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I saw his new layer getting interviewed by Matt Lauer this morning...Bryant Gumbal or Bob Costas would've had this guy as an extra helping of pancakes, but in typical current-Today fashion, Matt Lauer took a stern tone, asked nothing pressing, and accepted nothing of substance in response, all the while sounding more stern by the second.

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John Peel Phil Rind Zest The SMoker

Very sad to hear of this. A legacy has been left.

Oh, sorry, was talking about the Cannonball still-not-on-CD-and-why-the-hell-not? items The Price You Got To Pay To Be Free & The Black Messiah. I would by them PRE-Immediately if the option ever arose!

Apartment Jam Sessions on Zim?

Those are both very much "of their time", which is probably what appeals and appalls different audiences, if you know what I mean. But part of that is that they are all over the freakin' place in terms of "style" and "intent", which is also very much "of the times", which is why I think some updated annotation would well-serve any reissue. There's some truly badass playing on those sides, and three's some seriously WTF?ishness. And yet, it all sounds like Cannonball, and none of it sounds halfass or cynical. Goofy, yes, sometimes intensely so. But never insincere or trifling. My copies of both are both straight-up LP rips obtained from LP owners, so they have plenty of pops and fuzzes and other artifacts of having been well-played in, knowing the original owners, any number of social & sobriety contexts. As tempting as a clean legit DL is, I don't know that I would enjoy it that much knowing that it's only available because nobody figured it was worth dealing with this music head-on and full force, and instead just said oh well, let's do this little much and be done with it. I'm not willing to settle for that level of acceptance through casual dismissal, not with this stuff anyway.

Who's got legal DLs? And in what format? I might be interested. But really, those albums would be best served with some updated commentary & and some unissued/unedited performances (if available). Just had another listen to Manteca, and it's only half big band, the other have being piano feature w/o horn backing, but with a very non-BS "Afro Cuban" percussion backing. Nice work in both arenas.

I've got the Fischer on one of those illegalette bootleggish downloady thingies, and, yeah, it's good. Lots of organ, lots of percussion, and of course, lots of good writing, well-executed. Cannonball's thing, I play the shit out of Side One. Side Two, not so much. But that title track will be worth the cost of admission. I guess there's a theme with this set, right? "Brazillian"? But the Fischer big band is not that at all, although I guess it could be if you didn't care to notice. Nevertheless - The Price You Got To Pay To Be Free and The Black Messiah. Before I die, please.

The Kenton album is one of his "easy listening" ones, but I will say that the trombone section is featured extensively and gorgeously.

When did they start giving "suggestions" to voters? What year did that happen?

They have nominees now? I think I only actually voted once, in, like, 1972 or something, but for as long as I can remember, the ballots were always blank and you could vote for whoever you wanted to. At first you had to cut it out of a magazine page, but then they went to a perforated card. Am I remembering that right? So, what, now there's a list of "approved" people from whom you get to select? Like some Soviet Russia election? I guess that means that everybody's dead (or dying) (or not for sale) and now the market's all "thanks for shopping, here's what you can buy, it's what we want to sell you. Get used to it, bitches." Apparently, many already have. Fuck that.

Sorta, but not exactly..."International Jazz Emporium - Bethlehem Records - Distibuted by Caytronics - A Cayre Industries Company"...which was the Cayre Brothers who did found Salsoul, but who had already been involved in the record business prior to so doing. http://www.discogs.com/label/Caytronics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsoul_Records http://hem.bredband.net/funkyflyy/salsoul/story.html http://businessprofiles.com/details/cayre-industries-inc/NY-382527 That "International Jazz Emporium" is what stands out to me...what kind of a shell was that?

So, let's get busy.

The Steve/Eydie/Luiz Bonfa (Columbia, 1967(?)) album is a very nice "Brazilian-ish American Pop" album with arrangements by Eumir Deodato. Not for everybody's tastes, but I enjoy it as a very good example of what could have been something very non-enjoyable. Also, Steve/Eydie had Don Costa as Musical Director when they were on ABC-Paramount. And no matter how "bad" Costa was with later Sinatra, that was one thing. His work with them was quite another.

Very great, and a little bit of a previous discussion here:

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