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My sympathies to Fred & Gwendolyn.

Re tenor on #12, I don't really hear Sam The Man or Gator. They're not the only two guys Atlantic used...didn't Budd Johnson get in on some things? This sounds more like Budd than either of those two, although I';ll not jump and say that it "sounds like Budd". Oh, well, the MVP on #3 is actually unknown There used to be a column in the Record Mirror in '62-'63 called 'Great unknowns' - I recall Marvin Gaye being in there in '63 (!) but he hadn't had any hits in the UK then (no Motown hits at all 'til '64). Anyway, this guy's one of them. MG Lloyd G. Mayes?

Tony Parker should be so lucky as to get Shiva.

Most Valuable Player & FTW = For the Win The true story of Ethel

Jack Buck, Master Straight Man!

She's gonna be a Ninja Warrior American

This should be on HBO.

Finally able to come up for air, at least for a few minutes...forgive me if I get kind of maybe more stream of semi-consciousness than usual tonight...the facts and disclaimers facts and disclaimers firmly in place, here we go! TRACK ONE - Gotta be Charlie Shavers.on "Stardust". Charlie Shavers was one of the first jazz musicians I knowingly head, on the Lionel Hampton Just Jazz Star Dust 10" LP (all thanks be to the late Buzz Messner for bringing his records to school for his band students peruse more or less at will). I later learned of Shavers' bad taste and show-offiness, but not until it became too late for that to just not matter to me, nope, sorry, yeah, but no. Charlie Shavers was one badass trumpet player, period. He was A BOSS. TRACK TWO - Red Fever-Clay? Not Freddie, but somebody who loved him, for sure (and how not to, void replaced by..what? Nothing? Yep). Tenor player, cool. No space in him or the trumpet, but it's not first-gen anyway, so..let it be what it will be and appreciate it for that (at least tonight...). Everybody sounds familiar, almost UK-ish in a way, and I do like the drummer, although he's no different from the other people here, really, but he does put me in mind of Billy Cobham for some reason. Two bassists? Or just extra strings and/or fingers at first? Stanley Clarke? This is one of those things where if I play Serious Life (or your DEATH) Listener, then I get all persnickety, but I find myself doing that less and less these days, and...WTF? TROMBONE? Well cool, let's do THAT, then! Hey, it's got spunk. Unlike Lou Grant, I rather like spunk. TRACK THREE - No idea, but where does the cowbell go once the organ comes in? And every time I start to think I'm going to hear a transition from the vernacular to cliche, I'm pleasantly denied. Oh, the timbalero probably had the cowbell, so that's where it goes. Nothing really "fresh" here, but damn groove. Groove FTW, at least here.Now tell me thsi - who is the bass player. THAT'S the MVP! TRACK FOUR - If I don't have this record, I should.My bad if I don't. TRACK FIVE - This is some kind of DJ-ness, right? No way you get that feel just like that with real players in real time, especially the way the reverb just DIES as soon as it begins to start. Not unless everybody was making the same mistakes the same way every time. And if they were, ok, do it like that NEXT time. Just try. And if so, ok, then, yes, WAY, and welcome to the future before most everybody else go there! Or is it South African? TRACK SIX - Johnny Beecher? Johnny Beecher could PLAY! And serious - tenor players of all stripes, take a lesson about knowing how to make the instrument speak clearly and consistently no matter in what range. Some serious schooling here. And god love the bari player. I used to hear records like this and think, hey, bari player, easy gig. Nooooooooo! Not if you do it right! TRACK SEVEN - Coral Rock Takes An Intermission Riff And Licks Your Father's Mustache? And god love the bari player. I used to hear records like this and think, hey, bari player, easy gig. Nooooooooo! Not if you do it right! Not one of those Leo Parker R&B 78s, is it? TRACK EIGHT - Sounds like an early-ish digital recording...that circular breathing trumpet sounds like Jimmy Owens, that was his schtick back in the day, so, is this from his Polydor side the one with a wee bit o' Billy Harper? So much for early-ish digital if so, but not, if not. Bass goes out of tune on the fade, Ron Carter? No, but, see this is what happens once precedent is set. Boom goes the dynamite! I could almost see this being Dr. John, to be honest. TRACK NINE - Arthur Prysock? A very old Arthur Prysock? How about that guy, eh? Who's told the Arthur Prysock story, and would it be believed anyways? Or more to the point -who among us would have the frame of reference to know whether or not to believe it? Good luck on that one. That song should be sadder than it is, but then again, maybe that's the point, that this story is so sad that sadness is cheap, just too damn easy? I don't know. TRACK TEN - What cartoon is this from. JK! LOL! It's from a cartoon called LIFE (AND ALL THAT IMPLIES). I've not yet seen it, at least not in this form, but somebody call me a cab, I gotta train to catch, and hey, nice ass! TRACK ELEVEN - Jeez, I thought those opening notes were plunger trumpet from an old 78 (and he's saying Goodbye, but we all know there is no goodbye, ever, not in this song). "I'm A Fool To Want You", great tune. Sinatra = Soul when it gets here (yes, it does), and enough soul for it to get to Illinois, even with a Donkey Serenade quote by Milt Buckner (and how about that guy, eh? Who's told the Milt Buckner story, and would it be believed anyways? Or more to the point -who among us would have the frame of reference to know whether or not to believe it? Good luck on that one, too.). Favorite Illinois Jacquet story, the one where some sideman goes to collect wages and Illinois has got this buttload full of cashmoney all over his bed and says just LOOK at all this money! in half total disbelief and half I AM GOD NOW mode, so yeah, three you go, and here you go. Great music.Illinois fianlly got it figured out, and I don't knwo that Milt Buckner never not had it figured out. TRACK TWELVE - Oh shit, that's beautiful...brings tears to my eyes...just beautiful...like a post-liberation Billy Eckstine, and geez, how many ways can that be (and should have been, but life is not fair) beautiful? They almost lsot be in the double-time, but only almost. TRACK THIRTEEN - I was bored, and then the modulation sounded like a Jimmy Jones WTF? but no, just something else of the same. OTOH, not don byron, and none the worse because of it. I think it's some W.C. Handy tune that I should have already known well enough to have forgotten but instead have just forgotten. Oh well, every hard drive needs some space cleared and files deleted, even before it crashes. TRACK FOURTEEN - My favorite version of this great, great song (which I first got hipped to as a real song and not a Bobby Vinton POS by a sweet Houston Person version from late-70s(?)), bar none, is by The Moonglows. This is The Clovers (another great group indeed)...sweet turnaround, skillful singing, but the "bouncy" feel and the evenness of the phrasing works against the float, and when this tune floats is when it gets there, imo only, of course. Please bear indulge me some Moonglows (and...accordion? Really? WTF and not even Jimmy Jones!), even through The Clovers did it before them (The Moonglows are IT for me, unabashedly and unapologetically): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJsyVXgG6GI TRACK FIFTEEN - The poor guy couldn't get over Ethel, could he? BONUS TRAX TRACK B01 - Oh, yeah, right. Let's get real about this subject: http://www.sosuave.com/articles/aoa/evilwomen.htm TRACK B02 - Too many memories? No, too many backgrounds. Paying for horns does not mean that they need to play every damn second to earn their keep. Hell, the tenor player gets more breathing room than does the singer, which, ok, passive-agressive misogysingery (and oh yeah, we all might feel the pain, but that doesn't make it right, must less justify a lifestyle), but still, you gonna beat the woman down one way or the other, it seems, and that shit might work for a little while, but sooner or later boom GOES here dynamite, and you can't say you weren't warned not to write all that shit just to be doing it, ok? Very nice, Allan, very nice. Sorry I couldn't get to it right away, but..well worth the wait, for real.

