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I hear ya' on that, but then again, that ponderosity, besides being integral to the Cartwright family, was kinda part and parcel of his ballad playing all the way through, at least in terms of "style", at least to my ears. Then again (again), isn't ballad playing the last thing to come together for just about everybody?

That's pretty much how I hear it, and fwiw, Swallow is not on every piece.

http://www.amazon.com/Carlas-Christmas-Car...4480&sr=8-1 (that's w/the O-Link) For real, this is a very, believe it or not, touching program. The Far-from-omnipresent "left turns" come off, not as some wacky, dry satire, but as genuine inspiration. But, in what is the most inevitable marketing ploy imaginable, Amazon is offering this one as a combo with the Dylan Christmas album. Before I heard both, I would have agreed, but now...no. Bob's thing is gentle-spirited, I do believe, as is Carla's, but I think that Bob's gotta know, enjoy, even, how bizarre the whole thing sounds, whereas Carla is more like, well, here's some Christmas music, and you know, this isn't how some of 'em usually go, but this is how I hear 'em, so check it out. Or something like that. But if you think of Carla Bley on her own as being mostly this really arch musical stylist, then you will still hear a fair amount of that here. But me, I don't feel that, not this time. Merry Christmas!

http://hororecords.blogspot.com/ Clem's involved!

I agree. Plus, truth be told, somebody, anybody, had to do something, anything, to the raw tracks at the time. The band was just plain raggedy. In 1969, the reaction would have been...who knows, but probably not favorable. Garage bands have since come back into style (several times!), but... This is the "Across The Universe" to have, imo.

Is there any Rollins up yet?

Oleo itself is a contrafact of butter.

I would not say that Ringo had great skills, but the skills he did have, he used greatly. T'aint what you do, etc. Same thing with Charlie Watts, great pocket. Not Al Jackson great, but then again, who was/is? Different musics, different needs, different criteria. It's not all good, but it is all good where it is good, and where that is is for me to say for myself.

I concur completely, but am nevertheless delighted to hear this.

I'd have to think that aside from the Cootie there is no true "early" Bud on record, at least if by "early" you mean still not-quite fully formed as an individual voice.

That's the name! It was on Vol 1, which also housed the Hawk/Duke "Solitude" & Ben's "Single Petal Of A Rose", as well as Trane's "Big Nick" & Mingus' "Freedom" w/that great Booker Ervin solo. Quite a tenor feast, especially for an album of "leftovers"!

Thanks for the tip! For my money, Pi is, and has been, one of the most consistently interesting labels going since their inception.

Quirky! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rO3KNb4A4A Most obscure Beatles cover ever?

Can somebody with some spare time tell me how "Devil In Her Heart" got to The Beatles? I've forgotten.

You can't talk about Von's sound w/o also considering the overall "Chicago tenor sound". It's there, and it's real. Trane, otoh, can't be considered outside of the overall "Philly tenor sound". It's there, too, and it's just as real, although it's not quite as eternal. But Jimmy Heath & Grover Washington share a certain core tonal character, just as do Trane, HJeath, & Benny Golson, and who else, etc. Language inevitably has regional dialects.

Hey, those Big Two records are pretty damn amazing. Carpe diem!

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I feel sorry for little Gretchen.

Fim Fittered Fim Fottered Fam Faortaed

Cowboys play sexy football, Cowboys fans get hot over sexy football. They need each other and are more than happy to do it, this sexy football ritual, while somebody goes off and plays real football., just not the Cowboys, who know where their sexy gets licked with no questions asked, at least not ones that could stop the sexy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gV_b8yTJnQ

Slieber's 5, backed with a tall suit of Drummond's Lancyford, neat, of course.

Bottom line, though - Colts needed 17, colts got 17. Cowboys needed 17, Cowboys got a hoorahrahray from them the loves them like the coenablers they all are.