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Oh jesus, no! So sorry if that was what came to mind...I guess it would have been better stated as sheen-y, as in having something like a sheen to it, strictly a production reference. That is a pretty common usage of "sheen", and that was what I had in mind. I'd have thought that "sheeny" was something Irish in derivation...shows you how much I know.... I'm not a fan of slang-y ethnic designations (even the "positive" ones), or of 19th-century London for that matter (yes, great literature, but jesus, look at the legacy of human carnage, not just physically but mentally, my wife kinda digs all that castle and lords and lady revisionist tv shit, but I tell her, please baby please, think about what REALLY happened), so forgive me for not being aware of that quite unintentional use of that particular word. I can't apologize for unintended interpretation, but I can and do express deepest regrets at any discomfort caused. I mean, I'll crack on people about a lot of shit, but I don't do ethnic, I don't do gender, and I try not to do economic too much...too many easy/lazy presumptions when it goes there. Not a fan. Let me put it this way - in this case, yeah, maybe you were over-sensitive, but you were not wrong to be. You can never be wrong to be concerned, and it's never wrong to seek clarification and/or to inform

yeah, it seems all reverby and shit. Keep in mind that I only own it on cassette, so maybe it's a ferric oxide thing. But...didn't care for the sound of the record, that's all.

I'm not a hardcore "Dylan" fan, and although I understand the rapturous reception of this album (especially in chronological context), I've never really been grabbed in the gut by it. Something about the "sheen"...sheeny Dylan is not really for me. Mileages vary widely on that though, obviously.

Yours may well be fine. Ours was not. Just keep ALL documentation, b/c if yours gets funky after 7 months or so, Amazon's default response will be advise you to contact the manufacturer - and they did NOT have that info on file, they thought they did, but did not. Even take it off the box if you have to. No matter, it didn't like, fall apart or anything, it just got a crack in the wooden frame the let itself be known before any damage happened, just...pay attention, and all should be well. And congrats on the upcoming baby, positive energy of all types coming you all's way. Embrace the challenges and the joys as strongly/fully/equally as possible, and remember, now, you got to be responsible for somebody else other than yourself, for a good while (hopefully).

Serious question - have you or your employer ever been asked to pay for access to a desired subject?

Yeah, if you don't pay the extra for EMS(?) shipping, CD Japan can take a while. It's not the most expensive option, so if you're in any kind of hurry and figure, hey, I'm already paying THIS buttload of money for the CDs, what's this little bit of extra semi-buttload? then definitely treatcherelf!

Anne Murray, no bahbudoubt!

I've yet to have Amazon not do right, although they just charged a restocking fee for some baby furniture that didn't last too much after the water got hot. Totally reasonable charge, but not explicitly stated at any point in the process...would've been nice, Still, can't protest a restock fee for 7 month old furniture. But granfolks - don't let your kids talk you into buying this just because it's uber-affordable. You DO get what you pay for! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017XRDV5S/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&th=1

What you you mean you could "almost" reach out and touch her? That implies an failed attempt, confirming the "almost"! Shame!

Neil Young? Although, yes, he's probably nuts, but it's sometimes enough a moody-ish kind of nuts. Not Neil Diamond, he's New Yorker, not Candia. But in fairness to him, coming up on that whole Brill Building scene like he did, he probably comes by at lease some of his paranoia honestly.

Larry got the jazz-cred with the moody canadia auteur singersongwriters!

AFAIK, that's the entire CBS show. Curt Boettcher is another big hero of Sunshine Pop, but I think Almer's was the more...crunchier talent.

Oh yeah, never underestimate the amount of rage to be found in the best of Kentonmusic. That's actually what turned me around on a lot of, it's not anger, it's rage, people who get put off by it because it's so..."lound" and "aggressive" are not wrong. It is. And it's coming from a lot of the "left behind" vibe not just of race, but of popularity, lack of appreciation for skill sets, etc. That band...the right band, the right chat...yeah, get scared, but don't stay scared, try to understand without embracing, that worked really go for me and Kenton.

Uh, yeah. And let's ask his children (of whom there are several) about that whole "interaction" thing. What are you saying, that Toshiko was an inferior player who Mariano just had along for the, uh..."ride"? And that Lew Tabackin has been doing the same thing for, what, almost 50 years? Nasty, if so. Just nasty.

Don't know how true it is, but the story on Barton that I've heard was that he ended up back home somewhere (Alabama, Mississippi? where?) in a more or less constant stage of alcohol-fueled "Crow Jim" resentments. Apart from that, Jeter repeatedly mention how Barton would sit in the control room screaming at the band during all the takes. He wanted to come out into the studio, but cooler head prevailed, because, you know, you can have all the moaning/grunting in the world, but a screaming big band leader is one of those things where a little goes a long way before people really start getting scared. But I do like Barton's subset-of-a-subset contributions. And I do very much love the way he drummed with Kenton.

