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Not necessarily...I've found a blog or two that specializes in those, and it has made for pretty interesting listening at times, especially older recordings of then new(ish) works...the arc that all music and its peoples takes, sometimes in response to the music itself, sometimes in reaction to what has been done to/with the music, I think that's interesting, especially with classical music, which came to recording not just as a game already well in progress, but also in a stadium that was really just beginning to be built.

Yeah, Blanda started as a QB with the Bears, iirc, then moved to the AFL with the Oilers, led them to the first two AFL Championships and almost a thrid in an epic double OT loss to the Chiefs (who were still the Dallas Texans...this is all by memory so...). Then he moved to the Raiders where he played into his 40s as a really fine kicker. It's perhaps impossible to understand what the AFL was "about" pre-merger if you weren't there for it. Hell, I was just a kid, so didn't really understand the business implications of it, which were profound and which echo to this day. I just knew that AFL was new, exciting, and colorful, NFL was old guard rigidity. Namath's hair and fur coats vs Johnny U's tops flat and high. If you're 12 in 1967, do the math as to what you're gonna look for and where you're gonna look for it. If you watched the ABA in the 70s, it was like that, except the NBA never agreed to a "Super Bowl" thing where Namath could shock the old guard like he did, and then Len Dawson again the next year. Can you imagine a time when Hank Stram was a hip rebel contrast to Vince Lombardi? Bump and run, baby! Such a 60s vibe, bump and run - excuse me? No, do not "excuse" me.The AFL was very 60s in that way, old world, we're here to stay, with you or without you, you been bumped, now try and run to get back to where you think you belong. Oh, it was hot, let me tell you...I got bullied a few times for being an Oilers fan instead of a Cowboys fan, and the early rumors that the Cowboys were going to the AFL in the merger were met with, literally, tears by some fans. Dig it - the NBA absorbed a relatively few ABA teams - the NFL not only absorbed every AFL team, they moved three of their teams to the new AFC. OTOH, instant expansion, but OTOH, rivals not exactly vanquished into oblivion, either...Not sure if anything quite like it has occurred before or since. George Meany was, to me, at that time, some guy who I saw with LBJ & Nixon a lot. Not the "AFL" I was into then, for sure! Of course, what do kids know? All the flash can be so alluring...but every bit as enduring, even after the reality takes root. Namath's a sad creepy drunk now and Johnny U is a hero for all time. So let the kids have their head for a minute or two, reality is the great equivocator, and reality will have its time, which is for all time. Nevertheless, sometimes you just got to bump and run, even today. GOT to!

Wow...started with Rosa Parks, ended with Barbara Streisand...not sure if Dec 14 was on the upward or downward side of that arc...but I think it speaks to being born in that year that to me, my first-and-forever association with "AFL" (as opposed to "AFL-CIO") will always be the George Blanda, not Meany.

Hey, thanks all!! So far so good, needed, gentle rain all day, lunch at Fearing's (our new "go to" place for special occasions, not quite as expensive and a LOT less "fancy" than we used to think it would be), orders placed at Amazon, Berkshire, & Dusty Groove, Cowboys/Eagles tonight, series finale of The Newsroom/new episode of The Comeback on HBO GO after that, trio rehearsal tomorrow, and all week off from work. Life is always good, even when it's not always great!

Gee, I was there was some way to save YouTube videos to your computer...

Wynton's being extra generous with the bonus checks this year, eh? :g :g

Got one copy, lost it in the black hole that lives somewhere in this house (which, if I knew where that was, things would stop getting lost in it, duh), got another copy, and have begun reading it. Joe had told me that if I make it past the first 32(?) pages, I'd be fine. Well, I have, and I am. At first I had no idea what was "really" going on, but the more I read, the more it comes together. Still no idea what the laundry thing is about, Frank and "Mr. Lee", but I'm sure that will come too. I ain't worried about it. It's getting interesting, Joe, it's getting really interesting.

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Booty call to the ex, hoping (at some level) for some make up sex, but willing to settle for just getting to touch that ass one more time and doing it in front of your current girlfriend makes it that much more obvious to all concerned. You think I'm kidding, and yeah, ok, but...when you bond with a player or a group and it breaks up because one partner just can't go on with you like that, still the love, always the love, but not gonna be the partnership ever again, no, not gonna be the partnership, it runs deep sometimes. This shit is personal.

One of the greatest pop records ever made, imo, regardless of seasonality. And as long as I don't have to hear it except when I want to, that Mariah Carey record is a worthy-ish successor. That's how you do it! I can't stand the gramma/reindeer song, nor the one about the little boy wanting to buy shoes for his near-dead momma. Other than that, show me what ya' got, I'm game. I play Christmas records anytime, sometimes. O Holy Night, For Your Precious Love, Unchained Melody, hey, it's time to slow dance, people.

But what about the use of the wah-wah to not just cover up perhaps deteriorating chops issues, but also to turn the trumpet into a combination plunger/blues harp? One step backward, two steps forward? The plunger thing is more or less conventional wisdom these days, but the harp thing didn't really strike me until the other day when I was singing in the shower, trying to do a Sonny Boy thing and it came out sounding like electricwhawah Miles instead. I thought to myself, damn, that was easy, to take that one thing and turn it into that other thing. But if Miles hadn't already done it, I'd never have noticed. So yes, shower regularly, with or without premedicated musical intent.

We can do that!

Choice didn't get a lot of distribution back in the day, at least not where I was. But they had a good catalog, small label, good offerings. The first Giuffre album, the Mosquitoes thing, got a 5-star review in Down Beat, might have even been offered as a subscription premium, but i never saw it in a store, not even in a Peaches. Finally found it used, in the 90s. The second one, I didn't even know about it until it got reissued on CD!

That was a good band that was not at all "big band-y" in the traditional way (it never screamed, but could sure roar when it needed to...and it always purred), this is a great set of their performances (Mulligan himself ended up not contributing all that much to the book, so you get contributions by George Russell, Gary McFarland, Bob Brookmeyer, other people who knew how to write), and that's a pretty darn good price, really. The music is in no way "west coast" or "cool jazz", and hello, plenty of Mel Lewis driving the bus. Carpe diem, somebody!

Subsidized a lot, ok, cool. Now as for the works of Mr. Pettersson, is the work I heard pretty much representative of his intent & method, or is he one of those guys who morphed/evolved as he went along?

Wow, that's some pretty touching stuff, thanks for sharing. I've always been somewhat intrigued by Guy on those Minton's recordings also. And wasn't it him, not Cootie, who played the solo on "Fly Right" (the original recording of "Epistrophy")? For some reason, I've been led to believe that a lot of the contemporaneous indifference/contempt towards Guy was based in his less than noble behavior with/towards Ms. Holiday. But perhaps he was kinda jerky with everybody at that time? I wasn't there. I just know that he's not nearly as uninteresting as some liner notes writers make him out to be, nor is he quite as heroic as it sounds like he thinks he is. But hey.

Oh, there's more.

WBLV is on TuneIn Radio, I have it on Roku and on my phone. Are those real-time broadcasts or podcasts? I can't ever tell, really...try to hit your show but haven't had the luck yet. But yes, that's the kind of jazz radio I could sit down and pass some time with. Not jsut records, whcih you can hear anywhere once you know about them, but live-ness on the air, real time radio, yeah.

Look on Amazon.for Perfectly Frank: Classic Sinatra In A Unique Set Of Live Broadcast Performances From The Fifties and FS - After Hours.