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Spencer Davis Skip Spence Bobby Orr

Peck Morrison Pookie Dookie Coleman

Yeah, I think you are missing something, Mr. porkerdavis (if that is in "fact" your real name!). namely that your first name of the three is supposed to connect/follow somehow with the last one of the previous post. You're not just supposed to pull three names out "of" the blue and just throw'em down like yesterday's lotto s. That would be stupid. So get it together and play right, or else I'll personally see to it that you never, and I do mean never, get called to deliver the invocation at a Hockaday soccer game again!

Ensign Parker Ensign Pulver Judy Pulver

Mel Farr Henry Ford Adolph Hitler

WTF?

Have Wynton, in a teary-eyed reconcilliation scene, produce Doo-Bop?

Oh, so THAT'S who that is. I though it was just the neighbor's wife.

And Vince Wilborn as Eddie Haskell.

Jonah Lord Buckley The Marquis de Sade

Cityscape (Highnote) Nothing at all here that you wouldn't expect, but DAMN!!!! Fathead in front of a small, bottom-heavy horn section that recalls the old Ray Charles band (or the Stanley Turrentine/Duke Pearson collaborations), The program is varied, familiar in orientation yet delivered with sincerity, soul, and groove. You can play this while your wife/girlfriend/whatever is in the room and you'll both dig it, and quite possibly for the same reasons. Also (and I don't say this lightly or fliply), Fathead's reading of "A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing" here might well be becoming the "definitive" version of the tune for me. If there's a jazz musician (of any "style") alive today who can deliver a melody (of any "style") better than Fathead, I don't know who it is. When it comes to improvisation, hey, he does what he does (and has always done) - deliver archtypical "bluebop". You either "get it" or you don't. But when it comes to playing a melody, this guy has become one of the true masters. This Strayhorn melody, like many Strayhorn melodies, presents a tricky course to navigate in that it is equal parts ethereal & sentimental, abstract & syrupy. Fathead isn't bothered by any of this. He just plays the melody the same way he plays every melody - deeply personally paraphrased yet retaining it's essence. It's no small gift that he has, and I'll be damned if his take on this melody isn't one for the ages. Newman is more than a little easy to take for granted, or even to dismiss. He's made a lot of disposable albums over the years, and his archetypical solo spots on the old Ray Charles sides have cast him in the minds of some as "merely" an R&B player. Whatever. The man is a treasure, one of the last living links to a school of Southwestern jazz that made no differentiation between art & commerce, or between functionality and intent. Whatever recording sins he's committed in the past, he's also made some real gems, and this new release is definitely one of them. Sometimes the rarest talent is that of combining obviousness with subtlety. This new release by Fathead Newman is a case in point. Don't be surprised if you "get it all" the first time through. But don't be surprised if you also keep playing it (and enjoying it) over and over, for years and years. It's that kind of a thing.

Where you going to find all these LPs? Sealed? Used? There is a demand, and there were no really bad titles. Stock well and sell reasonably and you should be well-pleased.

Some spam is tastier than others... I noticed this on your site: Details, please?

Some spam is tastier than others... I noticed this on your site: Details, please?

June Allyson Glenn Miller Amelia Earhart

I'll send bundles, just in case you should ever spawn. You never know if that defective gene will pass itself down. Better safe than sorry!

Stumpy Brown Stump Evans The Keebler Elves

And Cicely Tyson as The Beaver.

High Art from Costco? High Art from Costco's web site? Picasso not drawing two testicles and a penis on a bull? The purchaser of a possible forgery refusing to accept that possibility simply because he views Costco as the ne plus ultra of everything? Is this not the a strange story?

I know it sounds mawkish/Romantic/over-analytical/whatever, but the more I listen to this (and I've been listening a lot), the more it sounds like a "farewell letter". I'm probably just creating that impression in my own mind, but still...

If it's what I think it is, I browsed it in the store and put it back. If you're a serious Rollins fan, I don't think it tells you anything you don't already know. But if you're not, I suppose it might be useful, although I seem to remembering that the author liked the Milestones that I really disliked, and vice-versa. But that's such a twisted body of work that finding a "general consensus" on specific albums is probably all but impossible.

That would be me. I mean, I'm "entertained", but moved? Nah. Not in any way that really matters. Oh well, now that I know there's something wrong with me (I've alwasy suspected as much, but you never know what's real and what's just good old-fashioned self-doubt), I can relax for the rest of my life, and try not to injure anybody along the way. Where can I go to get STAY CLEAR - I DON"T REALLY DIG MOZART ALL THAT MUCH apparel? Seems like the socially conscionable thing to do!

Arthur Lee Arthur Godfrey Julius Larosa

Ah, the perks of stardom...

Them Ozark types play hardball.