I don't know that you're "missing" anything. All I know is that I went years without really liking/hearing damn near any of, and then started over trying to be as objective as I could, and I found that some of it I "got" in a way that I hadn't heard before, the whole "horizontal" thing fell into place for me... sometimes. And yeah, sometimes it was/is pretty boring. If I was to find a fault with what I don't like, it's form/developement. That "it just goes on and on, nothing wrong with it, it just goes on and on" thing, now THAT I get. To use the ultimate copout yet universal truth, it is what it is .And "it"...if you hear it, I guess it's there, and I guess if you don't it's not. Like who was it said about late Lester Young, there is no good late Lester Young, there is no bad late Lester Young, the is just late Lester Young. And about the matter of a lack of "basic craft knowledge"...you can't seriously believe that a musician this skilled, this experienced, this schooled, has, after all these years, not been able to hear their own music played back at them and not be able to tell what they want to hear vs what they don't want to hear? C'mon man, Lew Tabackin knows big band playing/writing, and knew it before this particular big band. I've heard enough stories about Lew Tabackin being a very, very critical perfectionist about everything musical to have no doubt whatsoever that if he thought his wife's writing was not what it was supposed/needed to be, he'd have stopped it dead in its tracks and not let it get back up until it had been made right. So yeah, she has an ear/vision that seems often enough to slip through some cracks in my brain. There are plenty of cracks there to be slipped through! But an accusation of incompetence/ignorance/whatever, that's just all kinds of wrong. I know she had a hard time getting players to play her charts in the beginning precisely because players would react like, yeah, ok, that shit's fucked up. So either she's an incredibly stubborn and deaf, or else she knows how she wants her shit to sound, period, "right" or "wrong".. Stubborn, that I have no problem believing. But deaf? Ain't no way.

Maybe that's all she had, products of transcription services?

Funny enough...my last New Year's Eve gig was a few years ago, and Galen Jeter was on it. I got to taking to him about Dee Barton, then being in the middle of my re-examination of all things Kenton. I asked Galen about that record, and he just happened to have a copy in his truck that he sold me at a discount. It is a striking album, and all I can tell you is what Jeter told me - that Dee Barton was a screaming maniac who drank a lot (and this was presented as a virtue) and that Don Menza flew in for a couple of hours to do his tunes, was kinda rage-y the whole time, took the check, and flew right back out. As for the rest of the DJO....that whole orb was full of players, personalities, and intents that were almost scientifically designed to keep me away. But I wanted to hear this abloom with Dee Barton, because Dee Barton for sure had a "thing" and it seemed to me that a "higherfasterlouder" band like the DJO might be just the band to give that thing a full realization, and I believe they did. I do like that record quite a bit. About Barton and slow charts, though, remember that Kenton's "Here's That Rainy Day" was his, and it's a beaut, a clssic. Now, here's a good glimpse at a whole lot of things.

Again, I'm not really sure that what Toshko is going to want to hear a big band the way that Frank Wess or Bill Russo would. What I don't get is this notion of that being a "problem" or it being "wrong", or in that repressed adolescent choice of words, it being "a turd". Sounds to me like she knows what she wants, knows what she's doing to get what she wants, has been doing this for long enough so that if she wanted something NOT like this, she'd have made changes, but hasn't, so...not a problem, not wrong, not a turd. Just different, and obviously not looking to be anything other than what it is. Is it possible then, to hear what it IS rather than what it ISN'T? I've had some luck like that. Some. But fuck it, the world is full of music. You can't get to all of it, and that which you can get to, you'll not like all of it, even some of the good stuff, you just can't. But I do think you can figure out the difference between "wrong" and "different"/

Oh yeah, the "Sunshine" in "Sunshine Pop" might well have be Orange Sunshine, some of that stuff was pretty trippy in it's own way. I not know, though, that he was a co-author of "Sail On Sailor...not my favorite Bach Boys song by any means, but I've found that people who don't usually like The Beach Boys like "Sail On Sailor". Go figure. Anyway, Tandyn Almer,...it's a world of mostly obscure mostly B-sides from a very certain time period. Here ya' go!

Became familiar a few years ago when his name kept popping up on various blogs focusing on "Sunshine Pop", a genre which I very much enjoy in pretty much limited doses. I got a copy of this and liked it well enough. If you enjoy the genre enough to buy records of it, it's a good record to add to the collection. If you're not that avid an enthusiast, check out a few YouTupe clips and be cntent with knowing who he is (was?). In the meantime...

There was a time I would have LOL-ed at that and chuckled at how sharp it was. Clever boy! But now I just gotta ask, I don't know what that means...is she supposed to make this listener tingle, like a blow job or something? and, what, is this listener expecting less of a buzz from "Japanese-inspired pieces" than from "more conventional jazz pieces"? Those are the boundaries of expectations? And who are these composers-arrangers "of distinction? Bob Brookmeyer? Elliot Carter? H.P. Barnum? Polishing a turd, yeah. That's cheap. I mean, I still don't hear all of it all the time, but "polishing a turd"....I don't think so. Defies physics. I mean, what the fuck does any of that mean, and why should I believe it? Cheapness, total subjectivity with an added does of meanness, the knife used to convince you that it's fact, not opinion, and to avert the glance away from looking at "where does THAT come from?", wholly informed by what it knows and nothing else. Another guy(?) reacting to what they think they should be getting out of life but aren't, like it's life's fault that life doesn't get that life is there to please them, that their expectations are what defines life. There are not "problems" with Toshiko's writing, unless you want to call speaking in a voice that is not readily and/or widely heard as she hears it is a "problem", and to that all I can say is "tough shit". I don't consider it her fault that I don't always hear it, because, having been involved in the creation of a good many number of them, lo and behold, I am pretty good at detecting turds, musical or otherwise. All right, oh yeah, uh-huh.

If he's like me, he's finally realized that that is Bobby Hackett, not Hubert Humphrey.

I hope she's doing ok today.

yeah, 50 bucks is just the average needed. Anybody who needs to go under, no problem. Anybody who feels move to go above, also no problem.