JSngry

that is a nasty way to go....RIP to a true contributor.

Can't see the video here at work, but I'm guessing it's "Colored Spade"? If so, I heartily concur!

FWIW, much of the rap appears to have been freestyled. I totally got into it, just one more element of improvisation. The shit is tight, all of it, and it swings.

Wow, Stix Hooper! Pleasantly surprised to see Rich included in the comedy sketches, reinforces my perception of him as being, at root, a "show guy", and not in a bad way. Old school vaudeville type show biz, where you bust your ass to be able to cover all the bases just so you can work. Professional.

I remember very much liking them.

What I recall hearing/reading is that the sax soli was written by Webster. To double up on the double cup, there's been an arrangement or two that have taken webster's solo and written it out as a sax soli. Bob Rosengarden's band on the old Dick Cavett show had one such chart. I remember a lot of times when they'd have that little break between commercials where they would show band playin mid-chart, that's what they be playing a lot of times.. I hear that for a few years before hearing the Ellington cut, and then when I hear d Ben's solo, I was like, DAMN, OK!

Section players.

B.B. King as well.

You do 78s but you don't do books? Please advise.

Spent the afternoon with it. A most worthy addition to any Dexter collection, imo. Dex sounds clean, animated, and as developmental with his riffing and quoting (he is, remember, the Ouotesmaster General of All Time) as I've heard him. The rhythm section could be a little punchier for my taste, but in the end, they do no harm. A very, very good record. Gordon blew!

Well hell. One less of already not enough. RIP.

Here's probably why Buddy kept a young band - the old guys played better, but not with quite the same energy. Seems to me that at the end of the day, that energy was waht made Buddy Rich tick, just raw energy.

If you listen to your Inner Liner Note Geek Whisperer, you will remember that Rotten Kid was Greco's tune, and possibly/presumably his chart. I've always loved it, it's one of those full-frontal things. Tht version, with the longer drum solo detracts. I think, from the sheer orgasmic lead in to that Dizzy thing that the studio version has. Even when Buddy Rich made me cringe, this one still got me. There's a time for taste, and there's a time for this (in whatever form). Anybody who says there's not is a liar.

Finally, the companion to Murder At Kent State.

are there other documents of Sarah Vaughan inciting this visceral a reaction from an audience? I mean, I totally get it, I've just not heard it before. I now feel as if I should have this, to make my package complete!

Lani Hall on that first bridge...oh my god...

Was this before or after this had been composed?

Suddenly the liner notes for The New One have a new resonance. Summer replacement show or not, this was a prime-time weekly network TV show, and the Buddy Rich band was there every week, just like David Rose, Sammy Speer, god knows who else, those guys that got introduced every week. Only this was not a staff band, this was a real, working big band, getting features, participating in production numbers, everything. Pacific Jazz/Richard Bock was no doubt thrilled. What kind of a primetime network/cable show would have any kind of a jazz band as house band? Yes, the big bands DID come back! Yeah, i had never seen a full one either. I guess, this was summer of 1967, we only had one tv in the house, and I don't recall the folks watching this at all. They watched Jackie Gleason, but I guess this summer show was not for them. Or maybe it wasn't even carried here. Choreography was everywhere back then. All the variety shows had it. I finally saw the full Swing Into Spring show and marveled at how something this..uh...non-macho got sponsored by Texaco. If you believe the comments, the poster of this show has more than this one, so, hope springs eternal... One more thing - from what I can tell, the band played their book on this show, straight-up. That's a pretty big deal as far as that thing goes.

George Carlin, holy f-in shit!

The tenor solos were Jay Corre. Altos were by Ernie Watts and Jimmy Mosher. The trumpet, by Chuck Findley. Jim Trimble was the trombonist, I think.

Here it is.

So that's Charles Stepney on vibes? I think it could be Eddie Harris on vibes, no?

Dave Bargeron?