JSngry

Like you said, a SF area drummer, hard-bop leaning towards semi-freeish kind of thing. Often had Sonny Simmons & Barbara Donald on his sides. No slouches or posers on board, ever. Just good, strong, local talent. Definitely a player and an output worth knowing, I think.

We probably have more than a few people here who know who Smiley Winters is/was!

Chuck Nessa has eaten my barbeque & played music on my cassette deck. Hey - life is good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9cM3ALga80

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2009/04...ow-1957_09.html

I've found that most women, hell, most people, appreciate acts of courtesy if you just go ahead and do it and not make a show out of it. Especially on a date. Especially on a date.

She's a kid, basically, can't be over 18-19 or so. Full of fun, creativity, and energy, like my daughter. People like that should be encouraged, not discouraged. You're gonna get dark sooner or later, the more light you can keep and the longer you can keep it, so much the more better.

As do I!

Wow dude, that's not much incentive to let you live now, is it... Stevie's gotten "too big" alright, but I'm not talking about the shows, if you know what I mean. Not that I have any room for talking. Or anything else for that matter... (can we get a "fat" smiley in here?"

Yeah, that's definitely a valid perception I would say. One thing I love about that era is the gap between the "jazzers" and "rockers" was alot more narrow than it became later. Plus music was still able to be music and hadn't been "sub-categorized" to death the way it is now. Keep in mind also that the "psychedelic era" was the beginning of the incorporation of real improvisation into post-Swing popular music. So opportunioties for "common grond" (or possible pursuit of possibly discoverable areas of common ground) suddenly existed where none had really been before.

I just don't think the repertoire brings out the Rushingness of Rushing, not a whole albums worth. That and it sounds like it was recorded in a padded room with no air. As far as best-ever, you gotta go a long way to beat Rushing Lullabies, imo.

No time to post much right now, but before Mahavishnu-esque fusuion, there was a lot of activity in the "jazz-rock" horn bands and the now beloved, then no so beloved Soul Jazz that was all about thinking of jazz in rhythmic terms that refelcted an awareness and an acceptance of the popular rhythms of the day. Mahavishnu really turned things around, almost immediately, and although they themselves were a band of staggering power and originality, what they inspired a lot of other people to go for was kind of a drage, just becuase mst people had neither the chops nor the organic vision they had.

This looks like it might be from around the same time as The You And Me That Ued To Be, which I really didn't care for all that much, but this is a club date w/o the particular "thematic" conceit of that album, so hey...

1 Deed I Do 2 Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You? 3 I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me 4 I Want a Little Girl 5 The Red Door [instrumental] 6 Goin' to Chicago Basie, Rushing 7 I Cried for You Arnheim, Freed, Lyman 8 Everyday I Have the Blues Chatman 9 It's Noteworthy [instrumental] 10 Good Morning Blues Color me interested!

Can you get a cruise ship gig?

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2009/04...uest-frank.html

Never underestimate the power of a professional survivor.

It looks like this guy bought a collection of Goodwill's Perennial Favorites, but it also appears that this is music that is perhaps largely unfamiliar to him, at leasr not deeply familiar. Nothing at all "heavy", just kinda funny to think about somebody ending up with all this..."stuff" by (apparently) accident and then deciding to actually listen to it all. It starts here (from the bottom up) http://www.personalconservatory.com/2008/08/page/2 Or it you want to work your wa back, here: http://www.personalconservatory.com/

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David Schwimmer David Wade David Pool: http://www.davidpool.com/