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    Kenny Burrell - Rock & Roll Session Guitarist?

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    Dates like the Sammy Price, Red Prysock, etc. I don't find al that unusual. It's the more overty mainstream "pop" R&R dates that I was wondering about, like the Dion & Sedaka. That's a totally different thing, both musically and business-wise. But if George Barnes was making those type dates, I guess it's not at all unusual that Burrell would be too.

    The Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Big Band

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    Can somebody comment on the Dusty Groove review of Off Limits?

    Easily the hippest of the Clarke-Boland Big Band Records from the classic years -- a set of hard grooving tracks that really pushes the envelope of their style! There's a few elements here that are different than usual -- such as the presence of electric piano on a few tracks, which creates a very new sound for the group, the presence of some exotic jazz influences (perhaps borrowed from the MPS Jazz Meets The World series), and the use of some edgier compositions on the set, including work by late 60s European free-thinkers, like Eddie Louiss, Albert Mangelsdorff, and John Surman. The reed work is really incredible in this setting -- and is handled by Sahib Shihab, Ronnie Scott, Billy Mitchell, and Derek Humble -- all of whom seem to blow with inspiration from Surman -- using tones that are far more out there than usual.

    chico hamilton's "nomad"

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    Great "wallpaper" music, and I mean that as a compliment. Wallpaper can be esthetically uplifting, dig? But I'd never lump it in with "smooth jazz". Never.

    It's not music you listen to so much as you listen at. I remember hearing it playing in a record store the week it was released and just going into a zone while it played. Then I took it home, "listened" to it, got pissed, and took it back, But I re-bought it a few years ago, and totally dig the sound that it makes in the room when it plays.

    Sometimes it takes a while to learn about the different levels of music's "functions", and such was the case with this one for me. Chico's made a lot of records like that, especially in the 70s. But I find that once I figure out just what the hell he was trying to do with'em, I end up digging almost all of them.

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