JSngry

A dress with a plunging neckline?

Can't say that I know, but that's an interesting stylistic link. I definitely heard the "Latin" undercurrent running through it, and that's what prompted me to to pull it and sequence it after the more overtly Latin Track 8. As noted before, initial selection/sequencing was very much spur-of-the-moment, and what you hear in terms of stylistic affinity must've been akin to what I was hearing/feeling at the moment. And the selection of Track 10 springs directly from this Track 9, for several reasons!

Troy Aikman (compensated spokesman for Acme Brick, for the non-Dallasites) Shaquille O'Neal Ian Anderson

Don't hate him at all. rather like him, actually. He grooves. For a little different side of his musicality, I always turn to the duet album he did with Leon Parker, one of those really interesting BN albums that they didn't promote worth squat. Too bad.

No, not Morris Jennings. Morris the (big) Cat wants you to know that!

Good thing you didn't buy a David Rose album instead...

(Buono, of course. DOH! ) Kyle Rote William Penn Gene Quill

Hate to quote myself .... ← Ah yes, my bad! However appropriate your guess is (and it's a darn good one!), it is, however, incorrect! Morris the (big) Cat wants you to know that!

Hopefully, people who haven't yet posted about Disc Two will do so, but if not, hey, that's cool too.

Everybody's noticed the bass playing on Track 7 (how could you NOT? ), but what about the drumming? Any comments?

Victor Hugo Victor Borge Victor Bueno

Mother Maybelle Carter Sister Rosetta Tharpe Little Brother Montgomery {oops, never mind, didn't go to the next page...)

Track 4 is not "Yardbird Suite", but now that you mention it, I do hear the similarity/derivation. Never noticed that before! And on this same track, no positive IDs of the second saxophonist other than that provided by The Linker. Again - it's somebody who's familiar to may of you! Now, for the drummer on #9, if my memory is serving me correctly, it's somebody who many of us Americans saw/heard quite regularly in the 70s & 80s, whether we realized it or not.

Sometimes, sometimes. I get the feeling that this is one of those albums where everybody was so into floating that they lost sight of the ground. Or else decided that the ground didn't have to exist in the first place. Which for them, at that moment at that time, it didn't. Almost like the notion of "permanence" of any sort had become obsolete. Well, ok, I can dig that, but what's the point of recording it then? But that's just a sometimes thing. Sometimes I can get into where they're at just perfectly. So it's probably more a matter of where I am when I listen to it rather than where they were when they were playing it.

Been hearing this on KNTU and have been wondering who the marvelously mature tenorist on "How Long..." was. Frank Wess, eh? No wonder!

That would be A Blowin' Session by Johnny Griffin with: John Coltrane Hank Mobley Lee Morgan Wynton Kelly Paul Chambers Art Blakey ← Marvin Cabell was on that side?

Funny, I think I remember seeing her on Sullivan with some regularity, but maybe not.

I was 24 when Freak Out was issued. Am I disqualified? Frank was a bit older - was he pandering to teens? ← Disqualified, no. Overqualified, maybe. The point that whoever said that was trying to make, I think, was that Zappa's music, almost all of it, is rooted in a bird-flipping type mentality that's never going to be able to chill out and enjoy the pleasures of "normalacy", if only in passing, and that's an attitude best accomodated by the adolescent and still freshly young adult. Not sure that I totally agree, but I certainly don't disagree.

The Verve & Bizzare stuff is still what I like best, but keep in mind that I've come to believe what somebody once said - that the Zappa you hear in your adolescence is that which you end up liking the most as an adult.

In a word...no.

← u beet me 2 it!

Nope, just my bad.

Used to have this as Two Tenors, a Prestige reissue of the album undeer Trane's name, and IIRC, yes, that's the order. But ti's been a LONG time since I had that LP.

OK, I'll await the answers to find out more....! I can think of a few names who'd fit the bill loosely (e.g. Roger Kellaway, Mel Powell....) but nothing that strikes me Two good, but incorrect, guesses, although one leads you closer to the answer than the other...

Lots of positive response to the guitarist on Track 6, but who is it, y'all? (And no fair using Brownie's link! ) It's definitely not an obscure name! I was hoping that Jim R would get it, but no...Maybe Joeganissimo will pick up on him?