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WTF Oakland?!?!

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L'il Miss Martha - Riders Up!!!

Foil Henniston - Crinklin'!!!

Yes, he wrote that tune. "Slick". It was on the TV special and on that album.

Donnie Crim - Pomade & Butch Wax

I bet he made a nice piece of change for this one! Rip

Kinda the Postcards All-Stars here. It was a nifty label. "Dated" in the sense of technology. "Derivative" in that it sometimes sounds like if Wayne and Joe never got into popular rhythms and such. Pleasant listening, and with the players on hand to move it ahead. Fun listen!

Taik Givens - The Nature Of Life (Vol. 2)

It's still faster than real time.

The Rangers (Arlington, not Dallas, btw), have GREAT hot dogs!!!

Posted just now · IP Friday Eve, enjoying a bit of afterglow from a Rangers win this afternoon....carpe diem, as they say... TRACK ONE - Willing to like it. Almost did! Sounds like a Bird tune of sorts. I mean, I didn't dislike it, that's for sure. But it was like, they did that, did it well enough, and then what? More like that, it sounds like it would be. Hopefully not though! TRACK TWO - Maybe twelve-tone meets minimalism. Maybe not. But as a composition, it's not much of a vehicle for improvisation, imo. I don't like an elaborate setup and then, ok, let's improvise on that. I like improvisation to be more integrated. And I like composition to be more developed. Threadgill is the master of that blend. OTOH, whoever it is has an idea and they're committed to it. Maybe they're young and still working it out. If that's the case, ok. Keep on working it out. Maybe some looser players (if the goal is "jazz") or more intensely focused ones (if the goal is "classical"). Or hell, just keep working with the same p0layers and give it time to grow into itself. TRACK THREE - Oh, that "pastoral" shit. Whatever word you want to use for it. "Introspective". "SENSITIVE". Whatever. Not a fan of it. Tenor player sounds like Donny McCaslin but less in tune. The drummer is interesting, but...a different tune, perhaps? TRACK FOUR - Ok, one of the most extrapolated "What Is This Thing Called Love"s: I think I've ever heard. The model seems to be Mingus (and Tristano by extension....or the other way around?). The ensembles nail it more than the soloists, which are soooo close to getting it done. But that's the least intense bass clarinet solo in recent memory! Perfectly played though. An extra half-star for the trombonist! TRACK FIVE - Post-Don Ellis trumpet stylings!!!! And short too! I could quibble, but these days there's no point. Close enough! TRACK SIX - A lot of people like this type of thing. A lot of people don't. Count be as indifferent,, but fully respectful of the immense craftsmansh9p on display. I'm at once too old and too young to give too much of a fuck one way or the other. TRACK SEVEN - See #6. Word for word. Also see Bobby Pierce's reading of the same tune. FLAYVA!!!! But this one....gets a little bit better as it goes on, but the record is apparently not designed to bring too much of that out. Too bad about that. Sounds like there Flayva Potential in this player. Mo' Flayva Please!!!! TRACK EIGHT - In real estate, it's location. In comedy. it's context. I don't have any here. Maybe it's not even supposed to be comedy? It's clever, but me and clever with no context is like Lou Grant and spunk. But there's bot Bird & Christmas thrown in there, so maybe it's Happy Birthday To Bird Jesus? TRACK NINE - The unmistakable Fathead Newman!!!!! You can't tell me that this guy never did not know the lyrics. TRACK TEN - Why? TRACK ELEVEN - Ok, there's that then. Sounds like a cross-cultural explosion of smiling. Me, I'm kinda feeling Lou Grant-ish again. It comes easy these days. TRACK TWELVE - It's a niche, a Tower Of Power niche. I like Tower of Power. A Lot. So this gets a pass from me. A pass and a smile. Because I'm easy like that. But the trombone recalls James Pankow, and Chicago never was my thing, really. But it's ok. Because I'm easy like that. TRACK THIRTEEN - And that's a John Patton niche. That too works for me. All I ask is that there's a point that is made in such a way that any other possible points are somebody else's to make,. You leave it open, hey...just don't do that. TRACK FOURTEEN - SAY WHAT? Fourteen is a lot of songs, so thanks for doing all that work. Hopefully nobody was murdered.

This is one that doesn't get donated to the library after reading!!!

One of their best for sure. I still put the whole run with Edward Wilkerson in a class by themself. Wilkerson is always a differentiator!

Same here. But worth the hunt

Excellent cake...

Soda Listelle - Fizzy!!!

Their first album, from 1981, is still my favorite. But I like them all. I do prefer the earlier ones, thoguh. But yeah, I'd go see them, no question.

If they kept it intact for the LP, I get that. But I've listened to the LP since 1974, so been there, done that. Same with the brown-bag LPs, spent a long time with those also. No interest in going backwards in format selection. For the CD, that logic goes out the window from the very beginning with the banter before "Old Devil Moon" (but I love the banter, all of it, which is why it was disappointing to find some of it missing)) that was NOT on the OG LP. And then at the end of the OG tracks, there's still two "new" tracks, so, again, so much for the LP "effect". And the two takes of "Get Happy"...when hear in recording order, it makes sense. On this new version, they're back to bak and...why? So...I'm not the target for this release, that would be the LP buyers. But they were nice enough to accomodate us fringe CD buyers, and they got my money. And it sounds GREAT!!!! But there's a definitive package still waiting to be made, especially if there's more between-cut speaking to be had. People talk about "it's like you were really there", well OG running order IS like you were really there! So are announcements and band chatter! What would be uber-sweet would be if somewhere somehow they find more that the two recordings from the matinee. That band was really hittin' it on their own terms!

The new tapes in recording order and full announcements would have a definitive package. And would have made the RVG obsolete.

The Horace gets it done.