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Hail To The Redskins!

Yeah, mikes!

Interesting!

That's a bass sax, isn't it? http://www.thevideobeat.com/beatnik-hippie-drug-movies/visit-small-planet-1960.html Jerry Lewis as an alien who travels light years to Earth so he can hang out with real-gone beatniks at the "Hungry Brain" club — featuring cool cats, hip chicks and an outasight combo that includes Buddy Rich, Don Bagley, Frank Socolow and Jack Costanzo.

Heard Roomful Of Teeth last night at SMU, part of the Dallas Chamber Music Socitety season. Wasn't sure what to expect, since the "marketing aura" of the group is pretty NPR-ish/World Wonderment (Here's all these sounds younever thought a voice could make! But other people in the world do make them! and now YOU can hear them! and I'm like, well, ok, sure, whate3ver). But skepticism and cynicism were over come (and at times overpowered) by the sheer, simple power of a vocal octet singing the shit out of some interesting music They put that bass all the way in it, and they let those ethereal female soprano things rise all the way to past the top. Just incredibly strong resonances, not unlike a bigass pipe organ, only, you know, these are voices. I thoroughly enjoyed the gig, and left kinda amped up. Voices are amazing when channeled in certain directions.

Bill Barron was a baaaaaad man!

RIP

That one might be easier to remember, but this one is harder to forget. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua4suRfdbWU

I'm surprised nobody's put out a set of Shorty Rogers' arrangements for The Monkees!

I get at least part of the criticism - apart from his movies, Jerry Lewis became - and remained - one of the most "obnoxious" public figures of 20th Century America. I mean the guy would show up on a talk show or a variety show and just not know what a line was, never mind not knowing where it was, never EVER mind knowing when it might have been crossed. Just relentless, like an endless loop of the most aggressive portion of a Buddy Rich solo. And the older he got, the less popular he became, the more he upped that ante. Sometimes it was hilarious in spite of its awkwardness, sometimes in spite of it, but always, it was awkward. But the movies, again, I find myself very much enjoying them as a series of bits. Plots, when they exist, are basic. At the humor quite often begins as 3 Stooges 101. But as relentlessly inartful as Lewis' schtick was out of the realm of film, it was that much artful in it. I mean, that vacuum cleaner scene, he took that waaaay past the point of Stooges visual/slapstick, it started getting absurdist, surreal even, and it kept on going, the joke not ending until there was almost literally no place left for it to go. And definitely no place for it to go back to. Andy Kaufman was like that with his anti-comedy comedy, just get on a riff and ride it no matter where it goes, don't get off of it, make it kill itself, and even then, are you SURE it's dead? So...I find merit there. Not at all times, not in all ways, but yeah, merit. And definitely enjoyment.

Previously planned family commitments yesterday, but otherwise I'd have come early and stayed late.

Pefect, thanks!

Looking for one that's fast, fair, and reliable, thanks in advance!

If y'all have so many Tony Bennett records that filing them is problematic, y'all are doing a lot more with that than I would ever imagine possible. Of course, that's just me, and of course, not that there's anything wrong with that. Just saying, if you keep them all together, wherever that may be, there they are, right?

JAAP VAN ZWEDEN conducts ALEXANDER KERR violin PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 I love this shit. Band in the pocket, music of substance (the soundness of the physics of Brahms continues to jar...why did his music sound "boring" to me for so long...,I'm an idiot,, no other explanation), everybody serving the music because they get served back even better, I mean, if I had my life to live over, I would have paid more attention more sooner. There were a few technical flaws, but nothing major, and certainly none of the brain or of the spirit. Is that not what we want out of music? Well, here it was. Live. When it is, live is best. I want another 61 years, please. More, if possible.

Everyone? In the world? Literally? Like, I'm some ancient farmer in deepest rural China or someplace about to take my last breath, I've never been past my land in my body or my mind, ever, and my life will all be for naught if I don't hear this record in the next five minutes? I don't know dude, that's a hell of a responsibility, to pick THAT record.

No, I have a certain zone in which I have a fair number of reference points. Past that, I'm really clueless. And there is a lot of "past that", a lot.

I felt safe when he was alive, just because he would always be there to represent himself if/when called upon. Now it's all going to be in somebody else's hands. Uh-oh... RIP, much love. and God Bless America, you really don't know how lucky you were, boys.

I don't necessarily see a contradiction? A Bird/Tatum duet would no doubt have a lot of sound(s) happening in a way that a quartet date wouldn't, lines, plural, so maybe Granz was thinking the bigger room would allow for a more "uncluttered" sound? Not saying that this is a scientifically sound theory, but if you hear a quartet date as being essentially just "soloist with accompaniment" and a Bird/Tatum duet more like endlessly detailed counterpoint, then maybe that's how you approach it? I don't know that Granz was ever a particularly empathetic recordist, actually. So I rule nothing out.

Nelson Riddle, dude, one of many narcoticians who had more layers than was usually let on.

Been spending the last 10 days or so going through this one very slowly and methodically, listening entirely for "compositional analysis", and finding much to fascinate, really brought into light just how connected the two albums were in terms of basic compositional/thematic cells/rows (still can't tell if it's an actual row being used or if it's a set of really targeted variations on the core intervals). Also had forgotten how brilliant the whole Piano People things were. I better watch it or I'm gonna go off on a Firesign tangent, and I really don't have time for that right now.

wow...that actually makes a buttload of sense. Yeah, I set up a Hovhaness Pandora station, and every time it opens up, it always sounds like this, just not as overt. Mind you, I'm not complaining. It just is a bit, uh, disorientating at first.

Doug - We've all been in that room, or one much like it. Good luck!