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Dick Shearer thread remains open! Please, share as much as you like. Road life and the people who lived it are such a critical component of what made that type of jazz what it was, yet the realities are often shied away from in favor of just looking at the recordings.

The Bethlehem version is pretty steamroller-ish, too fast, not a lot of nuance, just playitandgetitoverwithNEXT. Eccentric as hell, and those type things are usually humorous to me, but in the case of "KoKo", I've never understood what was looking to be gained by doing that. The rest of the Bethlehem album is ok or better to me, but that one piece...seriously WTF-ish.

All things considered, I prefer the live version, and by a pretty good margin. But still...

Next time, if that happens, call them. Somebody answers the phone, believe it or not, and they seem so happy to have somebody to talk to that they actually engage.

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The Bethlehem is the only studio version i know of. I think it's a fascinatingly self-destructively performance, perhaps intentionally? That side seems to have infuriated many people in its time, and I can understand that, but not consistently, and me...I come at it from a way after-the-fact POV. But that "KoKo" on that album is just kinkyweirdbad.

I tried to listen to jazz in the car this evening. It was tough sledding, either a bunch of new stuff that sounded tired or old stuff that reminded me how tired I was. Some Orrin Evans cut with JD Allen so far up Wayne's ass it's a miracle that Wayne hasn't had to go to the ER get the impaction removed. I mean, really, why the hell do I want to hear that? Why does anybody want to here that? Apparently some folks do, so maybe I am not the intended audience. In a way, I really hope that I'm not. Pandora was working good for me for a while, but wen your Gil Evans Channel takes you to Wes Montgomery and Art Blakey in, like 5 songs, I'm like oh...ok, it's like that, is it. I see. The same thing happens on my Duke Ellington station. And my AEC station seems to have a frighteningly shallow catalog, as does my Morton Feldman station. Don't even ask about my Astrud Gilberto station, because why do French cafe-sounding songs always turn up there once I start to fall asleep? Who is trying to sell me what and why? Podcasts, mostly now, or Live 360 stations )no announcers, but the good stations hover an enless variety - and if you ask, they will send you track/album info, instatnly sent emails, I can take it from there, thanks, but what I need to really hold my interest is simple enough - either new music or old music out of some forgotten corner of total badassness, and somebody who really knows what they're talking about. I dig enthusiasm, but only as a by-product of knowledge, not as a substitute for or a diversion away from it. And truthfully, I really don't give a damn about "jazz" anymore as a style of music to be defended, championed, presented, etc. That kind of Devotion To A Word is letting all kinds of lackluster shit get all kinds of sunshine (hello JD Allen so far up Wayne's ass he's about to come out his throat, please stop that, PLEASE stop that), and frankly, it makes me cranky. I don't need any help being cranky, ya' know, I do fine all by myself. Mix it up, surprise me. Trane and Bird were digging Bartok & Varese, cool. Play me some Bartok, play me some Trane. play me some Varese and play me some Bird. I can handle the truth. Play me some Ray Charles and some Hank Snow, take me there, it's ok. Lou Donaldson, Meters. None of this stuff happened in a vacuum, let's not present it like it did, or does. Truth, not propaganda. No "narratives", please. "Narratives" are always post-realtime, narratives always come through a filter. Real time ain't got time to be filtered. Perspective, yes, because real time demands a perspective in order to survive. But perspective is not narrative and perspective is not filter. Perspective is about surviving, narrative and filter are about claiming victory. Hell, if you won, there would be no need for narrative and filter. Nobody wins, that's the moral of the story, some people just survive more strongly than others, and not always in ways you might expect, Herbie Nichols, never winning but sure as hell surviving with a steady stealth vigor. Think about that, survival is better than victory, victory is for losers on a lucky streak, that's all. Music as active human behavior, choices being made/not made (business as well as musical), life in action through sound, that's so much more interesting than just "music", so much more interesting. Play the Buster Smith Atlantic side in its entirety and then say.............WHOA! And then say good night. Remember Ray Scott calling NFL games? That, when appropriate. Not always, but when. Make me feel like a dumbass for not listening, that's what I want.

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The old Bluebird Master Musician 2-fer held me good for quite a while until I finally had to have more, at which point I got 1932-1943. Point just being that this is, for me, music that you'll get pulled deeper into, eventually.

Some nice Oliver Nelson charts, but that's not enough...some nice-enough Benny Carter charts, and that's not enough...some serviceable Shorty Rogers charts, and that's sure not enough,,,and two Gene DiNovi charts on two of his original tunes that have that awkwardly "coming out" sound that made Liza Minelli so "popular",,,this whole thing, it's just not enough. Although the least not-enough thing on it is a nice version of "I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do". I'm that much of a Carmen McRae fan to begin with, and this does not move the conversation forward. Nor does it move it backward, but...just not enough. =========================================================================================================== Well, ok, this is more like it!!!!! ========================================================================================================= "Fluffy" is an adjective. "Fluff" is a noun (or a verb). Definitely "fluffy", definitely not "fluff". =================================================================================================== Hey.

The Capitol Neophonic album is one I've always mostly like a fair good lot, so when I found out about two other CDs worth of material, recorded live, I thought, huh, let's see! It was disappointing, pretty much a bunch of film/TV score writers playing with devices/ Imagining the environment at the time, it seems sorta "political" to me, self-congratulatory and all that, but I'll not blame Kenton, really, although maybe should(?)...anyway, that Capitol album (in LP form) still sits well, except for the Jim Knight piece, which is slite, trite, and not alrite. Russ Garcia fans, though, should make note of his piece on here which is actually pretty nice, devices and all. And John Williams' (yeah, that one"" Prelude and Fugue" is actually fun, and with a little substance to boot!

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Wentworth - LTB is semi-binging, I'm wandering in and out. Hard to get out once in, though.

Isn't Plano where the guy who inspired Willies' Pretty Paper from Plano? Apparently not... http://stillisstillmoving.com/willienelson/willie-nelsons-song-pretty-paper-the-rest-of-the-story/

Adventures In Time comes pretty damn close, actually!

It's also pretty good, maybe even a little better, as a Kenton Trombone Section album. Another part of the Kenton formula, at least during the Capitol yeas, was that any time he did something "faddish" llike this, he'd do it to a few or more of his old warhorses. This one is no exception.

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