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I don't know about all that, but...somebody in Love's position, a "insider", somebody who handles the music end of "show" business, soon gets to see how the intersection of "talent" & "stardom" is at best a sometimes thing. Cats like him are repeatedly called upon to provide "quality surroundings" for situations that range from truly fine to truly abysmal - and they're asked to do it in such a way that none but the very most discerning can tell the difference - all at one flat rate that is nowhere near what the "stars'" (or more accurately, the stars' "operations") pull in. You also get to see the often-total arbitrariness of who "gets the nod" for moving up and who doesn't, how it's more often than not a matter of whim and personal favor as it is a belief in the talent. It's not really all that much different than the rest of life's businesses, but there is (or was) so much more money floating around, that the raw impulses come out to play so much easier than they do in the "real world"...yeah, it can eat at your spirit, especially if you're predisposed towards idealism & personal responsibility.

Frank & I worked for a little bit in a wedding band down here before he moved East. He was a gas even in that context. Glad to hear he's on the path!

The Erich Kleinschuster sessions

Ronnie Cuber's a bad motherfucker. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1376u_lionel-hampton-and-his-orchestra_music Ok, let's try a simple link, then, since the media won't show: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1376u_lionel-hampton-and-his-orchestra_music

I think he's thinking of the German Verve thing from a year or two ago, braodcasts...I'm at work and don't have any references here, but it was discussed.

That's a BFD it's ownself!

Yeah, exactly. An album entitled "I Sang With Jim reeves" rates a BIG BFD! Not that it's not a point of pride or anything just as an album title, it's....BFD, ya' know?

Said just fine hommes, said just fine.

Party at my house, just gotta be out by 11 PM or so. It's a work night. Things ain't what they used to be, although we still try to do the best we can with what we got!

I make a motion for a unanimous declaration.

Getting "white people" to instinctively clap on (or otherwise feel) 2 & 4 took the better part of a century. A clave, well, c'mon, human evolution can only move so fast! Plus...it's in Spanish! Plus also, remember that "Africa" was not always viewed positively, even by African-Americans. OTOH, the 21st Century is shaping up to be quite a pan-ethnic one for jazz, especially in terms of rhytmic "feel". Straight-up clave/Afro-Cuban is relatively tame in comparison and continues to be embraced by said "mainstream".

By far my favorite McConnell arrangement was a gorgeous chart he did for Maynard's 60's band on "Come Rain Or Come Shine". It was on Color Him Wild (later reissued as Dues, iirc). Last song on Side Two of one of the Ferguson band's very best albums, a perfect ending, and certainly a strong inducement to turn the record over and take the trip again.

The day before Alan Moss/The Magnificent Goldberg came to visit us @ our house, my wife said, "Do you think I should offer him tea?" I chuckled, and told her, no...don't even try to go there. Fortunately, either Alan was a really good sport or else really liked it (or maybe it was the only semi-acceptable choice ), but at the barbeque, we offered a beverage selection that included iced tea that was a brewed mixture of Lusianne ice tea tea bags & Constant Comment & it seemed to be well-recieved by our guest-of-honor. Even so, I seriously doubt that it was enjoyed as "tea" per se. But at least we didn't make the miostake of not knowing what we didn't know, so I guess that goes down as a net-nothing on the Hospitality Scoreboard. At least I hope so....

Ok, that part was a little too snarky. My bad.

That I will admit to. I grew up in airmens' quarters where we weren't allowed to take short cuts through the officers' quarters. And arrived at university (thank you, the post-war Welfare State) utterly astonished to be there only to meet Hooray Henry's who just assumed it was their right. You're just easy targets for the good old-fashioned resentments of the British class system. Oh so it is a "British" thing then, eh? (you do remember that one, don't you?) I knew it! Well, carry on then. I feel it only my duty to facilitate your self-esstemm issues. It's the least I can do! And no, no need to say "thank you", that would just set back the progress. Jsut knowing that I'm helping you overcome is thanks enough for me. Hell, if you need to feel superior about something, just look at that typing....

Well, I'd argue that it started in that strange post the seemed to mix banalities with an imperious rush to judgement about the Belgian character and its links to an imperial past. You don't hurl that sort of thing out and expect it to be deferred to. However great your mind, you are going to get challenged. There are very few posters I lock horns with here. Probably about five! And you appear to really enjoy doing so!

I don't even get cricket. There's a line (excuse me, "queue") that winds around the block and back several times...

Are you related to Walter Matthau by any chance?

And I mention that too...but there's a major difference in the way we tell it. I always work on the assumption that there is a more than equal chance that they problem lies in my hearing, context or preconceptions rather than anything wrong with the music. Jesus Christ man, grow a pair and take a stand! You can always admit to changing your mind if you do, but c'mon - anybody who's listened to as much music - and listened to it as seriously as many here have, yourself included, has nothing to apologize about for knowing what they like/don't like, and why. And franklym, I know you have these type opinions but are reticent to express them as such, which I'm sure you have your reasons for, I guess. Ok, fair enough, but the way you like to piss on those who also have these strong opinions and who don't have qualms about expressing them...what's up with that? Espeicially going on and on about how other people pay attention to them or some such...really, what's up with that? You want some too? Well cool - grow a pair and take a stand! But about the music, not about other people who talk about it. Supine deference awaits! That is well-worn Organissimo-board-speak for 'unsubstantiated assertion'. An I think it's a generally-understood English language term for strongly-felt unsubstantiated assertion, opinions being opinions after all...

And if you do do it like that, you get fucked with for being "pompous" and such. So it's really a lose/lose deal, this having a strongly held opinion and being able to explain exactly why you have it is. But oh well about that!

Based on preliminary census returns, that number's now up to 15, so there's now more than enough supine deference to go around!

Bev - believe me when I say that you are as great of a mind as anybody else on here. It's your attitude that sucks!

I think 6 might have been before the 2010 census. or after...I'm trying to be multifaceted about all this.