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Magnets can wipe out CDs? For real? As I understand the science, sunspots can suck all the 1's off your CDs, leaving only the 0's. This will cause Willis Jackson to sound like Kenny G. And possibly vice versa. That's the down side. The upside is that if the math works that way, it might simultaneously render Kenny G inaudible. In spite of my cynicism, at root I'm an incurable optimist.

Say, Paul, what do you know about this Dick Kenney guy? That's a new one on me, but the AMG shows that he is/was a player of some accomplishment.

Tax-deductable, all of 'em!

Buckner was louder than shit!

Still trying to figure out how a magnetic storm will erase my CDs. Help?

That didn't sound like a soundtrack to me. That sounded like two dudes getting it on right there in the studio.

Gracias beaucoup!

Whatever it was, glad to hear you've survived it, and exceptionally glad to see your return!

After reading this http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dick-kenney-p178368/biography it might be Dick Kenney, of whom I had never heard before... Considering that it's him on the other cuts, it's probably him here. I was guessing Moon based on a few odd cuts I've heard of him with Kenton, but if it sounds like the guys on the otehr cuts, then my guess is that it's Kenney. The one that for all these years I've kept that Pickwick LP is Pomp Stomp, specifically the Bill Perkins solo therein. Sweeeeeeeettttt....

Now that the question's been answered, is it ok to add that on the whole I find these musics to be good but not great, with the exception of the jam that puts together Buddy Tate, Charles McPherson, Cat Anderson, Jimmy Owens, Roland Hanna, Milt Buckner, Charles Mingus, & Alan Dawson, which is darn-near "desert island" music for me?

You'd be surprised. Not everyone self-promotes or is being promoted. If you don't hear it it may as well not exist, in the opinions of some. Doesn't mean it's not there. Seek and ye shall find. You mean like John Board? Marvin Cabell? Lewis Hubert? (ok, not fair on Lewis..playing bari on B.B. King records and only playing jazz tenor in local clubs doesn't count...but then again, yes it does, that's the point, right).

I have "Pimlico" on an old Pickwick LP that's half Harry James, half Woody Herman (and ALL man!!!!). Just had a listen, and it sounds like you got Cy Touff starting things out, then a duet between Touff & Keith Moon (on trombone, not drums), then Moon finishes up.

Afraid not, but somebody did write (in inkpen) All Cuts OK Sounds A Lot Like Shearing (ALS). Not really sure to which Shearing album(s) ALS was referring, but....ok...

Is that a combination of the two Choice albums?

And as far as "machines" allowing people to sound instruments outside of their practical range, hell, an instrument is a machine in the first place, so having a computer play a bass note so low or a violin note so high that it's "not playable" ignores how it's ultimately all just sound, and that this would not even be a "concern" if the "machines" of basses and violins did not exist in the first place. Back on the old BNBB, I was chided by one guy in particular for referring to this being a time of paradigm shift. Well hell, what else is it if not that?

Unless, of course, the real-life performance doesn't involve human players (which it increasingly does not). Then, you can do anything. Not that you should, but... I know a lot of guys, horn players, singers, everybody, who are getting solo gigs, just them and their tracks. I place the blame for most of these tracks being dull and unimaginative on the dull and imaginative person who created them (usually the player themself, who, surprise, surprise, is also dull and imaginative), not some innate flaw in the technology, not these days. Plenty of hesitancies remain, and I think this is just the beginning stages of what will be a long, ongoing evolution, but I think it's a good thing overall that technology removes the imperative from society to give a positive reward to just "doing something". A stage full of mediocrity playing a night's worth of mediocrity in a most mediocre fashion can no longer be really justified/celebrated as "supporting live music", not when you can get just as much mediocrity from one person and one computer (or even better, no people and no computers). People say, "awww, that's not real music", to which I would say that dreck made by 8 people as opposed to dreck made by one is still dreck, and why should we be bemoaning the thinning of the dreck-herd? Human interaction? One of the biggest jokes at all is when musicians complain about a lack of human interaction when they're being ignored in a room full of people engaging in human interaction. Talk about irony! Or vanity, or cluelessness, or whatever sel you got. I know a bandleader who gets all upset and insecure when people eat during a dinner set instead of dancing. Fucking A, dumbass, it's a DINNER set. If people are enjoying their dinner while you're playing, you're freaking DOING YOUR JOB THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE DONE!!! Yeah, I'm grumpy today. but even on a great day, I look at it like, if you can't bring something to the table that can't be replaced by a machine, you either don't have the skills to match the machine (in which case, practice!) or else don't have the understanding of what is really being sought (in which case, start separating business from music and see what insights develop that can turn wishful thinking into an objective appraisal of reality), so...it's not like there's no more lessons to be learned from the Industrial Revolution, ya'know?

Helen Merrill Helen Forrest Helen Ward

S.J. Perelman C.J. Wilson X.J. Kennedy

She appears to have disappeared.

Glad to see all the recognization of your birthday! :tup :tup

I dig it...and it's got Marvin Cabell...but it's Creed Taylor/Kudu, meaning that it's not aimed so much for the "jazz audience" if you know what I mean. But it does have a groove, and it does have Marvin Cabell, so that's good enough for me. Your milaeage may vary.

Up again...the more years pass, the more awesome this thing gets.