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youmustbe, an asshole.

I find many swing or mainstream recordings (on Verve fer instance) to be evry bit as formulatic as any hard bop/BN. I'm pretty much a descriotive not prescritive guy on language. and I think verbal language has enriched nonverbal at least as much as the other way round...

I like Jeff Beck, even if he's always been essentially a sideman, even on his own records. Given the right context he's second only to Jimi H among rock guitarists, IMHO. Saw him with Yawn Hammer (the fiddle player got screwed in the mix on the live album) and SRV (love Stevie too, but they brought out the worst in each other). Liked Who Else, haven't bothered with parts II & III. Might buy the new live one, would buy BBC recordings by the Rod & Woody band in a flash.

When you're tired of '60s Blue Note you're tired of life...that said, it's still just one (or more) wonderful flavour(s) among many.

RS has published another one of their lists, this time it's the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. The only thing more predictable than it's sucking big time is that most of the complainers have worse taste. By the way, Aretha is #1, guess they didn't ask Clem...

I'll take Calgary, 45 points total, for no reason at all (in C).

Good point. I don't necessarily agree, but good point nonetheless. Al - thanks for giving my point due consideration, couldn't ask for more... Dana

Loved Bug Music, others are interesting, sometimes merely.

Stanley T, "Pres Delight (Flying Jumbo)", from Return of the Prodigal Son. Never really thought of Stan as all that Prezidential, but he gets all hot and brothered here. A better trib to Lester & Basie, IMHO, than anything on Chip Off the Old Block.

On a somewhat related (?) note: Supposedly some presidential comission once suggested that we change the national anthemto "Land of a 1,000 Dances"! Like the rest of the world doesn't hate us already, can you imagine at the Olympics, the US wins again and the crowd starts chanting "Nah, Na-na NA NAh..."?

How 'bout this 'un from Ira Gitler's notes to Lee Morgan's The Rajah: Next up is The Rajah by Morgan, some eastern funk in the manner of the Silverstan where the Horajah rules. Mobley levitates above the swaying-elephant beat --one foot in the howdah, so to speak; Morgan, as the head mahout, prods, punches and trills out his earthy lyricism; and Walton shows he has bathed in the holy, blues waters. Then Lee and Hank trade chorueses that will heat up the inside of your turban and send it spinning around on your head. Intentional self-parody? I sure hope so...

FWIW, I'll take Seeger's "Night Moves" over Dan's "FM" any day of the week. Yes SD is clever, but the're also annoyingly arch and just as cold as you'd expect of a band named after a dildo (not an actual dildo, that would be kinda funky, a literary dildo). As for the album in question, yes I could live quite happily without hearing any of it ever again, but it's hardly the worst ever. Just kind of mediocre and predicable like what FM radio had become by that time - predictably SD's somg "FM" tries to have it both ways by accepting the benefits of inclusion therein while being all snidely superior to it...fuck them.

Read this a long time ago, enjoyed it as I recall. The writing certainly seems "of a piece" with his sweepingly grand playing FWIW. Bechet is every bit as great a player as Armstrong, but he didn't record as a leader til '32 or at all between '25 & '32 (right?), so he had no one to blame for A's greater fame but himself. If he'd been killed in say '31, he'd be as obscure a figure as Freddie Keppard, better player but... Sometimes Marsalis's grand pronouncements remind me of Bechet, but coming out of Wynton's mouth they just sound ridiculous...

I was always disappointed not to hear more from him post-experience, but after playing with Jimi what could possibly compare? No matter how far out they went together, they kept it basic too. "Move over Rover and let Jimi take over!"

I've gotten used to playing C-melody - if I finger 'C' and hear B-flat i'm all disoriented. Besides, a C bass would be more manageable size/weight wise.

My dream sax would be a bass in C (some of you may recall I play C melody); it would be bigger/lower than a baitone but smaller/higher than a B-flat Bass sax. I know some were made in the 19th century, but I'm not sure if any/many were made in modern pitch.

Think I'll go read the paper in my Studebaker now... But seriously, democracy isn't evryone running evryone else's business by whatever means possible, it's everyone running their own by means understood by all to be fair and right...

Not surprised that it's a stereotype perpetrated by a library worker, by co-workers at the multnomah county library are the most class-biased of anywhere I've ever worked, more so than construction or cabbies.

This was probably the first AB & the JMs album I bought (30+ years ago, I got a lot of stuff from 1959 for some reason). Always thought it was a great half an album, rarely played the second side. IMHO, the perfect AB album would be side 1 of this and side 2 of The Big Beat. Other version of the band may have had as good or better players, but those two sides have great songs and sequencing and Blakey was all about making it a REAL BAND with uniforms 'n evrything...

My public employee pension fund took a big hit but then I'm 54, have only been a public employee 11 years and have a six yr old child. I'm gonna work til i drop dead or win the lotto, that's the plan now and always has been, always will be.

Delmark is a great label and (having spoken to him once or twice) Bob K. is a heck of a guy too. When I worked at the Electric Fetus in Mpls we played at least an LP side of Jr. Wells' Hoodoo Man Blues EVERY DAY and sold at least one copy every time we did. They once ran an add of all the v. diverse artists who made their first albums for Delmark, amazing really... And Magic Sam totally rules!

Levi would've sounded great singing the proverbial phone book in an alley, but the Tops work with H-D-H shows that great production and great voices can go hand in hand and make each other even greater...

Dusty was indeed a great singer, I personally prefer her to Dionne BUT the latter did have the bonus of arrangements by the man himself. Wasn't dusty's "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (melodramatic sclock, but really great...) co-sritten by one of the Yardbirds' managers? Know who else I like to hear 'do' Burt? stanley T!

Only saw the show on holidays in Portland or Oakland, so I don't remember it well. Thought he was kind of silly but, on the other hand, there were cute girls in short skirts, dancing. Easy to figure out which side of that equation won out. Still my weakness now, maybe it's all his fault...

Are some of these pseudonyms?