JSngry

Well ain't that a bee-atch - I've got True Blue on a 1994 American Xanadu CD - straight-up LP reissue. No Silver Blue equivalent, afaik. I guess France came a'callin' and then they stared ballin' and next thing you know, I'm gettin' all crestfallen.

Now that's a pro move!

It was issued on BMG/RCA's "In Paris" series, paired with a session by stride pianist Joe Turner. It's out of print right now, but there are lots of copies for sale by Amazon vendors. And it was on GNP for the longest, on LP.

Dude, I'm siting here right now looking at the keyboard trying to find any, any, plausible scenario, but....no. Best I can reckon is that it was supposed to be "side's", but how that came out "bate's".... But back to the music - in regards to the Xanadu thing, am I correct that only one of the two "Blue" albums actually made CD legitimately?

I'm regaining interest in participating, especially now that things are uploadable/downloadable. Had a long phase where I had neither the time nor too much interest, but that's evolving back again. Didn't sign up again because the last time I looked,the list was full for at least a decade or so (or so it seemed...). I'd like to keep it alive in some form or fashion. If feasable.

Hey, I'm just wondering what I was trying to type that came out "bate's"...

I'd like to hold you to this but I am afraid the Ambien might be clouding your judgment. UH-oh....

Sorry but I am just not sure what this means - other than a general dis of the players/performance. Not really a dis, just a comment that it sounds really polite, like it was recorded at a Kennedy Center function or something. Which is not a bad thing, mind you, just, well, you know.

That should have been unextinguishably soulful... And yeah, I need to compose elsewhere and then paste/post. That's some frustrating stuff. And Jim, I don't think the Kisor bate's on Criss-Cross is it? It's a Japanese-only issue iirc.

DAMMIT, that's two BFT threads in a row where I've accidentally closed the post before finishing. DAMMIT Ok, shorter answers this time, shit. TRACK ONE - Might like it, but can't tell due to the thunderous recording quality, which makes me dislike the drummer VERY much. TRACK TWO - "Cute". Sounds UK or Euro in the recording and arranging, sounds like the Kelley/PC/Cobb trio in soloing. I like it pretty well but the contrast between heads and soloing is a little discombobulating. Maybe it's that off-center pressing! TRACK THREE - John Brown's Battle Hymn. A nice piece of work, actually, although they tag the ending too long for my taste. I TRACK FOUR - "You Don't Know Me". Exquisitely paced. s this a GH Bootleg? TRACK FIVE - I'm Walkin'. Not diffing this one. Too symmetrical. But professional! TRACK SIX - "Meditation". Person/Carter. Works for me just. I really enjoy playing tenor/bass duets, and I really enjoyed hearing this one, although why Ron keeps asking "what Am I here For" strikes me a bit...rude, perhaps. TRACK SEVEN - "Sidewinder". It's a good tune, no matter what anybody wants to tell you otherwise. Not really digging anybody here save for the drummer, who is DANDY! Guitar is ok too, but the other two, just too much "tribute" for my taste. Is this the Ryan Kizor side with the sexyass leg cover? TRACK EIGHT/NINE - No fair, I know this one. But - God bless the eternally hip, the perpetually beautiful, the extinguishably soulful Hank Mobley. He had "it" when he didn't have anything else. TRACK NINE/TEN - No fair again, pretty much whatever you play after that last one is gonna sound frivolous, including this. Sorry. TRACK TEN/ELEVEN - Wow, cool! I'd long hear about this album, but never actually heard it. I've got it's companion True, but have never found this one, Silver. So WAY cool (and Blue!)! These are masters at work, simple as that. TRACK ELEVEN/TWELVE - Coppin' Joe prettyhavey here in sound and such, so my reflex is to Javon Jackson. It ain't Joe, that's for sure. Not bad, but one degree too many from Kevin Bacon for my taste. But overall, a fine compilation, Dan. MOST enjoyable. Thanks!

When was this decided?

That's a 36-year-old woman?! Yeah, if 80 is the new 50, then I guess 56 is the new 36. I liked quantum theory so much better when it was just theory...

Cool. But hell, the way he used them was so often derivative it's own self. It's like, the guy had...energy, but was basically bereft of ideas of his own. That's not gonna be too much of a hero to me, musical or otherwise.

The Jordanaires were a very legendary Southern Gospel group. quite apart from their long association with Elvis. Whether or not you can get into that type of thing or not (and for me it\'s a tste I\'m still acquiring - slowly). All I\'m saying is that to know them only from Elvis is to not really know them at all, if not necessarily that to know them is to love them.... And also, post-comeback Elvis used the Sweet Inspirations, not a group to dismiss. But I don't think you're including them.

Here's hoping that your middle name is Chris, or that you have at least once pretended that it was!

Right up there with the Kennedy Assassination leading to the Beatles on Sullivan!

Yeah, I understand all that "intellectually". But it's never translated into particularly enjoying the actual music. Really, Jerry Lee Lewis was a lot more formed from jump, I think. And there were others who were much more "there" musically than Elvis but nowhere near as capable of being "molded". All I can see Elvis really contributing from a strictly musical standpoint is...nothing. Sociologicallly, hell yeah - he made the world safe for Leonard Skynard, god bless him. Sure, he changed the music business forever, and that in turned changed the music forever. But let's not overlook that there were plenty of people who did it the other way around. And really, I'd rather not get into a lengthy back & forth about Elvis (or Bill Evans, or anybody generally beloved figure towards whom I am ambivalent at best). I'm not looking to convince anybody that I'm right and they're wrong. I just want to every now and then let whoever know that, no, not EVERYBODY feels the love, just because.

I've heard some of the Hayride things, and as sociology, yeah, I find them important. But straight-up musically, I'm still not convinced that it's some Southern "white guys" trying to play some things that they don't quite yet know how to play the way they think they might want to play it. I'm thinking that some Western Swing was a lot further along this same path than these guys. If not for Elvis, they'd sound pretty lame, and even with Elvis, you got more "energy" than you do music. And yes, sociology and music often intertwine to a point where they become inseparable. No question. but the whole idea of Elvis as a significant musical figure, apart from a purely social one, is just lost on me. the guy did have a voice, but he really had no idea what to really do with it until he started having hits, and then he did what he knew would sell. The Sun stuff is raw, but it's just...unformed to my ears. Not just the band, but the whole thing, including Elvis himself. That's a difference from most "important" nascent musical breakthroughs like, say Armstrong w/Oliver or Bird w/McShann. There, you get a sense that these guys knew what it was that they wanted and that they knew what they were going to have to eventually do to get to it. With Elvis on sun, what I basically hear is a guy who knows he wants something, and who knows that he can do some things pretty well. But that's about it, really. I don't hear any real "point of view" if you know what I mean, and I think that's a big part of why he became what he became. HE didn't "lose his way" nearly as much as he never really had a "way" of his own to begin with. Just my opinion., and again, I know I'm in the minority. But Elvis, virtually any Elvis, just does not...satisfy me at all, and so much other music does.

Yeah, those tracks was just as you say, if not worse! But there was some other material on there not that bad...

I remember one called Spooky. I remember that it was released shortly before the Classics IV's recording hit the New Orleans airwaves. I remember Let It Be, one about movie themes, and one w/Legrand, but not that one. What about Spoonful Of Jazz, was that one straight up "easy listening" or more of a "jazz" date?