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And that's another thing I don't understand!

Most likely scenario if there was no conductor. It's a lot to do, but the guy had that kind of detail-oriented mind. Jack Somer http://albumcredits.com/Profile/126927

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Sounds legit to me. Call it what it is and proceed accordingly.

I like the JJ date, fine writing well recorded. I could've used some slightly more aggressive rhythm section work, though, especially the drumming. But maybe that's what JJ wanted? But that also asks the question - there's no conductor listed, and usually you need one in the studio, just to handle cues, countoffs, cutoffs, etc, little stuff like that. Maybe JJ did it all.. Wonder if there was one, but just uncredited? Quincy Jones, perhaps?

It's pretty low-key, for sure. Not what I was expceted, but I listened enough to engage at some point. I think there's some meat there, it's just sliced very thinly. Whether or not that was the intent, I haven't a clue. Maybe it's a Buddhist thing and I don't understand.

And why the feed store and not the farm/ranch, you ask? (or don't?) Just to show that Nature runs itself, but people always gonna need tools to work with it. To that end, after the feed store field tip, hit the hardware store. A real one, if you can find it.

It was never recorded. Royal called for it while it was still in rehearsal stage. But think about it -it works just fine at a fast tempo. Plenty of room for flashy drum fills and all that, not unlike "Cute".

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This past Halloween, my daughter wanted a pair of overalls so she could go as Luigi. Where to go, she asked. The usual suspects, and my first recommendations, Sears & Wal-Mart, did not carry any in-store (and you know you're living in some kind of World Gone Wrong when your local Wal-Mart doesn't carry overalls...). so I told her to try a feed store. We got one less than 10 minutes from the house, been there forever, back when all Plano was was a farm town. "What's a feed store?", she asked me. "Just go in there, you'll figure it out soon enough," I told her. Well she found it, and she went in. She called me right away. "What is all this stuff?" It was then that I realized that although I am in no ways a practitioner of the "rural lifestyle" now or ever, I sure as hell grew up around it, and I sure as hell knew that concrete is not required for life, if you know what I mean. I realized that I had neglected a key part of my daughter's upbringing. I think it would behoove many adults to spend some time in a feed store too. But definitely the young folk. Between concrete and cyberspace, there's a whole 'nother world that can and should outlive the others if and when it has to.

Because it's rude not to return calls.

That one was a lost opportunity to be a truly grreat album. Sinatra was not in the best of voice, and there were a lot of in-studio distractions. Listening to the studio reels on that one is not a pleasure. I'm not a fan of the Sands album either, although I'm in the minority on that one, it sees. It Might As Well Be Swing is the only one that captures both the singer and the band in top form, at least to my ears. A few cuts don't really make it for me, but the ones that do, hey, I'll gladly take 'em!

Remember that it was Royal who turned "Lil Darlin'" from a flagwaver into a belly-rubber.

It was usually Marshall Royal, not Basie, who rehearsed the band. Marshall Roya ran that band musically. It Might As Well Be Swing...that the songs were all "hits of the day" done in a swinging style, that was the idea behind the whole album, the concept. So it was that way by design. I actually like L.A. Is My Lady, although it's a minor work to be sure. Variable material, but a damn good band, good charts (whoever's they are), and Sinatra's in better voice than She Shot Me Down, which is another one I like in spite of itself.. I have a VHS of the LAIML "project", and it's fun too watch the band rehearsals and runthroughs with Sinatra. The clebrety drop-bys are not fun, but that's what fast-forward is for.

Yeah, the story broke here early yesterday evening and spread like wildfire. Still waiting for the full story to emerge (at first it was that he was in the club with Ian Kinsler, now it's that Ian was there to try to get him to go home), but it doesn't look like there's any way that something of some degree of bad didn't happen. This is why you're always "recovering" and never really "recovered". Let's hear it for ginger ale.

Take some kids to a feed store. Only after they figure it out should they be allowed to have an opinion. It's community service, that's what it is.

I say send every kid into a feed store and don't let them out until the lightbulb goes on. Then, if they want to do the poetry thing, fine. But only then. Feed stores. If you don't know where one is within driving distance of your crib, shame on you. And if you do know, stop on in, have a look around. Life writes its own poetry.

Hey, they're too busy making excuses for the next fuck up. How the hell do you expect them to handle the current one?

In between, there was this: Full set of images here: http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1250506

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Ok, I found this: http://udfilm.com/sonicmirror.html Here's a photo of Mr. Cobham, Sr. So...that doesn't really give any evidence of anything, really...

Those are all good questions, for none of which I have the answer. All I can readily find is that his family moved to America when he was 3 (so, no, no accent, not that I've ever heard), that his father was a pianist, and that he was fascinated early on with "the percussion instruments his cousins played." This says he was eight when the family moved: http://books.google.com/books?id=fSE00mknh0UC&pg=PA220&lpg=PA220&dq=billy+cobham+father+panama&source=bl&ots=-W6AxfleWO&sig=zQwK9YzZ7WkVC2zarGQeVP4sI8c&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iO4qT6naMoaFsgKIrpGwDg&sqi=2&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=billy%20cobham%20father%20panama&f=false

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The way they hit me at the time, Inner Mounting Flame was more or less a jam album, like a Gene Ammons Prestige date, Birds Of Fire got the composing and arranging and production all tightened up, like a Horace Silver Blue Note date, and the live album was just a damn good live album. I liked 'em all (loved 'em all, actually), but I think if I had to winnow it down to just one, it would be Birds Of Fire. Haven't really heard the Trident album. All that came out ex posto facto about all the tensions and ugliness going on gave me reason to suspect that there was good reason why it went unreleased. About Cobham being Panamanian, even though his family moved to the U.S. when he was pretty young, they were native Panamanians, iirc.