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He was still alive?! A GREAT singer, no doubt.

Law school was a long time ago and I didn't do particularly well...but my memory is that 'just reporting' libel was a new libel and that the reporter was as fully libel as the source. A moot point at this juncture probably. Maybe she was just inspired to write vin this vein by hanging with George? In any case I think Harold Arlen makes the best use of 'bluesiness' of any standard(s) composer...

Many fine versions, which is one of the standards by which standards are judged, no? Also I believe I included a fav of mine on my blindfold disc by memphibian session band named after a Brit sprots car... Does anyone one have any comment on the 'really wqritten by George' rumour mentioned above, strikes me as slightly slanderous... (technical libel if in print/pixils but "slander" goes better with "slightly").

I may have mentioned, I LUV News for Lulu and heartily recomend it even to those who aren't that hot on Zorn Frisell or Lewis. How is the Westbrock Rossini? I quite like his settings of Wm Blake...

As always, Studebaker - so far ahead of their time!

I think he made the right choice. I love "Psychotic Reaction" but I've never felt the need to check out more by Count Five (great name). Lester Bangs once memorably described Count Five as "lobotomized Yardbirds". I think he meant that as a compliment.

More than any one thing, or group of things, he did it was the range of things he could do that got to me. That said, if I had to name one, it would be Speak No Evil; I'm a huge fan of Lee Morgan and Miles but no one else would have been as good on that one.

Record Dec snowfall here in the other Portland (OR).

happy Holidays to all of my good friends here, and everyone else too...

A troubled individual, by all accounts. Wish her well.

Sorry to be a hairsplitter here, but are we talking 'bout instrumental prejudices here or particular players whose tone we don't like? I'd like to think I don't have any of the former, plenty of the latter...

i really like the Louie Jordan trib he did about 10 years (?) ago, but no one else seems to have noticed...

I like Music Millennium here in Portland. I used to work for Terry and I still know a lot of the staff. He closed the branch I worked at in NW and if he didn't own the bldg the main branch is in I don't know if they would still be open. I also like Empire on Hawthorne but I have no idea how they stay open. Would love to go back to the Electric Fetus in Mpls, i also worked there briefly in the late 80s to early 90s.

Maybe it's not really better than no sex at all?

It is indeed v. nice, but it's not the return to the old days that producer T-bone Burnett has claimed...

Bob, No offence, but I think you're tripping. The '80s tracks have the high note stuff that appeared in his work breifly then. Other than that his approach hasn't really varied all that much in recent decades. Love this album, looking forward to more. Dana

Vince G - Charlie Brown Kenny B - Have Yourself a Soulfull Little... John Fahey - New Possibility Butch Thompson - Yule Stride Booker T & the MGs - whatever it's called VA - Soul Xmas (or an compilation with Otis' "White Xmas" and clarence Carter's "Back Door Santa") VA - Chritmas Gift For You (Phil Specter Xmas, most imitated?) Ventures - _________(Xmas tunes set to rock riffs) Emmy Lou (Clem hates you) - Light of the Stable Brothers of the Baladi - _____________(done middle Eastern style, that's where it happened) Did I mention I like Xmas music....?

To go back to the original Q, "Anyone like Jeff Beck?" No, for better or worse, there's no one like Jeff Beck...

But he is expressive with nothing much to say and worked for/with a major rock guitarist (and friend of Beck's) of whom much the same could be said...

Yes, absolutely, and back and forth and on and on, etc. in infinite array.

Thanks indeed for the intelligentl blow-by-blow of material that usually just gets blanket dismissal (jazz critics) or unthinking adoration (Dusty Groove)...

Sso, then, are you saying that Rollins was reacting to specific verbal "lines" instead of to an overall cultural esthetic of which those lines were an expression (and only a partial expression at that)? No, I'm saying that I don't think that the 'sardonic' in the abstract, apart from any particular verbal line, would exist for Rollins in invoke in a nonverbal way but for the verbal...that the range of things you or I or the next guy could express nonverbally is/was (logically/historically) greatly expanded by the existence of verbal (and written) language.

Re Plant's quip about Beck: takes one to know one...

To expand on my earlier point (which was ignored, no doubt due to my being overly cryptical as usual), I don't think Sonny Rollins would've played any of the stuff often described as 'sardonic' but for the influence of verbal language on his nonverbal expression. I also don't find much hard bop to be particularly agressive or angry...

Most of the sessions with James Spaulding that I can think of have been reissued, except for T. Washington's Natural Essence. I like 'em, YMMV. We're not quite at the bottom of the barrell, but it's getting close. But as the last two Stan T's before Dearly Beloved (the midsized late '0s dates, Prodigal Son and Bluish Bag) show, bottom of the barrell can still be pretty sweet. I'd like to hear the two jimmy Web tunes left off GG's Carryin' On! and I think Sngry would too...