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I'm not opposed to albums such as this in pricipal, but I am opposed to this one. The only even slightly "redeeming" quality is the track where McLean talks about the old days. It's kinda jive, but kinda not. The producer was Mitch Farber, a keyboardist/arranger who was doing some production work for Muse at the time. How the hookup w/McLean came about, I don't know. But it was unfortunate for all concerned. The irony is that McClean could no doubt have made a burning "street" record at the time, ala the Gary Bartz NTU Troop's work of a few years earlier. But this one ain't street - this one is some sad, overproduced, underinspired, too-slick bullshit. I'll say this about Monuments - it's proof that making a good pop-jazz record (if you're willing to admit that such a beast is capable of even existing...) ain't as easy as you might think. If anything, it's easier to make a bad one.

Jimmys Grissom & Hamilton thank you for your recognition.

Why is murder illegal?

adoodlydoodlydoodlydoodlydoodlydoodlydoodlydoodlydoodly rock city rock!

Well, this guy was Mr. Gone....

They're silly.

She and Joanne Brackeen are two pianists whose playing sounds to me like they gotta go pee really badly but can't get away to do so. Just my opinion.

A man could fall in love with that kind of thing...

I've got the LP filed under C. When I get the CD, I'll file it under the rest of the CDs I've not yet filed.

Turning the Average American Driver loose on the roads with an SUV is like pumping the average Paranoid Rural American full of crank and caffeine and turning them loose on the streets of Bed-Sty with an AK-47 at 2 AM on a Saturday. It's true - guns don't kill people, people kill people. That's kinda the problem...

On that Food Channel show, they showed where she had a garage full (literally) of appliances and cooking accessories that she had won in competitions over the years. She couldn't install/use any of it in her Bloomington rental house. Now, I assume that she and her husband have bought a house in Nacogdoches and that she'll be finally able to set all that stuff up. Talk about a Faustian bargain!

I dunno, the cover photo looks kinda blurry...

That's a quarter note, of course...

I have "a copy" of it. yes. Really am surprised that it's never been reissued at least once in the US.

I would like to know if that recipie is worth trying.

http://www.dustygroove.com/jazzlp3.htm#387633

“Everytime a cop hits a Negro with his Billy club, that old club says, ‘BOP! BOP!…BE-BOP!…MOP!…BOP!…That’s what Bop is. Them young colored kids who started it, they know what bop is.” —Langston Hughes, 1949 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/Songs/question3.html Didn't say that I believed it to be historically accurate, just that I liked it.

So, has he eaten her chicken? (no double-entendre intended, I swear!)

Which one? There are two from the same day. ← There were 3 volumes from that concert.I have all three. ← This one. I got the 2 CD RTE set from Berkshire, and then grabbed the third on Trema when it came out. Definitely da'bomb afaic.

I like Langston Hughes' explanation.

Maybe they're doing "This Magic Moment" with live actors... Either that, or Becker & Fagen are back in the band...

Wonder whatever happened to Waheeda? Her vocal on "Quiet Dawn" really seemed to upset some people, if you know waht I mean, then and now, but hey, it's a 7 yr. old kid singing one tough tune, and I think she was absolutely charming. Cathy Rich she wasn't!

Thank you for attending to it!

Now that I finally got a copy of the Japanese Lp reissue of this .... it will be reissued on a LoneHill CD under Jim Hall's name (hah! he wasn't even on all the tracks), with the Hall / Red Kelly session added ..... ← The Lone Hill CD only contains the three tracks with Hall, and all of "Good Friday Blues". ← The trio sessions with Howard Roberts are the ones that are really "interesting" to my ears. Kinda "out" in a "West Coast" way.