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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.

Benda on the front cover, Bender, on the back cover personnel listings and liner notes. Nat Hentoff's liners call it a nom-de-circumstance. Damn neolojisms.

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Get a dobro.

I'm familiar with a good chunk of the 1939 and beyond period, not so much the earlier stuff...and what I do have has been collated as non-Hawk-centric sets, so...like I said, it's the cumulative effect that is really strong for me. Probably done for today, and might not have listening time tomorrow, plumbers are coming for a bit of renno work (yeah, "renno", too damn cutesy-clever for me, but that's all anybody says anymore, damn them) and I can't relax with workers in the house, just because. But I'm ready to get to 1940 and beyond, becuase I know what's there, jsut haven't heard it all at once like this. People need to buy this set. It's about as serious a document of about as serious a musician as you can get.

The duets with Buck Washington are whotally new to me...holy shit, so much tenor. Just so much tenor. And then there's the five-year gap where Hawk takes a boat away from home and then finally takes another one home and then BAM there you are in 1939, and there's all these new harmonic ideas (ideas, not "way of playing") showing up and it's like, whoa, Hawk is in the process of Beating Music At Its Own Game. I've hear a lot of this stuff in bits and pieces over the years, but to follow it chornologially all at once like this set allows is a serious mindfuck. Holy shit! That's my review. Holy shit!

My bad, that should have read "a full growed-ass man". Hawk!

Didn't know that it was famous, but I do remember being pretty much stunned watching it live, and made it point to VCR it the next time it was on...and then wore out the tape just replaying that one tune. Guess I wasn't the only one, eh?

Every time I listen to Fletcher Henderson charts, it amazes me that these guys played all these charts all night long. That's a lot of playing for just one chart, never mind all night, all week! And Hawk...Jesus, I'm just finishing Disc Three, and LORD have mercy, so much tenor, so much music...and it's only 1933...35 more years of playing lie ahead, and when you hear the stories of how when the work really slowed down he chose to more or less drink/starve himself to death...it makes sense. Not to be too dramatic about it, but guys like this were true warriors. No battles to fight, no life to live.

Ah yes, the Diane Linkletter syndrome in action!

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Who's playing the piano starting at 2:48? Since the piano chair is empty, I'd say it's probably god.

Everybody I've ever known who looks like that is at heart a "creative uses for canned mushroom soup" type person, and this article feels like that to me. Mind you, I have no objections to creative uses for canned mushroom soup!

I was just going to say!

Maybe halfway through the first disc, and already I'm getting shivers realizing just how truly badass Hawk was from jump. Can't help but hear this earliest stuff in the context of what was to come, even/especially the boldly defiant Last Gasps, and...wow. Coleman Hawkins was a full-growed man from Day One.

That's what I'm going to do, starting, probably, this morning.

It's eight bucks at amazon. I'm old, they're older still. It should be a pleasant diversion with a good back story.

This is one where I'm glad there's two sides, because listening to Side One only of the LP is just right for me. The CD as a whole tends to bog down later on, imo, so I just skip Side Two.

You can ask what you want, but the first $350 offer you get, take it and run.