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I recently acquired Freddie Roach's lovely Down to Earth from another board member. in the original notes by Nat Hentof he does the classic 'I don't like organs generally but I like Freddie' shtick. WTF? Why did every other organ date from back in the day have this shit in the notes?

VB, Just saw this, so sorry for your loss and so sad that it was made worse than it had to be. All my best thoughts to you. fasstrack, What a nightmare, Kafkaesque indeed. All, What say we all read this and think about what's really important before we let anything small here on the board get us going? Love to all y'all, Dana

In a perfect world, Jeff Beck would be in the Rock Hall of Fame as a sideman and Little Walter as a leader, but still...

rOGER THE eNGINEER (esp'ly in mono with Happenings/Psyco Dszisies added, as some editions do) is a great album, despite the proto-Zep plagarism as songwriting and being an extreme quickie by rock standards. 1966 may have been the pinicle of western civilization - Studebaker dies and my wife is born, for starters, and the Scott family moves to Saskatoon, center of the known world. Roger is also a great play on words: noun, verb, whatever.

People In Sorrow is a freaking masterpiece, probably the best record I don't own. If that's a backhanded compliment...it's still a compliment, so THANK YOU CHUCK!

No, I think Garth used Lowery...

Garth Hudson of the Band also liked to tinker with his organs, not Hammonds, Wurlitzers? Also played other keyboards and seemed to have a different sound for nearly every tune.

"Tenor Madness", one cut on the album of the same title. I've never even heard of anything else, but I'm not much of a 'trader'...

But Konitz didn't think Braxton got 'it'; don't know what Marsh thought...

You look like 'the Jimmy Page of the saxophone!'

Sunny, Spooky, Stormy: the '60s in a nutshell.

In a word, "yes".

Saw Lil Rounds last night and maybe it was just the dress she ws wearing but that's got to be the most ironic name ever...haven't watched this year since the initial auditions and just was the recap last night, I too get tired of the judges...

I have this out from Mult Co Library (we're #1!) and have mixed feelings at best. It's obviously a labour of love, and it's worth documenting Funk as a ground up populist phenomena...BUT I feel like I'm listening to the same poor excuse for a song over and over, and this from someone who loves early Stax where the songwriting wasn't exactly stellar either. Something about Funk as a genre (as opposed to a quality all music should have) seems reified in a particularly bad way to me, although I feel pretty much the same and more about Metal and many other genres qua genres... Bottom line is I think I'd rather have just Rhino's History of Funk Vol 1/2 (one half), the Roots of Funk, and call it good.

Re Lefty I could go on & on 'bout what a great singer he was, even more so as time went on, 'bout how everything was right on the early records made in Dalla, 'bout gems like "no One to Talk to But the Blues" that even fans seem to overlook, BUT Lefty said it all in "That's the Way Love Goes"...

Gary Peacock & Elvis Costello?

I think there's also collaborative genius where the individuals on their own are merely alright but together (and only together) the're exploring/mapping the future, or whatever you want to call it. Examples? Tristano/Konitz/Marsh? Bill Monroe & Earl Scruggs? the 2nd Quintet? Maaybe I've just painted myself into a(n interesting) cornewr...?

...or, to look at it yet another way, fasstrack is taking the pro musician's natural point of view and the others are taking more or less the record collector's... I think the predominence of the record collector pov has had some negative effect, but that 's more in rock than jazz...

...to be less allagorical, the 'craft' thing has two sides - the functional getting/keeping a gig side and the social one-of-us side. I think as the first side has become more and more irrelvant some have reacted by clinging harder to the 2nd...

Yeah, I love my Studebaker but they ain't coming back...and I think we may see the end of widestread car ownership in our lifetimes. Analogize that any way you want...

having worked in two of the world's great record stores, the Electric Fetus in Mpls & music Millennium in Ptld, I will certainly miss them if they really all go away. And if they do, it will be because of rents as much as anything. I met many wonderful people, including my current wife, there...

I thought we were all geniuses in jazz, that's why I came here.

Mine: Art Ensemble - Nice Guys ("Drea MING of the MAS ters" is certainly singable...) Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds (not sure 'bout singable, but this is what he shoulda won all those awards for) neither is particularly typical ECM, Bright Size Life or DeJ Live with Lester B & John A would be closer that chimera

"I had to look up", think about it...

Fair 'nuf, the clips are lovely, nhot sure 'bout innocence - I mostly agree, but only mostly but don't have time to elucidate now. Marsh repeats the 'good/bad, but not evil' line often enough in his 1001 Singles book to be annoying, but he loves girls groups (and doo-sop, harmony of all sorts apparently). I did think the NPR interview with the Shangrilas' lead singer recently was slightly odd...