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Starting to look like a question worth asking.

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With those as your options, I would suggest either closing your eyes and picking one, or else just getting all four. In other words, no way to lose from that batch. However...the Mingus set has an amount of otherwise unavailable material that is totally worth having, so that would be my "swing factor" if one was needed.

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The "running joke" thing would be the most currently visible, popular/pop-culture manifestation of the broader "academic" concept.

First you start with a cogent concept of what is being presented, and why it is relevant to do so. After that, it's "just" a question of staying cogent though the progression from idea to execution. Note that this allows for a box set being utilitarian/even essential without necessarily being "great".

"meme" began as an academic term, but these days, it's pretty commonly used by young-ish people who spend a lot of time participating on the net. http://memegenerator.net/ http://knowyourmeme.com/ Me, I'm a follower, not a creator, but they're all over the place, and have been for a while now. The Willie Wonka ones in particular make me lol. The Gene Wilder guy, yeah! http://memegenerator.net/Willy-Wonka

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That voice...not the singing itself, but that voice, spoken or sung, she had the knack/gift/genius of finding just the right cadence,pacing, phrasing, inflection, whatever it is, that stirs up the involuntary reflex that makes comedy. Throw in the same skills with body language and the facial expressions...one of the best, period. Her bit in that Tush Beauty Contest bit, in lesser hands, hmmm...but she had me ROTFLMFAO. Totally subjective, but damn.

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Lester Young Johnny Hodges Ben Webster and Lester Young. For the truly brave, include the connection between jazz and tap, which at one time, remember, was a pretty popular commodity! Maybe even look at the culture of African-Americam club comedy, too, because for a bit of a long while, the clubs and theaters where you heard a good amount of Soul Jazz were also the places where you'd get a tapper or a comedian on the band's breaks. But that would be a bigass book. Unwieldy!

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Yep. Exactly. That's the kind of thing that leaves an impression!

Thanks for that discography. Looks like I have a couple more holes to fill than I though I did.

Absolutely. It's a minority music for a reason, ya' know.

It was when I decided that looking for women who really liked jazz was looking for something in a woman that I did not really need that I started having a good time meeting women! Hell, I even ended up marrying a woman who kinda liked music. At least she enjoys hearing some of it, close enough!

I heard some commentator say the other day in regard to some comment that "it doesn't matter in what spirit an action was undertaken", to which I promptly called a loud BULLSHIT, because then, ok then, you're telling me that you don't have any interest in resolving a misunderstanding by deepening a mutual understanding, you just don't want to deal with any of it, and shut up anybody who says something you don't like, so fuck that, and oh, why are you so touchy about it, huh, maybe you're trying to stifle confronting your own insecuriites and supressed hostilities. That's what I told her. And then I noticed she had a ponytail, so I smiled warmly, took another sip of the Chardonnay, apologized for ever having dared to have a point of view of my own, and went back to my James Taylor MP3s.