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Not so much Jasmine Tree, but very much so on Space. The latter is the one I like to pull on "modernists" who insist that they don't like the MJQ. If they get through that one w/o liking it, then I believe them.

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Rev C L Franklin in action:

Rev. Jasper Williams eulogizes Rev. C. L. Franklin, one master paying tribute to another: Part 1 Part 2 This is the real deal. Be ready.

except for the last one....those are all questions worth asking him if you get the call through.

C.L. is just the tip of the iceberg, trust me... Our text for today is Marvin Gaye... "How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You" (1965)- Rev. O.L. Holliday: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=84....+O.L.+Holliday Not for the casually curious...about 35-40 minutes long and it builds slowly, but talk about a style...

Call him. Even better, prepare a list of good questions beforehand.

Yeah, musically astute "easy listening" is something I'm usually a sucker for too, if only because you hear people making choices that they didn't have to make but made anyway.

I would so not make even a small wager that it is...

101 strings / the spots / the petards - love is blue (1972) http://subway-detour.blogspot.com/search/label/101%20strings Funky Frauleins -- Female Beat, Groove, Disco, & Funk In Germany 1968 to 1978 http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=vbd...p;ref=index.php

Truth be told, my pre-adolescent imprinting of/by 1964-68 AM pop radio has never quite been reversed (nor do I think it should be). A good pop record (and damn are they few and far between...) of 100% Sugar Pop Ear Candy from any "era" will still draw me in for a few minutes.

A dongle'll do that to ya'.

Now if you wanna get REALLY esoteric, try The Lutheran Hour archives: http://www.lutheranhour.org/history.htm Last night I checked out this one from 1937 and got more insight into my late father than I could have dreamed possible: http://media.lhm.org/lutheranhour/mp3s/his...ed_1937_wam.mp3

I actually have these from your list: And several others that you (ahem) don't list... you gotta remember that I live in a part of the world where the target market for these type of recordings is not an abstract concept...It's also not as large (or as living) as it was a decade or so ago, but there was a time in the quite recent past where if you wanted to find these recordings and others like them, it was not at all difficult. For that matter, there's an African-American AM radio station here that still does Sunday morning live remotes from local churches, some of which are not too far removed from what you hear here. BTW - CLEAR SHINING AFTER RAIN is simply breathtaking in its beauty, power, and use of the phrase "whilst traveling through the paradistical celestial", which sounds like the title of a late Trane piece, as does, ultimately, the whole sermon. From what I've come across, it's the one to have if you're only having one.

Especially against Tennessee!

Is that another John Phillips reference? Oh GOD no! I mean that MG is like the The English Cousin (wasn't Anthony Hopkins in that one?) who went"back home" for awhile but has come back to stay.

Yeah. sometimes he'll superimpose them over the base harmonies of his later "modal" work. But that's just one of many things he does. As for me, I'm on the record of being in the "been there, tried that, couldn't find a reason to keep trying, anybody who does, go for it" camp. But hell, these days, I feel like even a few notes is still playing too much, so I probably have nothing of merit to add, although on a personal note, I still dig Ornette's notion of letting the melody define the underlying changes rather than doing it the other way around, although there again, it ain't a melody or a changes world any more, even Ornette is "old" now, Trane damn sure is, lord knows I love 'em both, but...it's a rhythm & texture world, so, hell... I'm too young to relate to the then and too old to actually do the now, so...good luck, all y'all!

It's like the family has been made whole again. Welcome back!

A common problem here with blog images. That Marlena Shaw album is one I just got around to a few months ago...a lot better than I was expecting, actually.

Or try this - once you hear the details of the harmonic direction inside a lot of Tatum's flamboyance, it become apparent that the man is actually making some bold moves into places the source material did not provide for in its original form. Peterson rarely did this, at least not to the degree that Tatum. Of course, tehre are really two Tatums - the "parlor pianist" and the "serious musician". sometimes the exists simultaneously, which makes fopr a thicker soup than many palates prefer to tackle, and understandably so. But the effort is rewarded for those who make it. Me, I like the spooge thing better, but...

Funny, but when a chef gets asked how to make a certain dish, nobody ever asks them to not go into technical detail... But ok...Peterson was what you hear is what you get. Tatum, otoh, was frequently into some weird ass shit within his spooge. Sorry, but when it comes to talking about the technicalities of music in non-technical terms, that's the best I can do.

Geez, the guy's got his nose WIDE open...

Can't say that Tatum remains bombastic once you hear what all he's doing inside all that bombast (often enough). I can't say the same for Peterson (often enough). Tatum was at root a serious musical thinker, make no mistake. Petterson was at root a serious piano player.

I bought the Wax Poetics issue just for that article. A worthwhile read, I think.

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