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What's taht one that goes bop bop-bop bop-ba-bah-ba-ba bop-ba-bah-bah and then repeats over a IV chord, then a V chord, then circle-of-fourths out...and then slows down for the bridge? They used to play it a lot during intermissions at the movies. I thought it was called "Intermezzo", but it's not.

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More often than not, I've found that to be a propitious rule for life in general.

Yep. Once you try to get me to spend my money on your product, hey...at least act like you care at least a little. OTOH, if you don't give a damn if I stay at home wearing 20 year-old shirts and hats and stuff, or if I turn a game on for a few minutes once or twice a season,hey, I can do that too. When it comes to sports, I can be totally platonic about it, or I can get all the way up in there, if you know what I mean. But it's gonna be my choice, so keep that in mind, franchises.

Oh, trust me, every instrument does, especially at music schools. Guitar has the largest audience (and I'm sure oboe or bass trumpet the smallest), but you can find copies of Modern Drummer, Keyboard, Saxophone Journal, etcetcetc at any decent urban/suburban newsstand. If people play it, there's geeks for it. (full disclosure: when left alone and hungry, i can become a full-frontal tenor geek. but that's just between us, ok?) And it's as much a "gear" thing as it is anything. Never, ever, underestimate the power of gear. Without gear, there'd be left with nothing but music...

It was supposed to be Insights, the cover says so, and Dusty Groove sold it to me as such, but I'll be damned if it's not. Oh well, just three bucks, and I didn't have this one either, so..oh well!

All I ask is that they allow me to feel like I'm not being played for a sucker. That part is between them and my money. Now, whether I actually am or not, well, that's between them and god.

Yeah, this holiday season, give your loved ones the gift of live music that nobody has to pay for!

True. But OTOH, is a lot easier to be an engaged at a more, shall we say, intense and engaged level when you feel like your team and its organization is giving its best effort to provide a quality product and not just sitting there not really giving too much of a damn willing to collect whatever they get from whoever else doesn't really give too much of a damn. Being a Rangers fan (and former Cowboys fan, and trying-to-get-back-into-it-without-much-success Mavericks fan) I think that gives me the cred to go there with it too.

It still takes be a while to separate what is Toshiko's own voice and what is the "West Coast Studio Players" accent, and I may never be able to do so completely (and maybe in the end there is no real difference?), but one thing I am sure of is that both are there, which makes for No Easy Conclusions other than that this is incredibly difficult music - and very personal - played incredibly well.

I like to think of them as good players (and Eric Johnson is a very good guitarist) who play a music that is too "good" to be Popular yet too "accessible" to be "art" for a market that is too small to be Big yet too big to be Small. They're viewed as "cult figures" in mainstream circles, but any jazz cult figure would look at them as big stars. It's a whole weird "in-between zone" in every way imaginable. As always, the "truth" depends on where you're standing and what you're looking at.

Don't think so...more of a "fusion" type guy back then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Johnson The Electromagnets were HUGE around here in the late 70s, early 80s, a lot of buzz and drooling guitarists everywhere they went, and not without cause. The guy's got skills.

Ok,, Side Two opens up a little more, sounds more personal. But still, the diddly-diddly-diddly thing is something that would need to be worked through (and was). There's other ways to make those overtones move than going diddly-diddly-diddly.

Many of those names are familiar...seems to be all Austin cats (or guys who ended up in Austin)? Eric Johnson, wow, there's a name from the past!

Juhani Aaltonen Prana - Live at Groovy (Leo) - w/ Reggie Workman & Edward Vesala Keep coming back to this one to see if I can ever get into it at a level deeper than "respect", but so far no. His later work, though, is a different story. But here, all I can hear here is a guy who's competently and sincerely copped that late-Trane thing but isn't really speaking much past that, musically or personally. Then again, that's a tough row to hoe, and he eventually did. And Reggie Workman is always good to hear.

He might be in some circles, but it's a big state and the cross-pollination between the various music hubs is surprisingly slight. Even Dallas & FW don't intermingle all that much. Tell you what, though - I'm glad I've heard of him now!

Never heard (or heard of) Mitch Watkins, but I liked that track, and it appears that if I'm not familiar with him, it's not his fault! http://www.mitchwatkins.com/Various/MitchBio.html So that's Flip Phillips doing Prez, eh? Pretty amazing likeness, nothing I would have expected to hear from Flip. Douglas w/Zorn & strings...that all makes sense, then. Never would have guessed any of those. Neat!

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Dusty Groove is only carrying some of these, and not a very many some. The bastards. But I ordered the Marlena from CD Japan & paid for EMS. It got here in less than a week. The shipping (1200 yen) cost more than the CD (951 yen), but it's hard to argue with the speed. Them joneses ain't free.

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You might well find it eminently disposable and/or despicable! But maybe not...What it won't be is "demanding" listening, and that will be by design. Tell you what, if you don't like it, your participation fee will be refunded in full. Either way, you have been added to the list jeffcrom The Magnificent Goldberg Hot Ptah (hard copy) Bright Moments mikeweil Big Al Jim R relyles Hardbopjazz kh1958 (hard copy) alex NIS felser webbcity Anybody else? It's free, and there's a few things on there that might actually get you laid. No promises on that one, though. Or refunds.

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