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Amazon told me today that my CD is about to ship, but I can stream it beginning now.

https://nutriot.com/features/jazz-and-skateboards http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/art-2/things-that-inspire-me/jazz-skateboarding-go-hand-hand-artist-ian-johnson/

?how the hell did that happen? There's a suggested tune list given out there, but, nope, I don't think so.

Kimmie, almost done. one more.

No arguments about Friedman, but I'd ask for consideration of Now He Sings, Now He Sobs for inclusion in The Most Modal Piano Trio Album Ever Hall Of Fame.

b/w I need both to keep on keeping the faith.Baby.

Also got this Mighty Quinn issue at the same time as the Hall. Listened to it about 5X today, wasn't really "pulled in" at first, but Rex Stewart wasn't taking "ehhh..." for an answer, and before you knew it, everybody had come in the house and made themselves to home (led, per usual, by Bud Freeman, who for all his tweed jackets, sounds like a guy who's had his drawers down quite a few times even with the jacket on, winkwinknudgenudge #theeelinessofyou). Don't know how much CondonMusic I really want relative to how much all of it there is, that's just me, but I'm not regretting this purchase at all. Kinda prefer to WP cover, though:

Got this as kind of a "what the hell" from the recent Mosaic Quasi-Liquidation Sale, and am finding it very satisfying. Nobody's phoning it in, not even a little. Fine, fine, fine!

Been to New Braunfels often enough, never heard of Corbyn. Apparently an unincorporated community that now exists in name only. There's plenty of those here, little groups where people settled in, never got bigger, and never formed an actual legal town. Some still have people, some don't, but the location still has a name. Why? Because they do, I suppose. Trust this, if you can (and I don't know if you can, but there's still dome fun pics in the slideshow): https://mapcarta.com/21712256

Oh good! A lively discussion about Mosaic emails! Nobody said progress would be without its frictions!

Would probably love to meet him, just as long as there was an easy exit.

Now that's a guy I would have like to have heard/seen live.

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All vocal arrangements by The Temptations. Ok, I'm a sucker for this song damn near every time, melody, harmony, lyrics, but this is basically a magnificently enveloping transcendence of earthy bounds. Temptations doing it, layers upon layers, no matter where you listen, there is something going on, top, bottom, middle, everywhere. Hell yeah, Richard Perry and OH heel yeah, Temptations. Gracias MUCH beaucoup to kinuta for spotlighting this record. Count me in, dude!

Listening to this album now...pretty radical, defiant music in the approach they take to the songs, revising the melodies and changes to fit their ethos. When everybody else was/is making "Great American songbook" retro-crap albums, the Temptations take the same type songs and make a Temptations album, period. As for the production, like him or not, Richard Perry is a master of doing what he does. It's definitely a "For Lovers" record, but lord, nobody makes "for lovers" records like this anymore, nobody wants to have the patience for love, if you know what I mean. Everybody wants to just straight to the sweat and the bang and then call all that drama "love". This is music for people who know what "take your time" really means. Y'all are still out there, aren't you? Special indeed!

I can tell you that that label released a lot of Boris rose airchecks, and that iirc, this would be that. Milestone(?) did a two-fer LP of Navarro/Dameron airshots, no idea if this is that, but I don't recall Jazz Anthology issuing "fake" stuff.

I had no idea who he was or what the music was going to be, but I'm liking it well enough, actually. Thank Dusty Groove Screwup!

Sent in error by Dusty Groove, but what the hell?

still a mover, still a groover, perfect for cubicle dancing in Quietland.

Hmmm.... About Osie, perhaps...but a club gig and a record date, especially for RCA in those Neo-Basie Craze days...like the man himself said, Don't Bug Me, Hug Me! and by hug me, he might well have meant pay me! talking about dancing to a hard beat, the Pie Eye sequence in Anatomy Of A Murder, that's how I think "common people" relate to a beat, it it's got that groove, then they will move.

That sounds like bullying to me, not swinging! Krebsian projections aside, I like this set a lot. It's a fine band playing well, mostly. And it sure does swing!

Hey, it swings good, wouldn't be out of place on a Dobie Gillis episode, this being 15 or so years after the original.

Quaint....as in a lot of things aimed at being "common man" friendly, harps French horns, "The Gentle Art Of Love", Jack The Bear!, many, many tempos that could be danceable, some right on the edge but never going over,"modern" without being consciously "forward", but most importantly, quaint in the sense of this size ensemble getting the blends and balances just right for the room, I would think, all by themselves. Good luck getting any of that, in spirit or in execution, out of a big band today. In this case, I very much like quaint by today's standards. I like hearing bands that don't force it when forcing it is not the object of the game. And I like this kind of jazz to be informed by the dancing impulse, that connection to the physical that happens by instinct, not by design. Foot-tapping music indeed! As for Gryce vs Quill...the alto soloist on the first session (tracks 1-5) don't sound like Gryce to me. Oh yeah, the unannounced guy I think might be Quill is actually announced as Quill later on. Not saying that Gryce doesn't sound good, but there's two distinctly different a lot soloists on this band.