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No argument about any of that, it's just that whatever they covered, they covered...."professionally"...I was getting to where I knew what I was going to read it before I read it - in substance and "tone". Not a whole lot of real insight or new knowledge overall...then again, I'm probably not their target market.

People used to scoff at down beat's more rudimental format and look, but I bet it's a helluva lot less expensive. But maybe not, especially now that they've upped. I've read JT on and off since it was in the newsprint format. Might even have a copy or two of Radio Free Jazz, not sure. It used to be a fun read, lots of good writing and interviews. It would be sad to see it go, but it would be a lie for me to say that the magazine has been mostly one big yawn to me for the last 5-6 years, not unlike the music(s) it has elected to cover. "Slick" applies to more than just the physical format...

The way the graphics are done does not remind you of a certain brand of a jazz label ? Looks familiar. Example? Exactly.

But the Delfonics were never knighted...

Nice job, whoever did it. I "get the idea" but am not put off by any blatancy.

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Monte Hall The Beach Boys The Brooklyn Dodgers

Did they check his rektem for hairoen?

I like the WB period stuff well enough, but the live shows usually make for a more engaging "jazz" experience, although "jazz" is not really the point of any of this stuff in the first place, so I can see how if that's what you're looking for, you're not gonna be well-pleased, because it ain't really there, nor is it supposed to be. What is there, I think (and this thought only strengthens as the distance grows larger) is Miles deciding that he's going to take on "pop" and win - on his own terms, with his own esthetic, wigh his own representations. Now, some might call that "selling out", but I think you can make at least just as strong a case that it's an act of defiance. After all, the notion is that "pop" = stupid, shallow, and simplistic, and none of the WB-era music (especially in concert) is ever all that, especially texturally. Wasn't Miles always a texturalist? For that matter, wasn't Miles always about not "settling" for being ghetto-ized or pigeonholed, musically or personally? I'm not saying that anybody who doesn't like it is wrong, because that would mean that you have no right to look for what you like/want/need in music, and there's no way I'd even begin to suggest that. I'm just saying that the music has worth on the terrain that it sets out to conquer.

Oh btw - we got a thread back up in here somewhere dedicated to asking for and getting explanations of any Three People. It's been a while since anybody used it, but it's there. Pretty good idea, actually.

Hey, no problem, check it out: Lana Turner leads to Bake Turner. So there's your link from post to post. From there you go: Bake Turner David Frye (i.e. - fry) Frank Broyles (i.e. - broils) Three names w/connotations of cooking techniques. They don't always have to be "three of a kind", sometimes one evolves into the next into the next, but this one is.

Bake Turner David Frye Frank Broyles

per: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&s...0cfqxq95ldke~T4 Flying Home: The Best of Verve Years Illinois Jacquet Piano Kid and the Brute Illinois Jacquet Piano Happy Cats Joe Newman Piano Jazz Singer Eddie Jefferson Piano Have Guitar, Will Travel Grant Green Piano Rollin' with Leo Leo Parker Piano Elder Don Don Wilkerson Piano Latin Bit Grant Green Piano My Hour of Need Dodo Greene Piano Strictly Bebop Dizzy Gillespie/Tadd Dameron/Babs Gonzal Piano Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, Vol. 1 (1946-19 Dinah Washington Piano Sear-iously Big Al Sears Piano 1946-1947 Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Piano Cool Too Count Basie Bunch Piano Cobb and His Mob in Concert Arnett Cobb Piano 1949-1950 Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra Piano Bean and the Boys [High Note] Coleman Hawkins Piano Jacquet a la Carte Illinois Jacquet Piano Queen Sings Dinah Washington Piano Big Raw Tone Al Sears Piano Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings Ray Charles Arranger 1951-1954 James Moody Piano Probably some overlap there that I overlooked...and no leader date(s).

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&s...0cfqxq95ldke~T1

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It's all mussell...

Fish tacos? What, are you some kind of....WEST COASTER or something?

There's such a thing as a bad taco?

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Thus the designation "ersatz".