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So, do you see gravity or deception as your friend? ← Depends on how grave the deception is. Or how deceptive the grave proves to be. What is this anyway, Meet The Press?

A lawn mower is amazing too if you stop to think about it.

Gravity is the enemy of deception, and gravity is this lady's friend!

I don't like Soulive. I think that they are not good music. If there was such a thing a Funk-In-A-Box and Soulive was inside, I would return it for defective packaging and/or false advertising. I don't like Soulive. So there.

It wasn't the fingers that impressed me...

Very sexy cover model too.

Just wondering. Seems certain that it is, but just thought I'd make sure. As always, thanks in advance.

Just heard from Dan, and he just now got power. He's ok, and will have some stories to tell.

STEVENS!!!!!

Welk reportedly gave Hodges the royal treatment during the session - 5-star hotel, chaufeurred limo, good $$$$ (from what I understand, a rarirty in the Welk business canon), and respectful deference to Rabbit in all things musical. Hodges is reported to have genuinely appreciated all of it.

Well, that was easy! Thanks!

Seems like Welk (or somebody in his camp) commisioned arrangements specifically for the date, got some fine L.A. writers (Benny Carter among them, iirc) who understood the mutual requirements of such a meeting, let them do their thing, and, perhaps most importantly, treated Hodges like the royalty he was during the entire affair. Everybody was on the same page, and the results speak for themselves. There's no polkas, no "la-la-la", "Calcutta"-type gimmick vocals, no typical Welk schmaltz, no anything other than Johnny Hodges as star of a very professionally arranged and performed mid-1960s type Easy-Listening album. It is what it is.

What do you need to play a .RAR file and how do you use it?

I heard that. Most people lose sight of the fact that it's actually an orchestral composition, not just a tune for blowing. It's a good blowing vehicle, but not a tireless one... ← Quartet Out does a damn fine version! ← Yeah, but you notice we always save it for the end of a set and we always go out and visit with friends and/or fans and/or anybody else immediately afterwards...

It's none too bad, all things considered. Mostly very un-Welk-like.

Glad you both made it! Anybody hear from Dan? I sent him an email earlier this week and still haven't heard back...

She's the kinda girl a guy could get, you know, comfortable with.

Tardy tidings to a truly terrific talent!

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The Columbia has better "excitement", the Everest better "execution". They're different enough to warrant having both, I think.

When is Alan going to pop in to tell us that it's a "carbon copy" of "Invitation" and that Bronislaw Kaper should've sued Oliver Nelseon?

I heard that. Most people lose sight of the fact that it's actually an orchestral composition, not just a tune for blowing. It's a good blowing vehicle, but not a tireless one...

Not "the" favorite, but certainly "a" favorite:

Last I heard, Sony owns the rights to the Mainstream catalog.

Also would like to see 'Awareness' and 'Pure Dynamite' by Buddy Terry. Terry was a good Tenor player, and those albums had long, modal tracks with stunning sidemen - Woody Shaw, Joanne Brackeen, etc...There isn't much of anything left in the Prestige Catalog that I'm itching to see on CD. ← Oh the irony! Terry's Natural Soul on Prestige has Shaw, Larry Young, and Eddie Gladden in prime form throughout. Sorta like a totally Newark-ized Unity in spots.