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I thought it was no worse than usual and I don't see/hear what some people like in John Legend, did nothing at all for me. I think they should give just one lifetime award per show and all the performers whould have to pay tribute. Make it more of a challenge...

Hey, Sly actually appeared and did something. I, for one, was plaeasantly surprised. Lowered expectations, I guess. There's a Riot Going On brilliantly captures what went wrong, but I prefer to remember him by the earlier stuff.

I can't believe anyonewould define "vintage" cars, or anything else, as pre-95! Try pre-68 (pre-smog and safety regs, which were a good thing but took the muscle outta most cars v. quickly). Or, in Studebaker terms, pre-Dec.'63 when the South Bend plant closed and Stude engine production ended.

Wasn't "KB Blues" part of the KB dbl CD set of not too long ago?

I'd like to hear what Big Joe had to say about it even more...

1959 Studebaker Lark VIII, AT, 4dr, 259 w/4barrell, 44,000 miles this time around. Not as old as a Model T but mine's a daily driver built in a 19thcentury wagon factory in South Bend, Indiana.

I'm gonna do this mostly off the top of my head 'cause I think first thing that comes to mind is kinda what you're asking for: 1) Grant Green - Visions (his biggest seller back in the day) as a 2fer with the unissued 5/29/70 date. Lots of pop/R&B covers on both but v. dif. instrumentation/personnel. Live at the Club Mozambique would be nice too, as would a deluxe Carryin' On with the two Jimmy Web outtakes. 2) Stanley T- Always Something There and Look of Love would dbl up nicely and sometimes grilled cheese really hits the spot. But even better would be 2CDs bringing together the 5 mid-sized band dates from '67-68 that appeared in part on Ain't no Mt High Enuff and the dark dbl LP set back in the day - some pop, some Jobim, lots of Duke P arrangements. 3) Ruben Wilson - On Broadway is a groove, hearing someof his unissued stuff would be too... 4) Jimmy McGriff - Something to Listen To & Black Pearl are both interesting 5) Lou Donaldson - I think the man deserves a box set, they could call it From Monk to Funk, some unissued stuff here too. 6) Jimmy Smith - Plays Fats Waller should be dbl'd with Plays Pretty 'cause the latter has a nice "Jitterbug Waltz". 7) Freddie Roach - Mo' Greens, please! Just so y'all don't think I'm a total greasehead, I agree with the A Hill & SAm Rivers choices!

Clem, I thought FD was using "prog" as short for 'progressive', as in prog-rock or -jazz, in the bit you quote, but I could be wrong. In any case, the whole thing has a class-based snobbery about it that's quite obnoxious but otherwise empty and "untouched by the thought process" as Click & Clack say. I really thought the singers thing in the Atlantic was pretty good/not too bad/OK, but this one truly is a piece of shit...and just as wrongheaded and harmful to jazz as the anti-Parker piece refered to elsewhere.

I have this on reissue vinyl, and "Dancing In an Easy Groove" on the 2LP Lost Grooves. All good stuffs but I agree with those who prefer Live @ the Club Mozambique. Isn't this the seesion that the unissued version of "Satisfaction" is from? The only Lonnie I didn't really care for was Drives.

The Feb issue of downbeat has an interview with everyone's fav sound engineer. Not v. tchnical, but interesting nonetheless. Should be an excerpt on their website.

In the current Atlantic there's a rather long article by Clem's nemisis on current female jazz/not jazz singers, Krall, Moneit, etc. Not a bad piece, not brilliant either. He takes what I think is a cheap swipe at Cassandra Wilson, who he does not mention by name, and is surprisingly kind to Ronstadt and Stewart re their recordings of standards...check it out if yer interested.

Fav Wicked Picett stories: 1) Jerry Wexler getting down at Stax studio and doing the jerk to illustrate where he felt the groove should be, I'd love to have seen the look on Pickett's and the session guy's faces. 2) Supposedly he'd let out one of those blood curdling screams just to clear his throat first thing in the morning. 3) Pickett not wanting to even get off the plane in Muscle Schoals after he looked out the window and saw 'his people' picking cotton, I'm sure the appearance of the session guys there probably didn't reassure him much but he decided they were O tay after he heard 'em play. 4) Not wanting to record "Hey Jude" 'cause he thought it was "Hey Jew"! "Man, I can't say that with Mr. Wexler standing right there" I think Pickett was the only singer to record with as many of the great session bands of his time: Stax, Muscle Schoals, America (the Dusty in Memphis band), the MS/American hybred band Wexler cherry picked for sessions by Pickett and Aretha and v. few others, and Sigma sound/Philly International. Rhino did a 2 CD set awhile back that pretty much covers it... Damn, makes me wanta scream myself!

Hearing Gato rip on Latin America Chpt 1 was one of the things that made me want to pick up a sax in the first place, despairing of ever getting anything close to that sound was one of the reasons I put the sax down for so long. Pretty much everything up thru the Impulses is worth hearing. Two not mentioned yet El Gato w/Oliver Nelson arranging and trading licks on the title tune and Yesterdays with a particularly florid rendition of Jerome Kern's title tune and a honking blues dedicated to John Coltrane even if it sounded to my ears more King Curtis with a bunch of percusion (in a good way). I'd love to hear him play the Drifters psuedo-latin hits of the early 60s but that seems unlikely. Haven't heard anything by him in decades that I did particularly like.

