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Wonder if the inclusion of this on in that recent "monster box at cut-rate price" thing is indicative of this new Japanese issue finding its way into "other hands" a little prematurely, or if that box just used a needle-drop.

Got a copy in the early 80s, saw the personnel and the concept and had some hopes...and am still trying to find a way to like it as anything other than a "document"...the whole is less than the sum of the parts, I think.

MJQ MFQ MJT + 3

Ah!

Spitball man? No comprendo... NP: What reason could I give for buying this? "What Reason Could I Give?", that's about the only one. And this is not that.

Last album to have Charles Stepney's contributions. RIP, and DAMN!!! All this and all that about this and that, but some things you just can't get around, and EW&F firing on all cylinders is one of them.

The thing about Don Sebesky was that he was a total pro, meaning that if the client/job wanted/called for bullshit, then bullshit he'd give you. But if you wanted something really good, he could do that too. Both abilities are on ample display on this Peggy Lee album. Get them both over to CTI, let that thing do its thing, I think it might have been pretty nice. Not crazy.

Lee's 1971 Capitol album Where Did They Go? (partially arranged by Sebeskey) includes blatant fails like "My Sweet Lord" & ""Sing", but there's a few keepers, notably a really gorgeous version of "I Was Born In Love With You" with a wholly uncompromisingly expansive chart by Sebesky that begs for that Creed Taylor close miking/RVG reverb combo & Ron Carters Bass Hum Of Infinity, but instead of Creed Taylor making a whole album of properly sounding proper material like this for CTI, no, this is Snuff Garrett on Capitol, and...no...that's just not good enough.

I don't know where they went, but she should have gone to CTI

...get Peggy Lee to do a CTI album arranged by Don Sebesky? Ca.1972? Leaning yes in possibility, but realityising no. Willing to listen, though. Convince me! Motivation of thought - hearing some of her 70s work and not feeling that anybody involved understood why they shouldn't be doing what they did the way they did it, and thinking that, DUH, CTI would not have that problem with doing that with all that. Problem - Peggy Lee by then in that arena...probably not going to show up no matter what. But all things being unreal, in theory...well, would you?

If I were you, I'd just say "phuk itt".

NP: Produced for Abbott Laboratories! The biggest words on the back cover are these:

It filled a hole in my Gil Evans collection and it was under $5.00, so...

I think we should all say "fuck it" and then get to lunch while we can still get a table!

Keeping up with the implications of Trane's harmonic systems, not aping every aspect of him. We've been through this before, but "keeping up with" the music itself is nothing to look askance at, especially for players who start out learning and not just playing more or less purely intuitively. Besides being a charismatic spiritual and social figure, John Coltrane was also a deep, profound musical thinker and theoretician. It should be neither surprise nor disappointment that a serious thinker disappointment that a serious thinker such as Land would be compelled to pay attention to and explore in the new territories that Trane was positing. If anything, it would be a surprise and a disappointment if he hadn't have done so. Thinkers gonna think. I do wonder if he had dental issuesat some point, though, because it does sound as though at some point his embouchure loosened quite a bit, perhaps more than would occur voluntarily.

God, did early digital recordings sound like shit. Not that this is particularly good music, but still...

You may well be right. I have only a faint memory of it.