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Chris, you might be on to something! http://whatsupdownsouth.blogspot.com/2005/...anta-woman.html . Hmmm....

Oh HELL yeah!

Not really. More like a set of "if X, then Y" things.

Based on lifestyle changes within the last year, $5040.00. Is that fair?

A friend of mine with usually similar tastes to my own sent me a few of this guy's sides to check out, but I left rather non-plussed. Certainly willing to hear/digest differing opinions & go back for a re-listen, though. My friend's musical taste is not something I dismiss lightly. Oh yeah, the two sides sent were Visonary (a Coltrane tribue) & Signal.

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Y'all must not know about shithouse rats...

I am gradually realizing that this "feeling beyond language" is not a function of words or the lack thereof, but instead is the result of the performer and/or listener being willing to let go and simply "go there". And that can be done with or without words, I think, as well as with words that are on the surface mundane-ish. Hell, most of our so-called "standards" have lyrics that are at best middle-middlebrow ruminations about life and love in not particularly complicated forms. And yet, a good singer can make them into something profound. And/or they can become something profound to a listener who is willing and/or ready and or able to receive those lyrics as a trigger for something deeper within themself. It's easy to "blame" (and this is not what you are doing, Joe, but I have heard it done in other places at other times) things like words or vocalists or lots of things for hampering this ability to "break free", when the fact of the matter is, I think, internal and specific to each performer or listener. This is certainly not to say that some lyrics and/or singers are not more..."earthbound" than others, lord knows better than that. But I will suggest that we all are better off by first questioning our response to any input before we cast aspersions upon that input itself. "Blame" is seldom unilateral, quiet as we might like to keep it sometimes! Really, this is yet another variant on the "it's not the instrument, it's the music" and "it's not the song, it's the player" discussions we've had here over the years about Why I Don't Like Instruments ABC or Songs XYZ. The difference here is that the voice is about as baic an instrument as you can have, the so-called "original instrument". The ends to which this instrument have been put have been as glorious as they have been horrific, but I also wonder if our individual responses and/or predispositions to such a basic, universal, primal, even, tool of expression/communication might not be an equally primal indicator of our individual psyche. It seems that we might have a range here that runs from "I love to hear my baby call my name" to "I love to hear my baby, just not talking" to "I love to know that my baby is there, as long as she don't make noise about it" to "My baby? Eh, whatever."! As long as it's all honest, it's all good. But honesty's a bitch sometimes, doncha' know...

http://www.amiright.com/real/inappartist/lorriemorgan.shtml

You can't have chili con carne without beans. Same as you can't have chili con carne without chili. Uh, "carne" means meat, not beans. Yeah, ok, but if you come to Texas and ask for beans in your chili, they're gonna know you're a foreigner.

Tell me you don't put beans in your chile, unless it's "chile" as in some hamburger meat and some tomatoes and a little "seasoning". That's ok to put beans in because it ain't real chile. But other wise... :rmad: :rmad: :rmad: :rmad: :rmad:

I got no choice, I've heard this literally every Christmas of my life, and it ain't been bad yet. Bing even drops a little jazz phrasing in on Silent Night. Guess he just couldn't help himself.

Ain't there the Harmon on the Bill Evans Interplay session? Funny thing about that one, I once made a cassette of the session in what I thought for some reason (did the 2-LP set give matrix #s) was session order and as it worked out, Freddie started the session on Harmon, his intonation going from pretty shaky to stable as he got warmed up, then he took the thing out to finish the session. If that's not how it went down, it sure made for a good tape anyway! Kinda surprised that nobody "recognizes" that "Killer Joe" solo though. Has Quincy's Walking In Space album gone from "everybody's heard it" to "nobody's heard it" in less than 40 years?

My Left Foot...

Incredulous skeptical enthusiasm is more like it, because there should be no way that this stuff feels like it does. You can call it wishful thinking on my part, or projection, or a peculiarly personal congenital blind spot, whatever, but I've heard 80 bajillion people "try" and do something like this, and the Bogus-O-Meter blows a gasket at, at most, 3 songs (or a ballad, whichever comes first). And yet.. And yet.

Anybody remember the Harmon-muted solo he took on Quincy's version of "Killer Joe" from Walking In Space? Damn near a hit, that one was! The solo was even transcribed/published in Down Beat, as was the entire arrangement in one of their annuals. And I believe the album went gold.

I seriously doubt it, but damn did they put some stuff out, including Bird w/the Herd. Not at all your typical cheapie label that recycled the same old same old.

I think that Walter should have taken over when Jeep left Duke. They were a lot more alike than not. Ok, I exaggerate. But not as much as you might think.

http://www.hallpass.com/media/balletlessons.html

HA! :g :g

Been meaning to start a thread on this, DG had it on CD for a quick minute. All I can say is WHOA! Reminds me of just what a fertile time the early 70s were,when all the walls seemed to be coming down and damn near anything/everything seemed possible. Not always "polished" or "finished" music, but in today's musically rigid climate, the audacity alone is damn near breathraking. And often enough, the playing is superb. Funny thing, I had a college buddy back in the day who was from Boston who raved about Webster Lewis, thought he was a Future God. I never got it until now.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NJtXE8PDm2A&feature=related I mean, hey, I don't know if this goes beyond "imitation" or if it's just imitation done at the level of artistry, but DAMN. "Clever" ain't enough, and this is enough, so...

Right, I figured that... Along w/the post-war indie labels, I'd like to know more about Alamac!

Haven't heard it in years, just remember it being a lot more "normal" than the titling would have you think. Still available, though: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1066977