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Kiki Walallawarra - Kiki's Favorite Wedding Songs!!!

The Texas Rangers have hired Dave Bush as their “Director of Pitching Strategy,” it has been announced today. Bush spent the previous four seasons as the pitching coach for the Boston Red Sox. Am I excited about this?

https://www.nepm.org/jazz-world/2019-04-08/charlie-parker-at-the-open-door-the-greatest-jazz-photo

Might it be from the Open Door?

Well...

Christo Redentor Duke Pearson Donald Byrd

The Kiki Walallawarra Family Singers - That Walallawarra Family Touch!!!

Kiki Walallawarra - That Kiki Touch!!!

Narrow, but deep. But is there really a difference? Isn't it as much a matter of perception as it is "reality"? Hell if I know. No matter. This is a full, self-contained life-statement.

Ronnie Cuber on #2?

Ok, yeah! I think I might have heard a cut off of this yesterday!!!

Alright girls, pay attention, you're being watched!!!!!!

Jump Jump Jump

Pony Thompson - Can't Get Drunk If I Don't Start Drinkin'

If the Mavericks want to shoot all these damn 3s, they better figure out how to sink them. Kinda like the other teams they've been playing?

At the time, the Chico Freeman hype seemed a bit premature, and still does. But now, decades later, these are really pretty good records overall, and the composing is always good. The rest of the band is on point and consistently dealing. Being the weakest player in your own band doesn't mean that you have to stop growing and deepening in both your skill and expression. #justaskcharleslloyd

I miss the 12/31 evening Bluebonnet Bowls from the Astrodome. What a great warmup for the next day's Sugar/Cotton/Rose/Orange orgy! I can't recall the last time any of it/them mattered to me, any college sport.

Why will the Rose Bowl be in Houston, and why will it be next week?

I've since checked it out on YouTube and am comfortable with my decision. A lower asking price might have changed my mind though.

Divided Soul by David Ritz is a superb biography. Used paperback copies should available at friendly prices. This...

That Moody band was a working unit...maybe Tucker should be considered as both organist and pianist? https://www.discogs.com/release/4426951-Mickey-Tucker-Triplicity

Ok. a window is open, so let me jump in before it closes! TRACK ONE - Ok, so NOT Mongo, which is a relief, because the alto player is not up to either Bobby Capers or Sonny Fortune or Hubert Laws, at least not in this groove. It's a bit lick-y/run-ny. But the lack of montuno puts it in its own zone, one of Mongo (not him) or Willie Bobo (and not him), so....sounds like a Latin cover of a Top 40 hit that never was a Top 40 hit LOL. But that could be Bobby Capers? Latin Jazz Quintet? Don't think it's Pucho...That's kind of a Garnett Brown opening lick, so....nope, nothing really jumps out there....oh my, bebop scat! And competent at that! No ID, but it's a groovy track, that's for sure. TRACK TWO - Hmmm....they want me to snap my fingers and pat my foot, don't they. Well, they think me to be a cheap date then! And I can be, but only if there's a payoff for being one. The bass and piano seem to think there is, but on the whole....sorry. I almost picked up a copy of Bobby Watson's Estimated Time of Arrival the other day, and this sounds like something I would have expected to have heard on there if I had, which is why I passed on the record. Sounds like they expect to be liked just because. Well, L'i'l Jimmy ain't that easily gotten, ok? Besides, that bari player should knock one off before coming out in public to try and pull. Patience is a virtue, as is lasting longer than 60 seconds. TRACK THREE - https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=595152334&sxsrf=AM9HkKl4r09ApR1auL3oJCotU81wDMm31A:1704225025926&q=ernie+wilkins+blues+for+duane&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjD_6X6vL-DAxXpnWoFHTuaBp4QBSgAegQICBAC&biw=1400&bih=733&dpr=1.2#ip=1 I would like to hear this whole record, that's a very nicely mixed group of personalities! And not the drummer, who certainly knows how to drive this bus like it need to be drove! TRACK FOUR - HOMEBOY! "Minor Move", Shelly does Tina, no scissoring involved! And that's good, because there's no cutting needed here! TRACK FIVE - "Fungii Mama"., that's Jimmy Heath tune, right? On a Blue record. Not sure if I'd buy this record, but if I had bought a ticket, I'd have stayed all the way to the very end. Pianist is definitely carrying knowledge and dropping more than just a little science. Trumpet is having a good time and not expecting to be loved in return, which is how it should be! TRACK SIX - Some Swingin' Gentlemen Of Jazz! For Sure! These folks knw how to make a record. Could have made it much longer and kept it interesting, but whoever it was said, no that's not what we want. So ok, they made it short and still kept it interesting. That's what professionals know how to do, they don't take it personal, they just do the gig and overcome anything and everything. Got a bit of Thad Jones in the trumpet, but no, wait, that's Lee! Wynton Kelley? Almost? Very familiar, and the sound of the record is that of a Vee-Jay, but I can't fit all the pieces together. But, yeah, this is ok, this is how you get in, get through, and get across. And then keep doing it. TRACK SEVEN - So not Milt Buckner, eh? But Gatemouth, yes? Easily sleuthed, and the organist is not a new name to me, but this certainly adds flesh to the skeleton! to me, but the leader/trombonist certainly is familiar! This is how people who like it like this want it done, totally. And it's totally real, which as time passes is less and less the case. This type of thing,,,,you don't miss your water until your well runs dry, as they say. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1552553111612988 TRACK EIGHT - Oh jeez, that's Buddy Tate. Two times in three months, it's a RESURGENCE!!!!!! I totally dig Buddy Tate, and I think the older he got, the looser/better he got. No idea who the other players are, but they're not trying too hard, which means that it's flowing nicely. TRACK NINE - Hush Puppies! Joe-Not-Joe on tenor, so...Junior Cook? Seems like I know this record from somewhere, which really narrows it down...no matter, this is one of those things that you can be forgiven for finding sleepy on a superficial listen. But a serious listen shows it to be anything but! TRACK TEN - Ok, one of THOSE guys...they never ran into a wall, they just kept making the room bigger. Don't have a specific ID, but there's not that many people it could be. Jesus, shit's totally in the pocket. Everybody's a badass here, EVERYBODY! TRACK ELEVEN - Ok, yeah, this works! A LOT of ideas nicely knitted together here. Bass wa,ks better than solos, imo. Drummer does what should be done, as fed by the pianist. I was worried this was going to be a bit of a "novelty" take on by-now cliche tune, but no, it's actually a refreshing look inside an old suitcase that the grandkids might have just thrown out to get the closet space. TRACK TWELVE - "Walkin' My Baby Back Home". Hip dance jazz. Toughass tenor knowing just what to do. Not Jug, but Rusty Bryant or one of those guys that could simply play any gig and make it right. Plas? Probably not? Sam Taylor, maybe Gator. The organ using what I have come to learn via this forum is called the "Shemp" setting. Jimmy Smith probably made it popular for "modern" ears, but this is not that. No matter, them's some dance playing right there! Oh fuck, that's Bill Doggett, right? TRACK THIRTEEN - That an older alot player whose pitch is beginning to wander, but not at the expense of an innately dead-on sense of melody, and a really hip pianist who knows where all the notes are, and make the ALL right. In a world fully of wholly preordained correct genericism, I love this type of thing now more than ever. Wow, didn't plan on putting in this time for this on this day, but once it got going there weren't no good sense in stopping until the end1 Thanks for the assemblage, and to variate a previous comment, even if I wouldn't buy the record, I sure as hell will come early and stay late. Nicely assemblaged!!!!!!