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This is the year that Derek Holland stops clowning around, gets serious, and truns into the proven performer we all want him to become. His first step down this new path:

Lenny White actually played on the record. What was he doing there?

IIRC, there were two volumes, 2 LPs each. Agreed, excellent albums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieifnB3c2zU YEAH!

$42.00!!!! http://www.finleysformen.com/barber-shop-haircut-shave-manicure-services/ Considering that I pay more for a haircut, and that the beard is rapidly becoming its own head of hair, it might be worth it, if only to learn to shave more regularly more often...

I don't keep the beard these days, but sometimes I go for a few days w/o shaving. This time it's been about a week, and I got a beard starting to assert itself. Usually that means extra time with the Fusion (no Beards Of Fire jokes, please), but this time I'm thinking, hey, why not treat myself to a nice old-school barbershop shave, get the hot lather, hot towel, the earfuzz removal, the whole thing. Sounds like a good time. So, you, how long has it been for you? And what's the going rate these days?

Well, that should be a lively discussion.

Not dismissing it, it is excellent, it just doesn't have the visceral appeal of the CTI album, imo. Same producer, radically different results. Different, that's all. Two cents: Also from vastly different eras. There might be literally just six years between "Guitar Forms" (1964/65) and "God Bless the Child" (1971), but the world had changed A LOT more than, say, between 1954-60 or 1960-66 And it might also be worth wondering if it was Creed Taylor who had the most catching up to do, since Kenny always had that "core" audience that something like God Bless The Child would grab on to. Also wondering - with what label/producer did KB's leader dates of the 1960s have greater "popular" success, Argo/Chess or Verve?

Not dismissing it, it is excellent, it just doesn't have the visceral appeal of the CTI album, imo. Same producer, radically different results. Different, that's all.

I still don't think of Roy Haynes as "old"...funny how that works.

You will hear all the hi-hat you ever thought you wanted to hear - and then some!

This is a favorite. Such a nice tune, hip changes, keeps moving, lands on some unexpected places along the way, hits a mellowstrong groove, and Jerome Richardson is LOL casualgood. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KqmHsBUzD0

Subtitled "Miles Meets The Hi-Hat"?

The trio w/Richard Davis & Roy Haynes, hey. Also like the early 70s Prestige sides, and the CTI side as well. Burrell's sound lent itself well to Rhodes and/or CTI, although ironically, Burrell had some "classic" albums on Verve produced by Taylor that don't have the immediate impact of his CTI album. I mean, ok, Guitar Forms has Gil Evans and some really diverse and excellent plecteral presentations, but nothing on there comes up and says HERE WE ARE like "Be Yourself", and oh btw, look out for the helicopter. Of the Prestige sides, 'Round Midnight has already been mentioned, and yes, I love the dark, rich sound there of, not just Burrell but of the record itself, and the synergy with that provided by the cover photo. But perhaps even more fun to me are the two albums w/Jerome Richardson on board - Up The Street, Around The Corner, Down The Block and, especially Sky Street. After that period, it seemed that he started getting a little "retro"-ish, which, ok, but.. As for older things (retro before it had time to turn retro), a real gem that is not commonly known is a thing for Argo- Here's Love yet another "jazz plays songs from a Broadway show" thing, and the songs are...yeah, sure, whatever, but the group is Burrell, Hank Jones, Milt Hinton, and Elvin Jones, and as always, Elvin plays the gig and brings Elvin to the mix. The whole thing swings like hell and the tunes become a non-factor in your jazz listening pleasure. Check it out!

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Loveliest rock & roll record ever. I also heard them sing it at the Regal Theater in Chicago in about 1961 or '62. And one of the best tempo/reverb synergies ever.

Yeah, same here.

Ah, Roy Haynes!

Seriously, I really don't like the way people drive in Houston, and the humidity is ridiculous (and this coming from someone who lives in Dallas). Other than that, hey, home is home, and not home is not home. That, and every time I go down there, it seems like there's always some kind of tenseness going on. I was in a convenience store just a few years ago where there was a "classic" Asian storeowner/AfricanAmerican customer showdown that resulted in all customers being booted out of the store and the place locked up and darked out, all in the space of about 15 minutes. The whole thing was surreal, b/c the storeowner was dumb, the customer just as dumb, and nobody I was with got their soda pops and bags o'chips. Always seems like there's stupid going on. Always. Not that Dallas-area is any better, but it being home, I know where to go to not get it.

If you gotta ask, you already know.