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One of the best indeed!

Had a buddy tell me once that the cool thing about John Abercrombie was that he was always photographed in wrinkled clothes but they were always GOOD clothes. s

Can't go wrong with that strategy, nor with the Supraphon label. Emerson is decidedly "non-Czech", which is a deal breaker for some. But I like what they do with these (and with other things as well, especially the Bartoks).

The Janacek string quartets are the type of thing that I'll gladly hear different groups play. Marvelous works full of possibilities. You might or might not like the Emerson Quartet's reading. They're "edgy" in a good way, imo, because this is edgy music, if not always overtly, then definitely in root inspiration.

Hope that works out for ya', that whole giving the FO the benefit of the doubt thing...

Hey, you're aware of what's goin' on in the world today and you know who you are. And you know that more than anything else, you're HUNGRY. So before you make any other meaningful decisions about your life or anybody else's, get down to Mickey D's and get those two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun that have been taking money out of your pockets and putting it into ours for longer than you've been alive and then see how you feel about things. McDonald's - you're gonna love it how we kill ya'! You don't have time for your heart. Deal with that stomach of yours. Put some Hardee's in it. Then go chase some tail. Hardee's = always wild, never peaceful.

There'll be enough someday? At Wendy's there's enough NOW. With our 4 for 4 deal, we guarantee that you'll run out of money before we run out of food! So quit crying about your hunger - get down to Wendy's and do something about it! Wendy's - where only babies have an excuse for crying,

The question is not who has tried it, the question is who WOULD try it, where is there any possible synergy? There is no checkmate in checkers, btw.

As I used to like to say, you can’t use Billy Harper to sell hamburgers. That was true then, and as far as I can tell, is true today.

Are you guys strictly a duo now?

Is it the same seller all the time? bc I only see that he has this one record up right now, everything else is something else entirely, and he has two "adult" items. But this is the only aircheck. And are they acetate or vinyl?

Essential.

The other.

i know, right?

Hey, here's our chance to own a piece of history!

Gonna be here for a while, maybe. So different from Zuzana Ruzicková in so many ways...these two will be my "sample size" for now, although at some point, that will want to change. No matter, just getting inside this one piece could take up all the time there is...fascinating.

Ben Riley was great, popped like Orville, but not with Monk, not that I've really heard. But hell yeah, Ben Riley popped everywhere else. Maybe that's the thing - if you didn't pop with guys like Lock & Griff, you'd be getting paid by somebody else going forth. I guess Monk didn't mind.

The last "NYC" session was done in 1962, the MPS dates were in 1971 oand from my experience, only The Quota had a stateside presence. The "comeback" didn't really get underway until 1977. So, that's a long time off the national scene. He was still playing locally though, all during that time.

Oh, my thinking has evolved, and may well keep evolving. I started out entranced by Monk, all of Monk. When I got that Columbia Straight No Chaser LP, I figured it was my deficiency that I couldn't gain traction with it. Then I got toally drug with ALL Monk/Rouse except the Big Band & Quartet + Underground. Wrote it all off. Then I listened again, and some of the earlier Columbias started sounding better to me. Better, still not great. I still wasn't thrilled by Rouse, and BEn Riley became my VERY least favorite Monk drummer (and tha tstill stands). Then I got to almost where I am now, namely that Charlie Rouse was a fine musician, andEXCELLENT musician in fact, and he played those tunes longer than just about anybody. So why don't my heart leap for joy when I hear him. And then, just within the last year or so, it hit me - he's a great player with a true feeling for Monk's music, but that third (or fourth, if you like) dimension is just not there, it's got neither tension nor release, and that does not seem something that's an inevitable outcome of engaging in MonkMusic. But that was ok with Monk, apparently, because he was doing it himself. For real, if Monk ran a tighter band and kept everybody (including himself) down to 2-3 choruses except when lightening REALLY was striking, that might well be considered one of The Greatest Bands Ever. The first two Monk albums I ever got were a Greatest Hits thing on Riverside, and then an ABC/Riverside called Two Hours With Thelonious, the live in Europe/Italy dates repackaged. On the Greatest Hits, there was the 5X5X5 take of Jackie-ing with Rouse and Thad, and that's still one of my favorite Monk cuts ever. But the Two Hours With...thing is hard listening on a more than 1-2 cuts at a time because ALL the tunes follow the same format - exactly. So, yeah, any one is good, but in the cumulative, what does it matter, what is it worth? Either play tighter routines of make shorter records. And the LP sides were all long, 25-30 minutes each, the only variation in tunes being the tempos. But other than that...interchangeable more or less. Monk was and is a profound thinker, not just music, although music was his medium, but about all elements of physics. Definitely a genius. But as time went by, he didn't publish well, to use an academic analogy. Why do we return to this? I guess it's what old folks do, keep ruminating on that cud. Moo.

Watched the Ted Williams American Masters show last night and felt well-rewarded. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/ted-williams-greatest-hitter-ever-lived-film/10293/

Rouse was never a mess.

Not sure I understand the question? He did it on Adam's Apple, which was recorded 7-8 months before Miles Smiles. Miles Smiles was released first, but Wayne had nothing to do with that.

I don't know that smug and condescending and open-eared/minded are mutually exclusive qualities...