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Understood, really. You get the same thing w/the "Funky 45s" thing - some real gems, some things that are amature in the extreme, and some that are just mediocre. They all got that groove, and if that's all you want, hey, good for you. But me, I like some food with my sauce, if you know what I mean... Then again, I'm more and more looking at it like hey - the shit's getting inside you, making you feel good, making you want to celebrate life rather than destroy it, turning you towards the light instead of the dark, so exactly what are you not getting? If we gotta save the world through the feet first, so be it. Free your mind and your ass will follow might've worked back in the day, but shit's gotten so perverted over the last 25 or so years that today the opposite route might be in order. I dunno... What I do know is that I think I'm gonna check me out some Bembe Segue pretty soon!

Bembe Segue (she): http://www.myspace.com/bembesegue http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-07-06/cover_story.php http://www.discogs.com/artist/Bembe+Segue Well, alright then!

Pharoah's a "guest", so I'd not expect him to be on every cut. As for Bembe Segue, he/she(?) appears to be a vocalist based on THIS AMG ENTRY. Genre/Syles are listed as Electronica, Club/Dance, & Broken Beat. So maybe "club jazz" is code for Trane-ish stuff you can dance to in a club and not feel like an idiot (unless you feel like an idiot just dancing period). Not necessarily a bad thing at all, not in these days and times... Suddenly the whole deal just got a little more interesting to me!

Modal and/or post-hardbop stuff, sometimes w/percussion added, and/or sometimes w/populist-funk underpinnings, and/or sometimes w/singers & lyrics with a spiritual and/or Black Nationalist slant. Any number of Strata-East sides qualify, as does Harry Whitaker's Black Renaissance, which may well be the epitome of what they mean when they use the word.

http://www.dustygroove.com/newgroovescd2.htm#422862 So, never mind that DG loves jazz shit with samples and "heavy-handed" rhythms (and have helped me, through their copious offerings of same, to develop an appreciation/affection for the best of same!), what are we looking at here when they say "club jazz"? "Spiritual" is a code word of theirs that I've long since decoded, but this is a new one afaict! No matter, Pharoah glowing in the genius of his own bright light, spreading forth in waves of soul and sound that are tremendous from the first note of the album to the last is damn near enough for me all by itself! !

That looks kinda orange to me. Not quite red, but not quite orange either. Should have called it Kind Of Red, put it together with Birth Of The Cool retitled Kind Of White, and put them both out together with Kind Of Blue as MILES! The I LOVE AMERICA Trilogy. And they wonder why jazz doesn't sell.

Thad Jones Pops, for whom Thad wrote a suite Pops Poopadeaux, for whom the toilet ball trolls

Absolutely! And as far as the negative of the dancers not fully appreciating the music, hell, I know plenty people who sit still and listen who don't really appreciate what it is they're hearing either, so AFAIC, that's a wash... Bottom line for me - I don't trust anybody who doesn't at least feel the urge to dance. I don't think it's either natural or healthy to not feel that. And I really don't trust people who don't dance but turn up their nose at the act and those who do. Something deeply wrong about that... It's good, natural, and healthy to feel the urge to dance. So why not do it to some good Soul Jazz?

So that's where the $20.00 that Kristina left out on the kitchen counter went!

Wally Pipp Artie Tripp Kip Kippenbrock

I hear that Debby Boone needs a place to rehearse, so...

They used it on the US LP too. Made the orange a little redder on my later (1970s) copy, although I think I've seen older issues that actually were orange.

Really! Were you into that scene at all? I ask because I've got more than a few American musician friends who not only refuse to believe that people were actually dancing to this stuff (in either pure or remixed form), but also that people can't and shouldn't dance to it!

O.D.B. O.P.P. OSHA

Yeah, the Applause things came out after BN ceased all activity as an active label (even reissues). It was looking for a while that that was going to be the form that the BN catalog was going to be handled for the immediate future. Dark days, those were...

You've heard him before, trust me.

Scott Joplin Led Zepplin Dred Scott

They're dumping this stuff like last week's meatloaf. You think they really give a rat's ass?

Georgie Porgie Porgy & Bess Porky & Petunia

Gerald Wiggins Joe Liggins Honey West

Considering his resume, I'd have to qualify that statement by saying that it depends on who's making the list, and for what reasons. I think it's safe to say that as a 50s-60s LA session player for pop & R&B sessions, he was on the A-list.

Moe Drabowsky Manny Sanguillen Jack Fischer

The President's Son The President's Daughter The President's Analyst

I've never been 52. What's it like?