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Why do they call him that?

I just found this broadcast and it's like the band wants to play it like a conventional ballad...so they do. Or try to. I wonder what prompted it to be called on this gig. http://otrrlibrary.org/OTRRLib/Library%20Files/S%20Series/Stan%20Kenton%20Collection/Stan%20Kenton%20520405%20ep000%20%20Concept%20Show.mp3 Holy shit, Jerri Winters doing Waterfront is like a crossed-wavelength Kenny Hagood...and as much as I do dig Kenny Hagood, I don't mean that as a compliment....

Quite possibly! What about Time Out?

Word. But this will be the first time I don't buy it used or cutout.

The Band That Played Too Fast (blame the leader). Still, a kick to hear Don Menza & Charles Owens, for various reasons. But that shit is too damn fast. It doesn't ahve to be, but for this band it is. The difference between this band and the ones before is palpable. Different night, they start off pretty wooden, and then through "Machine", something happens, maybe Menza, but it happens. Funny how that shit works sometimes, nothing's happening and then it is.

Thornell Schwartz footage!

YS Dig how there's no credits for lyrics, so full money to Lee! And yet lyrics!

Well then, at least it happened. I though maybe they had just whoofled one up.

Much ado about nothing, really. I got a batch of Sinatra boots about a decade ago, and this was the first thing I went to. What's that the kids say, meh? Well yeh, meh. I seem to recall that Frank also says something like "leave it for Nat Cole"? Do they leave that in? Or am I misremembering? Funny they mention Ring A Ding Ding. The session tapes from that one are intense. Frank is working on every take to find his pocket, he knows when he's there and when he's not,and he chides himself as he goes along. And then when he gets there, whoa...

That's no excuse!

Where'd they get that cover for Central Park North?

Y'all vomit out back, ok?

I didn't even consider the vinyl (for reasons discussed at the time), but I just one-clicked that CD. No brainer for me.

Well, that was easy!

Yeah, I got that one. Do we know why Booker was away? Because he came back. Health/legal problems that took a year or two to resolve? Or did he just want a break? I think these were Cannonball's best years as a player, from about 1965 up to the end. He had slowly, leisurely almost, but surely figured out all he had heard out of Coltrane standing next to him for however long that was and incorporated that into his own thing. Best years as a player, but not always as a record-maker. I've accrued all those Capitol records, and on some of them...there's never any that don't have at least one moment (and some have considerably more than a moment), but one moment does not a record make. But unlike Kevin, I really dug Radio Nights, because it was NOT a record, Money In the Pocket from a few years ago, that was fine, probably because it never turned into a record. So for me, this sounds like a good nexus of band/time/repertoire/non-production. Optimistic!

10+ minutes of Hippodelphia has the potential to be a very good thing... How long had Gaskin been in the band? Nobody would ever be as perfect a fit as Walter Booker, imo, but Gaskin did alright.

What all this about nuts and Adderleys?

word. they danced.

Oh, great, Jerry Jones for everybody then. Y'all vomit out back, ok?

There was this one, from back in the yonder days: I liked the cover a lot more than the music, but it's not bad.

This is not something I know...what have I missed?

How do you figure that?

When Yu Darvish was here, mound conferences were interesting, especially when Beltre joined in. But I can say that there was a bit of communication through tones, looks, and gestures, everybody was there to play, right? A pitcher and catcher have to be able to communicate, by any means necessary. And when Ron Washington came out there, there was no doubt about what the message was. Never. What we learned about Yu was that although he didn't necessarily "speak English", he learned enough to communicate during and about the game with his teammates. I gotta think it's like being in an "international" band. You take what you have and use it to work together.