JSngry

I think "how music sounds" to most people is a direct result of their agenda (which is really nothing more than their forward reaction to past experiences). In other words, you get out of it what you want/need to get our of it.

You sound like Jazz talking about The Beatles!

Never has the old maxim that "you play the way you talk" been more true!

Lester Young changed the world, and this set has a big chunk of the details, that's why.

I think their agenda is to just not be bothered.

I think most people have agenda about most things.

Absolutely!

"Abomination" is too strong...but "disappointment" isn't.

I'm sticking with Peter Sellers.

Enjoy!

Stick around for the Jones/Charlie Smalls dialogue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6vQgGpJcrw

Peter Sellers?

The characters in Character Map work fine on the board too, just in case the need arises.

hmmm.... Mel was like a big cushiony feather bed on top of some really badass boxsprings, Dawson like a really big, really, taut trampoline, maybe? Either way, Richard Davis was able to do magic in both!

The Duke Pearson Select. I had most of this material already on LPs of varying condition, so it's good to hear it all clean. I can also see how this material might not "grab" some people, but I find it endlessly fascinating in the minutiae, the little details of arrangement and production, particularly the Brazilian, material. Seems to me that Pearson was a bit ahead of the curve (and very, very sympathetic) to the second wave of Brazilian music that came to America. Even the "MOR" stuff with the vocal choir...there's some details in there that separate it from the generic. the choir's overtones on "Clara" in particular. And his piano work in both solo and accompaniment...there's this...attention to the finer points, the details within the details that I really hear here. Duke Pearson's status as "jazz giant" may be debatable, but not his status as an subtly yet unmistakably individual talent. I'm glad I picked up this set.

If you're not woring in Word already & need special characters, from the Start button/menu/whatever, go Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Character Map. There you can play to your heart's content, copying and pasting all kinds of characters in all kinds of fonts.

This is the PRE-marketing marketing campaign. Those of us who have heard it are testifying to the worthiness of the project. Those who haven't heard it but are intrigued enough will buy in the first wave, then come back here and, hopefully, testify further, Then those on the fence will be convinced that, yeah, ok, hey, limited edition, great music, trusted recomendations, what the hell, and then they go ahead and join the second wave of purchses. Then they come back, etc. Lather, rince, repeat. I'm a knowing and willing participant (and a wholly unsolicited one, fwiw) for this pre-marketing marketing campaign. becuase I know the music that was originally released, agree that it's most worthy of a broader/expanded hearing (for all the reasons already given), and have been noting less than most-impressed by JLHs attention to detail and quality in his projects to date. Stuff like this, great music issued in a relatively small quantity, inevitably has a small window of opportunity for being readily available. I always have $50.00 worth of stuff I can wait on in order to get in through that window. Always!

Check your email.

Have you met my friend The Internet?

That sound...

Might hilarious! Ke$ha is a running joke on a baseball board I lurk at, a shorthand for all things trahsy, whorish, and just plain WRONG. So the notion of Wynton pimping Ke$ha and referencing KB's Jazz as the context, was indeed ROTFLMFAO funny! The most indelible image in my mind of the Burns series was the montage of all the smack casualties while the Miles/Gil "Moon Dreams" played underneath. That was some manipulative-yet-still-powerful stuff. Nevertheless, better than nothing, I suppose, but with nothing being all there is to compare it too... hmmmm....

Had to look it up. Bill Lowe. Can't say that the name stands out.

Sonny also did a solo version of "It Could Happen To You". It's on Riverside. There actually was some solo Getz, but he was using the echoplex when it did it. Look for Another World on Columbia if you're interested.

Yeah, I don't blame you for leaving. He sounds moronic. See, I would have just asked him what he meant by that, that I didn't understand what he meant, please elaborate because I want to understand. Either he was gamin', in which case you've called him on it, or else he really did have an angle that he could elaborate on, in which case you do gain insight. The angle might still be bullshit, but we all got bullshit, ya' know? Either way, I just don't leave it hanging like that. I don't like leaving stuff like that alone, not unless I'm running late for something else, or something like that, or if it's my wife looking to set a trap. FWIW, I could see "irony" as being one manifestation of "tricksterism" You could go there. Or you could just be looking to psyche a mf out. But you never know for sure until you push it. He probably would have replied -- a la Louis Armstrong (or was it Fats Waller?) -- "If you have to ask, you'll never know." Oh, if you wanted to really push it, you could counter with, "Look motherfucker, I know what I mean, I'm white, remember, I get irony. Hell, my people apparently invented it. I want to know what you mean. Do black folks not ever use irony? Really? Explain, please! If you can't explain, you don't know!" Of course, I would be smiling all the while... And seriously, I can see, sorta, how he might have been coming that "irony" was too facile a description to describe Monk's relation to the material. The word carries with it a certain urbane, bow-tied finiteness, I think. Or it once did. Now it's reserved for too-cool cynical hipsters. Either way,, a "white" image. But still...the concept is a lot bigger than the word, and besides, the notion that Monk hated all standards is just waywack too simplewrong. People who try to liberate by confinement are getting it wrong in pretty much every way. Oh, and George Lewis never uses irony, eh? Trust me - nothing is too pedantic for jazz fans.