HutchFan

Like many people, I'm working from home every day instead of going to an office. Before the pandemic, I worked from home just one day per week. One "side effect" of that situation: I can listen to LPs each day while I'm working. One very small silver lining on an otherwise dark and terrible cloud.

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Thanks Niko! 👍

Yep. I dug him. 👍 Does this "other Bootsie" show up on any other records?

NP: David "Fathead" Newman - Concrete Jungle (Prestige, 1978) Arrangements by William Fischer

First spin of a new-to-me LP: Don Patterson - Why Not ... (Muse, 1978)

In memory of Steve Grossman. R.I.P.

I agree wholeheartedly.

Great stuff. I need to pull that off the shelf. Haven't played it in a long while.

Exactly!

👍 Excellent! Love it!

Nope. I know the LP that you're talking about, but I haven't ever heard it. I would love to hear it though...

Mike, THANK YOU so much for sharing this important work! Not only this Don Patterson discography, but ALL of them!

This LP is now spinning on my 'table:

Turns out that I have seen that record before. But I'm familiar with a cover that looks like this... Which, of course, raises the question: Did they (Collectables? VeeJay?) change the cover because they thought the cover with the buxom, bewigged woman was sexist? Either way, I'm listening to the music now via YT. You're right. It sounds really good. Nice back-story. Very illustrative.

O.K. One more for the list! Speaking of weird shit. Here's what I think is weird: Nine out of twenty-five people who rated Gene Ammons' Got My Own on discogs gave it a rating of one or two stars. What?!?!? The breakdown looks like this: I don't understand. Are we listening to the same music? To me, Got My Own is a five-star record. What the hell?

Hey, I've never seen that record before. Is it any good?

O.K. I hear you. I really do. That said ... I'm just gonna go on thinkin' the cover shows a woman who's just enjoying music a whole damn lot. ... Or more precisely, it's nothing more than some graphic designer at VeeJay knowing that Harold Mabern wrote a tune called "Make Everybody Happy" and that's what they're gonna name the record, so he got a photo of a really happy woman -- because dudes buy jazz records, and (most) dudes like to look at women -- and he put her face on the cover. Happy music. Happy face. Just that simple. That's how I want to think about it.

The LP from Buddy's just feels more together, more like a nightclub vibe than a festival. (Not that there's anything wrong with festivals in general or that LP from Wichita specifically.) Also, I like the compositions from Buddy's a bit more. I think picking the LP from Buddy's might have something to do with the rhythm section too. I think Ronnie Mathews and Victor Sproles sound great here. (Not that Duke Jordan and Wilber Little are slouches. Gawd no. I just prefer Mathews & Sproles in a big band context -- or at least on this LP.) Also, maybe it's this most of all: I heard and knew the Wichita Festival record for many years, and I got the LP from Buddy's, say, five or six years ago. When I heard the LP from Buddy's, I was like, "Damn, I think this is even better than Wichita."

Sad news. R.I.P.

Sheesh, Jim, it doesn't have to be all that, does it? As for the "everybody" in the title: Isn't it the folks who might listen to the music on the album -- one of whom (theoretically) is the woman pictured on the cover? ... I don't mean to be obtuse. Am I missing some sort of obvious sub-text? NP: Incredibly soulful music.

Weekly Recap - PLAYING FAVORITES: Reflections on Jazz in the 1970s Clark Terry's Big B-A-D Band – Live! At Buddy's Place (Vanguard, 1976) Bucky Pizzarelli & Bud Freeman – Buck & Bud (Flying Dutchman, 1976) Carmen McRae – At the Great American Music Hall (Blue Note, 1977) Richie Kamuca Quartet – Richie (Concord); originally issued as Richard Kamuca Quartet 1976 Irakere – Grupo Irakere (Areito, 1976) Graciela y Mario – La Botánica (Lamp/Coco, 1976) Sam Most – Flute Flight (Xanadu, 1977) This week's list might not scream, "Hey, I'm sexy!" -- but hold on. You just might want to give it another look ... - Not one but TWO superb Latin Jazz recordings. Blazing hot. - The Carmen McRae is on my short-list of all-time favorite vocal jazz albums. - The Pizzarelli/Freeman disc is one of those albums where everything just WORKS. - That Richie Kamuca LP is probably the best record he ever made. Anyone who loves Lestorian saxmen NEEDS to hear this. - Sam Most? Sinatra invited Most to his house in Vegas and gave him a gold friggin' flute. ... I'm just sayin'. - And Clark Terry? I l-o-v-e the sound he makes. He's one of my guys, an Ellingtonian who's close to my heart. There's some really good stuff here. Seriously.

Malanga isn't legit??? I thought they were.

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