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Dammit! Can't make it.

I dunno man, some of those old guys are frontin', if you know what I mean, and might not let you live to celebrate...

Yeah, that Suba stuff has piqued my interest, and I read somewhere that he had produced her at some point. Know anything about that? Then, some cat on Amazon or someplace said that Berimbaum wasn't anything that Bebel hadn't already done better, and I was like, ok, show me, and all that. I really dig Berimbaum. And hey, thanks for sharing these. Stimulating music indeed!

Not exactly balls, but suitable for the task at hand, I should think...

Sam Mele Sandy Valdespino Johnny Klippstein

Inquiring minds want to know.

Just arrived, along w/the rest of the order.

That's another one that I doubt used what would have been Miles' colorings.

Judd, for the defense Alex Stone Douglas MacArthur

Goose Tatum Alto Tatum Buzz Mezzner

And - I can see Lush Life being Miles' basic layout, but the coloring, tinting, etc? I'm skeptical.

It was included in Booker's Back From The Gig 2-fer, but listed as a Parlan session therein. They included it because Booker was featured, and because they only had one unreleased Ervin session. The object of that series quickly turned from straight reissues to getting as much unreleased stuff out as quickly as they could, by any means necessary. Gotta love'em for that!

Go back and get it.

Jim Rowan, who made the above post Jim Sangrey, who is making this post Julielyn, who is currently viewing the thread, and will hopefully make the next post

Bill Cullen Bud Collier Johnny Hart

I heard a lot of that in the teacher's lounge back when I did my student teaching. I thought it was fucked up, an explicit abuse of the trust implicit in the student-teacher relationship.

I like Anthony Bourdain's show on The Travel Channel.

A few years ago, on The Game Show Network, I saw a late-60s episode of What's My Line (syndicated version) where Dizzy was the Mystery Guest. A blindfolded Soupy guessed it was Diz. Also saw Jack Cassidy guess Duke under similar circumstances, but this was hipper.

Chu E. also has a job, apparently? Where ya' workin'?

That was the LP cover as well.

I still wanna know how Crouch is going to spin this one...

Joe Friday Julie London Percy France

For me, vocalese usually stands or falls on the merits of the lyrics (and a stipulation to a "pop" estheic at some point or another is granted w/o objection). On those grounds, Jon Hendricks scores more often than not, and Eddie Jefferson, for whom I used to have a great deal of love, is starting to fade. Exceptions to both are there, though. Scatting, though, I dunno. When jazz was a more purely rhythmic music, hey, it was hard to fuck up (although many did anyway. There's some in every crowd, I guess). But once the harmony got more complicated, the need for a concurrent maturation of the scat didn't seem t keep up. Dizzy, Moody, Hendricks, a few others dealt. Not too many more. And then there's Betty Carter, whose scatting isn't really "scatting" at all. She's inhabiting the space with her voice, if you know what I mean. Now, with post-bop and free firmly behind us (or getting there), what's the need for "scatting" per se? Just sing dammit, whatever that means at any given time. To paraphrase Monk, you got a voice, use it.

You guys are upset by this? Not me! I'm envisioning a day when Trane Clonedom will be rendered a non-viable option for living musicians wanting to ply their craft in public. Imagine a day when some punk shows up to play, knowing every damn Trane lick backwards and forwards - and little if anything else (especially soul) - and being able to tell them, in all honesty & sincerity, "Sorry, Jack, but they got machines that can do that just as good and for a helluva lot less. Come back when you got something original to offer." I hope I live to see the day!