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No dude, t's legit. Then mockingbirds will go after a squirrel like nobody's business, and the squirrel will run like hell until it gets out of reach, which is usually quite a haul. It's Nature, it's funny as hell, and it's free! And don't feel sorry for the squirrels. Those beady-eyed little fucks have been creeping me out lately. Don't ask....

And to think that just a year or so ago you were ready to quit for good because nobody cared anymore! See, times really are changing!!!!! Here's hoping that each of those young folks brings a friend who in turn brings a friend and so on. Pretty soon the joint will be SRO every night and the gig will run for years. That's usually how these things work, especially with the youngsters!

Great to see somebody covering "Why Try To Change Me Now?" & "Didn't We?"!!!

Come to think of it, I got that Wilson side new as a cutout back in 72 or so, and probably paid less for it than did chew-chu-ch'boogie!

Yes, and yes. The chart on "Out Of This World" is really cool. Supposedly one of his from the 40s, but you'd not know it by the way it sounds.

Go back & get that Prez. Sound quality ain't so hot, but the playing is sublime and so's the crowd noise. That wilson was also my first. Very good stuff. Check out Harold Land on the last cut of side one and Bobby Hutcherson on many of the cuts.

Now THAT'S entertainment!

Girl Boys Un Homme et une Femme

Stuff Smith Stuff The Meters

Jimmy Webb Burt Bachrach Laura Nyro

Maybe Jenny Craig makes cookies for pre-Girl Scouts to sell...

Nope, it wasn't that one. It was a straight-ahead side from the late 70s/mid 80s. This is not the first mystery of this type I've encountered. I'm still searching in vain for the smoking James Moody performance of "That's All" that I heard on the radio in the late 70s. That's not listed in any discographies either, but I know I heard it!

The Village People Beatnicks The Beatles

Oh HELL yeah!

No, I'm not 51 yet. But I am over 50. Nah, the cats over a certain age to whom I'm referring to are older than that. That Clifford w/Strings side apparently was a bit of a hit in its day (in jazz terms amyways), and "Portrait Of Jennie" is on cut I always hear singled out by many of those who were there at the time. The Blue version was after their time, and on an album that was nowhere near as popular, to put it mildly.

It's a great tune (have you heard Bobby Hutcherson's Jamal-icized/Poinciana-cized version?) and I too love that band (even a lot of the non-Gil charts got a thing going that's pretty damn cool). But Tex Freakin' Beneke? That's just wrong...

Seriously man, I feel your pain. Felt it myself, and more than a few times. But finally I asked myself the same question - yeah, I'm up here playing as soulfully and honestly as I can, but why should anybody care? And the honest answer was that there's no intrinsic "reason" why they should stop their lives for a few minutes just to listen to some guy playing a tenor. No reason whatsoever. Not unless I'm telling them something that compels them to. And that means establishing some sort of primal connection. And that means "intruding" into their world with some kind of urgency that they can either be gripped by or repulsed by but can not ignore. Now - what does it take to do that, to butt into somebody's personal zone and make them recognize? Lots of things work, but very few of them appeal to me. And as the nature of the "general population" changes, even if I succeed, what kind of a message am I going to be able to offer them in terms that they can understand that's not full of hostility and angst stemming from the frustration that comes from seeing all the style-specific musical principles that I've held sacred my entire professional life becoming irrelevant to them at an increasingly exponential rate? "Pretty songs" more often than not ain't gonna get it. )You want people to feel warm and fuzzy, get them a puppy. Or a Nintendog. ) Not unless it's "pretty" in a way that they understand to be pretty. And that can be problematic for obvious reasons. Because people's basic means of perception, and therefore their basic concepts of expression/feeling are forever changing right before our eyes. If we choose to hold on to the "old way" for whatever reason(s) - some good, some not - then we better prepare ourselves to be met by increasing indifference and not be getting all pissed about it. Because life will continue to pass us by, and it won't be anything personal. The alternative is to, instead of trying to "remind them of something outside their eworld", actually get inside that world musically and talk to them there in those terms. I'm not at all opposed to doing that, it excites me, actually, but at 50, I have doubts as to how far and how organically I'd be able to do that. But somebody's gotta do it, because that's not the "world of the future", that's the world of today, and it ain't going away anytime soon, dig? And it's a world with its own pulse, rhythms, colors, dynamics, the whole deal. It may not seem real to us, but there it is anyway. And it's full of people. It's also full of music and ideas that could probably benefit all concerned by the influx of some truly human imagination and soul. I'm hearing lots of things that are really solid as far as they go (the superimposing and shifting of various hi-hat patterns in house music is truly amazing sometimes), but the problem is that they don't go very far, at least not in terms of what I already know (Sly's dictum that all we need is a drummer for people who only need a beat still holds true, but you'll notice that he didn't stop there...). So what do we do? Hell if I know. Hell if I know if it's even my job at this stage of my life to figure it out. But I do know that if I play a beautiful solo on Ipanema at a wedding (and frankly, I have, and more than once), and nobody notices, it's not their fault. Because A) it's a song that's been so damned overexposed that you can't blame anybody who tunes out after the first few notes; & B) it's a wedding, not a concert. People got other things on their mind, and they should. And those two things pretty much hold true across the board - people have already heard the songs too many times to expect them to come to a screeching halt in rapt anticipation of hearing anything "good", much less "profound", and people have too many other things to do to expect them to etc. I can understand this even if it kinda bums me out sometimes. Dude - we're relatively old, and the world is changing with or without us. Simple as that.

Ah, Homonyms vs Literality. Will peace ever be achieved? As for the Blue vs Clifford thing, if you talk to people over a certain age...

James Stewart Kim Novak Barbara Bel Geddes

That's even funnier!

Monday & Nikita promoting Routes: http://www.ongakudb.com/files/streaming/iv...60209monday.asx

The mind also reels at how Mr. Chinen's editor let such a blatant gaffe slip by. Please, please, please be so kind as to post the Times' correction!

Well, there you have it. Cajun music was fusion before fusion got fused!

Pebbles Ann Peebles Ann Landers