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Joe Bob! I consistantly find Sahib Shihab to be one of the more original phrasers in this music, irregardless of instrument. How's Wanda?

This is a guy instead of a chick, and he looks like a total geek, but he does the whole walking-the-line-between-straight-ahead-and-Neo-Soul thing very nicely, I think. He sings and plays trombone, not something that you see too much these days.

Yes! Intensely good!

Plastic Dreams is after 1964, I think. Early 70s, actually. Their first after returning from Apple, iirc?

The latest "conventional wisdom" is that Wardell OD'ed in Vegas and was carried/dumped in the dessert by "friends" so the circumstances would not be discovered. The broken neck is said to have occurred somewhere along the way. Hey...

Just maintain, read his vibe, and adjust accordingly.

Smoke is a bad sign, dude. It's a fire about to happen. If anybody has any contrary knowledge, let's hear it, but electronic gear that starts smoking...I don't see any way that can be good.

Just wondering, because Bayete was getting kinda "out there" (generally in a good way) around that time. Thought that maybe the session had gained a reputation or something.

I think it's kinda nutty that there's different mono & stereo takes that nobody knew about except an O-Board regular, and that this "complete" set might not be complete after all. Crazy world, eh?

Infamous? How so?

My high school band director played in an Army band w/John Towner Williams. Even had an MOR album that he did called The Towner Touch or something like that. It kinda sucked, but not because the playing was bad.

There's one big difference between Shearing on one and Bud and Dodo on the other side: the latter were able to see the keyboard. Being blind limits the intervals you can finger - for wider leaps between bars you have to see the keys. That's why there are no blind vibes players. As a blind player you always have to stay down on the keys and feel them and move in close steps. That necessitates a different meldodic style. Consider the tunes he chose etc. Not sure that Lennie Tristano had those limitations. Also not sure when he went blind. FWIW, I've read on occasion that the Shearing bridge on "September..." caught the attention of a fair number of players in its time. FWIW.

"Quiet" is neither here nor there for me, but otherwise, that really gets to the gist of the whole thing right there. Everything else comes down to what you like or don't like. But tasteful, literate, and stellar musicianship...I just feel wrong anymore not recognizing and appreciating that, even if it is in something for which I otherwise have no use. Seems to me that there's more to having an informed opinion than just reflex.

That was on ABC. It was Midnight Special that was on NBC. The ABC shows were really good at first. I saw Miles on there, Return To Forever, Roy Wood & Wizzard, Roy Buchannan, all kinds of stuff. Then it went from being actual live concerts to being a staged presentation specifically for the show, and then it really started to really suck. Really. But it was good while it was good.

Hey, the guy knew his market and controlled it.

How come it took the Bears so long to start playing in Soldier Field?

Who would be the licker and who would be the lickee?

Right. I remember all that. But even before the NFL & AFL got together for Super Bowl I, the NFL (and the AFL) still had divisions (ok, conferences). Turns out that they've had'em since 1933, which I don't remember. But look at the 1932 season: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1932/ A 7-1-6 record tops a 10-3-1 because, I guess, ties don't figure into winning percentage. Whazzupwiddat? And already, by 1934, with divisions, look at this: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1934/ 8-5 plays 13-0 for the championship, while 10-3 gets nothing. A wildcard spot would've fixed that! Once you get divisions, you get playoffs, and it ain't ever going to be perfect all the time.

The first true NFL playoffs started in 1967, almost 50 years ago. Exactly how old are you guys??? Old enough to remember 1967...and then some... Here's the deal, when did the NFL not have divisions? I'm not that old to remember when that ever was. So if you got divisions, there goes the thing about "the best team" playing. That would require an oldschool baseball thing, where you either won the league and went to the World Series, or else you went hom. No other options.

Benefitting the Buffalo Philharmonic, eh?

I love this copy...it's got that vintage Mort Goode The Inner Sleeve thing gushing out the wazzoo...check it out: Go Mort, go!

Are you suggesting that this as was not 100% developed and approved by the Columbia marketing department before it ran? I'd find that hard to believe, myself. The thing exudes pro calculation to me.

Equal parts lies, truths, exaggeration, fact, frankness, deadpan bullshit, all of it designed to do one thing - sell records. My kind of ad! I wonder where it ran...not in DownBeat, I'm sure! Maybe Rolling Stone, maybe Jazz & Pop, probably not Ebony, maybe Jet...truthfully I think it's aimed more at a white audience than a black one, overall.

Never saw that one before!