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A Prelude To Bubbles: http://www.astrosdaily.com/audio/69closer.mp3

http://www.astrosdaily.com/audio/70cedenohr.mp3 Check out the scoreboard sounds.

It's been my experience that true "newness" is never digested easily. It just happens, BAM. You react one way or the other while the chain reactions go on and on. The "digestion" part doen't even have a change to begin in earnest until things "slow down" a little bit. Keep in mind that for most folks, "digesting" events isn't about "what is happening" as it is "what happened". Digestion is a reflective process, and reflection is difficult if not impossible when there's ongoing bombardment. Part of the "problem" is that so many people have gotten so "smart" that they think it's not cool/wise/whatever to allow themselves surrender to the "new". The puposely keep a detatched perspective under the guise of "objectivity" or something. Well, ok, but that kind of rules out the possibility of a full scale "upheaval" of anything, because the only way that happens is when content and non-objective emotion join hands, and most importantly, hearts. Or maybe the new upheaval is the ouster of the willingness to give it all up to the passion of the immediate for fear (although it would never be called that...) that there's nothing sustainable/substantive there. Maybe it's all going to be about "now" being defined in terms of how we can recast "then". Because "then" is a known quantity by now, and can be "digested" for as long as needed. Could be. That's certainly a "digital" emotional paradigm, I'd thing, and this new world a' comin' ain't nothing if not digital. Only thing is, eventually, you digest everything, and then you gotta shit out what's left (and there's always something left) and eat something new. The longer you postpone that inevitability, the uglier/weirder it gets when it finally happens. But if that's the way it's gonna go, thats the way it's gonna go.

The bring the circle even fuuler (and something so obvious that I must have been an idiot not to recognize it yesterday), I had a road gig last night - in Houston. buh buh buh BUH buh buh BUH

The Backroom Bandits - You Don't Know What Love Is Actually Kurt elling's version from Flirting With Twilight, still keeping the same tempo & basic feel, just tightening up the beat to where it's more like a Jamal/Fournier type fall-into-a-deep-mellow-trance thing. Outstanding. And I'm no "fan" of Elling's, but damn does he sound good here.

I doin't know about all that coded communication stuff, but anybody who paid attention and wasn't culturally predisposed to ignorance to the matter knew (& knows) that the Lennon/McCartney chord progressions were a subtly unique language.

It's a very good album, I think. Not jazz, not pop, not soundtrack, all of them rolled into one and just happening on its own terms. Plenty of texture, great writing, great playing. Tell you what, Pat Williams (or as he now calls himself, Patrick Williams) is not somebody to trifle with. No siree.

You rule, Rod! Yeah, the show would begin it's sign-off with a fade-in at the 1:29 mark and play it out to conclusion, iirc, with the announcers inevitably finishing right on cue for that final church cadence. And on the intro, Gene Elston, who had one of the driest, most urbane voices & deliveries in the history of baseball radio, would not speak until after the fanfare. He'd wait until Stamm started playing & the vibe got all martini, as, after all, befits a post-game show. Wow, Gene Elston, Ricky Goode (Hey, Ricky!), & a 1968 (?) Pat Williams cut all converging out of nowhere in 2008. Lord, please don't take me anytime soon, this is waaaay too strange (and fun!) a trip to check out on right now!

Also available, it woul appear, on this Japanese collection: http://www.amazon.co.jp/RESORT-MUSIC-%E3%8...9/dp/B000065E6C So there. James Brown, Brigitte Bardot, Roland Kirk, The Caterina Valente Singers, and, of course, Bubbles. Who was a cheerleader.

Here it is on a podcast: http://whyfidelity.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=148122 or http://media.libsyn.com/media/whyfidelity/...fidelity_49.mp3 Check out what it s compiled with: Hey.

I wish I could... It's one of those things that "squares" can dig at face value, those "in the know" can dig at face value (with a totally different face), and "hipsters" can absolutely, unambiguously hate. The joke, I think, is on all of them! Bubbles Was A Cheerleader, dig?

Late 60s Astros radio broadcasts (of which I listened to damn near every one) weren't truly over until the post-game show (the Astros Wrap Up Show, I think it was called?) came and went. The show featured a most catchy them played on what I have since come to know was a piccolo trumpet. Now, my buddy Ricky Goode (Hey, Ricky!) were both big Top 40 buffs as well as dorkus maximus baseball geeks, and many was the time we would talk about that theme, commenting on it's unique quality, how it just had a...thing to it, at once happy and smartass, hip & corny, and...just who the hell was it anyway? We actually used to whistle it in classes when things got boring, just to piss the teachers off. And it worked, one particularly cranky science teacher knew it from the Astros games and made it a point to say that that was the most obnoxious song ever written, which should give you an idea just how much of a thing that song had. Well, hell, that was 40 years ago, and I ain't seen Ricky Goode since LTB & I got married in 1983 (rumora abound as to where he is/was, etc., not all of them "pleasant", but all of them believable...). And I had totally forgotten about that song, although its aesthetic of smartass/hip/corniness is one to which this day I have an abiding affection, often against my better instincts. As for what it was, bothering to figure it pout was an even more lost notion than the song itself. Life takes some odd twists and some even odder turns, so it shouldn't be unusual to note that the last week or so, I've availed myself of an opportunity to explore the back catalogue of Pat Williams. Threshold is just a bitch of an album, melding pop-culture and jazz in a way that is unforcedly Mass Acceptance ready, which probably explains why it was such a commercial flop. But oh well about that. Heavy Vibrations is one I'd found in the cutout bins a long time ago, and it's cool for what it is, but Think & Shades Of Today are the ones I was most eager to check out, especially the latter. Turns out that they're bot about exactly what I thought they'd be - hip-corn, or vice versa. The type of think that was completely "unhip" back in the day, but now in retrospect...it's still unhip. But it's not, if you know what I mean. It's really neither hip nor unhip, music like this. It's just....wack to think of the investments of time and money and peoples to make what are essentially "easy listening" albums and twist the shit up this much and still have it remain...essentially "easy listening". My mind reels at what everybody involved was thinking. But the playing is top-shelf, as is the writing, and in the end, it is quality, quoite high quality, in the service of warping commerce. So hey. Anyway....I get to the last tune on Shades Of Today, a Williams original called "Bubbles Was A Cheerleader", and right from jump, this shit sounded familiar. The into over, the main theme commenced, piccolo trumpet, and....HEY - there it was, the Astros post-game show in full splendor. Pat Williams, warpedass easy listening, Marvin Stamm, the soundtrack of a forgotten youth suddenly right there. Bubbles Was A Cheerleader. Yeah, don't I know it. Suddenly, it all made sense.

