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Jack Webb Spider Martin Carl Rowan

I dunno, I can still listen to Wes play "Windy" and get a smile. Don't know that Christina Aguilera doing "A Song For You" will have the same effect now, much less 35+ years from now...

He forgets.

Well, yeah, sure, but if you got the amnesia, how do you know that it's your groove you still got and not somebody else's? Posers abound, and the amnesia may or may not be the culprit. That shit would worry me!

That's why I'm not interested.

He's got a contract, even.

Victor Kiam Yul Brenner Saint Nicholas

Smiley says fuck all y'all...

Harold Vick's music goes great with getting laid!

I can tell you that Don Jacoby was a "musician's musician" - a highly-respected lead player amongst those who were in the circle to have concerns about such things - and a "trumpet guru" of the highest order in these parts for several decades. Not as an improvisor, but as a trumpeter who knew the mechanics of the instrument inside and out, and who could (and did) teach them in such a way that if you did what he taught, your playing would improve dramatically. In a day when things such as playing lead trumpet in a section are significantly less in-demand than they once were, that might not seem like such a big deal, but I can tell you that for years, Don Jacoby was "the man" around here when it came to all things related to the pure mechanics of trumpet playing. I knew he had an album on Pompeii (Don Jacoby Brings Down The House or something like that), but was unfamiliar with the Decca recording. Interesting that two future Kenton stalwarts were on that. Or was Barton already doing the Kenton gig in 1962?

Too many damn covers. Sounds like an opportunity wasted, at least on paper. I was really hoping that "A Song For You" wasn't going to be that "A Song For You". Between The Carpenters & The Temptaions, there's not too much "pop" stuff you can do with that song that's not gonna be schlock or shock or schlockshock.

Ain't nobody gonna beat The Platters in this field...

Yet, Chick Corea has performed both splendid and silly renditions of Monk Material. So, you just never know... I think Wayne could do great with Monk if he felt so inclined (and that is the key factor...). Whether or not he played Monk in a way that "sounded like Monk" - especially considering where he's at today - is another matter entirely. But is Monk's music a music that demands that it be played in a certain stylistic manner? I think not, and I submit as evidence (no pun intended...) the Steve Duke/Joseph Pinzarrone duet album as proof that Monk's music has a lot to offer musicians and listeners alike who want to/are able to "think outside the box" in terms of what the music is, what the implications are, and how it "should" sound. These guys approach the music like it's not jazz, but more like it's 20th Century "classical" music, and the results are quite satisfactory to my ears. They still retain the essence of Monk, albeit more in the end result rather than from the raw ingredients. For that matter, Steve Lacy's later interpretations of Monk's music go in a direction that shows the fundamental influence without really drawing on the "style". I'd think that Wayne could do the same thing, only differently. If what we're looking for is Monk Music, that is to say, performances of Monk compositions that more or less sound like its him playing them with his group, then we're selling the music way short, and are doing so for both players and listeners alike.

So, are those the cause, the effect, or both?

Well, it's not like Christina Aguilera can't sing. She can - good pipes, good range, good intonation, the whole thing. It's just what she's been singing and how she's been singing it (and how she's been presenting herself) that makes her choice an an interpreter of a Herbie Hancock tune surprising and/or suspect. But if she came into the session with all the Diva Dookie and the Slut Sassafrass left behind, I've no doubt that the results would be at the very least adequate from a technical standpoint. Granted, that's a huge "if" and a not very profound standpoint, but we live in a world gone wrong, so whatcha' gonna do 'bout all that now, hey?

Why?

He's just chanelling the opening of "Cissy Strut".

Your table's ready. This way, please.

I've had sets that I never ordered never arrive. Can't get much faster than that.

You shot a dead man? DUDE!

YES!!! YES!!! YESSSSSS!!!! Who's da man? I'M da maaaan!!!! It don't happen often, but when it does (me nailin' a BFT player), I'm gonna dance for all I can!!! OOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!! ← WHO'S PLAYING BASS WITH ETTA? (sorry ) ← I know, I know..... hence my excitement about getting THAT one right! ← Again man, sorry 'bout that. Not very nice of me... I actually had both you (for Sam) & Dan (for Houston) in mind when I pulled that track.

What kind of wood is Tulgey, anyway?

20% chance of rain means that they're not predicting rain but are covering their ass anyway, just in case they're wrong.

"We'll Be Together Again"....mmm....mmm...GOOD.