JSngry

Spot on! In fact an awful lot of critical orthodoxy (and an awful lot of dissent) is just that...projection masquerading as revelation. So, is this some kind of revelation? I defy you to show me any adult, hell, child, even, of even semi-functional capacity who doesn't do that, one way or the other.

I mean, jesus, I'll argue opinions whenever I feel like (and won't if I don't...), and no regrets about that. But any notion that one should just shut up & listen, like it or not and then move on is really kinda...what, lame? Amaturish? Immature? Spectator Sport-ish? Oh, i forgot - Just listen. Shhhh. Listen. Yeah, fine. Then what? Bask in the warm glow of whatever comes my way and take it w/o any critical thinking skills and emotions before, during, or afterwards? If I don't like what I hear, just keep it to myself? If I find it oppressive, regressive, whateveressive, just shut up? Even if lots of other people feel the same way (or don't!)? Gimme a break. That's pure bullshit. We're adults, not children, and we damn well better be able to tell the difference between Zen & Zombie. I don't think that Just listen. Shhhh. Listen. STOP makes the grade. Passive love is fine if that's the best you can do. For many people, though, it's not.

Was James Clay ever not James Clay? James had a strong Rollins influence early on.

Showtime @ The Apollo! Big Joe & Tony Coe! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj7ETgOVOMM

Kansas City Here I Come, a Pablo side featuring Lee Allen, is just SICK good. It's like one big nonstop.....thing that never changes because it's its own world, and you know how worlds are about that type thing. Of course, you can say that about a lot of Turner's Pablo sides, but this one gets in there deeper than the others and then sets about staying thre for the duration to a degree that the others don't. Just my opinion, of course. But Lee Allen, there's your worth-the-cost-of-admission-alone factor right there for this one.

Or how James Clay was finally James Clay.

If anything, that was the apex of my acumen!

When she's in the room? Hey, five bucks a pop coupled with One-Click... Amazon & Newbury got it figured out.

This damn thing has me mesmerized all over agian...check out, not just her actions while singing, but those while she's not, from her walk out to the mike, how she swing around to face it in rhythm and immediately gets that foot pat going strong, to her move away from the mike during the band break to how she just moves right along with the band while they play to how she gets back to the mike at exactly the right moment to that little grin at the end that says "that kicked ass & you know it and I know it but you don't need to know that I know it as much as I do" to the timing of the bow to come up exactly when the band cuts off....this is all stuff that nobody has to do...to want to do it, and to do it this thoroughly speaks volumes to how into what she did she was doing.. While we're at it...it CAN'T be as easy as she makes it sound to do this: there's a quiet confidence in all this that comes from knowing you got a gift, knowing you've done your work, knowing that you got SKILLS and can't nobody fuck with you because you do. At some point you just gotta say "wow, that Jo Stafford chick was BAD!!!!"

Dammit, you're right... That's it, it's official - I no longer have skills, at least not reliable ones.Time to get all the way out, if only to regroup to get back in. Or not.

Who did Beyonce pretend to blow, and where can I have a look at it?

"Bohemia After Dark", more or less, but not exactly.

My guess - released in 1964 on Fantasy, when it was still was still a small label w/o full-speed distribution + Mingus having reached the peak of his "public profile" a few years earlier + "remakes" of material that had been previously acclaimed in other incarnations = an album not already present in "the canon" by the time the new wave of reissue-mania-fueled jazz fan came around. That, & I think that people look at the front line and the date, hope it's Jacki Byard, see that it's not, and think "oh....". Their mistake, right? Actually, Mingus At Monterrey is somewhat underrated/overlooked as well, which is kinda odd, because once Fantasy got more fully funded, I didn't have that hard a time finding Right Now, but didn't find the former for many, many years, and then used, even on a Fantasy copy.

One thing about both of these clips...Stafford & Weston both made a lot of top-shelf "straighter" music, but when they chose to swing, they swung hard. Not everybody who tried to do that could.

Here, uploaded again: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=jUFO2tUBV4c Something else to watch...Jo's facial expressions - eyes, eyebrows, etc. - head & hand movements, & body rhythyms throughout that performance. Not one move is false, out of rhythm, or otherwise less than totally integrated into the performance of the song itself. It's nothing less than absolute perfection & unsurpassable professionalism. SKILLS! Ain't no substitute for 'em!

You should hear that!

Starts off sezy but soon veers "Uhhhh...."

I can't see this as being anything other than really really good or really really depressing.

Just wondering what that means to you. Seriously. Because I'd like to be a bebopper at heart myself, but having been around guys who really were & realizing they whys and hows of what that mean to them relative to their life & times (and heart), I can't say it about myself in a really honest way. Best I can say is that there is a deep abiding love for it and them in my heart (and soul, and mind), but... Edit to add that a few hours later, I realize there might be a tone of snarkiness here that I assure you wasn't intended. The question is serious, since, and motivated by a desire for further insight.

Bags...with cinder blocks too, I bet! Better to be out of a bag than into one, I think. Jazz is dead. Music is eternal.

Jo Stafford (and Paul Weston!) had skills! http://www.youtube.c...h?v=6raAdR-1s0o Still haven't gotten the whole Tommy Dorsey thing, but damn, you look at all the talent involved and skills of the highest order was pretty much a prerequisite. As for the hillbilly parody, that was done Red Ingle & his Natural Seven on at least one song, "Tim-Tay-Shun" & "Seventy Mental Reasons". "Serutan Yob", a total riot, is rumored to have been Stafford as well, but apparently not... All in all though, there's this http://www.youtube.c...h?v=jUFO2tUBV4c to which all I can say is LORD have mercy!

The possibility that the eBay seller is combining discrete items to "present" something that never really existed must be considered here...

Much love for that one here too

Always: Reasons (live or studio, they each have their own power) That's The Way Of The World (song and album!) Can't Hide Love Pick Two: Keep Your Head To The Sky Serpentine Fire See The Light (the intro alone is surely one of the most audacious creations in 20th century pop music!) After The Love Is Gone (starts out like cheesy 70s ballad, then goes all left in the changes...don't try to cover this unless you got some skilled musicians aboard, either that or folks who don't mind sucking...) Lots of interesting album cuts too...