JSngry

Does it smell fishy down there?

Please do, because I have been paying attention to all of the above (including the edited-out-of-the-quote Branford, and I'm not excited. Entertained in varying degrees, yes, but excited? Nah, not even a little. And I live to be excited. So what am I missing?

My heart sings a song with a melody not yet composed.

I think Clem was oxygenated perfectly well myself...

Just to show you how long he's been around, I first heard him on those early-70s Maynard Columbia sides. Same thing there!

Well yeah. There's a big difference between playing, and then having it naturally become part of something ongoing, and deciding up front that you're participating in American Mythology or some overripe bullshit like that and then going out to play. Seems to me that once you buy all the way into a theory like that, you're no longer participating directly in it, but are instead becoming an impartial observer. Because this "mythology" (or whatever the hell it is) that everybody wants to love is the result of, not the impetus for. the action. If I spontaneously make love to a woman all night long, it's pure magic. If I pick her up specifically to just do her all night, it's simply stunt-fucking. Ain't no magic nowhere in sight. It's the lesson of Eden all over again - the way that Evil co-opts Truth & Beauty is to package and sell back to you what you already had for free. And it's sold back in significantly reduced quantity, because once you give it up, ain't never no getting it all back. There's a sucker born every minute...

Oh really? I mean, I like branford, always have, but "giant", in a music where "mega-giants" on even the same instrumet would have to include Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, & Albert Ayler, as well as a whole big lot of people who in any other creative realm might well be contenders for mega-gianthood, but instead are "merely" regular giants in this one due to the mega-sized mega-ness of the aforementioned mega-giants, I have a hard time considering Branford as even a semi-giant. Wow. Maybe the biggest mega-giants should be designated "giga-giants" to distinguish them from the merely mega and kilo-giants. (And of course, there's the rare tera-giant.)

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...myxvadokv8w2~T4 He's British, he's been around for quite a while, and as you've discovered, he can play!

Paul Desmond once said that he had another octave range on his alto until he started thinking about how he was doing it. Then he couldn't do it anymore.

Great tune, but I agree it's become a cliche. Too much of a good thing, etc... I still get the hardon for "Elegant People".

If it was real, he'd be wearing white drawers so we could see proof of his manhood.

Does that mean only people like him are person of the year, or do forum posters qualify too? Uh... http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...st&p=592530

Well, Wagner, man, you know, he got Bird's axe and shit...

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Is that in the men's room? MG Wherever two or more are gathered in swing's name...

And that differs from swing how?

On the Internet, there's always pie!

Side dish? Those who know suggest... Seriously, I like lamb quite a bit, but have not eaten much of it outside of restaurants. Let us know how your recipie goes, ok?