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Residuals?

The guy was a hoot. RIP.

Teddy Edwards on Gray's death (Cadence, April 1994):

Enjoyed this substatially more than the same song performed live on Letterman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlRF43-xaYc...ted&search= Liked the body language in the video, seemed natural. Still, it is all kind of retro, isn't it?

Saw Winehouse on Letterman last week, and was kinda non-plussed. DG's been hyping her but I wasn't convinced, and still amn't. This whole "White Soul Mama" thing was sort of passe even when it was new, and that was many decades ago. Maybe I'm missing something...........

I'd like to speculate that the "turnaraound" was at least partially a result of publishing companies recognizing the phonograph record as an ideal means for dissemenation of their goods & record companies gladly embracing the "newfound" source of fresh material as a means of providing an ongoing supply of new product. Perfectly linear paradigm, perfectly in-synch with the times.

That is... comic cruelty at its finest.

Incoming!

Actually, a complete Verve Hodges/Wild Bill Davis would be a great Mosaic! MG Throw in the RCA stuff and you got a deal.

The only thing that would've made it better would have been having a few vocals by Teresa Brewer!

That Peterson thing has been a longtime favorite here. Geri Allen!

The Eighth Wonder Of The World:

Most of us are good people, you know. It's just that there's too many easy bad choices available to us and not enough incentive not to make them.

Not so sure that you can say that "team spirit" is less important in baseball than in other sports. Not at all sure. Precisely because it is a game of such individual effort(s) within the context of a team, it's all too easy for individuals to play for their own statistical benefit at the expense of team strategy if there's none of that spirit. We've all seen a runner steal second in a close game & take the bat ouf the batter's hands. We've all seen pitchers throwing heat attempting to get strikeouts when they should be trying to throw double play balls. We've all seen fielders not dive for sinking liners or chase deep flies to/into the wall for a fear of injury that far outweighs common sense about personal safety. We've all seen dumb and/or lackluster plays that come about from a player putting himself first and his team second. And let's not even talk about the rapidly disappearing/nearly lost art of the sacrifice bunt... Are winning teams exempt from these type plays and players? Of course not. But a winning team will not allow such behavior to become the norm for too terribly long. If they do, they will inevitably diminish in effectiveness. Maybe "team spirit" isn't as obviously important in baseball as it is in other sports, but I do believe that over the course of a 162 game season the lack of it will manifest itself in a team's final record far more often than not.

Most (all?) of those were on The World of Duke Ellington Vol 3, right?

I got to hear the Max portion of this side, and...yeah. Wow. Intense. Lots of workouts on "Six Bits Blues" in numerous permutaions as well as a few other things. Definitely not a "well produced" studio album, but still... If you're a fan of any/all of Roach, Lincoln, and/or Jordan, it's hard for me not to call this "essential" even though it's neither a "formal" album nor a live recording. That's how good the playing is. Currrently/temporarily(hopefully) out of stock at DG, but added to may want list. Dammit. I do not want to spend this much money. But it is that good, and I've heard a copy. So now I'm obligated.

Same here.

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Unless you're watching on a very small set, my experience is just the opposite - it's a dramatic difference to me and most. We've got an HD set, and I concur. If you watch a lot of sports (and I don't watch "a lot" by hardcore standards, but I do watch a fair amount), the difference is immediate, real, and pretty damn dramatic. Same with concerts.

And the hardest of Hard Bop. The 50s-60s BN, Prestige, etc. stuff that "we" revere on this board as music for "listening" was in its time just as often as not hardcore inner city, social, bar music. Some people came to listen, but just as many, if not more, came for social activity and just used the music as their ambiance, for the not least of reasons that it was music that was in sync w/the rhythms and textures of their everyday life. They didn't have to sit and "think" to get it. It just hit them naturally where and how they lived. I've seen whores & johns, pushers & junkies, lovers and theives all doing business while Red Garland & Marchel Ivery played some of the most beautiful, swinging, serious jazz I've ever heard in my life, and nobody, nobody present thought it odd that it was that way. And I'll bet something of lasting value that it was once upon a time that way in every city that had a real jazz scene.

The Atlantic comedy record is pretty coarse stuff, not really all that funny overall. Like I said, Redd Foxx (and others) did the same thing better (meaning funnier). Too much of Eddie's comed here is just crude w/o being funny. But there are a few snippets of some really, really amazing electro-funk placed between some of the bits. Pretty mind-blowing stuff in that vein. Look for a copy in the used LP bins, and don't go too much over five big ones.

Eddie was a lot more complex a person than a casual listen to a lot of his records would suggest...