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Not afraid to run the risk of wayne-ing interest in the new release, I see! Maybe a more tangible answer will be available as the time to the release date becomes Shorter.

That's another thing...Wayne played this stuff live for a fair amount of time with a working band, and they really got the music down. Some of the material on the records sounds a little "cold", but hearing the live bands do it, it was anything but!

Totally understand that. Also didn't mean to be "snappy", but I've been on board with Wayne pretty much my entire musical life as one of the relative handful of people I want to hear no matter what, just because it's a guarantee of some combination of fun, challenge, and provocation. Gotta defend my people, ya know. Ain't too many of 'em left!

The only question I have is this - will there be anything from the "Stepping Stones" sessions that was not included on the CD reissue of that album? Not looking for any further details, just a yes or no.

The music. It's electric and not swing-based, so if those are deal breakers, fine, that's a matter of preference. But it's also chock-full full of delightful compositional quirks, idiosyncrasies, and shifts. To call it "hideous" is too much for me. I get that it's not at all to your liking, and that's totally fair, but... A lot of people still want to think of Wayne as a "blower" and a "tune writer". He's not been that for several decades now, nor do these albums even remotely come from that perspective. His mind has kept evolving, as has his palate. But when he's not what people want him to be/think he should be for them, it's somehow his fault. Still not sure how or why that's supposed to work... What these albums do is showcase Wayne the composer, and as such, there is no shortage of substance therein. I realize that's also just an opinion, but "hideous" to me implies something totally lacking in inventiveness, substance and integrity, and I can't hear that in these albums, not even remotely. I'll not say that they're all "perfect", but there's plenty of music to be had in them. Plenty. You want to know "what happened to him"? Easy - he kept growing and ended up going to some different places.It's not like he went brain-dead and forgot how music works him or how he works it. No more "nightclub music", to use his words.

Is that that Nina chick who was one of the original MTV VJs?

Wrong.

They made it to the Series.

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As Dan would put it, I "circled around" Cannonball on #4 but did not commit because I knew of no proepr setting for such a thing to have happened. But there it did.

Could be.

My two big takeaways from this are that 1) It's interesting to hear the possible effect that coming east had on Sonny Criss & 2) I wonder why both Clark Terry & Ruby Braff sounded like Sweets Edison to me?

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Some people would make the case for Bob James' version being the definitive one, and I'd not argue too vehemently against that myself.

Yep.

Nobody I've used that line on gets the "compared to what joke", it seems... oh well. But Eugene McDaniels, now there was an interesting character!

Not toying with you, just woke up and am reading without my glasses. Either one of those is fraught with peril, but together... I just relistened to Ellman's Pi album a few days ago and was totally into it.

I keep hearing that he died, and I keep asking, compared to what?

Liberty Ellman's an altoist? I very much like where Donald Harrison's ended up, although I equally very much didn't like where he started out. And I've pretty much headed in the opposite direction with Kenny Garrett.

This guy might think otherwise... http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/cliff_corcoran/07/31/jimenez-trade/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t11_a1

There's always a lot of bullshit in the rumorsphere, but some of the ones I heard today bundle up into this narrative - Ubaldo is broken, the Yankees demanded a physical before the trade, a demand the Rockies refused. Then Cashman came back with a package that included Phil Hughes, after which the Rockies basically said Fuck The Yankees & called Cleveland in accelerated mode, getting the deal done, although not in time to prevent Ubaldo from taking his turn in the rotation and pitching an inning - yes, one inning, last night. That was just plain weird... Although we face the Inidans at home next weekend, and I'd just as soon not face a healthy and rejuvenated Ubaldo, I sincerely hope that he is not broken and that he goes on to a long and illustrious career. His license-plate commercial on MLB TV is one of the stealthiest - and funniest - commentaries on The Next America seen to date! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pwoqliogcs