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I guess if you were in Chicago at the time all these people and all these references were like "everyday hum-drum", but seen 56 years later, it's like some parallel fantasy universe that is only partially related to ours...yet it all hangs together...nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there...but definitely a nice, kinda psychotropic drugged-out middle class ephemeral place to visit. And who's that piano player, David LeWinter? VERY nice, semi-Tatum-esque cocktailish version of "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"... Ah, Chicago, I'll never know you, and probably should have...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2009/06...tfall-1953.html I'd never heard the verse to "Try A Little Tenderness" before...but that's just one of many highlights....oh...my....god....

Yeah, this one is definitely about the energy. It's at an "up-front" level that I don't hear that much these days, and I appreciate it. And Walter simth (a Houston man, as I understand it) plays one solo that really got my attention.

Yeah, but if your timing belt goes, you don't need no more starter...

HEY.....Disc One Track Two ain't Hank Marr by any chance, is it? I read Dan's guess about Percy France, I don't think that's right, but maybe Rusty Bryant is, and then that got me to go back and relisten.

First full listen as we speak, the usual thanks and disclaimers going out loud and clear, let's PLAY BALL! DISC ONE TRACK ONE - damn, that tune is familiar...like some Wayne/Messengers (or Vee-Jay) thing... good bass by the organis, damn good,,,i dig how the drummer kicks in for the guitar solo...organ is ok, but that guitar sounds more mature, knowing....but the drummer doesn't keep up and drops it too soon rather than keeps building for that last chours, not sure about that..on my computer speakers, the drums sound like the old columbia studio, not sure what the sound like in real sound...pretty good overall, but even more overall, I'd like to hear the guitarist with more..."challenging" players. But this is my-t-fine as is. I'm certainly not deleting it from my hard drive! TRACK TWO - another one that sounds familiar, as in I think I have it somewhere somehow...McGriff? Red Holloway? Which would probably mean McDuff? Sounds like a Rudy recording, the pedals do. No matter, old-school for real, for honest, and seasoned like grandma's black-eyed peas. In other words, as real as it comes. This is the kind of stuff that got me into organjazz in the first place. And dig our man on tenor - one chorus and out. Sure he's got plenty more to say, but what he says here is not leaving more to be said, if you know what I mean. SEASONING!!! TRACK THREE - More seasoning at work. Fleet! I can groove on the lead, or I can groove on the guitar(or organ)/drum zone. I'm happy either way. Love it when that happens. You talk about seasoning, these three guys feed each other, constantly. Love it when that happens too. Gotta be a RudyRecord too, fwiw. One more thing - that head would be corny as hell on anything else but B-3. Now that's really seasoning! TRACK FOUR - In Griff I Trust! http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:0zfrxq8gldfe Probably overlooked by Griff & organ fans alike. Griff was like God if God was your really hip next-door neighbor who didn't mind getting fucked up sometimes because he knew he could still handle his business. How do you not like that? TRACK FIVE - Something about B-3 & "latin" grooves that gets to me good...but the sound is too "clean"...a B-3, even when played softly should...fill up some air, not waft through it all "respectful" and shit...part of that is recording, but i kinfa get the feeling that these folks never even noticed it, or if they did, not as a potential "problem"...and the Wes thing...GOOD BOY!!!!!!!... nah, I'll pass on this one, not even gonna finish it, thanks anyway. TRACK SIX - Seasoned well, but not fully "well-seasoned" for my taste...but much props and full respect neverthenonetheless...just sounds maybe...a half-degree or so separated from the kitchen, like they know grandma's recipe by heart and love it so much that they cook it verbatim. Well, that's...just not possible. Grandma's foot imparts a subtle flavor all its own. TRACK SEVEN - Son Of Moontrane? Lawrence Jr of Newark? I dunno, but...it's ok, and obviously played with love, but...I dunno. Sometimes love is not fun. TRACK EIGHT - You hear solo piano out the ass, but hardly ever solo jazz B-3. How come is that? Kinda corny, but kinda "simple & direct" too...fine line between those two, and I'll lean towards the latter just for that gorgeous intro & those wonderfully phrased doodley-doodley-doodley triplets. And for the composition itself, clihed, but ultimately....right. If Timmy Thomas had played jazz, maybe it would have sound like this. Maybe. Nice way to end a disc! Now, on to... DISC TWO TRACK ONE - Sounds like a McDuff arrangement..."Woody'n You" changes...nice drummer, keeps it in there...yeah, this is newer, but i'm feeling it like the older stuff, especially that drummer, who definitely knows what the deal is. And not done a disservice by the recording. TRACK TWO - this kind of thing sometimes really pisses me off...but not now. It's just that that whole hyper-clean, hyper-focused tone, hyper-eighth note, hyper-sincere "New York Tenor" thing is not someplace or something I want to put my..."male reproductive organ" into, if you know what I mean. Is that Scofield on guitar? Anyway...i take things too personal sometimes, maybe this is one of those things and times. TRACK THREE - ALTO! How DARE you!!! Seriously, fullest props to organ & drummer. Everybody else...thanks for playing our game. TRACK FOUR - Sounds like "Ain't That Peculiar" meets "Africa"... Ya' know, there's nothing as refreshing as some really cold good watermelon, and I'm having some right now while I listen to this. And enjoying both. TRACK FIVE - Nah. Almost, though. That's not Charlie Mariano, is it? Sounds like somebody who could (and has) had better outings. TRACK SIX - Nice, but I can't hear it w/o thinking of "A Child Is Born"... Almost Lovano on tenor, but Lovano swings...again, nice. But. TRACK SEVEN - Sounds kinda ECM-ish, in a good way...don't know that I "like" it, but I do dig it...maybe i'd "like" it more if the guitarist would've breathed some...lord knows that drumer ain't gonna let it falter any if you do..actually gets better as it goes along, i think...opens up into some different (for me) flavor...salutes aplenty here, and keep up the good work and the individuality. TRACK EIGHT - "Embraceable You", the first (I thnk) "standard" on either disc (and kudos to the kompiler for that!) http://www.stevekhan.com/4dimensions_cov_sm.jpg Thanks to Mike for some great sounds (in FLAC format no less!) and a selection that held very few readily identifiable players, bands, or tunes. Gotta love that for a challenge!

