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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!

http://rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz.narkive.com/TAUDNXsW/jazz-guitar-trivia-quiz-1

Take care of yourself, sir. Please!

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.

This is the only "comment" on her appearance, and the genesis of the ponytail riffing. Basic comedic/compositional pivoting construct, really. Yes! Exactly! People taking offense just to be offended!

On my browser, there's a new page beginning right after the video clip of Willene. Just want to make sure that that clip gets its rightful viewership. I think its pretty awesome (in the old,meaningful sense of the world).

There is no hate. There is a lot of riffing on ponytails (how can you hate ponytails?), "cuteness", and, sorta, NPR & NPR husbands with lameass record collections. What I'm not following is, the line from, hey, don't get all angsty about it, it's FUN, and then when FUN starts being had, that's hate? Like, if you don't love it for its cuteness you hate it? Hate is now defined as an refusal to accept The Publicly Offered Gift Of Cuteness? I'm kinda like, uh, if you want to be cute and be sure it's Nothing But Loved!!!!, limit your offering to anywhere less than Fully Public. It's like people think that a public blog is the same thing as having a few friends over for drinks and board games. Well, no, it's not.

RIP Joan Rivers.

http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/saturday-night-live-vet-jan-hooks-dead-57-n222501 Always funny and never rote, always had some little extra personal play to draw out a little deeper funny.

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Probably old news to you guys, but I just found this about Willene Barton: http://bluesandrhythm.co.uk/documents/BR289-Willene-Barton.pdf

Well, I guess I'm an asshole, then.

Willene Barton made an album? I gotta get that, good lord, that woman could PLAY!!!! Start it @ 5:52 This is the only thing I've ever heard of hers, caught it on A&E ca. 1986 or so, but I've never forgotten it or her. That's some damn fine tenor right there!

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SWEET grapes!

Neither...it's basically "jazzy" and such TV themes. And such. The Verve stuff & Threshold & that AMN(?) thing are far more statement-al. Put another way...when it comes time to delete files from my hard drive, this one will be in the first wave. The others, they'll stick around for a little while, except for Vibrations & Threshold, which I have on LP. And yes, I realize I've done nothing to make you not want to hear it anyway.

Until Tench Tilghman gets in, hey, fuck it, man.

I dig how Lani views the challenge of the dress as to never let the stripe move, Karen views it as to never let the stripe stay in one place, and they each succeed to perfection. You'd thank that Lani was stiff or something, but she got that phrasing and the good smiles and the head jerks that say, no, not stiff, just still waters, still waters here, running deep. Karen currently resides in Minnesota.

Been listening to this set today...keep liking Harley more every time I listen to his stuff, and this set...three albums of the pretty damn happening Oliver Collins/James Glenn/Billy Abner rhythm section, this time that's what really grabbed me, these guys were tight together. I know that Collins has left some trails in Philly over the years, but can't really find any leads on the other two other than Glenn with The Visitors, so what's the post-Harley story with these guys? Bottom line, it's the sound of a tight working band, not a studio assemblage. Always something to be said for that.