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Priceless!

Really!

When did Nat do it?

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Cool. So, who else besides Hartman might have done it for it to have been in Hank's ear?

Who plays guitar on "Little Sister"? Scotty Moore? James Burton? Somebody else? That sound is a few years ahead of its time, I think. Maybe it was post-production?

What's the origin of "There's A Lull In My Life"? Off the top of my head, the only other version that I have is by Johnny Hartman, on Roost. That album's strong on Sinatra-associated material, but I don't know of Frank ever singing this one.

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Of course!

That one's a collection of Toshiko material, mostly big band stuff from the 70s. But not all. There's one cut where a teenaged Monday plays flute. She was good! And yeah, it's an interesting enough compilation, although I don't know how much of it's really "rare" if you were keeping up w/Toshiko back in the 70s/early 80s. GREAT trio version of "Long Yellow Road", btw. The liner notes are entirely in Japanese, I'm told, although Monday's put up a translated version on her website. Love that cover, though!

I'd love to go to a brick-and-mortar, be it chain or mom-and-pop, if I could find one that could be counted on to be consistently offering me something that I would buy. But that ain't happenin'. The product won't come to me, so I go to the product. Or something like that... Anywa, thank you Al Gore, for inventing the Internet.

Looks like Dusty Groove' put up a bunch of Monday listings. http://www.dustygroove.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap...ru&issearch=yes Most of it's already out of stock (hit the 'Send Request' button! ), but Selections '97-'00 isn't, and it is about as good as an "introductory sampler" (although by necessity it's incomplete - the woman's made so much music of so many different "genres" that a truly representative sampler would have to be a multi-disc set) of her more mature work as you're going to find, and this is about as good of a price as you're going to get on it. For those who might be interested, you might wanna carpe diem.

Depends on whether or not he hypes himself as a "keeper of the flame" or something like that and then goes about the business of raking in his bucks by giving aural comfort food to people who are frightened by Penderecki. Goes to intent, which ultimately goes to content. Look, god knows I love soul, R&B, funk, disco (yes, disco - the best of it is excetionally groove-y), and all the old-school shit. I still like hearing it, and I still like playing it. But only up to a point. For me, it's like pulling out the family photo album and getting taking a trip back to a deep part of my roots, to reminisce and maybe occasionally get a flash on how things got to be where they are today. Maybe even pick up on some things I had missed before. The past can be beautiful if you realize that it is the past. Go back as needed, just make sure to come back. Hardly anybody tosses out their family album, dig? But ya know, I just don't see the sense in putting new pictures in that album that are so close to the old ones that it makes no difference in the end. What's the story there? Yeah, I know, different strokes and all that. I'm cool with that part of it. What bugs me is that waaaay too often this type of thing is just more wishful thinking about how great things used to be and ain't it a shame that they don't make'em like this anymore but I am and I'm touring with Aretha so I must be the real deal and here's my product gimmeyourmoneythankyou verymuch. Aw, isn't he cute? He looks just like his grandfather! Oh, his grandfather was a helluva man, yes he was. Hey, this kid's alright! There's definitely a market for that, sure. But hey - it's not healthy. Sorry, it's jsut not. It may not necessarily beharmful, but it just ain't healthy. And I gurantee you that most of the target market for this type stuff is not looking at this type music as part of a well-balanced musical/intellectual/spiritual diet, if you know what I mean. And yeah, most of the audience for any type music ain't doing that. But I gotta ask myself if it's not perversely at least a little bit more healthy to be shallow in the present than it is in the past. I think it is, just becasue you're less likely to suffer as severe a trauma if and when you ever do wake up. Just my opinion.

Road trip, eh? Take a bus and buy some Monday Michiru sides. Hey, this Jill Scott side is great. I think you'll feel the love. Enjoy. (But seriously, start a savings fund and get some Monday. Seriously. One can never have too much good music in one's life.)

Just "Resolution". But hey. Yeah. Darn straight.

Ah yes, violation and WB jazz. Not at all an inappropriate pairing...

I was just goofing on the Caller ID thing. Hope you know that. Yeah, I think Monday's great (obviously!). Glad you concur, and glad that you're enjoying the discussion about her. A person of your background definitely knows quality!

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Well, yeah. It is absolute for me personally. But that's as far as I take it. Mileages can, do, and should vary. But I know what I'm driving, so... In the meantime, check out the rodcast!

With Rod's full permission, here's his comments on Monday from a recent e-mail exchange. This just about says it all, I think: Rod, I owe you a BIG debt for giving me the hookup to a lot of these sides. Now, several hundred dollars later, I've got my own. And a few more. Life is good!

Are you thinking of the recording from France in 1965 (included on the recent deluxe Love Supreme Impulse release)? As far as I know, that is the only known live recording of Resolution. It is often not easy to tell what key Coltrane is playing in on that recording. I think Lon must be right. There's definitely a recording of "Resolution" from the Showboat in 1963. It's been documented that the piece was first played there, and that it was in a different key. And like I said, I know it exists, because somebody (an old acquaintance who's a CRUEL fucker ) played it for me over the phone one time. ONE time! And no, he wasn't about to send me a copy. It exists, trust me.

Geez, Valerie, don't you have Caller ID?

You rule Rod! IMO, Monday's the best thing going in popular music right now. Not just in musical/technical terms, but in terms of having a healthy grasp of how to use the past (and the world) to create a present that lays the groundwork for the future. On the whole, Routes is the most stimulating, uplifiting and visionary popular music I've heard since the vintage Stevie Wonder albums of the early-mid 1970s. I realize that's a bold statement, but I've been listening to a lot of her stuff over the last month, and I speak from the heart and, hopefully, the mind. This woman does have it going on, and in a big way. I doubt that her music can change the world , but like those great Stevie sides, it can give a sense of hope and excitement about what the future holds in store, not just for a select group of connoiseurs, but for everyday people. Problem is, you gotta hear it first, and you gotta hear it with fresh, unjaded ears that are willing to believe. And you gotta be as unafraid of technology as you are unafraid of popular music as you are of hope. The rodcast is here. Let those who have ears to hear hear!

Mike, you hit it on the head with this one: That's it exactly. My question is this - since it is now everybody's music, what's the point of imitation? If you use a bit of last week's spaghetti sauce as a starter for this week's, hey cool. But if you just use the old sauce as is, what's the point? It's kind of sick, really. Make a new, fresh sauce with the old ingredients. Just because there's a market for it doesn't mean that it's healthy. Popular music can be a wonderful stimulus that wakes us up to the now and propels us positively into the future, or it can be a crippling sickness that keeps us tied down to the past. No matter how great the past was, its results are already known. So what's the point of playing a game where you already know the outcome? As a hobby, sure. Or as a study. Gotta study. But anything beyond that and you end up being a willing participant in the whole big ugly machine that has no intention of letting anybody move ahead. Because moving ahead requires having ownership of yourself. And there's a huge system out there that has every intention of not letting you own yourself past the point of allowing you to create the illusion of ownership. This is not a question of "individual credibility" nearly as much as it is of waking up to the fact that there's probably better things to do with your time than trying to define your present in terms of somebody else's, anybody else's, past. And yeah, I've been guilty of that too. And yeah, I'm trying to stop. It ain't easy. Wish me luck.

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