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On the teen edition the other night there was a nice you high school girl who played alto and said her favorite was Johnny Hodges. And no, she wasn't overtly geeky...

The wife and I saw ornette here in puddle town last night. It was exquisite; don't think I ve ever heard Ornette play so lyrically. current band is O., denardo, 1 acoustic bass, two electric bass. Once they got the sound sorted out you could hear each distinctly and this lineup allowed them to go in a lot of different directions...

Sure Winehouse "has talent", shouldn't that be a given? But what a trainwreck, and somehow a certain Joe Tex song kept coming to mind... I kinda enjoy Keeley and Kid Rock, it went off script and vered close to chaos; by contrast Herbie et al played well enuff but it was totally on script. Bouncey looked good, Tina didn't, neither one sang well and "Proud Mary" is supposed to be dbl time at the end and it wasn't even close. Overall I enjoyed it for what it was and didn't expect it to be something it isn't and ain't never been or gonna be.

I remember, barely, you could still see them once in a while when I was little.

Not funny to me, but I can't remember anthing Silverman or Kimmel has done that I thought was...

be happy to tell you, as son as I figure out what she's saying...

jeez, did I kill this thread too? MG here's a counterexample for you - Smokey robinson's "Yesterlove" YES ter IS the PRE fix that WE fix to THINGS that have GONE by, forEVer they say etc. Not the sort of thing that one's likey to say in evryday conversation, but not the way you'd say it if you did...lovely just the same.

OK,assuming Larry thesis to be more or less true (I know lots of 'rock' lyrics but don't have that much time oe patience, and have a hard time imagining many of them as conversation or any way other than how they are sung), what does it prove? Maybe just the toothpaste theory of art, i.e. if you squeeze the naturalness toobe at one end it's gonna pop out the other... Oh, and I don't think Dylan can be taken as representative of anything other than himself, in phrasing or anything else... And one other thought, perhaps the writers of standards expected to be taken seriously or at least heard if they merely conversed and others may have felt the need to shout or otherwise make an extraordinary effort just to be heard, that is rather speculative but if it's just a formal difference that doesn't mean something like this, who cares?

metoometoometoo...bought the rainbow LP for $3-4 w/in a year or two of it's release, been digging it ever since...but I think I sorta can see why it didn't see the light of day back in the day...'little big bands' weren't really 'the thing' and it's too subtle to convert the uninitiated on first hearing...

metoometoometoo...bought the rainbow LP for $3-4 w/in a year or two of it's release, been digging it ever since...but I think I sorta can see why it didn't see the light of day back in the day...'little big bands' weren't really 'the thing' and it's too subtle to convert the uninitiated on first hearing...

metoometoometoo...bought the rainbow LP for $3-4 w/in a year or two of it's release, been digging it ever since...but I think I sorta can see why it didn't see the light of day back in the day...'little big bands' weren't really 'the thing' and it's too subtle to convert the uninitiated on first hearing...

just for the record, I'm a guy, i.e. a male human, last I checked - on both counts! Dana

sidewinder, thanx muchly for the timely reply, I don't have those mentioned, I was thinking maybe there was a sideman date I'd forgotten. kinda surprised this small world moment didn't provoke more coment from y'all... dana

I agree with Lon, smart women are hot (including all on this thread, even if I generally like 'em rounder)...but if chewy is calling us out as perverts, dudes we're in trouble!

There's this nice older British lady who's a regular at the library where I work and we sometimes discuss jazz CDs. So the other day she asks me if I know who Tubby Hayes is so I say sure and then she tells me they went to school together and she's looking for recordings he's on to send to his sister so I recomend the Dizzy Reece Mosaic Select. Thing is I think there's something else he's a sideman on that either I or the library might have but I can't think of what that might be...didn't we have a thread discussing all the records Tubby is on? I could just look it up but I thought y'all might find this small world moment interesting.

"if you're under 35"...I wouldn't think the robots would be picky like that... and who can forget, "My robot, my girl robot"?

Did anyone notice that the Ellington quote quoted above (post #77) is quite surreal, ""Mrs. Clinkscales"?, and when Duke was "a small boy" Peterson hadn't been born yet, much less gotten famous so it's unlikely dukes piano teacher was telling him anything about Oscar...

Was it Zoot who said "you could not play like Lester, but then you'd be wrong!"?

You aim too, please.

generally I am most definitely not a fan, for reasons that have been hashed and rehashed here, but I do kinda like the everything and the kitchen sink medley that is "how Many More Time", after all if you're going to be over the top might as well go all the way...

There are still used stores on Hawthorne, but there has been some turnover...this is just another example of why Studebaker diversified their way out of the car business, instead of going to the wall and losing evrything.

You must mean Music Millennium at E Burnside & 32nd and yes it's stil there...the Indian place is a few blocks away at 29th. I met my wife while we were working at MM's other branch, which is now closed.

I'm reminded of a Molson's add re Canada: 2 seasons, winter & July. And it was there, in saskatoon to be exact, that I saw/heard my favorite performance of the Vivaldi piece in question, at noon in, high school, by S'toon's own brilliant Mozart Group (fromerly Mozart and the Wolf Gang), complete with a harmonica solo.

You know, they can put Madonna in the R 'n R hall of Fame - my only real prob with that is it makes me feel old. But now the've gone and done it - the're gonna put Little Walter (Jacobs) in BUT ONLY AS A SIDEMAN! WHAT'S THE MATTER THEY DIDN'T LIKE HIS RECORDS AS A LEADER?

The Djangos at SW 11th & Stark in Portland has been closed for some time, it had been going downhill ever since Bob D. sold it, if not before...