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All I see is a head and a trumpet, a hand, and some orange-red tinting. Nothing really "period" there. What am I missing? Sweat?

It's an option when you start a topic, an empty box just below the main title box.

PM sent on *** Gillespie, Dizzy Big Band Queen Shrine Auditorium 8/31/49 *** Goodman, Benny in Moscow RCA 2 lp *** Leggio, Carmen Smile Progressive *** Sims, Zoot Waiting Game Impulse mono *** Thornhill, Claude Real Birth of the Cool (Evans arrangements) CBS Sony Japan *** Thornhill, Claude Tapestries-Seventeen Classic Gil Evans Arrangements Affinity 2 lp Oops, I see Lon's already claimed the Zoot. My bad, sorry.

These aren't Wilmer covers photos below, but still...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/212086258/billy-harper-finally-presents-his-60-voice-project Voices! Yes!

But don't use a comma or it breaks up the tag, right? Next best thing, it seems to me.

Short Fat Fannie Loud Mouth Annie Fran Drescher starring as The Nanny

It beats vinegar and/or my mother-in-law!

I like the colors ok, but...that photo is from, when, 1959? There are some Val Wilmer photos taken from around the same time that would have made really spectacular covers. Are they dated? Yeah, sure, but when you put "1969" right there on the cover, it's not like you're running away from anything. That cover is like this one in reverse:

This isn't some off-day vault-emptying Blue Note session. Ever heard of the legendary-yet-non-existent Frontier label (and not that many people have, so the legend is strong but shrouded)? This is from that. I mean, ok, there's some chance that it might not be "great" (although so few things truly are, so...). But my money's on it being at the very least halfway good, and definitely not "not good". My favorite Clifford Jordan record, bar none, is In The World, and this is of the same time/place/people/everything, so yeah, it's a no-brainer/safe bet for me, even at $22. YMMV, etc.

My mother-in-law is 95 and swears by vinegar as a cure-all for darn near anything. Then again, she dowsn't know Phil Woods from Phil Silvers, so she may not know as much as she think she does. But it kinda looks like the people who would know for sure will all be dead before they get to call her bluff, so...outlasting the speculators FTW, please.

Collective personnel for Albam's WSS album (overlaps bolded): Al DeRisi, Bernie Glow, Joe Newman, Ernie Royal, Nick Travis (tp) Tommy Mitchell, Bob Brookmeyer, Jimmy Cleveland, Jim Dahl, Chauncey Welsch (tbn) Gene Quill, Sol Schlinger, Al Cohn, Frank Socolow, Eddie Wasserman (ww) Hank Jones, Eddie Costa - p Wendell Marshall, Milt Hinton - b Osie Johnson - d Between these two albums...who's missing? Not too many...

Tony Malaby is indeed a great player whose work I find compelling, but his work - and that of others similarly "positioned" - does not interesect with the Collective Perception Of Now the way that the Music Of The Dead Giants did. Ripple Effects, like elections, have consequences. It's got nothing to do with "worth", or "deserving". It's just physics. How do you make another ripple of that size? Throw a big enough rock that hits a big enough body of water just the right way. Physics. In the meantime, a big ripple in a small pond matters, espeically if it's in your pond. I grew up around plenty of ponds that were not as big as some people's houses, ponds that were full of wide and varied delights, dangers, and a lot of things in-between. So I appreciate small ponds at least as much as I do giant oceans. But when people-at-large go to contemplating Great Bodies Of Water, the conversation will inevitable turn to Ocenas, not a pond made from the flooding Sabine River causing Lake Brushy to overflow into the Boles Lease. Even though I myself have caught many more fish in that pond than I have out of any ocean. So I don't begrudge the conversation. But I know where to go catch a bunch of perch for dinner. Or did, anyway. A big bunch of that water has evaporated from the Earth, and will continue to do so until it comes back, and then people will have no choice but to notice. But not until. Not anybody's "fault", really. Just the way shit go. Let's All Go Down To The Footwash

I don't know if it's GOOD or not. With those people from that time, it'll be pretty hard for it to be "not good". That's why I quit smoking & drinking, doing recreational substances, and started downloading obscure hopelessly records from disapproved sources, so that when it costs $22 to find out how good a session with Clifford Jordan, Don Cherry, Wilbur Ware, & Ed Blackwell is, I ain't gotta worry about did I spend my money wisely or not. Well, that's not the only reason, but it may well be the BEST reason!

Is the question why there is more ongoing talk about music that has been heard repeatedly by millions of people over the span of 20-30 years than there is about music that was only heard once by 25-100 people? new york is full of lonely people

By the same token, the band that played Manny Albam's charts for his West Side Story album...not real crazy about the charts or the solos, but I don't know that I've ever heard a better ensemble blend between players on an album of that nature. All the usual suspects are in place, and it's obvious why the were the usual suspects.

The Mavs have been a solid team, but they could/should have been a helluva lot more than that. Cuban is a "player's owner", as is Jerry Jones (although not quite as blatantly/indesriminately), and when push comes to shove, his pets will get their way. Same result either way -players "doing their best" but the team not getting the best results, with a lot of "aw shucks" in the wake. The overall team focus/discipline level is lays just THAT much short. Hell, even the one year they won the ring - should they have gotten that far, or was the opposition even less focused. I mean, the Mavs were together that year, but a less distracted Lakers and/or more disciplined Thunder could have taken them w/o too much trouble. But they didn't, so that's that. But still...not impressed. There should have been more, longer, before then. And I'll fault Cuban directly for it not happening. Team culture uber alles. OTOH, Cuban eviscerating Skip Bayless on ESPN was one of the great moments in sports media history, so credit where credit is due, for sure.

It's the never-issued Frontier session w/Clifford Jordan, Don Cherry, and Ed Blackwell. Are you there yet?

I've occasionally wondered what Gerald Wilson arranging for (and interpreted by) Stan Kenton's later-ish bands would have sounded like, and have come to the conclusion that the answer would be Dee Barton. A win for everybody, that one!

It cost me $22 to have it sent to Texas (to where it is currently in transit), so $25 may or may not be as much as it seems.

And if you know Chewy, he's the most dangerous man in the continental United States, bar none. He'll come and GETCHA! Who do you think it was who really cut off Hampton Hawes' extra finger?

fwiw, we've tried a few of Fieri's recipies fro the Food Network website and have had good results, espcially on some kind of pork with cherry-habanero(?) sauce, really good, that one. but of course, having some good recipies and having a good restaurant ain't the same thing, so hey, we'll just fix it ourselves, thanks!

CTI vinyl was clean back in the day when it was new. They used that stuff in stereo stores to demo equipment. Ron Carter should get back royalties from how many speakers his bass sound sold... Maybe they got played a lot by people who weren't always careful. In fact, no maybe about it!

If Mark Cuban was Jerry Jones, everything would be different except the end results. Just sayin'....

Would it be their band?