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Don't know how thorough you go with this type thing, but just want to let you know that the Japanese band Sleep Walker has recorded a version of "Quiet Dawn", released on both a single and on a full-length CD.

Maybe Andy Dick killed Pam Dawber too.

The lady is probably so clueless that she thinks that since they're just playing with their hands and not their mouths that it's no big deal for them to talk to her. I've had people, more than a few, attempt to converse with me while I was playing, with a freaking mouthpiece in my mouth. They'll actually be asking wuestions and shit, like I can blow with one part of my mouth and talk with another. Now that's not just naively clueless, that's out and out ignunt. You know what I do to people like that? I piss in their drinks when they're not looking. Square business.

Or taxis.

Arnold Stang Mustang Sally Sylvester Kyner

I thought that Musicology was a stone gem, but found 3121 suspiciously similar to going through the motions. If this one is really good, I'll pop for it. But it's gonna have to be really good.

I kinda like all Kloss' albums about the same, because they are all about the same. He seemed like he was sincerely "keeping up with the times", not to be "hip", but because he was still a young guy still learning. So whereas the earlier albums w/"the rhythm section" reflect the late 60s Miles bag as adapted to his thing, so does this one reflect what might be referred to as the "Strata-East" bag, that generalized offspring of Members Don't Get Weary that gave Hard Bop somewhere new to go for a little while. Kloss plays well, put Peterson & the rhythm section play really well, if you understand what I'm getting at... If this had been a Peterson album w/Gary Bartz on board (or vice-versa), and all that comes with that, it probably would have achieved cult status by now. But oh yeah, one more thing - Kloss plays tenor on Side One, not alto. Maybe it's just me and my tenor-centric position in god's great universe, but I think he sounds more convincing, more authoritative, and less a "follower" on tenor than he does on alto. (and I mean no disrespect to Kloss whatsoever, although I'm aware that the lanuage I'm using might seem to imply it. The cat was a fine player, just not a "leader" when it came to musical direction. Which is perfectly ok, possible "assumed implications" to the contrary) And AFAIK, no, it's never been on CD. But I bet the LP can be had failrly cheaply if/when it can be found.

Duh? Yogi Bear: Boo Boo:

Try liming the soil.

Boo Boo Bam Bam Bim Skala Bim

does this count as ok? Ron Krasinski has been part of the West Coast music scene since 1972. He has performed as a drummer for many pop acts, such as Larry Carlton, Beep Birtles, Colin Raye, Barry Manilow, Seals and Croft, Sheena Easton, and Olivia Newton-John. He can be heard on records with many of those pop acts and 70's teen acts like Shaun Cassidy, and Leif Garret, and also Dr. Dre's early work (NWA, EZ, Michelle Le). As a composer, Ron draws from his playing experiences in TV and movies, including shows such as Murphy Brown, Family Ties, Sid and Marty Kroft shows and Marvel Cartoons. His knowledge of ethnic music rounds out his pallet. He has written dozens of jingles for such mega corporations as Toyota, Budweiser, IBM, and Kentucky Fried Chicken, and has music on Telemudo, MSNBC, and A&E. He has also worked as an actor in Blue Valley Songbird starring Dolly Parton and is currently slated to appear in the Broadway production of Ring Of Fire. http://www.pearldrum.com/r_krasinski.asp WHOA! But no mention of Eric Kloss...

Billy with Max Roach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGzAvbYOFr4...ted&search=

...a damn fine Eric Kloss album. Recorded 12/14/73 with the interesting - especially from this time - lineup of Marvin "Hannibal" Peterson (as he was then billed), Mickey Tucker (who "appears courtesy of Bluenote (sic) Records" a reference to the New Heritage Keyboard Quartet, I guess) , Buster Williams, Ron Krasinski (drummer, apparently a buddy of Kloss' who apparently "went to California to pursue his musical career". Hope that went ok...) & on one tune Sonny Morgan on percussion. Tunes are very much "of the time", meaning modal in spots, slightly free-ish in spots, occasionally "rock-ish" in a non-commercial way. Kloss was always a "follower", but to me that's not necessarily a derogatory assessment. This is a guy who started waaaay young and was very much learning - as in going beyond what he already knew - as he went along. If you wnat to look at it "artistically" then hey, big whoop, next, move on. But looked at as one man's journey, well, maybe it should or shouldn't have been documented to the extent that it was for as long as it was (especially early on), but it was, and there's a story there, a human one of some interest if not necessarily a musical one of larger interest. Simply put, the guy's a "good player", and you can make of that what you want and probably not be wrong no matter what. Still... On this album, Kloss came to play hard and had a band who was more than willing and able to match him (and more than match him). These cats are burning, especially Peterson who was in the first flush of his Gil Evans-facilitated exposure, and Tucker, who's one of the best, most consistently interesting, ever-so-slightly idyosyncratic, pianists/keyboardists that not enough people have heard of (or heard enough of). If Kloss sounds at times like a student who's learned his lessons well and convincingly, these guys sound like the cats he was hoping to get it done with once he did. Trust me when I say that this is one of those sleeper albums that you can go through your entire life not hearing and still have a good, excellent, even, life. But hearing it ain't gonna hurt a damn thing, and may well be considered a bonus. And if you're into Hannibal and/or Tucker, then you pretty much GOT to hear it.

