JSngry

Life got louder. Don't blame him.

Hey, it leads where it leads, this Wyntonian Bliss thing does.

Wow, it really sucks that there's no way for us the consumer to put the RVG & the live material onto the same disc after buying both.

He cheated. If he was a real man, he'd have held a D# for over an hour. Doing an E-flat for over forty five minutes instead is like going for the slightly less attractive friend of the girl you really want because you know it'll be easier for a schmuck like you to get there. Remember - a flat by definition lowers.

Well, good for you then. Follow your bliss!

I'b sat.

To your credit, that.

No problem. Those Excellence sides are all recommended btw.

I'b not be so....blunt about it but yeah.

What's the deal with this?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&cli...amp;btnG=Search

Gotsta keep up with the young folks' lingo dontcha know. That why you be pimpin' Al Hirt?

Al Hirt, Pete Candoli, Dizzy Gillespie, and Don Ellis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd0fgpN_Rcg

Oh snap?

Ahh... It seemed like Brax had been there a lot longer than that, but I guess not.

Consider it a companion of sorts to this one:

Good for Roscoe & good for Mills, but why did Braxton vacate the chair?

He was a career 242 hitter. How did he ever make the All-Stars? Superb defensive/game-calling skills.

Seems most logical that a catcher would turn bassist. The impulse (and ability) to effectively control runs deep.

A side note: "jazz" and working out don't initially seem to go together, but the track "G-Man" is almost perfect for the (home) gym. Dude - check out Sonny's biceps on the back cover of Nucleus. Imposing, to say the least... Besides that, though, Sonny's 70s & beyond music has always had this upfront, unambiguous...energy to it (actualized or attempted, the studio sessions being what they were for a loooooooong time) that I think fits right in with his reputation as a fitness geek. Strength, cleanliness and clarity, that's what it comes down to as the "aim" of this music, I think, and if the love of the shadows is gone, oh well. Sonny's earned the right to "walk in the sunshine", as have many. If many of those others choose not to, that's their business, just as if Sonny does choose to, it's his. He's a big man, this Sonny Rollins is.

Love it. It's a live Sonny gig doing what a live Sonny gig does (all of which you describe). If you "get" that, you gotta love it. If you don't, hey. And if you're ambivalent, hey some more. It's all good like that. But me, I love it. I will say this though - stick w/the LP if you got it, because the CD "bonus cut" really isn't worth it, and because Side One is best heard over and over and over and over and over and over and over. And this - check out the documentary Saxophone Colossus, which has the footage of this gig.

http://www.legacy.com/DallasMorningNews/Ob...sonID=103596791 As can be surmised from the above, Kerby Stewart was the type of musician that ran in circles that I neither aspired to nor would have been capable of entering. And yet, last year, I began playing a series of trio/quartet gigs with him under the leadership of a Ft. Worth guitarist who had known Kerby forever & met me on a Miles tribute gig a few years ago, liked what he heard, & decided to get me in on some of his gigs sooner or later. It was later than sooner, but hey, I'm used to that by now. When I heard that Kerby was the bassist, I was a little nervous. After all, I'm in no way a "formal" player, the only rules I follow are the ones that make sense at any given moment. This area is overflowing with people of similar backgrounds to Kerby's who have their heads up their ass and their snoots up in the air about "proper" ways to play all musics, especially jazz. To my relief, Kerby was not one of those type guys. He heard where I was coming from immediately, dug in, and made sure that it was all good, which it most certainly ended up being. On the breaks, I found him to be a borderline surrealist in his humor, which also fit in with my "comfort zone". A real down to earth family guy with a keen sense of humor about the bizarre and morbid, who could also play bass the way you wanted it played. No problems there! We probably played another 5-6 gigs together, all of them a gas, and had a few more booked in the coming months. Not now. In no way will I claim that I "got to know" this man, but I will say that it was a blast knowing him in the little time that I spent with him. Here's a clip of Kerby w/Woody's band of the mid-1970s, w/Lyle Mays on Rhodes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC8bitR838o Life is short...

Never mind all this other bullshit - that's Tom Poston in disguise.

Ok, I got to know where this one was recorded. Rudy's. No kiddin'. The liner note writer of the VME has a problem with that... As do I! It really sounds like the Columbia studios, and nothing at all like Rudy's.