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...because Bill Barron was a no-bullshit kind of guy. Quoth Da' Bastids: http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=mnwxp9t75c&ref=browse.php&refQ=kwfilter%3Dbill%2Bbarron%26amp%3Bincl_oos%3D1%26amp%3Bincl_cs%3D1 Giving it a first listen now, and if you dig Bill Barron, you will definitely want this most worthwhile issue. DG is currently out of stock, so either look elsewhere or put it on your Want List there.

And a song called "The Square Circle Of Life"...

I'm told by a reliable source that Disney now owns the film and "has no interest of releasing it". Yep, Disney.

I see no reason not to get both without hesitation.

That one was from Down Beat.

It's "Wahoo", isn't it?

Selig has feet?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milly_Scott http://www.koppop.nl/showArtist.php?bandId=795

From the comment section (emphasis added): Laughing at that one from every possible angle! :g :g

"Extortionate" might be an adjective, but it works better as a verb. Hell, just look at "conversate", it's breaking records from coast to coast! The time has come, and the time is now. Do not doubtify.

The Earl Of Sandwich Bread Whitman Mayo

KTBS report on the death: http://www.ktbs.com/news/30172283/detail.html And the memorial servic: http://www.ktbs.com/news/30215870/detail.html

Panhandler Amarillo Slim None (and Slim just left town)

The Singing Nun Dominque Wilkins Dom Um Romao

Bucky Beaver?

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399105,00.asp

Proper cleat selection is critical. That's something not to take for granted.

Masterpiece? Really? I've had that one for about 40 years now, and it's pretty much the same handful of somewhat slight ideas over and over. He makes it all "sound good", but there's a not a whole helluva lot of filling in that pie. Backing off on this some for the record. Been revisiting it fairly heavily the last few days, and although I still think "masterpiece" is too much (needs stronger soloists and more "stable" time to qualify in my book), it is a distinctive work of integrity...and more or less totally un-Kentonish in its vibe. Some of the tunes would not be out of place on, say, Sonny's Dream. Barton's writing showed this inclination back in 1962 on his "Turtle Talk", and if many of the charts have a general overall "sameness" (not so much literally, but attitudinally), so be it. This guy, Barton, was writing charts that reconciled many of the conceptual ideas of "new jazz" with the Kenton instrumentation. More importantly, somehow, some way, the whole thing about Kenton getting nervous about shit swinging too much (true!) got left aside here - the band swings hard, and Barton is driving the bus. Soloists are definitely playing "catch up" to the last 5 or 6 years from 1967, but...they're cool. At least they recognized what was going on and that it mattered. So many others in this world didn't. Truth be told, in a perfect world, Dee Barton & Charles Tolliver could have collaborated and the Music Inc. Big Band repertoire could have expanded significantly. For all kinds of reasons, that type of perfect world didn't exist then, doesn't exist now, and may never exist. But there's a lot of stuff on here that suggests that at heart Barton was leaning more towards Impact! than New Concepts Of Artistry In Rhythm, more Gerald Wilson than Bills Russo & Holman, and that the worlds of that (and this) time does not encourage such things is...too bad. Masterpiece? Almost, not quite. A worthy record? Most definitely. Some of the very best jazz ever made under the name "Stan Kenton" ? Without question, and more truly "progressive" and "innovative" than most things bearing that name, because it's tied into the jazzworld of its time instead of trying to tie a rope around it. Highly recommended? Oh hell yeah! Never let it be said that I'm a man who does not reconsider when given good cause.

Otis gonna give you his own "sociological ramifications", trust me! But they are indeed his, and nobody can accuse him of not having the 100% + cred to make them. I find his writing refreshing, bracing, and totally absent of cheap sweetness, not unlike a good after-shave.

I think Upside Your Head would be exactly what you're looking for, Dan. RIP to Mr. Otis, and let's all play Snatch And The Poontangs as a history lesson in his honor.