Andy Devine Jimmy "Bottle Of Wine, Fruit Of the Vine" Gilmer Johnny "Chances Are" Mathis of Gilmer, Tx

Unless I totally misread the scenario, the lady really was clueless, as in a tourist, probably from somewhere where live music doesn't even exist, and was really a little flustered by her predicament of not knowing how to get to where she needed to get to. I mean geez, who doesn't know how to get a cab other than a total "outsider"? That's pretty damn weird in and of itself, no? So I can't really call her "rude" per se, which is why I think the players were kinda laughing at it. One of those "surrealer than surreal" moments - a lady in the middle of Manhattan who doesn't know how to catch a cab (which leads one to ask - how did she even get there?) - that comes along every so often.

If what Guy is saying is that a lot of the criticism directed towards Jarrett is of the "piling on an easy target" type that blindly ignores his very real talents, but that by no means all of it is and that some is totally valid, then yeah, I too agree. All the "Jarrett sucks" rhetoric - and its been around for decades now - is just a little too much. The guy definitely has "neediness" issues though. He's still not the consistent posessor of what would generally be considered a "healthy" psyche (I doubt that none of us are, but with Keith it's a matter of degree). This is hardly news. I like his music best when the distance between it and the "neediness" is at its greatest. I will say this, though. When everything is clicking, the guy' phrasing can be freakin' sublime. When everythign is clicking... Like I said somewhere else, I have - and enjoy - a lot of Jarrett in my collection. But I've paid full price for none of it, and that seems just about right.

Gerald Wilson Spanky Wilson Mistress Morganna

Ya' know, the more I hear about Andy Dick, and the more I see of him "in action" as a performer, the more I prone I would be to concur with the conclusion if I was ever in a position where it mattered.

After having watched three episodes, I agree.

Not at all, and in fact, I personally recall Captiol as a label that for a very long time had a kinda "funny" vibe about jazz and "black music" in general. Seems like all their "artists of color" were presented in a "bleached" manner for quite a while (1950s-late 60s, and Cannonball kinda broke the mold, albeit in a way that a lot of "jazz people" don't wanna hear/think about...)). Could this have been a legacy of Johnny Mercer? Now, maybe they only signed artists who were prone to that in the first place, but you gotta wonder

And one more thing - at some point we are all going to have to "move on". Unlike some, I don't consider that a matter of either forgiving and forgetting. No way. It's more about recognizing an incurably dysfunctional dynamic and juet leaving ti behind to rot itself to death once and for all. I've just about reached the conclusion that "fixing" this shit is all but impossible. It's too fucked up in too many fundamentally incurable ways. So "moving on" in the context of something designed to trap you forever is a doomed propisition from jump. And that goes for perps and victims alike. But...simply failing to participate in the bullshit is an option. Although like anything else "new", it might seem strange, and perhaps even impossible. It defitniely is not without awkwardness, especially in the early stages. But by god, it's a mattter of spirit over matter, and considering what you're getting yourself into if you don't go there, hey... We all want to be brave (well, we all want to think we do anyway...), so dig - what's braver - staying in the same place trying to win a battle that is designed to kill you (yes, YOU, whoever you are) simply because that's all we've been conditioned to believe is possible, or daring to look at The Man behind the curtain, seeing that there ain't shit there, and stepping into tomorrow NOW. We all have a choice. Once enough skin(s) get shed (and believe me, not all the skins we have are ones we were born with, much less entitiled to), we all have a choice.

Yes to all of this. Mosaic would do well to simply replace the brown RCA box with their own black, use a cover photo of their choosing, replace the paper stock of the booklet with their own, and leave everything else the fuck alone. If y'all haven't seen this RCA box, you might think I'm being sentimental and/or silly, I'm not. And if y'all can get one for $5.00, carpe diem. I got mine as a seled cutout for under $10.00 somewhere in the early 1980s. Butn it to CD and indeed, enjoy Kaiser's lid. Hell yeah.

Summation of my "feelings" about all of this. The song itself - "Of it's time"; If Fats Waller were to sing it, it would be "humorous". When Johnny Mercer sings it, it's..."uncomfortable". Johnny Mercer - Unquestionably a "problematic" figure in a lot of ways. Also unquestionably gifted in a lot of ways. Such is life. Tranemonk's reaction - his perogogative, absolutely. The fact taht I personally see bigger, more pressing issues myself should in no way be taken as an attempt to deny the validity of his feelings. It's a personal thing both ways, and should be respected as such and left at such, I think. Cali - Always good to hear from him, and yeah, wish he'd post more. He's got a valuable perspective as somebody who really was there for a lot of stuff. Mosaic - sloppy work on their part, period. I doubt that any offense was intentional, but the fact that they didn't at least provide some sort of contextualizing comment (it would only have taken like half a sentence) is insensitive. Now, good people can still fuck up (ask my wife), nobody's perfect (ditto), so why not just call it that and be done with it? Unless Mosaic tries to claim that there was no need to offer a few words of contextulazation as a simple courtesy, in which case, yes Houston, we do have a problem, then this is really all there is to it - they got careless and fucked up. Yet another example of Booby Hutchersonism. White people in general - We can get kinda "funny" sometimes. I'd like to say that it's no big deal, because often enough it isn't, but sometimes it is. One of our biggest blindspots is confusing not intending any offense with not actually causing same. Read my lips peoples - IT AIN'T THE SAME THING. CD Baby selling the Johnny Reb material - Still a big WTF? for me. I'm looking long and hard for any reason why I should ever buy anything from this outfit ever again and/or recommend that anybody else do, and I'm not finding an answer. There's always options. Y'all do your thing, but this is gonna have to be mine. Indeed.

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