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Let's ask these question - would Amos 'n Andy be funny if America did not have the racial history that it does? Would Amos 'n Andy likely to have been created if America did not have the racial history that it does? Is the comedy of buffoonery inherently degrading irregardless of it's characters? If you just arrived here on Earth & knew nothing of different races and their stereotypes, would Steppin' Fetchit be funnier than Jacques Tati? Which is the more fully realized vision of Appalachian AdultChild - Ma & Pa Kettle or The Beverly Hillbillies? Would Donald Trump & my uncle Vernon find Jerry Clower funny for the same reasons?

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I heard Dara live w/Threadgill's sextet back in 1981, and it was great. The guy was working a plunger like I'd never heard it worked before, making all kinds of micro-timbral shadings that were as obviously intentional as they were obviously effective. But this is also the guy who said that his stint with Blakey was too simple (or something like that) because you didn't really need to know all the changes to all those tunes (I'm paraphrasing, but that was the gist of it). Well, yes and no... You don't necessarily need to know all that to play those tunes, but you do need to know all that to play that gig. Which is why whenever Blakey talked about having an "avant-garde" trumpeter in his band for a few gigs who "couldn't even play the blues", I think that it was Dara that he was talking about, even if the blues was one thing that was probably no problem for Dara. It just wasn't Blakey's type blues. So, when I heard that he ws "re-emerging" as a "blues/folk" type guy, I was excited at the potential because what I heard him play with Threadgill (and on some records from that time, admittedly none of which hit with the power of that live gig), reeked of that type of flavor. This, I thoought, was going to be something to hear, a man who had shed the need to play "jazz" and was ready to just settle into some raw rootsy selfness. But the records...didn't get there for me. Not even close. Then again, those are records (on latter-day Atlantic, no less), so I don't know but that what's on them isn't the total opposite of what goes down live. If I ever get the chance to contrast and compare, I sure will!

Yeah, I hear ya'. The records just reek of "presentation", if you know what I mean. Kinda like Taj Mahal 2 or 3 times removed, which is, at best, 1 or 2 times too many for me. But them records can be funny sometimes...

Somewhat...

Johnny Otis.

Thom Bell is/was a bad motherfukker.

Nas is somebody I've heard through my son. Unlike a lot of what I hear that way, I listen to it. Yeah, Nas is worthy, at least for now. Probably moreso than his old man's become, although I'm not putting money on that just yet. No book for/from/out of me, at least not now, Ghost. That's a totally different craft/skill/art/whatever than just sitting down at the computer to a jazz board and conversing, which is something at which I sometimes get lucky and find a zone. Whatever I have to say gets said here, in the spurry heat of the moment, just like it would if we were all hanging out. It's a "between friends" type thing here, and that works for me, all things considered. I would, however, be glad to take liner note assignments, as well as customized birthday/anniversary/sympathy card gigs. That type of love is universal, doncha know, and there's money to be made. Why not? And I'll do anything to get Monday Michiru over in this country. Anything. No reasonable offer refused, unreasonable offers pre-approved if success is guaranteed in advance.

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Them's wise words from Mr. Abrams.

No man, not you! I mean, like, "Hey, that's a jazzy sweater!"

Not as much as "Jazzy!"

Certainly not an integral part of the performance. Might well have been overdubbed to give it perceived airplay appeal. Or it might have been that Stephen James cat.

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K-48!

Yah, thar be ye olde organ on the LP as well.

I'm also the kind of guy to have it on CD, and there's definitely organ going on all through it there. Lemme pull out the LP...

Yes, in fact, I am. Lemme go check...

chewy's quoting: http://www.jazzinchicago.org/Internal/Arti...addDameron.aspx

Nicely played!

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