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Yes, and?

That's as nicely a structuired, paced, and presented set of music as I've seen in quite a while. Getz as bandleader can be learned from, onstage, anyway.

Was Roy Haynes ever not the best-dressed man on stage?

Bengie Molina have retired. Officially. http://www.mlbdailydish.com/2012/2/26/2826697/bengie-molina-retires His stay with the Rangers was brief, but memorable. All the best to him!

Do you mean Larry Ochs, or has something really strange been going on?

A Internet Is A Woman

The presence of many (the word "disproportionate" might have been used) white bass players in "the new thing" was commented on by either Baraka or Frank Kofsky, iirc. The "explanation" was that the new music required a level of technique that many black bassists had not yet acquired because they had been busy being satisfied being timekeepers. The explanation went on to say that these guys were cool to play the music, because they were sympathetic to the cause, musically and socially. But...then there was this: at least for a little while...

Either that of logo-ized magnifying glasses. Merchandise!

I'd say to get the Complete set and burn/playlist accordingly. I'm sure the cover/liner notes can be found.

Creepy, eh? As I am in the middle of a somewhat halfway serious (and reasonably successful) attempt to re-evaluate Kenton as objectively as I can, I''ll refrain from saying,"well, DUH!" Creepy, eh?

Did the heckling stop when Roswell Rudd started to play?

How was that? I said I wasn't crazy about the record, and I'm not, but in all fairness, the mix sucks. The vocals are way too up-front, the band too far back, and the result is what comes across as two different time feels and melodic senses independently occurring simultaneously. Maybe that would have happened anyway, no matter the mix, but...maybe not.

Yessir - Punky Brewster her ownself.

Harry James' band, eh? Playing those Kenton charts (mostly Niehaus & a few Holman, as I understand it)...I'd like to have heard that, especially if her time with James overlapped Buddy Rich's time with James. Hope she retired to a life of sanity and relative domesticity, and not one of frustrated singer trying to get gigs.

I'm trying to remember what esteemed critic it was who referred to the Miles Prestige Quintet sides with Trane as "the Hot Fives of Hard Bop"...that too was an after-the-fact quote, but it goes to show how selective categorization tells more about the categorizer than it does the category... [ADD: I think it was Dan Morgenstern who referred to those Miles albums like that.]

And yet to most other people, critics and listeners alike, these "exceptions" were hard bop, perhaps even the best examples of it! On the one hand, the Miles quintet with Trane & Sonny with Max & Clifford were considered defining moments of Hard Bop (and with Miles. the Walkin' album was considered a pivotal/birthing moment). And then all of a sudden they're not. Why? Because the children were not up to the level of the parents? That disproves familial ties? Those bad kids, they can't be yours, they just can't be! I don't like hamburger but I love steak, so...steak must not be beef, because hamburger is beef. If I like it, it can't be something I don't like, because my taste trumps realtiy. And I got print space to prove it! That's critics also changing the question to fit the answer. Once again, Karma runs over Dogma.

See, I think that's altering the reality of "then" to fit with the perception of "now". Jones' interests of that time were definitely with "hip Black Jazz" (my phrase, not his) and to selectively remove "Hard Bob" from that definition is to overlook the reality that all sorts of musics were in general viewed as being "hard bop" of some fashion at the time. So, yeah, you include Benny Golson, but you also include Trane. You included Donald Byrd but you also include Miles. You include the Jazztet, but you also include Miles' Quintet/Sextet. Etc. And you include Wayne Shorter (with Maynard Ferguson, no less!) and Sonny Rollins (the archtypical "Hard Bop Tenorist" in the eyes of many for quite a long time, up to and including the present, but especially in 1959). You can't apply a definition based on a retroactive codification to the realities of a time when that definition was not yet anywhere near as narrowed down and codified as it later became. That's altering the question to fit the answer.

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Sears, eh? Back when stores were excited to have alternative (and cheaper) versions of popular stuff. It's like, ok, fewer songs on one tape, but portable. You can have portable and more songs one tape if you get something else from someplace else, but we're going to offer you fewer songs and portable, because we're Sears, Wal-Mart's not been invented yet, and we think you'll want this. America's Golden Age!

It's always now. Now's the problem! And the solution! Time is the enemy of time! I see why people get all worked up over all this stuff. It's really quite the conundrum.

Thad/Mel/Joe Williams (on UA instead of Solid State) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200719542626&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123 Was this before or after 4 Track players on contemporaneous? I've heard of a lot of different formats, but never this one! Hey - Jimmy Smith on 2 Track!

Well, that was now. Now it's then. Tempis fuggit!!!. :g