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Yeah, Street Of Greens, that's the one.

There's not, at least in America. But you talk about reissues of this era w/different covers, there's also Lou's The Time Is Right, Sunnyside Up, & one by Grant...Latin Bit, is it? Don't recall for sure...maybe one or two others? No? Bueller?

Everybody else just looks really young and awkward, but Ringo does not look like the real ringo. "Uhhhh...." in-DEED!!!

I asked her why there was no driver on the top of all those double decker buses. She reached into my groceries, broke out the vodka, we had a conversation, and that was that.

Some one, some the other, some neither, but none both. Of course, it's all subjective. But people who don't sing at all are almost as dangerous as people who don't dance at all. And that's a scientific fact!

Let's tie Jim down and pour Jeri Southern into his ears. He better watch out that the Jazz singers union don't picket his house. If they do, I will hose them down with Shirley Horn, Jimmy Scott, Joe Lee Wilson, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Jeanne Lee, Ivie Anderson, and who knows how many others and then ask them wtf their problem is.

You klnow, I checked out a Jeri Southern album a few weeks ago, the one with charts by Ralph Burns charts and an accordion player, and...I dug it, but I didn't feel it. no harm, no foul, that type thing. Then, on the same iPod (finally got it up and running!), there was that Annie Ross side w/Zoot. The swing stuff was ok enough, but the ballads were freakin' GREAT. Story-telling, musicality, the whole package. Simply superb. Can't say that I'd ever tought of Ross as a 'balladeer", but I guess I need to re-evaluate that, if and when it becomes relevant to the world at large. So, Jeri Southern gets a wave as we pass on the sidewalk. Annie Ross gets a wave, a smile, and an offer to carry the groceries.

Condemn singers in jazz? Not me. No way. Point out a characteristic that applies to many "jazz" singers (who I think are really cabaret singers more often than not)? Hell yeah. Why not?

I paid eight hundred bucks for yo' mama's box set.

I love a good singer, when and where they exist. The voice = the original instrument, no? Of course, in my experience, most "jazz" singers are mannered and effete and more concerned with conveying "exclusivity" than with making music. But most is not all. OTOH, I've been blessed to work with a buttload of truly fine, occasionally, great blues & R&B singers, cats who intrinsically grasp that the communicative aspect of singing is probably how it all began, how it likely will all end, and that anything in the middle that loses sight of that is so much foo-foo de coo-coo. Them's the cats that tell the story and spreads the news. Would that more "jazz" singers understood. The few that have/do are magical. The rest can get in line to ride the Irrelevancy Express.

Reaching Fourth is one of the most overlooked piano trio albums ever, I think. Hardly "typical" Tyner relative to what came after, but check out how much music there is on there... so much, that's how much.

I don't eitehr - if I'm going to listen to them. But I'll buy trashed copies of old albums just for the copver, the thickness of the cardboard, the strength of the ink on the paper, just to feel the old-school vinyl, look at the difference in ink shadings on the old labels,, you know, object stuff. Now, I ain't gonna pay big bucks just to hold a thickass BN cardboard cover and see the difference between a freashly-printed cover and a "transfer" (or whatever they do after a while on "facsimilie" reissues, but if I find something cool and trashed for $5.00 or so, hey, why not. It's got nothing to do with the music and more to do with finding an old, cracked 30s-40s era baseball glove in a garage sale. Useless to do anything but look at an touch, but looking at it and touching it can give you a "sense of history". Just don't go crazy over it, ya' know. And hey - keep the faith, chewy, life goes on, all indicators tothe contrarty.

You know, if all you want is the document, the object, then snap up everything you see. At this point, it's all going to be hard to find, but, honestly, if I see an "original" in trashed condition for a decent price, I buy it just to have the object. And looking for stuff like this, usually the older the copy, the more trashed it is. Butit's all hard to find anybmore. 15-20 years ago, not so hard, 30 years ago, you just had to work at it. But yeah, getting them for the love of just having a copy, not some weird erection-inducing fetish, but just knowing that it's a true pieve of history, even if it is fucked up beyond all practical usage, and definitely unattractive to the fetishists, hey, that's kinda like taking in stray dogs and old folks, and I think there's a "special place in heaven" for people who do that.

What was that thing that Maynard played?

One of the two dames behind Beryl Booker is Bonnie Wetzel. None of them look like the bassplayer on the Haig picture, to me. The Beryl Booker picture is from the mid fifties, the same period as the Haig picture. http://www.berylbooker.com/Templates/Beryl...oker%20Trio.jpg j. I saw that picture too, but not a confirmation as to the identity of anybody. Did I miss something?

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No doubt! At that, still one of Kenton's better bands, though. But seriously, Adventures In Jazz by that band is one of the few (very few) Kenton albums of any "era" that I still recommend if/when anybody asks.