JSngry

Could somebody please put up a photo of the smokes in question?

That is a tune I really should start learning.

This guy was GREAT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSGK_x_5WzA...feature=related

Yeah, you know I like all of Monk's records for different reasons. Sometimes it's hard to get into the groove, but I really did like "Straight, No Chaser." I thought Rouse's playing, in particular, was really good. Monk did a record with Gigi Gryce that was released under the name "Nica's Tempo," which was half big band, half quartet. I really liked this album a lot, because it showed Monk in a sideman role, which is something he didn't do much of. Clark Terry's "In Orbit" in another favorite. Have you heard these JSngry? What did you think about "Monk's Music"? I thought that was one of Monk's best 50s studio efforts. Yeah, I've heard those. I've heard a fair amount of Monk. Truthfully, once you get past the "definitive" Blue Note, Prestige, Monk's Music/Brilliant Corners canon, I'm not so sure that I don't come back to 5 By Monk by 5 about as much as anything. That was Rouse's first side with Monk, he sounded waaay fresh in it, and Thad, hey, Thad was every bot as quirky as Monk, and they fit together quite nicely, I think. Sam Jones, as well, always a pleasure. And ig there's been a better version of "Jackie-ing" than the one heard there, I've not heard it, at least not for my taste.

WHOA! That's actually cool! Fucked up, but still cool. No wonder he was in Detroit!

Honestly, Straight No Chaser is my least favorite Monk record of all. No, Monk's Blues is. But that was a "project", so... But Straight No Chaser never gets started for me. It jsut sits there and stays there, and more than once I'v ejust gotten up and left the room before it was over. But that's just me. Different strokes and all that, I guess.

Didn't she do that song "Ring My Little Pony" back in the day?

Devorah Day, y'all! http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=511 Believe me now and thank me later. Unless you don't like "this type of thing", in which case, ignore me now and thank me even sooner!

Music is essential. Records? Hmmm.... Maybe. But maybe not.

I dunno man, top hats & monocles, that's pretty out right there...

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Or mpore to the point: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendID=54972700

Dewayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight http://www.discogs.com/artist/Dewayne+McKn...ckbird+McKnight

That link led to some full-screen pop-up or something that crashed my Firefox (repeatedly!). Had to go thru IE to get to the download, & even then there were..."detours". Anybody else experience this?

Cool. We got plenty of (other) times to do this, if we must (and must we? what's the hoped for/anticipated outcome? But that's just me, & those are not question to which I'm looking to be answered, ok?...). So can we chill on it for right now, out of respect for the recently departed pater Alfredson?

Out of respect for the board "owner's" recent death in the family & his subsequent retreat for appropriate meditations, could we all just hold off on the pissing contests for a little bit?

An excellent suggestion!

As Oscar Pettifor Mosaic? EXCELLENT idea!

Don't you mean "in his pants"? :g :g

It's good and yeah, grab it, but for me, the one for latter-day Fathead tenor duos to get is Fire, where Head & Turrentine pair up and off. And when is that Atlantic side Heads Up coming back. Talk about the best album that most people have never heard, that's one of them!

I quit believing in time a long time ago, at least as a linear construct.

So...all the "essential" jazz recordings of the last 30-40 years have been on American "major" labels? Wow. Who knew?

Yeah, what should be understood is that being a "band singer" like so many of those cats were was a different art/craft than being a "jazz singer", although there certainly was plenty of common ground if so desired. But being a band singer meant knowing how to sing/shade/phrase/etc in and around the arrangement, knowing how to make an entrance & exit that worked with the setups for same provided by the arrangement, all sorts of things that have to do with being part of a band rather than being the "star". In a lot of probably subliminal ways, it probably got those singers to thinking in terms of ensemble rather than just soloist, and that's why so few of the band singers are really readily classifiable as jazz singers. And who cares, really, a song well sung is a song well sung, and if there's more than one way to skin a cat, hey, that's why it's got nine lives, right? As for Day, it's really simple as to "what happened". By her own admission, she decided to focus more on her movie career than her singing career, and as a result let others make musical decisions for her. Well DUH, that's why she recorded so much popablum, although she almost always sounded good herself while doing it. She's expressed regret that she didn't give more personal discernment to her singing career, she knows how good she was and what she could have done. But crying over spilt milk just makes water under the bridge, no?

Oh, I didn't even go inside, it was closed. I just stood out on the sidewalk and listened for faint echoes of sessions past and footsteps of everybody who had gone in and out of those doors. I heard them. Yeah, probably a figmeat, so markham down.