JSngry

This, too, is avant-garde.

Fair enough. I was hearing "through the grapevine" back in the late 70s that dental issues were looming. But how reliable that grapevine was, I'll make no claim.

I find this statement to be troubling, and perhaps even outright bullshit.

Yeah, I've heard both (and have one), and don't really care for them at all.

Didn't he take up guitar because of dental problems, or for fear of someday having them?

Hawrpy Blurthday!

Thanks, but I'm not Catholic.

My son has a clip of Buddy and Jerry Lewis doing a "drum battle" on an old MD Telethon. Pretty amazing stuff, and in a lot of ways...

I'm thinking it would be gamutti...

Ok, contrary to what the cover looks like, this is NOT a Prestige date. It's from the JApanes P-Vine label, and the ersatz cover is their;s as well. They also mention that this was originally released as Blue Thumb BTS 66, but that was a Paul Humphrey side. The other cover posted above was the original. The album was produced by the notorious Roy C Ames ( http://www.yee.ch/~jwinter/Disco/royc_ames.htm ), by whom Don Robey was a saint in comparison, and released on Home Cooking/Collectables ( http://www.soulsounds.com/Brownvscoll.html ). It's alos been out on the Austrailian AIM label, as Texas Sax, with the same original illustration for the cover. P-Vine list the recording date as 1971, which is plausible, although I lean towards a few years later. Personnel includes Jimmy ford (yes, THAT Jimmy Ford!) & Malcom Pinson, so I'm thinng it was a Houston affair all the way. All of this I've just found out in the last 24 hours. I'd had the original issue on cassette for a number of years, and yesterday somebody hipped me to the P-Vine. I soon realized that they were the same album! Copies of the other, previous, issues are still available online, btw.

This date ain't like the Prestiges, or like anything else in Arnett's discography. This is Arnett with a Houston club band playing the club music of the time. It's loud, unsubtle, "commercial", and totally real.

"Funky" is just the tip of the iceberg...

Except that the hyphenation suggests an item off of a Chinese take-out menu...

I dunno man, in my experience, those "laid-back" "nothing to prove" sessions are usually where the most honest playing gets done. But then again, honest playing is what I hear on this album from all concerned. Think about it...

Yeah yeah yeah and blah blah blah, but hey. The title says it all. Previously available as

"All the cats" is one of the many reasons I choose to stay home as much as I do. Fuckin' sheep...

Yep!

The 32 Jazz collection The Sage Of Tippo his first Atlantic album, Swingin' Machine, and it contains a fair amount of instrumentals that are pretty sweet. Players include Jimmy Knepper and Frankie Dunlop. That collection also includes the Wild Man On The Loose trio album with Earl May and Paul Motian, which is also ripe with fine piano playing. Not a bad deal if you can still find it.

It's like a really bad parody of Dan Morgenstern's "play-by-play" method as told by Mort Goode's fragmented grammar. But it's no parody, I'm afraid... As for the album itself, it's pretty good. Not quite an action movie but lively enough to make for a good listen or three. I'm torn between which sentence cracks me up the most, though. Between and it's a tough call. And yeah, when I read "ostenuto", that put it over the top once and for all. But really, the whole thing is just...unbelievable.

Well, yeah, ok, but you're talking about the difference between a 43 year old man and a 71 year old man.

Got my copy yesterday, and all I can say is, BRING ON VOLUME THREE!

Ok, so I get a copy of James Moody's Scepter LP Running The Gamut, and I start reading the liner notes (uncredited, btw...) while listening to the side. What I read is a true classic of the type of liner notes that don't get written any more. Whether that's for better or for worse is not for me to say, but good god, I was nearly rolling on the floor after reading them. So I thought I'd share them. They're priceless! FWIW, discographical info is as follow: - the personnel is Moody, Thad Jones, Patti Bown, Reggie Workman, Albert Heath, and, on one cut, vocalist Marie Volpee. Recorded Nola's Penthouse Studio, New York, August 1 and 4, 1964. Produced by Tom McIntosh. Supervised by Scepter Records. Whatever that means...A-1 is composed by Thad Jones, B-1 by Tom McIntosh, B-2 by Ed Bland, and B-4 by Adolph Sandole. Punctuation and syntax are exact. I swear. Spelling, however, is subject to revision without notice. And now, without further adieu, I give you: It's a good record, but the liner notes are a freakin' adventure! Who wrote this stuff, anyway? On second thought, I don't wanna know.

Hey, I liked the album and said so. I also thought that Wynton played good on it and said so. I also think that "good" is an accurate overall description of Wynton at his best and that's it's refreshing to hear it presented honestly and forthrightly as such, and I said that too, in so many words. Ain't no shame in being good. Lots of players don't even make it that far. It's only a problem if one has aspirations, either for one's self or for somebody else, to greatness. And frankly, greatness either happens or it doesn't. It can't be manufactured, although lord knows, people keep trying. So, if it's a problem that I can only view Wynton's best work as good and not great, then a problem it shall remain. I do wonder, though, under what criteria does calling a particular performance good instead of great constitute bashing, ranting, or some such. I have both real butter and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter in my refrigerator. My preference is for real butter, but under circumstances, I willingly use I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, and I enjoy it for what it is. The product's name to the contrary, I CAN believe it's not butter, but that doesn't prevent me from using it, nor from enjoying it when I do. I do, however, have to wonder what's up with people who try to convince me that the only reason that I can't believe it's not butter is because I haven't experienced it under the right conditions.

Details, please!