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I know he's, uh..."difficult", but I think he's had quite a lot of very funny moments over the years, as well as some insufferably pretentious ones. This drumming bit told 20 years later would probably be the latter. As it is, it's the former. Then again, the only thing that can rise tempers faster than a political discussion is telling somebody that they're wrong about their taste in humor.

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Steve Potts was on a Chico Hamilton Solid State album.

I think it's him.

Yeah, what does it say about the mojo of the original that Jimmy Smith played it without soloing? I mean (to use a JOS album title), DAMN!

Parker's Mood.

Both of those solos, Butler's & Scott's are so easy to almost play exactly. Butler's varied pick technique(?) - the 5th bar of his second chorus in particular - & the way that Scott pulls back on that (tenor) E in his "come on and do the Honky Tonk" chorus...sublime. And check out how Doggett lays into the shout chorus with an ever-so-quiet yet oh-so-hip Gb instead of just laying on the C7 like he does for the rest of the tune (technical talk, I know, but listen & you will hear). But hey - here's a Ventures version in F featuring Harvey Mandel and Jackie Freakin' Kelso(!!!!!) that might well be the best cover I've heard yet:

Still packs the dance floor. Incredibly subtle (sic). Often (Often) covered, but never (never) with the grace and nuance of the original. Greatness!

I wonder if Tommy LiPuma's ever had menudo?

But you know what? Capra Black, Billy Harper, Starta-East, Side Two, "Cry Of HHunger". I bet he'd get that. Also, put me down as also not caring for Trying To Get Home.

If he's deep into Soul and not jazz, I'd say the Freddie Roach is the best bet of those... Word on that. And Conrad Lester is a BAAAAD man!

Barbs! Yes! Barbs!

I don't know that album, but dude - Mickey Baker is somebody for whom the word "seminal" would not be misused. The cat was in that neither/nor in-between zone of jazz and R&B in the early-mid 50s and he really could play.

I admire your restraint in not knocking his teeth out again...

Ok, I still don't "get" it the way you do, but yeah, this is a helluva lot better that the "Popsicle Toes" type stuff that I know as Michael Franks, and anybody who plays the menudo card like that gets a gallon of Auto Respect from o'er here. And maybe if it was Carl Wilson singing lead and the Beach Boys doing those harmonies then I would get it like you do, but that's not to say that I will gripe, because I will not, although I do think I will have a bowl of menudo sometime soon.

Visions had the hit, though. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is". So think of it as Grant's equivalent of Wes' A Day In The Life (certainly a very "inflential" album in its own right, like it or not). More or less.

Not to get sidetracked into arcana...Von is a motherfucker, and so is this album.

Legendary Chicago "bebop" (quotes intentional) drummer, died young (the usual suspects), only one studio session (78s) , never really "to full effect" based on firsthand accounts. Larry Kart quotes Wilbur Campbell: http://books.google.com/books?id=2Hxpt_piQ...mer&f=false

You think that Ike Day is "well-known"?

I don't know that it's th longevity as much as it is the "local guy" syndrome. Recognized giant that he is, I think in too many people's minds he's still thought of as a "Chicago cat" above anything else. Jazz loves a legend indeed, but jazz "history" for guys Vons age is still very New York-centric.

Hopefully the download offers "Avalon", which was not included on the original LP (it was included on one of the 3 Vol impulse! samplers of the time, what were they, "The New Wave Of Jazz"?) but was includedon the CD reissue. That is a glorious performance by all concerned, es[pecially Bean.

A 'must have' recording indeed!

I might have felt more fortunate to have lived in a time when so much historical jazz was available for us to enjoy live, but I get your point.