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It's gonna cost what it cost, until it doesn't. What it will cost then, I don't know.

His Prestige records are arguably my favorite, and they have a 2 CD compilation of them. Great stuff.

Ok, what am I missing? https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/10/arts/vernel-fournier-72-jazz-drummer-revered-for-precision-and-understatement.html?pagewanted=2 Born in New Orleans, Mr. Fournier started on the drums at the age of 10, played in street concerts and parades, and in the fifth grade he was part of a group called the New Orleans Young Swingsters. He studied technique with the prominent early jazz drummer Sidney Montague. Mr. Fournier played with the student orchestra while attending Alabama State College before touring with the rhythm and blues band led by King Kolax. In the 1940's he also became part of the New Orleans bebop subculture, playing with Dookie Chase.

Produced by Larry Williams, who had been working with Johnny Watson a few years before, and Smith's vocal style (yes, it's mostly a vocal record) is not that far removed from what Watson's would be in his 70s rebirth. Those records are great, this one is not, but still, connect the dots, la lala la.

That soprano sound on the first bridge... Buddy in a bathrobe: Mel in Moscow Basie on BBC What time is it?

Here's the Verve & Happy Tiger Beatles sets...neither are really "outstanding", but both have Jaws, and both do have their transcendent moments (I really like the Happy Tiger Fool On The Hill, and the Verve Michelle, gorgeous section playing, and Jaws on Michelle for once sounds like he DOES give a damn ). Basie is no doubt the only artist of his generation to do two full albums of Beatles covers, and it's notable, perhaps, that in both he covered period-specific songs. For the first one, that's pretty much was all that was available, but for the second one...maybe not so much. Arrangers are Chico O'Farrill for the Verve and Bob Florence for the Happy Tiger. At no time is there any doubt that you're listening to a Count Basie record.

Narcotic cotton candy, the best kind of each other.

Did he do the choreography for her, and did they do a lot of the detailed stuff like is on this video?

Uh-oh, small group, travesty (unless you like that kind of thing), theory needs more testing... Poor Buddy Rich, he didn't realize that post-Beatle Paul McCartney sucks!

You're welcome, and here's one that should really uplift your spirits! Yes, this one was a bit of a chart hit! This one was not: So, your point appears to be sound!

Those were great legs, those leggings or colored hosiery, whatever they were, very striking, very stylish. I applaud the fashion, nothing sexist about it at all, unless appreciating fashion is sexist. I don't love Buddy Rich, god knows. But yeah, the guy drove, he was Tony Williams before there was a real Tony Williams. Here's the deal - They played NW as a jazz waltz, as a 6/8 swinger. If you didn't know it was a Beatles tune, you'd not hear it as a "jazz version of a Beatles tune". So your mind is already thinking one thing, telling your ears what you're going to hear before you even hear it. We all do it, but it's fucked up, it's lazy thinking, and it's why we're all so easily manipulated by image and "culture". Buddy's driving that band like a man possessed, and they're more than up to the task (except for the guitarist who muffs the ending and knows it right away, he looks at Buddy in near fear!), and oh, it's A Beatles song, that's a travesty. No - the travesty is that we already know what to hear before it's even heard. And then we actually hear nothing. Nothing. Here's a bit more of a travesty, although again, a helluva band. But 4/4? Seriously? All this to answer the question of how many jazz versions of Beatles songs there have been, and the answer is quite a few actually. Quite a few.

Is a hookah bar a lounge?

I like that group a lot actually, especially once I figured out what they were doing in terms of a group concept. Once again - you can't go wrong with a good New Orleans drummer. Period.

I had no idea, I mean, it's maybe a little too "cute" for my taste, but it explains a lot of things. And when Jackie steps out from behind the piano to reveal those black stockings...mission accomplished!

I don't know what kind of lounges you guys have gone to. Ah, I forgot, Buddy Rich, haters gonna hate. That's I fine, y'all do Buddy Rich, I do Oscar Peterson, y'all do Buddy Rich, the difference being that Buddy Rich wasn't fake. Here's some jazzlounge Beatles, but I don't think it's a travesty either, not with legs like that

How so?

I got a wedding gig in Hawaii a whilke back and was there for a little less than 72 hours, but packed all the walking around I could into it. There was a street fair or something that had a live band, sorta of a "tourist" band, maybe(?) and they played a few tunes like this, "hot Hawaiian". It was pretty cool, and put me in mind of Dan Hicks with lap guitars, which was not at all a bad thing to be put in mind of.

At least one!

Ok, I've been trying to give this Monk Higgins shit some kind of slack, some kind of cred for several decades now, and sorry, I just can't. No doubt he was able enough a businessman, but why does everything he do have an air of "hustle" about it,like he got the gig just because he slick-talked his way into it and had the connections to make a date happen? Not that there's anything wrong with that, hell, that's the exact same rap that Quincy Jones has had for decades now. But Quincy had cred, Quincy had shown that if he had been willing to stay low, he could have been one of those guys who did fine work for somebody else. But no, Quincy didn't to do that, Quincy wanted to be one of those guys that had all those other guys working for him. Quincy wanted to be one of those guys. Fair enough. But I see no such choices being made by Monk Higgins, this guy has never shown me that he could do anything other than what he did, which, really on it own merits is at best slight, and at worst, just godawful. I mean, listen to this bullshit here, some halfass tenor playing that lets the bad notes stay in, he talked somebody into believing it was "soulful". It's not, it's bullshit, it's a bogus, triflin' halfass potpourri of the most obvious points of what little he thought people would buy. Look, I know how this business works. There are always people like this, people who have the hustle and who can deliver "the goods", but they are weak. They might make the money (but never the big money, that's how small they are), but they are weak, they don't last, they don't have anything to last with. Who remembers Monk Higgins as anything but a business man, does anybody have any fond, heart-stirring memories of that time on that record when Monk Higgins just hit you where you lived and fucked you right on up? Oh hell no.

Not as funny as this! https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/22/us/texas-neighbor-shooting-mattress-dispute/index.html