JSngry

Yeah, skills, exactly! Also nice to hear actual pitches in the lines, as opposed to a "general" slurviness that some/too many singers use when scatting on a tune. If done intentionally, it's cool, part of the intrinsically "vocal" thing that (I think) Larry was getting at, but too often just a way of saying, "Not necessary!!!!" and/or "Seriously? You expect me to do THAT?", but, yeah, it kinda is and yeah, I kinda do.

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Who is Ben Alexander?

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Maybe you need to redefine what is meant by "piano trio"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cre3HUf8zOg&playnext=1&list=PLF2A1FD9DA7E7E150

UP! For the funny Sonic Ghost!

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But do you spit it out when you get to the border?

If you want Herbie trios, there's plenty in Japan. Although from waht you're saying, I don't think they'd hold much interest at this juncture.

That stuff was first released on Time, iirc, Shad's label before Mainstream.

Your bad, then, because I wasn't talking about vocalese in the first place, I was talking about scatting!

Ok, here's the difference: King Pleasure sounds like he's got the words and is having to get the music (which he does, well enough). Hendicks sounds like he's already got the music, totally fluent in pitch & rhythm, & is just adding words.

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Definitely. But what's up with this? Mainstream made its debut in the 1960s, then seemed to go kinda quiet for a while, then came back with that new look (and bad engineering) in the early 70s. What caused to off time? Or am I wrong about that? Discogs doesn't show much of a gap, if any , from the 60s into the 70s for Mainstream, although the 70s were clearly the heyday for the label. I found this http://www.bsnpubs.com/new/mainstream.pdf which is as likely complete as can be...looks like 1969 was the only really "off" year, the only release being a Best Of for the Amboy Dukes (just think - both Ted Nugent & Janis Joplin recorded for Mainstream!). What this also reveals, and was the basis of my impression, was that the label had a rather lengthy gap where there was no jazz activity, not really coming back to the fore until 1971. So that's what I'm wondering what the story is... how Shad went from jazz record producer to all this other stuff and then back to jazz.

Definitely. But what's up with this? Mainstream made its debut in the 1960s, then seemed to go kinda quiet for a while, then came back with that new look (and bad engineering) in the early 70s. What caused to off time? Or am I wrong about that?

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But at least it's a liquid soul, so it can accommodate whatever shape it's presented with. Survival of the whatever fits best!

Not sure if all the Blue Mitchell stuff would be "of interest" to the Mosaic concept. Some of it's pretty "commercial".

I was less shocked to find out that he's almost 800 than I was to find out that he was English...

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I don't know when you actually play your best, but it seems like you feel best about the way you play when you have the least reason to doubt it.

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