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Roy Porter?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

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Here's one (and a great one): http://www.dustygroove.com/browse.php?kwfi...1&incl_cs=1 Keep an eye on Da' Bastids. Braxton/Arista vinyl is not uncommon there.

Yeah, I tend to not care for the "new swing" thing too much myself (having layed in a few bands who did it, it seems to be all about "style"), but when you enter the realm of pop music, you gotta be ready for that. What I found interesting was how the whole thing seemed to be about combining three older styles (jump band/rockabilly-surf/Rat Pack) into one, sort of the musical equivalent of clearing up space on your hard drive by compressing old files you don't use much any more.

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No idea what this means, but it's on the net, so hey!

How much better is the Japanese remaster? Do you have the LP to comapre it to? I ask because the American CD is "ok", but David Lee's cymbals & George Cables' Rhodes on "Poinciana" sound "clean", but dull and lifeless. I still go back to the LP for that album, simply because those two sounds have a "life" there like few things on record, ever. Lee's cymbals in particular still give me the goosebumbs.

Bill Henderson, that's who's on the Horace thing.

Me too. That was the beginning of the upsurge. Before then, the label was a disoriented mess.

It's first and foremost a vocal album. Soloing (by anybody) is a secondary consideration throughout. It's "pleasant". I've heard worse by better.

Easy generalization, more complicated reality. My kids hate most of the newer stuff I've been checking out. They think it's weird and not cool. Then again, they dig the Beach Boys and have friends who wear Led Zepplin t-shirts and shit. I actually bitched out a 16 year old girl for wearing a Zep T. Told her that htey had broken up before she was even born, so what's she doing listening to her parent's music? She was all like "What EVER. It was a great band!" There's some nostalgia for ya'. I don't like too much, hardly any, in fact, of what the kids listen to. I think it's monodimensional and boring. And if "kid's music" was so damn interesting, you'd think I could find at least one radio station (or MTV video) that holds my interest for more than 30 seconds. No luck. Hell, one of the most interesting things I've heard lately is something that Dusty Groove doesn't even carry any more because it didn't sell well for them. I think you should make a distinction between "children" and "young creative talent". There's a gazillion of the former, and they rule the bizness, even/especially those marketed/hyped as "underground" (more of the same, that bunch is). Far fewer of the latter, and they are way, waaaaaay undergrond. And they're not "children", unless you look at anybody old enough to be your offspring as a "child". Dangerous game that is.... I know what kids listen to & enjoy, and have for several decades now. When you get grandkids, you probably will too. And like me, you in all liklihood will not be impressed. At all. Until then, easy generalization, far more complicated reality.

How terribly undignified.

It is what it is. Not "fantastic", but it don't suck either.

If possible, yeah.

Hey, I dig that cut. Glad to hear it agian!

That Zawinul side must've come in...

Grossman was not without, uh..."personal problems", and if even a tenth of the stories I've heard are true, the guy's lucky to be alive. The no-show @ Ronnie Scott's would fit with this.

Ah, you beat me to my hint. And here I thought you didn't really know... Dude, my memory's not that bad!

Excellent choice for AOW, mom! I like this album very much. More now than I did then, to be honest. Choosing between it and Terra Firma, I might take the latter. Might. Mike mentioned Grossman's "later" move off into Rollins-land, and I know what he means. However, with the benfit of hindsight, I can hear any number of moments on both of those albums that parallel Sonny's 70s music as well as the latent Rollins-ness in Grossman's playing. There's times I think, "hey, this is the type od record Sonny was trying to make!" Something else I didn't hear then that I hear now. Also agree that Jan Hammer was bringing something special to the this type table back in those days. That, I heard then. Definitely prefer the original title, although I can tell you that there's a cult of tenorists for whom the new one is most apt. Those Grossman PM sides made quite an impact on more tenor players than you might think.

My point exactly!

Yep. Inside joke, ask Big Al. I'm being sly... I can tell you this - it is unusual to have a clarinet solo on a thing like this. Must be a reason...

Bass clarinet? Try fuzztone guitar. Still say it sounds like a Steve Miller song... (...2...3...)

Pretty sure that R&D was underway. But even if not, how much foresight does it take to see that if you, the owner, can crank out perfect copy after perfect copy ad infinitum, that it's just a matter of time before that same ability reaches consumers? Not much, I'd think. This is simply technology we're talking about, not some divinely endowed mystical power.