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DS came to the fore singing jazz, or some real close relation! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chamber_Music_Society_of_Lower_Basin_Street

Listening to the first disc of this this evening...FC2 is ok, pretty good as far as hings go, but the original FC1 score is faaaaar more WTF????? than I would have expected, even for Don Ellis. That shit is for real!

Found a 45: It streams here: http://exoticaproject.com/2/index.php?name=bop-style_rhythm_section

Teo, otoh, found Benny to be quite the imp!

This is some cool shit.

I find it charming that he drove the band back and forth for road gigs, load up, make the drive, load in, play the gig, load out, drive home. That's Gigging 101...102, actually, 101 is when you drive yourself.

Schtick, apparently.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/31/entertainment/allan-williams-beatles-manager-obit/index.html

Hey, I saw that and freaked out...knew the name and the voice both for a long time, from liner notes and introductions on records. SOMEBODY I knew of on TTTT! Even freakier, though was the episode from the night before:

Pee Townsend studied Red Norvo, look!

That's a Jimmy Mundy chart...can you use the YouTube timer to pinpoint the more-or-less exact moment when the band begins to replace flaccidity with tumescence? I'm afraid I can't find it.

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Indeed, a wonderful performance!

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Burdensome regulation!

I Can't Give You Anything but Love, 1936, this shit is so NOT right as far as real understanding of the writing goes. Spunky, sure, but pretty much lacking in any kind of nuance, just ching ching ching, hot hot hot, blah blah blah. Compare this to the 1937 live version, not just is it that any band gets better the more it plays together, but it's also that it takes some kind of leader, the actual front-man, a Musical Director, a section leader, somebody, to refine the music itself, to make it more than just something that sounds good enough to separate people from their monies. As far as I can tell, in the Goodman band of those days, that was Benny himself. This is another one, did Henderson ever record it with his own band? Not that I can tell. So...thank you Benny Goodman for not slacking. Perfectionism in the pursuit of perfection is no vice.

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Yeah, I recently found a few of those at Half-Price and promptly took to amazon for wholly affordable copies of the rest. A very nice series indeed! I don't want to go all Goodman crazy now (or ever) but I do have this one airshot disc that suggests that the band could be a lot more nuanced live than on record. Studio, yeah, it's good, but the Liltin' Miss Tilton doesn't have all THAT much Lilt behind her. Same band, live. Good god, swing! Pull that tempo down just a touch, let it breathe, holy shit, now you're getting someplace! Lilt Away, Martha! And that out chorus, holy shit, there you go, starting to get into the chart as a piece of music. I like how Benny kept refining his bands to get to that place, maybe he sacrifices something, but then again, maybe it wasn't a sacrifice as much as it was a decision to locate. This guy tackled Bartok, and apparently kept digging into the Fletcher Henderson stuff until the very end. Stealin' Apples 1 Stealin' Apples last(?) Just sayin', that's a seriously sturdy piece of music, and if you had the resources to play it for the rest of your life, why hte hell wouldn't you? That's recognizing and appreciating a blessing, and micromanaging a band into submission to get it played just so, hell do that if you have to, call it ego if you want to, I call it respecting Fletcher Henderson at least as much as you do Bartok. This band sounds like it loved Fletcher Henderson more than it hated Benny Goodman, and I think that's all you need to know about the curative powers of Fletcher Hendeson:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/29/health/red-solo-cup-death-trnd/index.html

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