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My first exposure to her was on this recrd: The record itself is kind of a mess, but through no doings of M.s Ray. She was there all the time.

My new/first Favorite Don Elliot Composition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpxhLNUmmpc This would have also sounded really good with the Kenton trombone section of any time. But I can't see Charlie Palmieri playing with Kenton, although, Chombo Silva, yes, maybe, a la Bill Perkins (but Chombo on Cuban Fire...whoahhhhhhh.....imagine THAT parallel universe....) But no matter - superior stand-alone quality. And swear to god, it's listed as a Don Elliot composition. Is there a story there? Well, ok, there's always a story about anything, but, are there relatable details available? Estoy Buscando a Sexy (Album Covers? Not here...)?

I'd like to write a play about Nat Turner & Warne Marsh being a vaudevillian comedy team in 1927 that's not popular anywhere except in Japan, and then, almost exclusively with non-English-speaking audiences, but really, with a premise that good, why ruin it by actually doing something with it? Well, ok, a title - This Shit Don't NEVER Melt

Thumper Trumpeter Bugle Boy

Cloyingly naive and playing up to a "starmaker" was not a bad career move 45 or so years ago. Still isn't, really. I'm not really a fan, but I'll allow it.

Gene & Debbe

Yeah, he's always been more fun to listen to than to look at.

otoh, if you're looking to become a celebrity, being a self centered narcissist puts you on the fast track as well as does anything.

Jarrett's nuts, that's all it is. Big deal, lots of us are. Perhaps all of us are when it comes to one or two things. Navigate. That's all anybody needs to do - navigate.

Well, maybe.

I see dead people. No, wait - I see a video of some live guy talking about dead people. And I get the sense that I'm being expected to "feel" something as a result. Ok, I felt something out of those same dead people (and lots of other onese), but what am I supposed to feel out of this live guy talking about them, am I supposed too feel something out of him too? What, exactly? Why would I watch that? To validate my own feelings? Sorry, don't need that, at least not from anybody else. What else ya' got? Besides sappiness and such?

And in between UA & BN, there was SS

So he played a whole set in near-total darkness? No matter what the reason, that's a pretty cool thing to do from a conceptual standpoint. "This is sort of like radio"? Really? What radio? Where? Today? Sign me up for that one, and don't touch that dial! Remember when it was ok for all this stuff to make you uncomfortable? I've not bought any new Jarrett music for quite a while, but mainly because it was getting too comfortable. Hell, he is who he is. Buy it or not, go see him or not. It'll all still be there wither way. Radio!

Yes, I think you'll want it. It's very "casual", and you can hear Hawk talking during other people's playing, discussing driving routes and stuff like that. But he plays grandly when it's his time.

Possible thought...maybe because live music was so common, being asked to buy a record of what you could go out an hear live seemed kind of a con?

Well, saxophone was my first instrument, but I still played tuba my senior year.

I mean no personal or professional disrespect, it's just all..."Have A Nice Day" & "Aren't We All So HUMAN", and well, ok, you too, and of course, sure we are, but...so what? Then what? Then we dance? Then we cry? Then we take to the stage? Again? Really? Too many people have stopped asking "then what?" in any sense other than to keep on doing the same old same old, and that's just not the answer I'm looking for here. So...yeah. SpyroGyra. Harmless AND ineffective.

My walking is an activity I've just recently been able to resume, so I do a mile at a time several times per day, which takes me about 10-15 minutes. so it's taken this long to get through the entire album. And I did want to get through the entire album, and as it turns out 10-15 minutes at a time is probably the best (only?) way for me to do that. I mean, I hate to be so dark on an obviously very talented individual, but...talent is wonderful, admirable, but so is a good bowel movement. Meaning just that not everything that is good is going to be enthusiastically received by everybody when offered for sharing.

I've had Cohen's Chiaroscuro on my iPod for walking yesterday and today, just to see what all the stink was about, and this has led me to three conclusions: "Stink" is not an inappropriate word. Not for ability, but for results. I walk faster when I'm pissed off The oddest thing of all - her playing reminds me in some imprecise yet exact way of the guy who played alto with SpyroGyra back in the day. As a result, this whole album puts me in mind of, more than anything else, "Smooth Jazz" before it was actually called that. So, yeah, I don't need any of all that, except for the faster walking. But I can get that some otherbetter way. and yeah - SpyroGyra. Exactly.

Classical, pop swing, Jobim (they've long liked Jobim and I'm getting them to listen to a lot of Brazilian stuff, and they're liking it). Trust me - when they're gone, you'll smile at the memories of them being made happy by that music, no matter how much to your liking it may or may not be at the time. At some point, the music doesn't matter any more, or at least not as much as the happiness it brings to people you love. I've got a stack of my folks' old records that I'll probably never listen to (and a smaller stack that I'll never stop listening to), and it doesn't matter that most of them are what I would objectively classify as crap. All I have to do is look at them and I smile out loud. Good enough.

Where is there a link to actually buy the thing?

So i should write a novel in Russian? That would be TOO extroverted, to say nothing of difficult, if not impossible and time-consuming. Intorvert-schmintrovert, I'm just lazy. Lazy but happy!

Maybe Blakey liked it more than most and pushed the idea more than most. Most BN studio albums of the 1960s were not working bands, and most presented new material that came together only a week or so earlier, so if the artist was concerned with "presentation", the control afforded by a studio date would have been the way to go. Also, a live date meant easier money for him (no rehearsal or anything just come in to the gig and play, get paid for the night for the gig AND for the record date), and I don't know that I've ever heard of Blakey not liking the idea of easier money, nor do I find that in any way a disreputable quality, although one must remember that Blakey was, to use Curtis Fuller's memorable phrase, "a rascal". Was it the St. Germain date where everybody shows up one night and there's cables and shit out, and Benny Colson says wait a second and Blakey is all GOSH I didn't know THIS was happening even though he had done got his money? A rascal! Quite apart from BN, how many live Blakey dates were there over the years, just the official ones? Lots!

Isn't it kind of extroverted to talk about being an introvert? I've just come to accept the fact that I love people but don't like them all that much. It's not a conflict than can be resolved, nor do I think it really needs to be. Peace at last!