Back UP!

Just curious - why not timing belt first? If that goes....

Derek Fisher & playoff 3s...that cat's got a mojo like that. re: Jackson...I heard a lot of the same things about Riley/Lakers back in the day, and yeah, it's all true, but just as far as it goes. I say you gotta give props to a coach like Jackson (or riley) for keeping those egos & ambitions disciplined and on the same page over the course of a season. You saw it this evening. Crunch time came, and the Heat wilted. Crunch time came and the Lakers bent but did not break. Crunch time came and now the Lakers are up 3-1. To me, that speaks to a team's mental maturity, and that is something I give full credit for to good coaching. How 'bout the Lakers post-Shaq near-meltdown? Talk about some mental sad-sacks...But they built back up, and now they're focused like none other. That shit don't happen by accident. If "great talent" was all it took for a team to become a champion...

This is TOO rich: http://www.funadvice.com/q/how_to_care_for_ypur_monkey

The liner notes say so.

Dwayne Dolphin Eric Dolphy Dolph Briscoe

Something to do with a monkey on his back? Except it's not on his back! ("I've got a monkey on my back" = "I'm addicted".) I must say this interpretation never occurred to me and I think it's very unlikely that it was intended by either Blue Note or McLean. ah, I see... I think the reference I picked up somewhere, might have been in the Penguin guide (they thought it was ironic or something, that the monkey on the cover sort of un-disguised McLean's habit, but I'm sure what it exactly said). The monkey's name was "Mr. Jones" The monkey is decidedly off of Jackie's back 'nuff said

I so don't listen to the radio here any more.

Kitten Princess Bud

Francesca Tanksley can play. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:09fqxqyaldse

Yep. And "Angel Eyes" by some non-Brubeck group on the other side.

Their big band "tribute" lps are often quite good & stocked with name players.

Skip Butler http://www.nfl.com/players/skipbutler/profile?id=BUT648875 Skitch Henderson Skinnay Ennis