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They're not "hack" by any stretch of the imagination. Those voicings are typically knotty Nelson. They're just not particularly relevant to Monk himself needing to be there. Might have been a better album if he wasn't. But again, I don't know how much planning/lead-time/etc. went into this album. It sounds like a bit of a rush job by Nelson to me, and that might have been his own doing, or it might not have been. Maybe Teo said hey, we're out here, let's get Oliver to do some things, nothing too complicated, something the cats can read down the first time, something Monk won't have to think about too much, Oliver, can you do that? Sure, when do you need it? Oh, next week or so? Sure, yeah. Because that's exactly what it sounds like to me. Or maybe not. Point being, It's always seemed odd to me that the album was what it was, and I have a very hard time thinking that it was as simple as Oliver Nelson just didn't give a fuck about Thelonious Monk.

It might sound creepy, but in both solos it sounds like Mobley has his lips on the reed where Mobley had his lips on the reed to sound like Mobley. Everything else, mouthpiece/reed setup, amount of air being blown, maybe even throat opening, sounds un-Mobley-like. But any sax player has a certain spot on the reed that they put their lips to get their "ideal" vibration. If you play long enough, you can feel it in your sound and in somebody else's. I hear it here in Mobley's, not so much tone, but in the vibrations inside the tone. Then again, maybe I'm making myself hear that. But I listen to tones of players I feel very closely, and I have done so with Mobley's for many years. So if I'm wrong, I'm a convinced wrong.

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I'd have liked to have heard Paul Jeffrey do some larger-ensemble work with Monk. Hell, I'd have like for everybody to have been in a "place" where that would have been a viable proposition. But, as they say, if "if"s and "but"s were candy and nuts, then every day would be Christmas. Now, quiet as its kept, there some Gil Fuller arrangements of some Monk tunes that he did for Dizzy's big band of the 1940s...including one on "Introspection". (which I think used to be called "Playhouse"?) At least I've seen little tiny ads advertising them for sale in the back pages of some older jazz magazines. Virtually none have been recorded, officially or otherwise. Entrepreneurial musical archaeologists looking for a cause/project/bait for funding/etc., take note.

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Jeezis, how do we forget this one?

The really cool kids don't show up for anything but the after-party...and then not until it's starting to wind down. But there's a big difference between dynamic strategy and just showing up clueless and late and uninvited.

It's the after-party for people who don't do after-parties!

Dave Sanborn in general. I went for years thinking that he sounded like the alto saxophone equivalent of a neurotic chicken's OCD non-stop pecking and clucking, Then, I forget what record it was, exactly, Hideaway maybe, came on the radio and it clicked that, ok, I'd been hearing what he was NOT doing as what he actually WAS doing, and that that was a flaw in MY logic, and I began to develop an appreciation for what he was doing, why he was doing it, and how he was getting it all done. Click. Still don't "love" the guy or anything, but he gets respect from me, and, in the right setting I can find him pretty damn enjoyable for a little bit.

I've given up trying to get a Maynard set. Somebody always wants it for a few hundred more than I do.

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Back in stock at DG, ad for a good proce. http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=vjxznyg67f&ref=index.php

To be fair, though, Pop Culture is only as entertaining as it is because of the built-in absurdity that renders "traditional quality" a (sometimes) welcome but ultimately parallel-at-best consideration.

Re: Preservation Hall, apparently they've got relatively new product out through Sony/Legacy: http://www.amazon.com/Preservation-Hall-50th-Anniversary-Collection/dp/B008HLI4KW So, that answers that.

You say that as if neither are a particularly desirable state...

Your sentences are frequently longer than those. Nevertheless, it's good enough that it could be you. You do "chewy" quite well, so take the money now and answer questions later!

Yep. If you make a mistake, make it like you mean it...because at the moment you do!

So, the object of the game should be for the pitchers and the defense to get as many batters out in succession as possible?

Looks like The Bieb is not a fan either!

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And now, nearly eight years later, I'm listening to it. It's funny to hear a less-than-perfectly rehearsed show get through/over the moments of uncertainty by faking absolute certainty until they can actually have it. Professional all the way! Bernard Purdie's work on these shows should be Required Listening for any and all drummers who have never played a show before. Drive the bus, man, drive the bus.

They would look to see if he had something they could sell. It would be dance, or it would be irony, or it would be alienation, or perky, something. Back in the day, Steely Dan sold "Quirk", that was how they gained momentum, not GREAT MUSIC, but "quirky music". And there was a market for that then. Quirk was something you could sell, and then pivot the quirk into "musicianship" and "impeccable production" and other such other tings to sell to people would will buy it. But ask you average Steely Dan fan from, say, 1978, hey, what's going on in this music, what makes it different, what are they doing with the words, why do these records sound so good, everything's so clear, how does that work? Most would not know or care at all, most of the rest would probably have a few subliminally absorbedPR blurs ready to paraphrase, and a few geeks who actually know music and record making would have answers that none of other fnas would want to hear, because, you know, that stuff's BORING. People will sell what people are buying, and they will not try to convince you to buy otherwise until you convince them that you want something else. So, like, I don't blame a shoe store for not having a meat case in the center isle.