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I'd buy it just for the Elmer Hope session.

Yes, those are the changes. Just wondering...is there documentation about how the Jewish members of Kenton's band felt about playing Berlin in 1953? But on a more pleasant note...yeah, Lee! That guy....yeah.

Regarding browsing...I miss it more in theory than I do in reality...the biggest kick of all was finding something you didn't know even existed, and with all the blogs and disgographies and such online, how much of that is there anymore? Now it's like, oh cool, here it is, with the "surprise" being about the "here", not the "it". And that's on a good day. The hang, though, ain't nothing like a good hang. OTOH, it's cold as hell right now (and we're just on the edge of this "Arctic vortex"), and we are here, not there, and me, I'm glad that it's not the other way around, not in this weather.

A tad faster than the original, which I think swings a little more, but marginally...I've heard airshots of this band where the tempos go wild and the band is actually sloppy, and that does not happen here, so good. Biggest difference I can hear here is Lee...my goodness! And I'll take Zoot over Kamuca, just in general. There are other "Kenton Drummers" that define the role more epitomically than Stan Levy, but Kenton never had a more swinging drummer than Stan Levey. Ever! That staging, though, whoa.....not sure about that, or the little semi-bow that Kenton gives to somebody before walking over to sit down at the piano and be all leaderly in appearance (only). And did Don Bagley REALLY play like that? No matter, that was one helluva band when it didn't get too "Kenton-y". There were other editions forthcoming that did that better than this one. But jeezus, this bad swung!

Joe Friday Babe Ruth Babar

The Gozzo story that I've heard most often from the most people is that there was a running pool amongst the L.A. studio trumpeters of the day as to what date it would be when Gozzo fluffed a note on a session. The winner varies by who is telling the story, but the pot kept growing (over years and years!) and eventually reach around 5-6 K before it got collected, not too much before Gozzo's death.

Martha & The Muffins Kermit Ruffins Frogman Henry

They could make a movie of this, call it The James Brown Story, and nobody would know the difference.

Sandy Koufax Frank Beach LeGarrette Blount

I didn't stop following McCoy's albums after Looking Out, far from it, but things were never quite the same again. Just reality, I suppose.

That's Joe on tenor...is there additional footage from this gig that would have him soloing?

Valerie Perrine Tangerine A Sego Girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrdFA_sYMpw

And you won't like them as the series progresses...the exception being Richard Harrow. Even Chalky White, who I dig (as in "don't feel any warmth towards, but still have a sense of understanding and respect for" b/c he reminds me so much of some modern-day people I've known) even his once rock-solid principles eventually get perverted. It's a whole bunch of twisted fucks on this show, and the parade doesn't stop. But it's a good story well told, and if the moral is that anybody can/will do anything to anybody when they think they won't be held accountable (or can get around/away from it if they are), then I have to say that the moral of the story is one with which I reluctantly/sadly agree.

Tiny Kahn Big Tiny Little Shorty Long

Prunella Scales Two-Ton Baker A Hundred Pounds Of Clay

Dyke & The Blazers Dorothy Love Coates Cosmo Topper

People look for ways to define themselves, not just as a way of self-preservation, but also as a way to prevent and/or defy "expectations", by others, and even by themselves. A word like "Autophysiopsychic" is just another way to say, "hey, I'm not standing here being your purveyor of sweaty Negro sexdrug music (i.e. - "jazz"). If you hear that, fine, it's no doubt in there, but if you hear only that, then you are missing the point. There's more to it than that." In other words, there's no math involved. no doctrines to subscribe/here to, no "ism"s. It's just a way to redirect the focus of the conversation, internally and externally.

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Keg Johnson Peg Bracken Erma Bombeck

No I won't. I don't like Kenny G in any kind of a way. If the only two records in the world were Monster, and anything, anything by Kenny G, one copy of each. I would proactively break the Kenny G record into many pieces of tiny shards and then proceed for all eternity having Monster being the only record left on Earth. Monster might at least get people making their own music to have something to get away from Monster. Kenny G would just kill all musical inclinations in all of life itself. Random musical sex vs mass musical degonadization, those are the choices. That's a no-brainer of a choice right there.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/catalog http://grammarist.com/spelling/catalog-catalogue/ http://www.loc.gov/aba/ No more discussion on the "correct" spelling of cataloging/cataloguing will be entertained. Both are correct. A bill for court costs will be forthcoming. Court adjourned, with prejudice.

Cataloging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataloging

Somebody who doesn't have this set but thinks they might want/should have it, this is your time. Buy it now or become yet one more of the multitudinous This.

The Gentrys Billie Joe McAllister Fancy