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Anbybody checking out Carla Marciano? Kinda got mixed feelings myself, but overall, favorable.

Yeah, like the Hassan session w/Odean Pope.

Sorry for the pre-emptiveness, but I had not yet realized who you were. Welcome!

Six of one...

"We" is Southern for "Me and my family, when I was a kid and still living with them".

You can do that on AMG for anybody. Just click on the Credits tab.

I'm sure that's not where I know the name from. I don't have any albums of the Ellington band with him. MG Ok, pick one: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...0pfixqegld0e~T4

This one.

Ernie Shepard did some really solid work w/Ellington.

Over the last few years, I have really come to enjoy Giovanni Basso.

Pretty much "jammy", all of it is, for better and worse.

Used to be this one: I bought a promo LP for, like $0.99 when it was first released and got rid of it within a year. I just didn't understand what Charlie Rouse & the music on this album had in common, and still don't.

Were you into the late-60s/early 70s syndicated ones with the outrageous psychedelic sets & hosted by Gary Moore? Those were my favorite!

Ok, let's tie it all together - jazz, blindfolds (will masks do?), and women:

Ditto!

It's not necessarily a disparaging thing...

Let me know what Mr. Tanno says, ok? Although, I've found in my experience that DG's prices on J-Items are usually "fair" relative to MSRP, moreso than Amazon, CDU, et.al. So the issue is probably w/P=Vine, not DG. But I'd love to be wrong... And what about O.V. as Gospel singer? How much, if any, is there of that?

I've always had a hard time listening to Pepper in "present tense", even when he was alive, maybe because the operative word there seemed to be "tense". That's why I tend to prefer the later stuff, the "tenseness" is owned up to and actually embraced. And for a guy like Pepper, who always seemed to be gaming in one way or another, and for whom the game seemed to be hiding just how fucked up he was (in a not necessarily cosmically "bad" way, mind you), well, that just seems to be a logical progression towards "redemption", although if anybody could said to have been irresolutely "damned" (again, in a not necessarily cosmically "bad" way, mind you), I'd say it would have to be Pepper. That's just how it's felt to me. I make no claims of "rightness" in matters such as this.

I think so too. Of course this didn't stop me from playing around with this when I was 15. Same here, the phrasing has to be almost metronomically anal to make it work. But the real pros can do that. It's really the articulation that'll bring you down. You gotta think in a different speed than you're playinjg.

Yeah, the pitch doubles, that part is easy. It's getting the articulation(s) to sound natural that's a bear... So, no chance of this being something like an electric mandolin or anything?

NP: A mashup of "Inner City Blues" & "Compared To What"...

Is there anything else? Maybe some Gospel sides? Still... http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=3fh...p;ref=index.php No way do I have the money for this right now, but DAMN!

Probably should have written "I don't get the sense that those "planes" were anything that he didn't know he couldn't already work with." Or does that not balance out either? Like I said, I get confuised sometimes...