saxophone. She would be playing, and would rapidly wave the bell of the sax around in big, fast, sweeping motions, and as she did so, the electronic effect would kick in and add layers of sound, and change the pitch. I also remember that she was indeed pretty serious the whole time. I couldn't quite put my finger on why the stuff didn't grab me, but the whole thing seemed a little dry. But, yes, she can really play. I need to check out some of those more recent sides.

Well, since I was making my new First Post, it couldn't just be in the "What are you listening to right now" thread, or "Name Three People". So I thought I would just mark an occasion that comes along only once every few weeks: FreeForAll's Big Day!

HAVE A GREAT ONE, BRO!!!

Would a Near Mint CD copy of "Kind of Blue" pique your interest...?

Happy Birthday, Grif!!! Here's hoping for good things!!!

Charles Comiskey William Shea William Wrigley, Jr.

Goldie Hawn Delta Dawn Hall, Fawn

Yeah, yeah...Maria...McNeely...Kimbrough...Perry...whatever. Let's get to the point: which one of the school bands won, and how high did their trumpets play?

Quoting Ben Ratliff: "His mission, finally, was entertainment." WTF? That's not to say that I am not entertained when I see/hear Liebman and his groups perform. But I never for a moment feel like that is his mission. I think the 'entertainment' is a happy by-product of his consistently passionate approach to creating great music with the other musicians on the bandstand. edit: to clarify that the quote is from Ratliff, not from 7/4.