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That's the back end of a Chevy pickup, right?

This whole series is stellar. Next to vintage Blue Note, early Stax is pretty much my favorite. Well, that and Chess blues in the '50s. All of them valued feeling in performance and presence in recording.

Yea and no, or is it no and yes? There are still bands who make their living playing for private parties and corporate events - it's generally a separate circuit and different bands than play public club gigs and they play differently too. They don't play like the Royal Canadians anymore, but I think there is a thread of continuity there.

I totally concur.

I love Trouble in Mind, but both it and Full Force are extensions of things started in the late '70s - which is the problem with dong it by decade, music doesn't really divide up neatly like that. Full Force is part of a strong run on ECM for the AEC. 40 years later and Shepp is still doing duets with piano. Mirror, Mirror I'm not really familiar with, but tht could be said of pretty much any Joe Hen or Chick Corea after a certain point. I put something from either Trouble in Mind or Going Home on my blindfold test here and it got a pretty lukewarm and dismissive response, much to my disappointment.

So many. She doesn't like Spinal Tap because she thinks it's mean spirited and belabored.

This.

I prefer the final version, I think it's more artful, sings better, still has a melancholy undertow and is more aspirational and hopeful than the Pollyanna that others apparently hear (or don't hear and project) in it. YMMV.

The original lyrics to ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ weren’t very... - Classic FM Is this accurate? It seems like it skips a step and there should be 3 sets, as written, rewritten for the movie, rewritten again for Frank. And even the last has a melancholy undertow to me.

The Edmond Hall, Vick Dickenson, James P Johnson, etc. and the single Morton/Hamilton.

I'm pretty sure he did sometimes, I'll have to check.

Thanks for the link. different perspective from mine, but one that it'll probably do me some good to consider. Yanow is a hack.

...or Dinah Washington's Fats tribute either.

Smithville (Remastered 2007) - YouTube I've been listening to Louis Smith's Smithville, which includes Rouse, and quite liking his playing there. Not as much as I'm liking Sonny Clark's playing, but still quite liking it. And I could've sworn I'd already said on this thread that I like Rouse with Monk quite fine even if he does sublimate (right word?) his playing to Monk's music. If you're playing with Monk then you should more or less do that.

Trains and Tunnels! - Bing video strangely satisfying.

The Drifters: We Gotta Sing - The Soul Years 1962-1971, 3CD Box Set - Cherry Red Records

This. I'm all for exploring new material, but putting a new twist on the standards is a real accomplishment too.

It's an interesting change of pace, and pairs well with Plays Pretty For You since that one has Waller's "Jitterbug Waltz" on it. Not great, but nice enough if you take it for what it is.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/greg-tate-critic-obituary-1268145/

If his playing was actually melodic, I'd have no problem with it. But to my ears it's not. Melodies are based on making definite choices re what notes to play - noodling aimlessly is the opposite of melodic. IMHO, YMMV, but it strikes me as irredeemably dishonest music and he strikes me as not a 'nice guy' at all. Not everything soft and quiet is melodic or nice, some of it is manipulative BS.

He did lots of good work, I especially liked his description of Hendrix as 'the R&B sideman's revenge'. RIP.

One of many fine Hutcherson albums, not sure what my top favorite would be.

totally agree

To me the Impulse Latin America Chpt. 1, 2, & 4 are the crowning achievements of Gato's career. I also love Last Tango (the music, the movie not so much), Yesterdays, and El Gato (with Oliver Nelson), and the one with Dollar Brand. Diminishing returns on the rest, IMHO. Lonnie Liston I never got into that much, Sanders' Impulse leader dates I have mixed feelings about - moments of brilliance and a lot of fluff in-between. As it said in the liners to a reissue of Gato & Dollar, "I do not scream for the same reasons Pharoah screams".