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Time to get a new dog? Or not? Either way, close call narrowly averted. Not all have been so lucky...

What did you think about the tenor playing?

It's not that complicated. Really, it's not.

Was this released before Bobo's? That would explain the whole Steve Hufsteter thing, probably.

Joe South channeling Pops Staples Deep Purple fans probably already know.

w/Pee Wee Russell & Bob Haggart & yes, Chico Hamilton. Among others. Kind of a "trad" version of The Further Adventures Of El Chico. Kind of. You'd need to ask Bob Thiele about that. Any one cut would be good/interesting/fun. There's eleven cuts, though. You'd need to ask Bob Thiele about that, too.

Freddie Hubbard - Sweet Return People play differently after they get used to playing for larger audiences. On the one hand, that's a drag, maybe, but on the other hand, why shouldn't they? Is intimacy a virtue in and of itself, always? Let's put it this way - this record sounds like the headliner's set at an once-upon-a-time outdoor summer jazz festival. Nothing too intricate, nothing too subtle, pretty broad strokes, but nobody's "playing down" either. Clean money, all things considered.

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Hope the studio had a plumber on call!

Sure he was hyper and pushy...but so was the music that was formulating as "rock and roll", as well as the image it so successfully projected. But that image, that vibe, that edge, was very, very soon co-opted, and for the most part has been ever since. Everybody and everything has "handlers" now. I like to keep that in mind. Especially nowadays when everybody's so "alienated" and stuff and there's such a good market for it. Dewey Phillips had no handlers, and if he was his own worst enemy, hell, who better or more appropriate (or more cosmically correct) to fill that role?

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Whoa...his mouth must've been so open that he swallowed himself!

Before I forget, thanks for bringing Dewey Phillips to Organissimo. It had been a long time since that CD was in my player. My pleasure! While I hear what you are saying, I grew up in the era of corporate, plastic rock djs and that's what I know and to a certain extent like. I found listening to those clips of Dewey unpleasant. So what you're saying is that you can live with watching porn, but seeing your neighbors doing it in their backyard because they make so much noise you can't help but look makes you squeamish?

Yep. He had a chance and he carpe diemed. One could say much the same about Miles.

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Well, that's a relief! Album covers, then?

Yeah, I got that CD. The airshots of him from the 60s are sad, but it's still funny as hell when he plays some band's lame B-side and says "better luck next time, boys". Like, the business has passed him by, he knows it's passed him by, but he just don't give a fuck, because he knows more about the real business than the business knows about itself. Can't bullshit a bullshitter, and all that. On the plus side, so much of the "wildness" in rock-and-roll is either staged or exaggerated or managed/controlled that when the real real thing comes along, it's cause for perspective.

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Came close more than once...

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Boy, can I relate to that...

Louis Bellson - Thunderbird After literally decades of asking, well, gee what did the original version of "Little Pixie" sound like, and after just as many decades of looking at this record and deciding I'd wait until next time to find out, next time has finally come. And wow, who knew? Not me! Now, next question - is there any album cover, any photo, period, of Louis Bellson play drums where his mouth is not open?

The reality is Own or Be Owned. The reality is that not everybody gets that. The reality is that only some who do get that figure out that you can never own everything/everybody, so you play the games you need to play to strike a balance that works for you. Some people set the bar pretty high for what that means to them. Some people don't. There's a lot of room in there for that one. The reality is that Miles was one of the ones who did get that, and that he played the games he played very well. Whether or not they were "good" games is but one point, not "the" point. Now that he's dead, some people gonna bitch and degregate b/c that bothers them (then and/or now), but too late for that. Play our own games and worry about your own results.

Cheapo-bought this one: Pretty much 1s & 2s on this one, no really strong 3s, but the 2s make the cut: "Ain't That Right" - an ugly girl song. I don't always like ugly girl songs, but when I do, I prefer them to be a putdown of somebody who thinks they're Miss Thing, and to have an idiomatically sympathetic tenor solo, so yeah, there it is."I Don't Know" - nothing really special, just a good Latin-Soul Love Song that does what it does by being what it is and leaving ot to somebody else to worry about it."Tuxedo Junction" - my god, I've had to play so many bad arrangements of this that were not fun...this one feels like fun, so, yeah, just because."Show Me" - groovy Joe Tex cover, totally works because of the horn's phrasing over the rhythm. More solos and this would be a 3."Black Coffee" - Same, only more so. Great tempo, great horn phrasing, KILLER groove, coulda been stretched out for the Discriminating Consumer, but oh well about that."Night Walk" - makes the cut, but barely. Curiosity factor more than anything. How did a Steve Huffsteter tune get on a 1967 Willie Bobo record?So, lessee...2:35 + 2:32 + 2:15 + 2:15 + 2:42 + 3:05 = 13:34 (it's a damn short album, that's for sure, > 30 minutes, and but only three tunes were on the original Finest Hour, including what I assume is the original version of "Evil Ways") 13:34 + 10:28 = 24:02 I now have, my my own criteria, Willie Bobo's Finest Hour and 24:02. Gettin' there!