I love this session and the sharp contrast between jackie's alto alto and Ike's tenor tenor is one of the big reasons why...

I've never had a truly bad flight experience but my mum had one that's impacted me. We were living in Buffalo NY when I was little in the late '50s and she went to DC to see her dad who was there on forest Service business. On the wayback they hit a big thunder storm in a prop plane, CD3 or Lockheed Electra. Whole nine yards, bumps big sudden descents, etc. Eventually landed in Rochester. Made her v. reluctant to fly ever since. She did fly down when our FB was born prematurely and was in the hospital, but that's 'cause she's her only grandchild. One of the many reasons we drove from OR to Saskatchewan very summer... I used to take the train a lot but other than running late on scheduals that are already slower than when they ran steam, I've never had a particularly bad experience.

I just listened to the first side of Crazy Baby and think that what JOS does with the A section of the head of "Night In Tunisia" is crazy, baby! Has anyone else ever played it that way, I don't think any of Jimmy's other versions are like this either... If I help finance the trip to RVG's can we put an Avanti or other Studebaker on the cover?

Put me down as agreeing with "probably true, but probably overstated", or to put it another way 'about as true as such a sweepungly broad statement can be'.

Put me down in the "I like it" column, yes including the covers, esp'ly "Going Out of My Head"--Hank's phrasing on the bridge is a thing of wonder and anything but "straight". But that I think so won't surprixe anyone who's read my posts or heard my BFT... Not Hank's best nor as good as "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" but perfectly enjoyable. If someone discovered an albums worth of Hank doing hits of the day from back in the day I'd buy it in a flash, of course I'd buy previously unknown originals in half a flash...

I like, not love, Say It Loud. Sold my LP original at a profit sometime back and was going to get the reissue til I noticed that Water neglected to add the unissued (not rejected) outtake ("Red Top"). As James Brown covers go "Say It Loud" is neither the best (that would be GG "Ain't It Funky Now") nor the worst on BN or elsewhere. There's more than enough JB covers on BN for a full CD, esp'ly if they ignore the erroneous composer credits and include Lonnie Smith's "I Can't Stand It" and the unissued GG "Let Yourself Go" from 5/29/70. Maybe someone should get Lou & Maceo (and/or Pee Wee and/or Fred) together on a date?

Al, Did you get my email re the A Jamal? Dana

I've been v. lucky not to have seriously screwed up my back given that I did manual labor off and on til well past 40. My back was bugging me a little a while back so I went to see my ex who has a manipulation only osteopath practice. She took one look at the Studebaker , put her hands on my back and said "you've been putting your elbow out the window, haven't you?" I had to admit I had. She said "knock It off!", worked on my back a little and I followed her advice and am all better now. I highly reccomend Osteopaths over chiroquackers 'cause an Osteopath is a fully licensed physician who can prescribe drugs, do surgery or manipulation depending on what's appropriate for your situation. A Chiro can only do (different sort of) manipulation so they think everything is your spine whether it reaaly is or not...

I recall it being anounced from stage before and during said gig, may have been in the program too since I carefully mapped out which stage to be at when (it was on the secondary stage, which thankfully had shade unlike the main stage). My wife and I were the Mutt & Jeff couple with funny accents getting sunburned...

Recently got three moving violations within 18 mo after nothing for decades (when I was young I drove cab and wrecked 'em on a regular basis, but that's another story). They restricted my license so i couldn't drive between midnight and 5am, not that any of the tickets occured then and no big deal since I'm rarely out then anyways. Just hoping I don't get a ticket in the mail for the speed trap I blew through a few weeks back trying to get back to work from training in the middle of the day (ironically I worked that day to get my full time benefits kickback, a ticket would pretty much eat all that cash up). I need to find out just how accurate the speedo in the Stude is/isn't so I can make sure no more tickets, it doesn't really like to go fast even though it will if pushed (259 V-8 4 barrell automatic). Have talked my way out of a few, including smashing my dad's Volvo when plastered when a teenager in S'toon, I have no idea how I pulled that off...

Happy B-day to Joe and I'm looking forward to hearing the album he cut with Hank jones at newport this summer with yours truly in attendance!

This is what I love about this place. What could've just been everybody listing their fav Dex, 'not that there's anything wrong with that', has turned into something way more interesting. In principle I agree with Allen, I'm in general highly suspicious of 'hipness' as an attitude/culture/whatever. But in practice I agree with Jim 'cause I just love Dexter's playing, at least when he's on, although I am willing to admit that he wasn't always on and one of the reasons was probably substance use (including alcohol, something I gots my own issues with) and the attitudes surrounding said use. In particular Our Man in Paris seems swaggeringly in control but "Day in the Life of My Tool" sounds just not quite together to me.