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"No Ears" Winstonia - Is This Right?

The liner notes dither a bit about who the second alto is on the first "Hollywood Freeway". Based on tone and attack on a few bottom notes, I respectfully suggest that it might be Dolphy.

Actually, the only one that really bothers me is the 'n Voices album. The voices were done quite inartfully from start to finish, not sung well as a group, not mixed well at all, just a total slop-fest. Horace4's lyrics are always open for opinions, but I look at them like they are what they are, and I'm ok with that. But the tunes themselves, and the group playing (especially) are just fine, Some of the tunes are better than others, but that's how it always is with all but a very few Horace album of any era. Those voices are pretty ugly, but if it kills the rest of it for you...take a lesson from Cory Rhodes and don't give up so easy, The lesson here is that George Butler didn't know what the fuck he was doing trying to make this kind of a record. Did anybody try to stop him?

It IS in that "vein", it's the same freakin' tunes played the same freakin' way, just with "sweetening" on top. On top, not inside. No veins were harmed in the making of those records.

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SO slavishly dedicated to the Bechet way for SO long. But he grew inside it anyway, slowly. That's really the best you can hope for with that type of thing, really. Find whatever unswept crumb remain and turn them into a meal. Wilber had the distinct advantage of learning at the feet of the master. I think that that certainly makes a difference. I think that Wilber and some others learned not just style, but also language. That should be the object of any music, but enough people will pay for style alone that it too seldom is.

Bob Wilber seems like an odd type of guy, but I tend to enjoy his work.

Is Lester really on these cuts?

And that's one from one of the OG albums that is none too shabby to begin with:

Either way, the strength and charm of the tune should be evident.

Babette Longhourse - Dreams Come True!!!

There ya' go.

Yeah, me too. I can accept the naivete and awkwardness of much of the lyrics. It is what it is. In fact, it sometimes got downright weird, like when the ghost/spirit of Duke Ellington speaks to us from beyond:

Too bad about that Bill Cosby thing...

Clark Terry & Junior Cook...as well as... Compartmentalize!!!

Are you ready for this one? Not everybody will be, but I can compartmentalize...

Blub Collardson - Blub's Blues!!!

They sounded that way then, too. But that's just where Horace's head was at. And would be for a while... I don't see hos this is unlistenable, though:

Not at all a great step down in terms of composition, quite the opposite! In terms of records, though, they are not at all well-produced. I can make that differentiation, but I get that not everybody can, or wants to. But there are some GREAT tunes in those records (and some not so great). That 1977 live record is worth a listen in that regard. I hope in time that some ambitious retro person combs that catalogue and makes a record with some kind of project or whatever it is they do today. There is some good stuff there to be had!

Canty Cantwell - Clippin' It!!!