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This was the first Adams solo I knowingly heard. Blew me away, totally. Still does. Agreed that he became more of a "stylist" as time went along (and from what I've now heard, maybe he was already one before he started working with Mingus), but still, a totally distinctive & personal voice. Great work with McCoy & Gil besides that with Mingus, and his That Old Feeling album on Blue Note just works for me, period, mannerisms and all.

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Stiff Meat-er indeed. What's "up" in that pants pocket? And whazzup with those two highly different eyes and the makeup thereon? Creepy!

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This is Delta music, right?

And you know what happened next... The world looks to Wilma Flintsone for approval, and Wilma Flintsone looks to the world for her next drink and the next guest. Some people are too clever by half.

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Do you work for John Beresford Tipton?

Really? How so?

Better for dancing than for listening.

Some really plowed flea-market "New York USA" copy that I only paid a buck or two for. The first side has so many needle-stickings that it's not funny, but Side Two is actually listenable. In spite of all the noise, both sides sound so much better than the CD (and my already-owned "black b" copy) in terms of presence and visceral OOOMPH that it only reinforces my notions that the outright dissing of these sessions that is afoot in some quarters is something about which I must file a formal protest with the commoner's office. That Volume 1, though, that's hard to find, always has been. Maybe it's the color scheme.

Booker T. gets into a zone on Side 2 of the Hooker thing!

There's energy aplenty, that's for sure!

And speaking of no bullshit...

Is this a great photo or what?

I've always liked this record, but the more realistic about life I become, the more I like it. Everybody had jobs to do, and everybody did them as well as could be done, with pride and excellence. And most importantly, the results aimed for and achieved the high end of possibility instead of cynically settling for the middle ground - or lower. The fact that the concept had a built-in ceiling is rendered irrelevant at some point, just as is the fact that that ceiling was finally reached at as high a level as it could be. My life lesson about this one is this - no matter what you do, don't bullshit with how you do it.

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Getting to LP 2 of this one today...what a great session...the material is wholly predictable and formulaic, as are many of the solos, but the feeling and conviction are so pervasive and...convincing that none of that matters. Bootie Wood is a treat as well (although I'm not sure that wood booty would be, but whatever). It's stuff like this that shows the difference between "native tongue" and "learned language". A story is never better told than in its native tongue.

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