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Nobody could find Jimmy Hamilton, so I came home.

Del Harris Del Frisco Cisco Kid

Wasn't Carlton in the same version of the Burton group that had Dick Haymes on drums?

Al Klink Hogan Sgt. Schultz

Damn...

Figuring that my buddy is already surrounded by enough of America Past The Point Of No Return, I did not want to corrupt my greeting by posting it from a Fazzoli's in Ironton, Ohio. Best wishes to a man who bought all the OJCs years ago, in anticipation of something like the Concord takeover. Now that's wisdom!

"Portrait Of Jenny"?

Belated Best Wishes to a good friend (to put it mildly...)

No. I definitely remember seeing this side, seeing "Marvin Cabell" and thinking "HOLY SHIT", coming back to the store an hour later with my checkbook, and finding it already gone (if that is in fact something one can find...). And yes, I was sober.

Well, it's kind of a sweeping "Grand Statement", but the more I hear....

Because it's good music? And it might lighten their load and think better thoughts or remind them they love someone or remind them of something outside their eworld? But seriously, why?

Which take, 5 or 9?

Well, you don't miss your well until it gets paved over by a parking lot with no water.

Well yeah, but I'd throw both of 'em out the second that Rachael Ray walked into the room. Now, if you can handle so-called "big women", I personally think that Ina Gartner might be the biggest freak of 'em all. Just a hunch...

Dude, you got it right here right now. Carpe diem!

Is it the Thornhill tune? If so, why not use that instead?

If the majority of your jazz listening conforms to the time frame of that of your pop/rock, you're not becoming a jazz snob, you're becoming an old fart. Not that there's a helluva lot of difference...

There is no bad Ellington, only differing degrees of great. Period.

Well, as Miles once noted, it is really fine wood.

Damn straight! Paul Jeffrey!

In light of the direction all this has taken, that's just too funny!

To play devil's advocate, let me ask this - why should people stop and listen to another version of songs that many have heard literally all their lives? It's not like most people are going to hear "Night & Day" and say, "WOW! There's one I've been waiting to hear for the last 5 years!" Then again, if you played something they'd never heard before, I doubt the reaction would be any different. It might even be worse! I've been saying here for the last few weeks or so that the culture has changed irrevocably in terms of the role that all music plays for "most people". It's become entirely more functional now than it was just a few years ago, and that function has changed from social dancing/listening to "mobile lifestyle accessory/soundtrack". I'll not be convinced othersise. Whether or not "we" like it or think it's a "good" think is not the point. The point is that, yes, things have changed, and no, they aren't changing back anytime soon, if ever. Myself, I'm ok with that, even if it's rendering me in my current mode obsolete (whether or not I can/want to explore new avenues in music or be content to ride out the horse I've gotten this far on no matter where it leads - or doesn't - is something I've been giving some pretty serious thought to lately). Times change, and people's sense of "time" and "place" have been evolving since the advent of all the digital/portable technology for the last few decades. It's finally reached the "point of no return", and that's just how shit goes, dig? It's our fortune to be alive during what might be referred to by some as a "paradigm shift". Lucky us! I hope I don't have to say that none of the above is construed as a dis to the old types music or the people who still enjoy playing them. It's not, and I'm one of those who still does both ("freebop", my primary expressive medium of choice, is almost 50 years old now, so any thought that it's still "new" and/or "challenging" is so much bullshit). All I'm saying is that if we continue to play this music out of love, then we're doing it for the only reason that will continue to have any real relevancy, and that's going to be to ourselves. Good enough. But if we do it and seriously expect to make a connection to "the public" at any level beyond that of "charming curiosity" and/or the occasional true "music lover", hey - forget about it. Ain't gonna happen. And yes, all of the above holds true, imo, to all kinds of live music, although more current idioms might garner more of an immediately attentive short-term audience. Again - people's notions of time and place have changed once and for all, and with them the "role" that they want/need for music to play. C'est la'vie.

Thomas Dorsey Tommy Dorsey Dorcas

Nor can I, but I swear I remember seeing him on some three tenor date on that label from the early/mid 80s. It wasn't an "out" thing either, just three tenor players and a rhythm section playing tunes. Can't remember who the other two tenors were, but they were better-know than Cabell. Such a side exists! Maybe it was a different label...

Maybe how spiritually strong the music was and how great everybody was playing? Maybe you oughta drink more often!