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How is it recorded? I ask because the way of recording big bands where the detail is intense to the point of destroying the total ensemble blends is something that has long bugged me. The Ryan Truesdell Gil Evans Centennial album shows that it's possible to have both, but damn, that took long enough to figure out, ya' know? And I hear you about "those obligatory shout choruses"...

Franklin Kiermyer/Pharoah-Sanders - Solomon's Daughter Believe it.

AC was on Tuesday, got a freeze warning for tonight.

By "them", you mean Cohen & Fitzgerald, not Amazon, correct? That's not made entirely clear, so some honest misunderstanding is not unreasonable.

I think he didn't like being in Texas, period. Many people don't! Being traded by the Orioles, also, I think...he kinda felt betrayed or something. Dude can pitch, though, and I never heard anything about him not being a "good teammate" in the clubhouse. It jut seemed that he didn't like being here, that it was not his preference.

If you live in a region with a variety of Mexican-American programming, is this stuff on the air there? We have a station that plays it 24/7, and I confess to not being able to tune out once I tune in.

Maybe THIS is exactly what bugged some? Those who have put KOB on a sky-high pedestal or in a sacred shrine to be worshipped all year round? Nah, to me it feels like a college grade conceptual project. This. It's not like it's not a funny idea to think about, I mean, lots of things are funny ideas to think about, and play out as inside conceptualalities amongst circles of friends, hell, I live to do shit like that sometimes, but to scale it up to an actual release and shit, that's just too big a scale for that level joke. It's got nothing to do with it being a Sacred Jazz Album or some other lameass notion, it's just...not funny, not as a reality. That's why I don't want/need to hear it, because the joke is not about the reality, it's about the concept, period. Actualizing the concept is, like, a whole other concept, and even then, the joke I take away is that, wow, somebody was dumb enough to actually take this one concept and turn it into something real. And that is a joke that I don't find funny at all, just stupid, Darwin Award-level stupid, you know, like, this is why not everybody is destined to live long and prosper.It's a joke, but the joke's on you, perpetrators, duh. As a concept, yeah, maybe, it depends on the particulars of who's doing the joking and how, but as a reality? You gotta be Andy Kaufman-esque to pull that type of shit off, ok? And Andy Kaufamn was like late Trane - you gotta have master chops, master courage, master vision, and balls the size of Jupiter. and even then, it will not be to everybody's liking. It's funny, though, people would rather think that people are upset about their record because of the musical thing rather than accept that some people think it's just a dumb joke. People are really touchy about having their sense of humor questioned.

Thinking about Roger Bobo led me to ask myself whatever happened to Harvey Phillips. Well, I guess the same thing that happens to everybody. Roger Bobo, don't know if he could improvise (or if that was a p[rerequisite for being a tubaist in Eliis' band), but anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=658N-oJwvTI

How about one choice per decade? Ten decades, ten icons, one century.

HA!

This Banda stuff...it's so...delightfully rude. Like the First Herd,only not. But whoever this guy is....hey.

Eggs?

How has David Lynch not gotten to this one yet? Como's narcotic phase, perhaps.

Roger Bobo did the Ellis band too. Funny how it used to be perceived as hip to wear all white. Now it's all black. One painful, the other boring. Whatever happened to palates?

Koji...I liked that guy, but he was quirky. His first half-season here, he was always whining on Twitter abut how hot it was here and how lonely he was in his hotel room. It kinda died down once the Tweets started getting translated to English and posted on Lone Star Ball. And then next year, when Yu got here, it always seemd that he wasn't cool with the Japanese media circus surorunding Darvish. Helluva pitcher, though, plenty of heartonce on the mound. But he sure seemed quirky when off it.

Andrew Friedman left the Rays to be GM of the Dodgers. Joe Maddon is expected to leave the Rays to manage the Cubs. Locally, highly successful interim manger Tim Bogar did not make the final cut for the permanent gig. Instead, it went to Jeff Bannister, a Clint Hurdle protege. It's a choice that has local fans sort of excited, as the expectations are for a more Saber-sensitive in-game management, the one thing that really irked all but the most die-hard Ron Washington fans, although Bannister has been quoted as saying that ultimately, he trusts his gut too.

And assuming that "20th Century" is a true chronological entity and not a cultural identifier, for starters, here's some genuine pop-culture icons: Marcus Garvey Jackie Robinson Bob Marley James Brown Oprah Winfrey Michael Jordan Ray Charles Malcolm X Martin Luther King Duke Ellington Stevie Wonder Bessie Smith Richard Pryor B.B. King Bill Cosby Jesse Jackson and Jerry Mathers as Princess Di. And that's just for the Northwestern Hemisphere English-speaking world, and just a beginning, at that.

Princess Di only iconic through accidents of both birth and death. IMO It's not the 20th Century without porn, and anybody who wants to acknowledge that without dealing with REAL porn need look no further than Bettie Page. Ooh-la-LAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You talking about Howard Johnson's 4 tuba band...Substructure, right? Probably not... Stumbled across this...that's a lot of bass to be hardly heard! As well as this, which leads to how do we not recall Red Callender?!?!?! http://www.wirz.de/music/tubafrm.htm

RIP.

Funny how as the 21st Century progresses, Bettie Page more and more becomes a 20th Century pop culture icon. And why not!

French horn, maybe? Black Saint & The Sinner Lady, maybe? Can't leave Bill Barber unmentioned as an ensemble player. You'll be hard-pressed, still, to find that type of thing done better. Put me down with the Johnson, Daley, Stewart, and anybody who's with Threadgill crowd. Coming of age as I did in the era when funk/R&B was bringing the bass so far into the forefront, the viscerality of these guys' playing was difficult to ignore, and damn near impossible to be attracted to. Respect & appreciate Draper more than I really like him...a rough life, apparently, lots of "distractions". Are we including Sousaphone in this discussion as well? I suppose we are, what with Cyrus St. Clair and all.

This. Definitely a "product of its time", as they say, but those 70s Pharoah impulse! albums are all messy in some form or fashion. I'd rather have it than not have it.