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As Billy Ward is to Clyde McPhatter

If you're having that much trouble deciding, get two players, play both albums simultaneously, and see which one you eventually turn off/tune out in order to get to the other.

Tip o'the iceberg dude, tip o'the iceberg... Don't say you weren't warned.

I saw Vic Firth on Emeril tonight. Who knew?

"Recognition", my ass. Try "the record date"....

'at's if you need to be yer own chimney.

What was I thinking!?!?!?!?! Does Mannheim Steamroller have any music to get me in the mood for giving thanks whilst stuffing the bird? If so, count me "in"!

Luman Harris Grady Hatton Harry Craft

When I "get into that Christmas mood ", I start looking for some hot chimney to slide down. Will this music facilitate that? If so, count me "in"!

Ha Purd Eigh!

Hapurday!

Parallel universe.

Glad to see the Monday Michiru item added! Not of discographical import but perhaps of personal interest to you is that Michiru is Mariano's daughter with Toshiko Akioshi. They had no contact for years, but were finally reunited as a jazz festival in the late 1990s and have been in contact ever since. This song is about Monday's reconcillaition in her own mind/spirit with not having her dad around for so long, and i actually pretty touching, if you can let stuff like that get to you. Mariano plays quite well on it too. Of more direct discographical interest is that the album also had Japanese release, and was actually more of a JApanese release than a German one. Also, Basement Jaxx chopped the whole thing up (waaaaay up) and put it back together for a remix that's been out in several formats. Not sure if that's within the scope of your discography, but Mariano's notes do appear. Just thought I'd let you know.

The main thing for me about this album is hearing this kind of lyrics with this type of music.b Not just "militant" but Nationalist (and as to what the difference is, hey, maybe you had to be there. But there is a difference). My expereince with hearing that type rhetoric-in-music has been in jazz, theatre, you know, more of an "arts" environment. These guys, with the exception of a little bit of here and there, are dropping this stuff into Cluband '73, and knowing alittle bit about Clubland '75 and beyond, I can't imagine that things were that much different in '73, and it makes me go WHOA!!! to hear some of this stuff coming out like it does. The music is solid, quite solid, actually, although, no, nothing you haven't heard before. And the lyrics are strong, direct, idealistic/naive/serious, and indeed - very much of thier time and place. But together....wow. Then again, maybe you did had to be there, or fairly close to there. Entirely possible. But this stuff's definitely made an impression on me Dig this, though - there's a thing from the liners that gets me where I live, because it's just so real, in so many ways. We're in the middle of a portrait of a young, very idealistic band committted to the cause (albeit with the assistance of two white (I assume) similarly idealistic but hardly loaded/connected backers, refusing to sell out, sticking together, and making it locally/regionally, if barely. Life on a shoestring fighting The Good Fight, because, yes, it really is Nation Time. And then: I can literally see this happening, ideology, idealism, reality, all coming to a head as some young cats who had put all their eggs into one idealistic basket all of a sudden gotta wonder wtf now? I can see it, and it hurts. Anthenagin... Now, if that ain't America, I don't know what is. From "War is the precedent to Peace" to Reach Out & Touch Someone. Same thing, only waaaaay different. Hell, maybe you really did had to be there. But oh well.

Within my first year and a half or so of listening ro jazz, from roughly late 1970 - mid 1972, I had heard Wayne Shorter with Art Blakey Gil Evans Accoustic Miles Davis Electric Miles Davis Weather Report And it all sounded like the same guy (and considering that list of names and their recordings I heard during the same timeframe, guys) to me, just evolving with the times. Imagine my surprise when I later learned that this was not the case, that some of that was real and some of it wasn't! !

TESTIFY Dumpy Donald Mommy!!! :g :g For all of that! and :tup :tup too! It's not that you're too young, it's that jazz was so much younger then. It's older than that now, and so are its young people, of which it apparently has next to none, no matter what their birth certificates say.

Don't tell me - of the 500 or so original copies, you've got one, right? Right?

http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=4c2...p;ref=index.php Samples and liner notes here: http://www.numerogroup.com/catalog_detail.php?uid=00319# Especially recommended, "He Keeps You". but samples don't do justice. For people who found Mtume's Alkebu-Lan a little...ambivalent, here ya' go. For everybody else, except people who just don't wanna go there (as is your right), then here's something to make you think about a lot of things. And read those liner notes. You wanna talk about a real slice of reality, there it is. At $13.99, if you're into it, probably the deal of the year. or one of 'em. Carpe diem.

Can't rule out Favre, not this year. And he ain't goinna do that bubbleheaded shit like Romo still hasn't gotten out of his system just yet. Nah, I ain't tuling out Favre, not at all.

Exactly indeed. But who wants to "settle"? Obviously not Indy, and obviously not NE. There's Coleman Hawkins, and there's Vido Musso. Neither one is to be ashamed of, but... I want some Bean before I get full football happy, ok?

Titania?

No, I'm actually a stupid motherfucker. Honestly! I've just made a helluva lot of mistakes (and actually learned from some of them!). But left to my own devices....it ain't pretty.