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Who's the bass player's dad?

Try Hyena records hyenarecords@aol.com They've already reissued the Label M Left Band sides.

You blaming Rouse? Hey everybody, Jim just laid it on a tenor player! ← It is a mark (VI, most likely...) of the Supreme Power Of The Tenor that such a dynamic came to be!

Arrived.

Ok, but the man in the middle was Rouse, so whatcha gonna do?

I think that Dunlop's exuberance was a perfect flavor for Monk's "breakout" years of the early 60s. Bold and brash, no mystery, which to me suited the coming-of age of Monk as a "mainstream act". Same with Rouse, who also lacked any real subtlety/mystery compared to his predecessors. The Rouse/Dunlop edition of the quartet strikes me as being the peak of Monk's "commercial" evolution, just as the Rouse/Riley edition strikes me as being the inevitable slow decline which follows any peak. If any Monk drummer gets on my nerves, it's Riley. SNOOOOOOOZE! For sure, Dunlop w/Monk in the 50s wouldn't have worked. But Dunlop w/Monk in the early 60s sounds to me today like a classic combination of its time, place, and career circumstances. Of course, I'm coming to all of this stuff after it happened and was already on the books. You guys saw/heard it as it happened, and I suppose that if I had been used to Monk w/Blakey & Max & Roy & etc, that the sudden appearance of both Dunlop and Rouse might have been cause for puzzlement. But I didn't come to it like that. It's really refreshing to be able to feel young and foolish again. Thanks!

Perhaps asparagus was on the menu...

I was so deeply offended by your venomous exchanges with me that I have to admit that I don't have a clue as to what you're talking about. Seriously! Whatever it was though, I appreciate the desire to make ammends. I know that exchanges of opinions can sometimes get more heated than we'd like, and things get said in the passion of the moment that we regret later. Been there myself, more than once, and not just in cyberspace, where after all, "distance" is a given. Afaic, passion is a good thing, and so is the ability to recognize the possibility that feelings might have been hurt. If I thought that you were really meaning genuine harm and harboring real ill-will, and not just "being there" at a particular time and place and set of circumstances, I'd make a mental note that you were "bad news" and stay far, far away. I haven't. So afaic, we're cool. Ok?

Not often that I so deeply disagree with both you and John, Larry, but this is such an occasion. Oh well!

What if you're neither a big Bennett fan nor a big latter-day Evans fan? Will it still work? Serious inquiry.

Fundamentally disagree with you on that one, but would love to hear your reasons anyway.

I was lucky enough to get one of those "leaked" burn copies, but I preordered from CDU asap. Never considered doing it any other way.

He's here through the weekend, folks, with a matinee on Sunday!

The Neophonic album that Capitol released needs to be reissued. Not something I'm emotionally drawn to (although the theme to Hugo Montenegro's (?) "Fanfare" still sticks in my head for no apparent reason 35 years after hearing it...), but much of the music is, as they say, "interesting". Those concert recordings sound interesting as well. Now, if somebody finds Brid & Diz w/Hines, and I get to hear it, I'll know that my days here are numbered, and can die a happy man. Otherwise, I'm just gonna have to live waaaay past any useful point, just in case.

Then I would PM you back telling you what a great album it is!

Hmmmm....Wonder if there's a way to put this to good use for humanity... Isn't primary season just around the corner?

I do undertand, really. Just yanking your chain a little bit. But LTB's done gone and gotten herself injured and might miss a paycheck before her STD (Short Term Disability, not the other kind of STD!) kicks in, so the offer expires at midnight tonight! Seriously!

Or a bath mat!

Will respectfully disagree on the first two points. Out of all of Hill's first wave of BNs, I find both the melodies and forms (especially the forms) of these pieces to be the most clearly deliniated. Which is not to say that they're "better", just that they "stick" as complete, fully formed entities almost immediately, with little or no need for repeaed listenings to figure out what, in general, is going on technically. I'd even go so far as to say that for the "lay fan", that this is the most "accesible" of Hill's early BN dates. As for Gilmore, hey - both of his recordings w/Andrew are "desert island" recordings for me. He really brings a special flavor to the music, and his interpretations, in both melody and solos, are as perfect and as organic as any horn player that Hill's ever recorded with, imo. His natural style of fragmented motivic variation is such a perfect conceptual match for Hill's similarly fragmented-yet-together compositional style. I think he really gets inside the music in a way that few, if any, other horn players have. No disagreement on that third point, though. None whatsoever!

Post the answers to your BFT and I'll buy you a copy! (no harm meant, hionestly!)

Yeah, I'd say you were. The Cobblestone thread cinched it for me. That's a label that came and went in my vey first years of discovering jazz, and so many of that label's releases have great sentimental, as well as musical, value to me. That's sorta how it works around here, the occasional "nailing" as you call it. "Politeness", although always appreciated and encouraged, is in no way mandatory, especially when it interferes with the clear and concise expresion of an idea. If you "get personal", literally, you get bounced. But if you "take it personally", well, that's a choice that you choose to make. Such a vibe does lead to some, uh...., "bumpy" exchanges, but that's just kinda how we roll here sometimes. Anyway, welcome. Again!

Didn't SNL do something similar w/Paul Simon in the first or second season? Hardly any (if any) sketches, just Simon & his songs?

Well, at least Teo's being a sport about it. So far...

Sweet.

buh-buh-buh-Bum (snap-snap).