JSngry

KA-ching! You want that 75K to get some results, use it to buy some time in a club. That's right - pay to play, only the "arts association" pays the club and the band. But not no tired ass navel-gazing chopsturbation or vo-de-0odoh bebop, and not on some Sunday afternoon in some genteel "cafe" . No - find some motherfuckers with some attitude and put them in a club with a similar attitude in a time slot that matters just a little. Quartet Out used to kill in alternative-rock clubs, but in "jazz" clubs more often than not, we would kill - the audience. But the kids (and the few times we took it to the ghetto - notably as part of a St. Louis New Music Society outreach to an elementary school - "the community") had no problem with it, because they had no idea what "jazz" wasn't supposed to sound like (ah-HA!). They got the energy, they dug the intensity, they felt the life. They weren't laboring under the burden of preservation, they were just there in the same room at the same time as we were, and we had a nice little exchange. Now, if all you got to work with in your town is a bunch of...let's just say, stuff that sounds like what jazz is "supposed" to sound like in the minds of the many, then hang it up. Use that 75K to put the handful together with the handful and call it a day. But if you got some shit that is relevant to people who don't know what "relevant" means, then by all means, think outside the box, go to a club with like-minded attitudes, and pimp that shit out. Let the [peoples know that it is here to be had.

That one's easy - it came about in response to decades of industry & cultural ignorance exploitation, abuse, and ghettoization. True artists treated like so many dispensable hacks. As fate would have it, though, now that the music has won some "respect", you got so many dispensable hacks being treated as true artists. Hell, most people can tell the difference at some level, even the ones who don't know Duke Ellington from Duke Bootee.

Yeah, that's right...I was thinking off the top of my head about the Stash CD that included both the Wichita gig + a airshot of a set of Bird w/the full McShann orchestra.

Yep. It was released in America on Stash, iirc.

he does he does

For Demonstration Purposes Only Norris Turney is also on board.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bclLU_8fK0I/SpS1...front%2Bweb.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bclLU_8fK0I/SpS1...Bback%2Bweb.jpg Now, how 'bout DAT?

Growing up when I did, in the age of "electronically rechanneled for stereo", the mono button was all the proof I needed that 1+1 could=1. There was salvation to be had there. Hell. if you were getting an FM stereo reception from afar with shaky reception, flipping the mono switch on would sometimes bring it on home. The absence of such a device on most modern amps/etc sucks if you have any media in need of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1scr_tDRsMs Hey, it was good enough for Freddy McCoy...

Not yet...too much "stuff" going on to allow for prolonged listening right now. Sorry.

If that's how she programs it...

That's Basie's tempo, Basie's arrangement, Basie's ensemble sound. Why do we assume that Iverson is correct in calling it Goodman's band?

Perhpas overlooked, but highly recommended

OH YEAH-ESS HE DEE-UD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How is it? I passed on it for years thinking that it was some lame disco-jazz album just because it was an older straight-ahead guy making an album on Nemperor, but I've since heard that it's a pretty solid straight-ahead date. Inquiring minds want to know!!!

And still can!!!

That's the part you should be listening to.

Maybe I'm blind/deaf/whatever, but "Hold Me Tight" doesn't seem to me to sound as "old" as most of the other hits from 1968 (or thereabouts) do today. Seems like I can respond to the groove first, and the "nostalgia" (such as it is...the only real "memories" I have of this song are of how delightfully different it sounded than everything else on the radio & of Bake Turner & some other NY Jets copping it for a "That's The Score" commercial for Score hair cream...) second, if at all.

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George Fell Into His French Horn.

These Wildflowers were so beautiful...who knew then that a massive dose of herbicide was just a few years up the road?

Hold this, Ringo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKmL8J-_u-Q But if you could get this action goin', you'd not need no phone calls:

"Generic" works for me.

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