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Lady Clairol Breck Girl Lou Brock

Nichelle Nichols Michelle Ma Bell

Wow...when you do the answer thread, please elaborate on who this guy is/was...never heard of him, but he reached me.

Frances Scott Key Keye Luke Hassie McCoy

Tate Houston Sonny Dallas San Antonio

Junior Samples Yesterdays New Quintet Jerome Kern

Dempsey Wright Jack Dempsey Smilin' Jack

Ding! Ding! Calvary is the tune, nobody has the musicians, yet. Is this it?

He's not usually seen looking like himself...and he's seen hardly at all these days. His "really big shews" were somebody else's.

He's not usually seen looking like himself...and he's seen hardly at all these days.

Pretty sure it's Merritt. He was playing the Ampeg at the time & was in Morgan's working group of the time as well. Would have been only 45 at the time.

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Wow. Waltz Without Words. Quoting my buddy Ed Petersen (when he was subjected to listening to student jazz vocalists attempting to scat and improvise), "One. Just sing one pitch that I can actually name..." That sounds more like The Sound Of Being Felt (By Surprise).

Did Arthur Harper play the Ampeg Baby Bass?

So it is!

Not Gloria Vanderbilt. See Bright Moments' avatar....

This is a very famous lady...

Within the last 10 years.

Time to play, eh? Then play let's do! Thanks & disclaimers of the causal variety firmly ensconced , the game beginneth thus: TRACK ONE - The bari player's dropping icicles in the rhythm sections' tree, then the pianist turns the dimmer light off the switch so the lights can burn steadily. Must be nice to lie where the weather is conducive to that. Eccentric, like Sahib Shiab. Don't knwo this cut, though, so... TRACK TWO - For some reason, I want to say Tom Harrell. A little sluggis for my taste, but if there was turkey on the pre-gig buffet, that can be explained in all good conscience. Rufus Reid on bass? This cut should be on a sampler put out by a beauty care product, so clearly does is speak to soft glow that comes from properly cleaned and regularly maintained female facial flesh. Definitely some synergistic opportunities there! TRACK THREE - Well, ok, that Max's "Six Bits Blues" that he did on the Horo side, but this is not that performance, it's shorter, and that's not Billy Harper, but that is Max, unmistakably so....was this on "Chatahootchie Red"? Yes, I believe it was! This is good, but geez lou-eaze, geta copy of The Loadstar when it comes you way and heard Billy Harper testify oer the course of this tempo over the other course of a hole album side. DO IT, DO IT NOW! TACK FOUR - Early 70s, I'd say, very organic use of congas. guitarists's pretty much a a bitch, I could speculate it being Martino. The overall mix (on these speakers here) heas a vaguely TI-ish tinge to it, either CTI or early, Elvin Campbell-era Milestone. Jamming the Jazz Airwaves with that good SOUNDING jazz records that sounded so good to jazz listeners ears playing on jazz radio. No matter, though. I like this a lot. This is a very organic rhythm section, they know what to do it, and how the why. Anytime you get that, you got a keeper. TRACK FIVE - The alto sounds familiar. The pianist is in McCoy's house but not using the same furniture, There was a lot of that back then, it was fun to watch.Joe Bonner was really fun. Rahsaan had some guy, what was is name...Sonelius Smith? Anyway, thre was a lot of this going on, and it was all pretty good, as is this. But then cats started doing something else. TRACK SIX - Trying to listen to the top of the musc, but the bottom is where it's at for me so far. Oh, that's Don Pullen! No wonder everything works. Don Pullen was an understanding musician. TRACK SEVEN - That's Clifford Jordon in there. Oh yes it is.More than that, I'll just shut up and listen. TRACK EIGHT - http://www.allmusic.com/album/exploration-r721819/review Highly Recommended. Clarity every where you look, but of course, you won't have to look, co clear will it all be. Pretty amazing record, really, and didn't get too much past the first hype-wave iirc. Too much clarity for the hype! TRACK NINE - Plenty o'coke there! Or so it might sound. Sonny Fortune w/Charles Sullivan? Pretty sure that's Sonny. But that was when playing was part of a full mind and body regimen to keep you strong and clarified so you could do your part when the revolution came. Things in general were better when you did them in the spirit of having your mental and spiritually and musical shit together for when the revolution came. You were preparing to ELEVATE! Now it's all just about guns. Serious stepdown in the quality of possible input and expected output when that's all the revolution is gonna need to succeed, is just plenty of guns. TRACK TEN - Not sure who that altoist is, but they have a command of the contour of opening sermon that not all who attempt to preach do. Actually, there is a command and understanding of the entire vocabulary and esthetics that is pretty damn compelling. Wish I could call names, but whoever the answers are, they themselves will be right. The tune itself sounds like "Calvary", the one that Billy brought to Max's band.This is a promised land of no more idiotic diatonic loops propping up visions of cute, wry love, with every body trying to sell you something for you to use to make them more money, or where your rightful place is preached to you by people who have already determined their rightful place and who will let you have a rightful palce of your own as long as it possessee a seriveable funtionality to their own. yes, THIS is a vision of all that being gone, free at last of all the mind traps and games laid there to keep you tying to pursue your pursuit in a world that is not designed for you to pursue past the point of being a very useful servant - for somebody else. This is a vision of a world of your own, where whatever relevances you need to make, you make it to something that is yours, not somebody else's.and ain't it a glorious vision to behold? TRACK ELEVEN - Kinda hard to do a still-life these days. Nothing ever really slows down unless by force. TRACK TWELVE - Was going to go with Ronnie Cuber, but then the momentum kinda fell off. Good, frisky drumming! Might be latter-day Pepper though, or Brignola. TRACK THIRTEEN - Charming, but not really speaking to me too much at this moment. TRACK FOURTEEN - Dynamite cover sheet...less compelling once you start reading...but it works. Definitely a provocative collection, as well as an enjoyable one. Gracias Beaucoup!

