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Some of that 300 series was a repacking of 60s things, ones that had great Jack Lohnshein(sp?) covers. Will be interesting to see which covers they use for the reissue, although Maynard's Color Him Wild was reissued as Dues, and the site has the former title. Yes! Uh... Although apparently... If/when CD Japn posts images, that will be cool as far as deciding the decision.

The sponsor of this concert should remind us of the role that rail travel and rail travel workers played in both the dissemination of Black Music and the creation of the economy around it. Curious who the connection for Kirk to get this gig was. Somebody of his age and experience was sure to have had more than ample opportunity to establish contacts within the rail workers world of that time.

I had a person I regularly played EAI-ish type music with tell me one day that they hated the Beach Boys because they used major 7th chords, and this person hated major 7th chords period. Keeping in mind that this was a very skilled, trained, experience, and usually astute player, I allowed him that as an earned quirk, but...really?

http://www.reelmusic.com/

Well, ok. Brian Wilson loves you. But that's enough afaic.

My Mainstream promo stickers usually had a Roulette logo on them, so....Morris Levy. Go figure that.

Hate all you want, but remember...

I found it on some Roku channel. It's an obviously not-so-great print of a PD film that I don't know made much box office noise, but at least it has survived. Seeing Andy Kirk's name really caught my eye, though, because 1947 was pretty late in the game for him as far as bandleading goes. There's probably some link to Rene Hall there, but I have no dots to connect, so that's entirely speculative

Those Charles Williams records are all feel-good treats. The one being reissued here is a much more "produced" affair than the others (which are small group affairs, and yes Don Pullen plays Soul Jazz organ, this was a regular gig of both him and Bubba Brooks), but they're all fun, and I had completely ignored/scoffed at them until Dan Gould went on a Bubba Brooks love affair and hipped me to them.

Yeah, if you're at all interested in Sonny Red, carpe diem like ALL the big dogs.

"It's all good" is an idiomatic expression that does not mean that it's "all" going to automatically be "good", much less excellent. Most shit ends up being excitingly mediocre to varying degrees. So no, it's not all literally good. And neither am I so hungry that I could eat a horse. Nor are my eyes bigger than my stomach. Nor have I ever had a day where everything goes wrong. And not having a valid baseline from which to measure, I am skeptical that I've ever felt like I've been hit by a truck or knocked down with a feather. It does, however, imply that good is anywhere you find it, which is not necessarily where you would think to reflexively look for it, especially not necessarily where one is externally steered to spend disposable income in search of it. So, if anything, consider it a corrective admonition to the sectarian fabulist orthodoxy. And don't ask me what "good" is, because all I'll tell you is what I think. You can have that for what it's worth, and here's change back from your penny!

Little Richard, Beach Boys, Ayler, Billie...nothing in that list to avoid afaic. Waste of space, no. Shortage of space, getting there.

Here's one I bet they don't get to! St. Louis singer backed by Quartette Tres Bien & Kirk Whalum's uncle. Not at all bad.

I would reckon so.

whoa... "unexpected" is right...not a lot on there I'd really call "essential" but still...my LPs will be ok for almost all of this, but the point afaic is that I bought them in the first place (often used or cutout), and don't really regret having done so. I see they're also doing the 60s Mainstream stuff too, which is very cool. This is gonna be a fun ride for some of us, and when they get to Buddy Terry's Pure Dynamite, carpe diem. Again, not a "masterpiece", or anything like that, but..."real time" music and all that comes with that, mess and glory side by side, hand in hand, let no voice go unturned, no plow unleavened, no record go unreissued on cd. None! And YEE-HAH!!! 1 down, 2 and a Booty to go!

NSFW, but...this is an all-time classic, imo.

I can see buying a lot of Stan Kenton records. One never knows what one will end up with. Then again, blessing/curse/etc. Either way, I don't know if "sanity" should even be a baseline expectation, you go looking for "sanity" here, there's no fun to be had. You go looking for a never-ending failed quest for sanity, hey, there's no boundaries, and I'd be a liar if I said that isn't fun sometimes. Not always, but just...set reality-based expectations and watch from afar. Good times.

Well shit...I didn't download the file either, just posted from the site in real time. Couple of things I wanted to go back and listen to again, see if any light bulbs went off on a re-listen.

More records than time, I'm beginning to feel. More to learn about than time to learn it.

Well, the last word is what's happened at the end of the season. How you can direct how you end up there is an open/evolving question, but really, all statistics can do is suggest the probability of future outcome based on past performance, be a trailing indicator. Nothing is a statistic until it actually happens, whatever "it" is. And a lot of things happen, right? So, yeah, anybody gets all asshol(e)y about it, don't waste your time. As with most things, the more you know, the more you realize you don't know, so real knowledge is always tempered with just as much humility about what is not known, except when testosterone and/or money jumps to the front of the line, and then, hey, TV!

I still recall seeing his name mentioned in the liners to Sonny's VV record ca. 1975 and thinking, wow, that guy's been around THAT long? Well, that much, and more, more. I never saw the guy (never live, alas), that his chops weren't good to go for the gig at hand. Skills and soul and vision all the way through. RIP to a true player.

I ahs the cold or whatever it is that this dumbass mountain cedar is causing, have had it for more than a week now, so maybe I just heard it all wrong. Or maybe would hear it differently in a different context. Or maybe I just don't like it at all. But if it's some certified time-tested badass and company, hey, nobody bats 1.000 except for Dave Smith.