I think it's easier to get a grip on something when it's "over" (or at least winding down) than it is while it's still growing and mobile. It's true of people, ain't it? I mean, what does it say that so much formerly obscure material from 20-40 years ago and such is not making its way into "common currency" (a relativistic term used fully aware) if not, "hey, we didn't have time for you then, now we do." And most of this stuff is more "interesting" than it is "essential" (and that is in no way a dis), so arguments of economic etc limitations preventing dissemination are only gonna go so far. No big deal, really, it is/was a social/creative/spiritual evolutionary phase, and the fact that now people can evaluate it for what it was is a true credit to the fact that it was what it was, and not some esoteric fringe goofiness. It's a given, and if not for everybody, then for enough people to form a community, and afaic, the mere ongoing existence of a community is at least important as its size. The gift has been given and received. So, now what?

34 now that I actually have: New grass- Albert Ayler, Impulse 1968 Ballad, blues and Bey- Andy Bey, Evidence 1996 Free for all- Art Blakey and the Messengers, Blue Note 1964 Live in Paris- Circle, ECM 1971 Leapin, and Lopin'- Sonny Clark, Blue Note 1961 Soapsuds, soapsuds- Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden, Verve 1977 Love energy- Connie Crothers and Lenny Popkin, New Artists 1988 Miles Davis featuring BarneyWilen Amsterdam Concert- Miles Davis, Lone Hill 1957 Luis Gasca- Luis Gasca, Blue Thumb 1971 Poetry- Stan Getz and Albert Dailey, Blue Note 1983 Fly away little bird- Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley and Steve Swallow, Owl 1992 Memorial volume 1 and 2- Wardell Gray, OJC 1949-52 The fat man and the hard blues, Soul Note 1991 Songs for distingué lovers, Billie Holiday, Verve 1957 The survivors suite, Keith jarrett, ECM 1977 Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett- Keith jarrett and Gary Burton, Atlantic 1969 Consummation- Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, Blue note 1970 Kenny Kirkland- Kenny Kirkland, Grp 1991 Another shade of blue- Lee Konitz, Blue Note 1997 Turkish woman at the bath- Pete La Roca, Douglas/Fresh Sounds Records 1967 Sugar and spice- Guy Lafitte, RCA Victor 1972 The world is falling down- Abbey Lincoln, Verve 1990 Duets- Carmen McRae and Betty Carter, Verve 1987 Bright size life- ¨Pat Metheny, ECM 1975 Mobley's message- Hank Mobley, Victor Entertainment 1956 New dance- Anthony Ortega, Hatology 1966-1967 Belief- Leon¨Parker, Columbia 1996 The cutting edge- Sonny Rollins, Milestone 1975 Blacktone legacy- Woody Shaw, Contemporary 1970 The cat and the hat- Ben Sidran, A&M 1980 Goin' home- Archie Shepp, Steeplechase 1977 Stuff Smithe, Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Peterson, Verve 1957 The dark tree 1 & 2 - Horace Tapscott, Hatology 1989 Unity- Larry Young, Blue Note 1965 I love lists, I love having, and I love counting. More threads like this, please!

It's not the notes for me as much as it is the irrevocable gravity, literally, of the tone & the shape of the lines. The tone, you can just hear the upper overtones being pulled back down into the tone, just as you can hear the line, how every time it starts to go up, it only goes so far before it inexorably begins to come back down again. Hell, for that matter, there's gravity to his time as well. In his early days, he played over the time (I would say on top of it, but that's a phrase that usually implies rushing of some sort, and that is definitely not a Prez-ian quality), but at htis point, he's playing underneath the time, like it's a river and he's part of the river that's flowing right on top of the river bed, moving, yes, but at a speed that is as slower than the top water as it is nevertheless synchronous with it. Lester Young was a serious man.

It's been on a few "budget" labels (cassette & CD) over the years & was (is?) on Celluloid. Good, solid, about what you would expect.

Whoa...

I've got 23, and it's refreshing, if ultimately as meaninless as any other of these type lists, to see a perspective that's post-1965 and predominantly, for lack of a better term, "European". Just goes to show you how much great music this continuum has produced over its evolutionary lifespan.

4 Seasons on eBay w/Buy-It-Now of $28.50: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ME:B:SS:US:1123 No connection to/knowledge of the seller, etc. But this is one album that continues to deepen in meaning for me, still.

That concept just....boggles my mind. I mean, of all the ways to store data "impulses", a TV tube? Wow, that's a trip.

So Billie did the show at least twice, then, eh?

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=44244

Not until now, but it looks interesting. Thanks for the tip!

Pretty much impossible to find. Which sucks.

Should have been the Candid session: Yep, that's it.