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OTOH, sometime there's nothing to a failed effort except pure, massive, raw, untempered SUCKING OF DONKEY DICKS.. Witness the Orioles, who take a two run lead into the bottom of the twelveth against the Angels, facing the bottom three of the Halo's order. Just one inning of a sane, sensible, reasonably competent demonstration of professional caliber baseball playing by the O's keeps the game in the Win column for them, and Rangers fans will wake up in the morning sending crackles to Anaheim in a united gesture of thanks for helping us out. Plate swept, commercials over, the Orioles, in seemingly rapid-fire order, proceed to:: Give up a leadoff singleHit the next batterMake a throwing error (third baseman) on a sac bunt attempt that leaves everybody safe & lets a run inGive up an infield single (involving the same third baseman's hands) that refills the basesGive up a bases-loaded walk (the tying run scores, bases are still loaded)Change pitchers! Already?Allow the game-winning sac fly that wins the game for the AngelsSo yeah, under no conditions is there an "Success in failure" lesson to be learned here, other than that if you're lucky enough to be on the winning side of that defilement, just keep your laughs and giggle to yourself. Please!

Or Billy! Horace & his group were also showcased on that same episode. Horace & Lee did not play together. Not sure if this is a clip of Horace from that show...looks like it could be...

Here's the DB page in question, just a very slight mention, about halfway through the "Strictly Ad Lib" column. No indication of who the db correspondent was who caught the concert featuring Mr. Blakie.

"Top team of the year" (or decade, or century, or whatever), that's....really not as meaningful as the culture of marketing makes it out to be. Of course, having a "championship season" is cool, and is certainly nothing to dismiss, hell, be proud of that shit, ya' know, but...sometimes the effort that loses is more noble, more heroic, more real, more... valuable (although not in the marketplace) than the one that wins. So if you get "the ring", hey, cool, after all, it is the goal of every competitive effort to deliver a superior performance. But it ain't necessarily always the "ultimate accomplishment" that wins. Sometimes a better effort falls short of being.the superior performance, and the day that we as a society devalue, or even undervalue that, is the day....oh, wait, that's day's already come, so....there it is. Winners and losers, baby, winners and losers. Let's hear it for the winners!

I'm not saying that "it's all good", obviously it's more fun/satisfying/profitable/whatever to "win it all", but...it's the whole "if you don't win it all it don't mean squat" mentality that is fallacious. That Mariner team winning 116 games, that was "meaningless"? I hardly think so. The Buffalo Bills that went to four Super Bowls in four years but never won one, hey, people want to call that "meaningless", be my guest, just pardon me if I think it's a foolish notion to not applaud that level of accomplishment. You gotta have one helluva team to do that. Of course, the distance between "it don't mean a thing if you don't get a ring" and "any way you can make a bigger profit, go for it" isn't really all that far, but...never mind that. In the meantime, any time any team or individual grows in ability, character, mental sharpness, whatever you can do in a competitive endeavor, it's not without meaning, win or lose. Beside the whole "championship" construct is more or less arbitrary. If the World Series was best-of-nine like it was originally, that could give us a whole different landscape as far as who was a "winner" and who was a "loser". Super Bowl? One stinkin' game, an if On Any Given Sunday, then....what, exactly is the "meaning"? NBA Playoffs? Please... NHL? Hey it's hockey. Whatever. It can mean a thing if you don't get the ring. It should. Believe the lie at your own risk.