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Gimme your credit card numbers. All of them. And dude - Valerie B is her real name. She's Walter Bishop Jr's ex, and she's for real. Better luck next time.

Offering Clem rope is like threatening to throw Brer Rabbit into the briar patch... I didn't even see that... Oh well. Look, Scott Yanow's work apparently serves a constructive useful purpose for many of y'all here (including titan Chuck), but I myself ahve a hard time relating to the concept of exploring music through a book. That's just not how I did it, and that's not how any of my peers did it. But that was a different time and place, full of still-living practitioneers of the artcraft who could fill your ears full of the real thing right in your face, and who would regale you after the gig with tales of shit you'd never heard of and you believed them because, hey, they were doing it their own selves. The music was alive, in the flesh, and even reading Down Beat once you got out of the sticks and into a scene was an act that some considered "cheating". And that was in the days when cats like Messrs. Kart, Litweiller, & Morgenstern were filling it full of stuff that spoke deeply of and to personal feelings about the music, be they emotional, intellectual, political, physical, and/or some/none of the above. You could feel that you were reading a letter from your older brother who'd left home and who was excited about some shit going on right now that you just had to know about. Those days are pretty much gone, and maybe reference books are all that's left for newcomers to the music. If that's the way it is, fine. Scott Yanow seems to be a fair enough evaluator of a lot of the music's past glories, and I've got no real axe to grind with him, other than I'd just once like to read something by him that brings some personal feeling to the table. I know a lot this music already (and what I don't know, I'll get to eventually, in the course of my natural musical odyssey, and what i don't get to, hey - there's always never, if you know what I mean...) so if I'm going to read about it, I want to read something that makes me think/feel/pissmybritches/etc. I dig the shit out of dialogue, debate, etc. but have little use for "textbooks". Not at this point, if ever. Not for this music. I understand and respect that he's not that type of writer, apparently by choice. All I'm saying is that the function he fills for many here is not a function for which I myself have much use. For those who do, hey, have fun letting somebody else set your course for you. I know, it's not that simple, but c'mon folks - half or more of the fun in this trip is taking it w/o a net! Being an Accidental Tourist is safe, and the results are guaranteed, but... Having said that, though, I'd like to welcome Scott. I think/hope that at some poiint he'll join in on some of our more "opinonated" threads here and throw down with some real insight and/or personal opinion/perspective. Personal music deserves personal engagement, which in turn engenders personal feelings. If the books, reviews, etc aren't the place for them, hey that's showbidness. But this place sure as hell is, so dive in. Y'all come!

I'm with Chuck. Taking easy shots at easy targets isn't funny in and of itself, especially if you're "preaching to the choir".

Garzone's kind of an "underground" player in a lot of ways. He consistently straddles the line between the Post-Trane "inside" school of harmony-based playing and outright free playing. His playing almost always gets to me in a way that few, if any, of those type players do. Don't know how much you'd be into it, MG, but there's a DIW side called Pink Inc. that's a trio of Garzone, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, & Alex Deutsch that's a really good "inside-out funk/fusion power trio" side.

Is it really a problem or is it just the way things have been since time began? As for Colbert, that was funny! If you can't laugh at yourself... Yes, that's the way it's always been. Thus "problem" instead of problem. As for Colbert, I've never found him funny. Ever. And if it turns out that he's really a Zorn-whoever fan, then I can buy into the whole "laughing at yourself" buisness. Otherwise, I'm not amused. But then again, I've never found him funny.

The reason most rock critics love Elvis Costello is that most rock critics look like Elvis Costello.

Colbert can go fuck himself. He's not funny, he's like Dennis Miller with one ball missing. The "problem" is a simple one - most people are unable to confront a reality beyond the end of their oen nose, and most people who are are unable to relate to those who can't. And neither are particularly willing to peacefully and lovingly coexist with the parallel universes that the other resides in.

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No, he connected "Red" to "Red". Oliver Twist Laurel & Hardy Mikki Shout

That's a pretty happy & healthy looking family you got goin' there dude. Congrats, and back atcha'!

BB&Q is a fine side. The one w/Oliver Nelson ain't. And I'm a big Oliver Nelson fan...

Unless he signed a really bad contract, Ferguson's death would be beyond their control. Maybe they plan on slightly altering the packaging with a sticker or something to reflect Maynard's recent passing?

Big Band & Quartet is live.

As have I, which is why I stareted a thread about him.

Solid State, at least two. Steve Potts is on the one I've got. "Groovy Mod" music for the most part, but Chico can make that shit work like few others.

Garxone! No wonder!

I've got it, it's great, exactly what you would expect/hope for out of that lineup, but frankly, I don't remember the mellotron. It's not prominent at all.

Well, the CD would have to have the fake ringwear to duplicate the LP cover, wouldn't it? This is different, even if it is the same thing. Kinda like making the punchline of an old joke the setup for a new one, and never telling the old one.

No, it's a new release. Carpe diem!

Never would have guessed Kenton. Nice! That's Dash, eh? Interesting. I've heard him on and off in various settings and timeframes, but not enough to pick him out. The 1955 date shoots my "pre-Lockjaw theory, but still, nice playing. I usually dig Defunkt, but wasn't too crazy at all about this one. Renato Geremia is a new name to me, but I very much liked what he(!) did on this one, save for the piano work. Most enlightening!

http://www.dustygroove.com/varfunkcd2.htm#415869 Yeahyeahyeah, I know the music. But whaddupwidda RINGWEAR? That's certainly a new twist!

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