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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

The game show. Gotta love Beulah the Buzzer.

Dan Blocker Daryl Johnston My Other Brother Daryl

I have fond memories of Truth or Concequences.

The Strawberry Alarm Clock The Chick Who Wore A Raspberry Beret Vanity

Jones-Blair Blair Underwood Susan Dey

His name was Walter? Who knew? Gotta say, I always had a lot of respect for Maynard. He himself was comfortable with the role as "showman" (although he was a respectable "professional" improvisor), but other than the unfortunate incident w/Jaki Byard & the Dolphy-Little gig, I never heard anything even remotely implying that he wasn't all about letting his band (players & writers alike) do their thing. Much props for bandleaders like that. They are few and far between.

If the story I've heard is correct, his band instructor in Dallas called him "Fathead" for messing up a chart. Mr. Dan Gould is correct on both counts.

Aldous Huxley Cliff Huxtable Chet Kincaide

So, if Murdoch in any way, shape or form helped get the book published, it invalidates the points made in the book? Let's just hope it wasn't those liberal bastards at NPR! "Felon" is the magazine. "Enough" is the book.

Buttinsky Bo Belinsky Clay Dalrymple

I think it's pretty damn funny that an article about how jazz used to be "music of the people" has its access restricted to academic institutions.

Tom Poston Posters at Organissimo Jimmy Smith

Line of the year afaic.

If it wasn't in the sale, it's still in print, right?