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Details! So much happening...

I like tape hiss, it sounds like a record. I dare anybody to go hear live music of this - or most any other - nature that is heard in a totally "quiet" environment. There's always some kind of ambient noise in the air, might as well be tape hiss on a record as an air conditioner in a club.

You know, I think that "blowing" is not something that everybody should aspire to. It's really a very specific esthetic, particular to a maybe only slightly less specific cultural continuum, and god knows, how many people really need to do that? A lot of less-than-essential life energy is spent on pursuing some illusory ideal, like dreaming will make it so, and, uh....no. But you take some crap like Bud Shank and Oliver Nelson making an easy listening record, that's got a clearly defined purpose, expertly executed, and respectful on all fronts. All it asks you to believe is that here's a convenient record of pop songs for more general audiences and we're not going to bullshit you into thinking that it's anything else, but we're also not going to give you grounds for saying that any of it was half-assed. Truthfully, if I'm going to spend a few minutes listening to anything, I'd rather spend it with the principled expert bullshit than the self-yanking chains of so may people pulling yesterday's reality out of their ass expecting me to be impressed or something, like you're deserving of my time jsut becuase you can play. Respect, yeah, always. But time? MY time? No. I ain't getting any younger. so I will listen to all kinds of bullshit, but not any kind of bullshit. Inspired!

I would buy a decently priced used CD reissue of Stones Jazz. Contrary to whatever, it does not suck, at least not all of it! Hello, Bill Perkins, how goes it?

Did not know that about elder Don Not Elder Don. Very unfortunate.

Did Ray Pizzi study with Don Christlieb? And check it out - there's a Vernon Duke record on Contemporary where Don Christlieb plays Duke's Etude For Violin and Bassoon https://www.discogs.com/Vernon-Duke-Sonata-in-D-Etude-for-Violin-and-Bassoon-Souvenir-de-Venise-Parisian-Suite/release/8363960

When it comes to things Christlieb, make mine Don! As for both Woods & Pete C., they each made two of the most distinctive and memorable recorded saxophone solos of the Rock Era, and no, not everybody can do that. So, respect where due, no problem.

I think all Bill Barron is essential, to be honest. Posted as a public service> Nobody played like Bill Barron. Hell, nobody thought like Bill Barron. I mean, yeah, one can listen superficially and say, oh yeah, that guy's got so-and-so of an influence, but details? No, Bill Barron was a truly original thinker. Like I've said before Bill Barron is the Tina Brooks of the 21st century, simply meaning that, somebody with the right kind of useful juice would commit an act of true nobility by advocating like hell for this cat and shining the light thusly.

Dancers with guns, thank Roger Miller for the song, Glenn for just doing it, and god knows who for the dancing girls with guns.

It will be the Bill Barron set, once that happens. If it doesn't happen, it's a moot point because the sales have already happened. The ones I really worked through when I first got the were the Books, Nichols, Hawkins, and Eldridge, things - things, not people - I was pretty much totally unfamiliar with. But with me and listening to Mosaics, it's usually not so much about hanging the picture as it is forming the picture. That and getting shit all under one roof that I either have all or most of. And like others, I have bought things that I've not yet listened to, because, you know, only so many hours in a day. How many days lie ahead, nobody knows, but I'm hopeful there will be enough to listen to them all. That Bill Barron set's gonna be a bitch, let me tell you! Not that it's going to happen, I seriously doubt that it will. But if a person can't project their own future...well, that's just a drag. Let Georgi Pudhole do it then. I'll not buy that, but I will get a rip of it. A Bill Barron Mosaic, I will buy, if I'm still alive - and if they do it.

Glen Campbell had skills, all kinds of skills. Never mind the kind of queasy/queasier/queasiest relationship he had with "show business" over the years, this cat had skills. RIP.

Woods also turns in some truly excellent lead playing on those sessions. The artistry of that part of his craft never left him. As for the soloing, it seems that after he repatriated, after he did the L.A. thing with the Pete Robinson band and it got cold-shouldered, perhaps that was his Pet Sounds or River Deep, Mountain High, some kind of bruise that he never got over. Seems like he realized that he was not going to be accepted as hip/forward thinking (and I think it was not so much that he thought he would be, just that he wanted to be given credit for making a serious and sincere effort to keep moving ahead instead of people saying hey Phil Woods, why are you playing all this weird electronic shit?), so he became kinda passive-aggressive retro-hipster, which certainly served him well in terms of stability and reputation of a certain sort, but geez, such a lead player, always! But the soloing...maybe there's a bitterness there that was being redirected so as not to appear as bitter as it was? But yeah, Nelson touched a lot of people, both through his writing, his life, and woefully abrupt ending of all of that.

Warne is still Warne, but this Pete Christlieb guy, there's always been something that puts me off him, and hearing him besides Warne finally brought it into focus - the motherfucker sounds like a tenor version of Phil Woods, not the earlier Phil Woods, but the later one, the one that I have to respect but I don't have to like, which is good, because I don't like it, not from Phil Woods, nor from Pete Christlieb. No sir, I don't like it, not one bit. But Warne, Warne is as close to omniscient as anybody can be. Warne does not sound at all like Phil Woods, early, middle, or later. Warne did not have time for that.

Going again. Warne...that guy was a master, not a "master", a master. And if you just listen for sweat, you'll probably not hear any of it. But if it's water you're looking for, you'll have drinks forever.

Still seems like an unlikely partnership to me, unlikely as hell, but Warne seems really comfortable and good things always happen when that happens.

Serious question - what's "typical" concession fare at CFL games?

Did dinner involve food?

If Red Norvo tried to take my ice cream, I'd kick him in the nads. That kind of familiarity is not allowed.