JSngry

Somewhat low-but-benevolent expectations mostly met, occasionally not met, and every now and then very pleasantly exceeded. The first two cuts set up hopes for a real gem, but hey...maybe this is the At Peace At Last Love You. Or not. BTW, "Summer's Gone", the song co-written by Jon Bon-Jovi, is a little on the eerie side, and in a good way, another (the last?) in a distinguished line of Beach Boys album closers such as "Caroline No" (which surely it is meant to reference) & "For Once In My Life" that can, if you so desire, choke you up (and wipe away the memories of the overall averageness of the album that was beginning to accumulate). It's a pop song, so..it is what it is, and you get out of it what you bring to it, which for me is more or less a quarter-century of Pulling for Brian, Because I Believe. Seems like he's finally at peace with The Whole Thing (which was so much darker for him than This Whole World). Maybe there's no more need to pull, maybe's he's finally made it there. Sure hope so. Summer's gone. Indeed.

Bar music!

Just a part of regular Japanese wrestling according to my son, who's a bit of a wrestling-in-all-its-incarnations aficionado. Pretty creative, and highly athletic, I think. To say nothing of being just outright goofy!

Well, this is an odd one... Kinda like Fat Albert Rotunda goes looking for Hot Rats...or something. Really werd keyboard sounds, and really weird self-penned liner notes extolling the virtues of same. OTOH, everybody's playing their ass off in that early-70s L.A. stretchy-jazz-rocky kinda way. Charles Owens in particular gets lively & frisky, & Sal Marquez is heard to good advantage (this being around the time he was with Grand Wazoo. iirc). Don't really know trombonist Yusef Rahman, but he's got good chops and energy both. I'd developed a relexive dislike for Mike Deasy afeter his work with Cannonball, but he's on one side here, and actually plays nicely. Interesting record, actually, especially Johnson's weirdass keyboard work, just not at all what I was expecting in terms of direction.

Q.E.D.!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITyerAFZm24

Is this the only documentation of Ameen's playing outside of his work with Cecil Taylor? If so (and probably still so even if not), a major contribution to the discography. I thought he was on a DAAGNIM record, I know he came to town ca. 1978-79 and we rehearsed and recorded at least one gig, but looking on the shelves, I don't see anything, so I guess not. Wondering "whatever happened to...", this was found: http://bhss63.resolutioncorp.org/biography.htm Not updated since 2004, though.

Just finished the set. Stunning. I've been a customer since the beginning, and I say this with full consideration - his may be the set that meets the Mosaic "mission" more completely than any other. And that's saying a lot. But...I think so.

Pittsburgh calleth!

Clarence Carter Stroker Ace Bram Stoker

Right now it's looking like the 2010 series will be close compared to what's coming up. This team is lost right now. Plenty of baseball left, but...enjoy your blood. There should be plenty of it!

Edna Everage Joe Bloggs The Man on the Clapham Omnibus Charlie (here he comes, clap hands!) Mister Charlie Bobby Short

Hard to say that the wheels are coming off for the Rangers with only about a third of the season gone, but things are rapidly reaching critical mass as far as it being "just a lull". Whatever fight/resilliance/killer instinct/whatever this team had starting out appears to be all but gone. One hopes for a revival (and is thankful that the rest of the AL has been equally inconsistent), but....DAMN. This shit ain't gonna work. Summer's gonna be long enough as it is.

jsngry is discovering coleman hawkins - and the enthusiasm is appropriated! keep boppin´ marcel "Discovering" Hawk? Hardly. Getting a deeper appreciation of the earlier Hawk, yes. Feeling something powerful by the focused intensity that the presentation allows, definitely. But discovering Coleman Hawkins? Sorry, that got underway 40 something years ago. So...no. But do keep boppin'!

Get the dobro. Be heard. Scare dogs when approriate. Become a folk hero. Get a writeup. Score a record date. Get rich. Retire. Sell the dobro. Circle complete, mission accomplished.

First Neftali Feliz to the DL, now Derrek Holland. http://www.lonestarball.com/2012/6/7/3070578/derek-holland-to-the-disabled-list And still no room to give Scott Feldamn the Wardell Gray treatment. Looks like the Giants will get to see both him a spot-starting Ogando (who's been a monster out of the pen, but...). Rejoice ye Candlestickians! (sic) C'mon Roy, time's a-waistin'!

Pretty unamusing beverage, actually. Sugar water, mint leaf, and bourbon. From the same people who think that Sweet Tea is a treat, Imagine taking a bourbon and coke (a respectable and pleasant enough waste of bourbon, especially not particularly good bourbon), and replacing the coke with a glass of water that somebody poured a buttload of sugar into, and then they say, hey, lets add some prissy-ass mint leaves to make it taste even better. No, no, no.

Plumbers had to reschedule, they got called to a gas leak (hopefully nowhere near me!), so I got the day to finish the set. First time I've ever been thankful for a gas leak! Starting w/Disc 6, and it's funny...there's all these big band cuts starting off, and they're all good, but after the way Disc 5 ended with some leanish smaller group things, the big bands now sounds a little bloaty, a little too predictable, irrelevant even. Hawk plays great, of course, but once again, the all-at-onceness of this set really throws a bright light on why the big-band format was beginning to feel stifling to some players. I mean, no amount of written riffing or other background is going to sound as fresh and plugged in as Coleman Hawkins digging in and letting loose, Benny Carter was a great writer, but his writing did not need Coleman Hawkins' solo skills, and vice-versa. Although getting both in the same place is a treat, neither one needs the other in order to be successful. The music was evolving not just personalities, but skill sets to match. In the Henderson band, the soloists and the charts were all of the same piece. Now, things were changing. So we're left with two viable evolutionary options going forth - big bands turn more and more into a writer's medium and prime soloists venture more and more into the small group format. And as it turned out, economic forces worked to the advantage of both of these paths. In the years to come, a Carter-writing/Hawkins-soloing evet such as Further Definitions would be a great (truly great) event, but it had to get away from here before it could get to there. People need to buy this set, for real. So much music, so much to think about as it goes along.

Ah, okay, I just have the CD which lists him as Jackie McLean. I picked up the Vik LP years (decades, actually...damn!) ago in Albuquerque, for some absurdly low price. Kinda took me aback, because I was completely unaware of the album then, and thought that Vik was more a or less a "budget" label, the RCA equivalent of Epic. So I figured that Ferris Benda/Bender was just some one-off junkie who passed through the Messengers for a day or two. Got home, put the record on, and WHOA, HEY, I know who THAT is! Quite the :g :g moment, that was!

An American classic! http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/9/Campbells-Green-Bean-Casserole

How 'bout we synergize and use this for target practice?

A dobro will be loud and draw attention. No amp needed, plus you can intimidate snooty small animals with big attitudes.. You should have one handy, just in case.

It's Rudy Rutherford.