Those of you who were there will probably find factual errors aplenty (it seems to be that WP is often a case of "enthusiasm" trumping "scholarship"), but anybody interested in interview segments with Blackman, Tom Browne,Bernard Wright (now living and gigging here in Dallas), Marcus Miller, fond reminiscences of Weldon Irvine by all, and most of all, totally period non-professional candid photographs of all concerned, should check out the article about the "Jamaica Kats" found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XBbghqzxtE

That was one crazy dude. Much love here. So, long.

100% flake-free, eh?

I've never tried it because the blanks cost more, and for what?, but you can buy blanks, burners, and software that will burn a design onto your blank. Them lasers can rule the world, doncah' know.

Like them both a lot. Me too. Whatever you want to call Evans' piano style, it works well with Konitz. Same. It gets narcotic sometimes, in the best way, just falling deeper and deeper into a zone of quiet still beauty.

Wow, I've gotten completely off of this project...and not minding at all!

The line I've always heard was that the Navy but the kibosh on Storyville because of all the VD. That may or may not have been just a "cover"? Or at least a "convenient excuse"?

I continue to receive excellent service here in Plano, Tx, both at-home and in-shop. Maybe we're just lucky here, but no complaints from me, specifically.

Not that night you didn't! He pretty much sucked that night.

Que es?

Fox has always been among the "hardball" players when it comes to local cable negotiations, at least around here.Fox is always the last one to make a deal, and they might even go a few days w/o being available on cable. But they always sign in time for the sports on the weekends. If cable is starting to go the way of the CD, do you think they'll drink the koolaid and really go this route? They're businesspeople, not martyrs, and they don't get rich by being stoopid.

Not even close, and everybody knew it. But life goes on, Ranger win legit tonight 6-1, everybody gets royally fucked at some point, and just be glad you're not Julio Bourbon.

Well, you can, but the furniture's always been moved and there's new curtains up and trees down, so why bother? I say that having driven past my folks' old house this past Sunday. The trees my kids used to climb are all gone, the yard was nasty, the front door had been painted over very poorly,and there was a car parked in the grass of the front yard. So yeah, you can, but...don't.