JSngry

Homes, Ornette was using this format in the 60's. It's still a mighty shame that the Ornette/Izenzon/Haden/Blackwell group never got a proper album in the can. I just hope the superlative is deserved. I've got a live bootleg LP of that band that smokes. Sound is a little bottom-heavy, but not fatally so.

Cecil does what Cecil does for reasons of his own, as does Sonny. Cecil started out as an "outsider" (and not just musically), whereas Sonny started out as an "insider" (and not just musically). There's always been an element of "playing your cards close to your vest" to Sonny. There never has been such a thing in Cecil. Different people, different personalities, different lives, different strategies, and different lessons to be learned. Choose one lesson to learn, or choose both to learn more.

Tommy could swim just fine and made it to shore before realizing what had happened to Earl. Tommy cried at the funeral, as did many, but a few days later, everybody was laughing at Earl for dieing the way he had lived - as a total dumbass. Sure wish he'd have bought some records, though.

Thanks for the belly laugh, JSngry. You're welcome, but it really is a true story. The guy tried to hold up a 7-11 by using his finger inside his jacket pocket to simulate a concealed weapon. Tried it again on the cops when they pulled up. BAM! - instant permanent addition to my collection. Even dumber still (and another true story) was the high school classmate of mine who drowned trying to rescue a friend who had fallen into the lake. I wasn't there, but supposedly Earl (his real name) was first heard yelling, "Hold on Tommy, I'm coming in after you", then was last heard (shortly thereafter) screaming, "HELP ME TOMMY! I CAN'T SWIM!" Earl didn't buy any records though. Dammit.

Cowboy Curtis King Curtis Curtis LeMay

Okay Jim, I know you have never sold an LP; once the vinyl hits your collection, it stays. My question is: What was your very first LP? (purchase or gift) Bought it in early 1967, lost it somewhere in the late 70s. Still one of the great rock&roll albums afaic. Non-stop energy & some great George solos.

Ahmet Nugetre Ahmad Jamal Jamal Wilkes

Hey, you know, I'm not a violent person or anything, and I love animals, but it's time to either call animal control or else kill this motherfucker. I don't think he needs to kill it ---- plus he's in Manhattan so he can't exactly borrow one of our 16-gauge jobbers --- but rather pick up one of those super-soaker water guns and drill the sucker a few times over with some good 'ol H20. My guess is he'll bolt. Nah, use ammonia or something like that. Gotta send a message, and maybe do some harm to get him to the point where nature takes him out. This squirrel is definitely, like the man says, wrong. Action must be taken.

That's not a rabbit. That's a jackalope.

The Groper DEEP Che

Oh, I see. I misread. My bad!

No, I didn't know that Stubblefield recorded this while he was terminal..

Wow. I ahve him playing that with Ellington from back in the day, but it's been soooooo long.... Never would have guessed it! I've heard & enjoyed much Joe Wilder over the years, but this one... Honestly, I thought it might have been a Wynton cronie, or even Wynton himself. Great to hear an old vet still playing though. Haven't gotten to that particular portion of the blitzgreig yet... Honestly, I dig Paul Jeffreys, but this is pretty lame. Shit happens. But I thought I heard a French Horn, & I see the name of John Clark. Are you sure he's on flugelhorn & not French Horn? I agree. He still sounds like a younger guy playing an older style music, but as the years have passed, he's lost the "self-consciousness" that made his earlier work sound sorta, for lack of a better word, wrong to me. Now it's like, hey, this is how he plays, he obviously digs playing this way and doesn't want to play any other way, and he's gotten fully comfortable with doing what he does. I'm certainly ok with that as a matter of personal choice/growth/whatever, because it's exactly that - a personal choice. I can definitely hear the difference between the Hamilton of now & the Hamilton of then, and it's a difference that I find pleasant. Harry Allen? I just don't know about that guy. I've heard too much of his stuff (he seems to have been a favorite on KNTU) where the mimickry is just too damn intense, and that creeps me out in a major way. But he sounds ok here. Nothing spectacular, but solid playing. Maybe he's getting over his cutesy, listen-to-how-much-I-can-sound-like-my-heroes phase and settling into just playing the music. I certainly hope so.

Indeed! Shelley's about my age, maybe a few years younger, but if anybody qualifies as an "old soul", it's him. He's always played like this. He also plays more "modern", but with this same type feel. It's because he grew up in houston, and was intimate (in the non-sexual way ) with Wilkerson and Arnett Cobb from a very early age. I think he told me that he even dated Cobb's daughter for a while. Shelley can tell you stories about Don that you wouldn't believe. And he thinks of Arnett as his "father", that's how close they were. Point is, this shit is in his blood, not from a distance, or through some "love" for the music that is from afar, but because of his environment. A lot of younger guys can "play the style", but if you haven't lived it, really lived it, there's going to be something, a crucial something imo, missing. Shelley's lived it, and ain't nothing missing. Well hell, I thought that might be it, I've got it on CDR, but I don't listen to it hardly at all because I heard those guys umpteen jillion times with their own rhythm sections, and hearing them with this one kinda pisses me off. Long story.... Let's just say that Marchel & Heavy are/were real jazz musicians, and that the rhythm section cats are/were top-shelf professional musicians and leave it at that. It doesn't matter any more. Yeah, I noticed. That's a drag. Morgan's really opening up here, I think. Works for me, but mileages vary, as the say. Never been too much of a Bobby Watson fan, but I really dug this. Maybe it's the intimacy of the setting. I very much appreciate the "smallness" of the playing here - no "gestures" or "signifyin'", just nice storytelling. Wish there were more jazz players will (or even able) to "go small" like this. It's a good thing.

Well, no wonder! Ira's always been a no-bullshit kinda player. Wow. That I did not know.

Wow. Hyman doesn't surprise me, but those other two do. WTF in-DEED!! Well, ok, Leroy Vinergar certainly qualifies as a bitch, but what do we know about Wilbur Brown?

The Lorax Alan Lomax A Band Of Thieves

Hey, you know, I'm not a violent person or anything, and I love animals, but it's time to either call animal control or else kill this motherfucker.

Glad he's still alive, fresh, and crazy. God bless him.

My Spy Boy Your Spy Boy Indian Ruler

A friend of mine loaned me some LPs when we were in high school. I held on to when he moved away. A few years later, he got killed attempting to hold up a 7-11. I still have the LPs. Moral of the story - if you're a dumbass who might someday try to rob a convenience store, and you want your vinyl to remain in good hands, I'm your guy.

Rick Margitza Marzette Watts Charles Wright