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Best joke ever! My daughter would laugh and laugh at it when she was little.

Ellingtonian level mastery, i don't hear that. I hear solid musicality, eclecticism, use of what's in the air in the culture generally and more immediately in his associates, etc. I just don't hear genius, or anything like it.

Bought an LP of this (which I'd never seen before) the other day when I went to Music Millennium to get the new Sonny. Short (8 tunes, under 30 min) and kind of a 'small' work in other ways too, but quite enjoyable. Don't know that I've ever heard Cohn on baritone before. Apparently was dbl'e up on CD with the even more oddball We Dig Cole featuring Charlie Shavers, Sam 'the man' Taylor and Urbie green. What say you?

Don't mean to be disrespectful, to U or Prince, but I just really do NOT hear this...wish I did, but no. Maybe I should start a poll, I have the sense that this is a bit of a dividing line...

Totally agree, the Fraternity stuff knocks me out, including things that weren't even issued at the time like this Later stuff, not so much.

"i did not know that."

Got an album or two, enjoyed but wasn't moved to get more. That may say more about me.

It's not...or is that what you were saying?

PM sent re Tippin'

'In a good way', I presume.

Orphan car joke, v. nice...

https://www.google.com/search?q=merle+haggard&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=merle+haggard&tbm=nws

Fun record to listen to, I'm guessing it was even more fun to make.

OK, I read it - hack writing, properly programmed a computer could've done that.

Yes, Ray Charles is all that AND a bag of chips...

"'I do not scream' said Gato, 'for the same reasons Pharaoh Sanders screams'". Some liner note verbiage that stuck in my head. He certainly had his own voice. Last Tango (expanded), Latin America (expanded), and the duets with Dollar Brand are my go-to selections. And the first side of Yesterdays on Flying Dutchman with "Yesterdays" and "A John Coltrane Blues" (even if it sounds more like King Curtis goes latin).

I think 'the greatest singer of postwar popular music' is a false construct ("in the history of" is just redundant), but if you had to choose one she'd be as good a candidate as any...BUT there is certainly no consensus on such matters that I've noticed, now more/less than ever. It's not as obnoxious and infuriating as the guy who said in the NYR that 'of course Cole Porter is a wittier songwriter than Chuck Berry', but it's not a particularly insightful or enlightening statement. Did he go on to do any close analysis of Aretha's actual practises as a singer, or does he just stay in the mist of offhand generality?

My mono promo LP of Caddy For Daddy, what was I thinking? I have it on CD, but it's not the same...

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/lee-andrews-rip.html

Went to Crossroads (local collectors co-op) looking for one of the 2 albums contained herein, now enjoying in the comfort of my own home.

that's a pretty flipped flip side!

v. nice, song and performance, thanx

Four Strong Winds mostly makes me think of Canada, not that there isn't heartbreak connected with my time there...

I've found to be true of Tommy Flanagan's sideman dates too...I'm thinking there was more going on there than I'm hearing, although what I'm hearing is fine...