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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.

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Russ "Weird Beard" Knight. First with KLIF (The Mighty 1190), but then to KILT in Houston, which is where I first heard him. We're talking mid-ish 60s AM Top 40 here.

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I think Zoot definitely played "fresher" earlier on, and also hear a certain "deadening" as the years went by, but..life does that to people at least as often as it doesn't, ya' know? When it does, I'm more interested in hearing if the guy knows that it has (good) or if he doesn't (sometime better, sometimes worse, but usually pretty "spectacular" one way or the other) and Zoot...usually it sounds like he knows but doesn't care, so yeah, you get a lot of "Zoot" w/o there always being Zoot involved. But sometimes...there's a Pat Williams Verve side where he's featured on "Hey Jude" of all things, and the guy...he's waaaaay out of tune on it, which is odd for him, and you can hear him thinking bad things about life to himself with every note he plays, but the funny thing is - he swings his ass off. And to me, that's when I like me some Zoot, when he just goes ahead and swings his ass off. That he could do so on a Pat Williams take on a Beatles tune on an album that is likewise full of nothing that he probably felt any affinity to whatsoever, well, that's what happens when you drink too much and don't really engage outside of your own world. Sometimes you just start giggling at shit and it's all funny once you do.

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He played great w/Goodman in Moscow,..'62? Maybe the whole Ornette/Trane/60s Sonny thing made him feel old-fashioned to himself and he wasn't pre-inclined to do anything about it. Just a guess.

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It's karma. No way the Sunday night game should have been postponed as early in the day as it was. No me gusto Fox!!!

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I like how some inside skinny floating around here is that Fox pushed to postpone last night;s game because of the "possibility" of rain and then rescheduled it as a day game b/c FOX wanted minimal interruption to their primetime lineup tonight.. Sorry that didn't work out for ya' Fox, hope the the few extra hours of nail-bitin', panty-peein' baseball made up for it.

Here's the local radio call by Eric Nadel http://www.bbtia.com...nadel101011.mp3 Nothing silly, just making the call, letting the crowd read it just before you do, and then riding the wave instead of trying to create it. Might be a bit understated for some, but the guy travels in a car or any other TV-free environment really, really smoothly, werars well, like a fine suit that's tailored to last. I will say this, I've been at the Ballpark once for a dramatic walkoff, and when he says the Ballpark is exploding, he ain't exaggerating With an ending like this, we ain't even going to look at the graph of tonight's strike zone...

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It's hard to get good anything these days unless you do it yourself, and even then...some days are better than others. The one time I heard good Quad was a t the State Fair of Texas, 1972, I think. There was a tent set demo-ing a "state of the art" quad system, and they were using the Herbie Mann Hold On, I'm Coming album, the one with Fathead and Sonny Sharrock....I spent a lot of time in that tent that day...

I only heard good Quad once, but it was really cool.

No rain in Arlington. People are pissed. http://www.lonestarball.com/2011/10/9/2479903/mlb-to-rangers-fans-drop-dead#comments

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Letters suggesting saxoph0nes!