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How the Boomstick gets its Boom

Adrienne Barbeau indeed!

It was Jake Hess with the wigs. Jake Hess is not on the first video, but takes the first lead on on the second one until Hovie comes out from the piano. Jake Hess could also sing. Here he is with the Statesmen. Bass interlude by the Big Cheif...more about him at some later point. This is a freakin' R&B record about the metaphysical principles of prayer. Where was Sun Ra? The Statesmen were some baaaaaad men, & Hovie Lister was their leader.

Frog!

Again, no. Hint - If the photo was fuller-length, she might be more "identifiable" to many....

Nope. If that is a reference, it's not one which I get...

I see nothing.

Guess who?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyrI5VPssY

Man's head on animal's body!

Does William Bendix factor into any of this at any point?

Man with hands in pockets!

That article paints a picture of a team more reflective of the Yawkey-era Red Sox...very unfortunate.

Woman with necklace

Report: Theo Epstein agrees to a five-year deal with the Cubs http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/12/report-theo-epstein-agrees-to-a-five-year-deal-with-the-cubs/

Kind of a no-brainer here...

Pointing finger

Album cover with Blue Note logo that was actually released on United Artists

Lean Baby Dave "Baby" Cortez The Lindbergh Baby

Scary and butterfly!

A butterfly and a ball!

Chicks & butterflies!

I don't know about Karma, but your guys are looking pretty motivated right now. There are anywhere from 4 to 12 games left in the Rangers' 2011 season. I would very much enjoy seeing the starting pitching get motivated to perform at the level of the rest of the team for these remaining games. And then there is The Curse Of Comerica... Not very many games left for the year, but still plenty of baseball to be played.

But then there's the career of his running buddy Al Cohn, who was very good in the '50s and '60s and then just got better and better and stronger and stronger, at times almost amazingly so (especially rhythmically), right up until the very end and without undergoing any profound stylistic change or absorbing any "advanced" influences. Thus it's not like I'm holding Zoot up to some imaginary or elitist standard. Different lives. Cohn parlayed all that studio work into a business & ended up doing quite well writing chats for shows and revelries and follies and dollies and all that stuff. Accepted and succeeded "non-jazz" challenges, so the playing itself, when he did it, wasn't his daily grind. Zoot kept on being Zoot, taking Zoot gigs. I'm sure he did well, but people who drink a lot and never really variate their world usually end up being the part of the toothpaste that never makes it out of the tube, even after you start rolling & squeezing the last bits out. I'm all for personal introversion and isolation, but only if you can do it without letting it keep you in the tube until the time comes for the tube to get tossed in the trash.

Artist torso-shot in front of solid red background!