JSngry

Damn, brownie, you win the Sherlock Holmes Award for both of these discs! I will say, though, that the pianist on Track Four is not who I think you think it is. In fact, that AMG link you give doesn't even list him as a pianist! (and btw - I didn't take this cut from that CD! But we'll not quibble any more about that type of thing. It is the same performance. )

The guy's 66. He's not that old!

So high, you can't get over it....

Hits you where you live, don't it.

Answers will be posted early next week.

Answers will be posted early next week.

I wonder how many times we've heard him without knowing who it was?

It was a vinyl day today at DG: Harold Betters & Slide Hampton: [b]Harold Betters Meets Slide Hampton (Gateway LP) Paul Bley: Open, To Love (American ECM LP) Gloria Coleman: Sings & Swings Organ (Mainstream LP) LaMont Johnson: Sun, Moon, And Stars (Mainstream LP)

Oh, you're ahead! Any comments on Track Seven?

NOW you got it!

No it's not! This has been covered previously!

Well, DUH!

That's not Peggy Lipton!

Could be. Could very well be. We'll know soon, won't we...

Sounds like Herbie's trying to do sort of a Quincy Jones thing and establish pop production cred. More power to him if that's where he finds the most interesting challenge at this point in his life. Truthfully, I think that Herbie Hancock could make a helluva lot more interesting pop record than Quincy Jones, and that's with no undue disrespect towards Quincy. The guy's always been as much of a colorist as he has anything, and pop music of a certain bent has always been accomodating to colorists, to say nothing of the rich harmonic pallate that Herbie might bring to these songs. The results could be interesting, although not to people who don't have a place for quality ear candy. Or he might just wuss out and make a drab slab of flab. Who knows? But I'm not dismissing this project out of hand. I came up surrounded by pop music, and pop music is not something I reflexively avoid on principle. What I do worry about, though, is the lyrics. Herbie's pop work with lyrics in the past has been rather, uh....."dire". I sincerely hope he's working with a collaborator, and a good one.

Before I forget, don't thank me, thank Big Al. He volunteeered to be the go-to guy for latecomers, and he kept his word.

Either him or Roy Clark. They subbed on each other's gigs all the time, ya' know.

Anybody sound REALLY familiar on Track 4, Al? (and no, not "local" familiar...) Anybody find the farts yet? I'm serious. And nobody's ID'ed the tune of Track 11. I wasn't expecting anybody to ID the artist, but I thought somebody might glom the song. Somebody may yet!

Nope. It's Glen Campbell.

Well, I'm glad to see what the CD says. I feel better now.

If the AMG sample is the correctone, it's the ALBUM that's got the guitarist wrong. Wow, inaccurate liner notes. Imagine that!

So it IS a different performance/band?

I wonder which duet will be the hit?

Is the Charlie Williams who plays on Ted Curson's Snake Johnson the same player who recorded as Charles Williams for Mainstream? As always, thanks in advance!

Well, you don't have to guess to participate. Random musings will do just fine!