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Dorcas Campbell - Yes, Soy Sauce!!!

Slopehead Davis - Don't Know, Don't Care

John Handy Randy Johnson Ayn Rand

About the record at hand...BAU for the DBQ, but...Mat Brubeck's liner comment to the effect that this might be the best that Eugene Wright was ever recorded is ringing true to me. I kept it playing in the car for two weeks just to repeatedly savor that full sound and stone solid pocket.

Put me down for one, please.

#65 on the POP charts! #12 on the Easy Listening charts!

There were a cut or two discovered after the Mosaic that the Alan Bates Candid put out on a CD. "Previously unreleased" is a pretty loophole-y loophole, because it applies to every recording at one point. So what we want to know here is previously unreleased until when?

Or by user name

It might be easier to compile if you just named the tracks by contributor instead of track number/ order?

Jan Cake - Icing

I got mine in Gladewater. It now lives in Plano.

Because Bird. All the music, none of the dealing with the person. Or any of the old records. And they were all old in one way or another. And yes, big bands. Section playing. Jazz performance as interpreting written musics instead of improvising. The thrill of not having to worry about the outcome, just about how well it will be played.

Sorry to hear this. RIP.

Big bands! A good sax section is a winner by default, and they were that. But a one trick pony is what it is, and they were also that. Let it speak to the diversity of what was then the "jazz audience". Plenty of room for plenty of things for plenty of people.

Spry Jack - Here, Hold My Leg

Reading Berry Gordy's (sic) autobiography and came across this great (sic) quote: There are three kinds of people -- dumb, smart, and super-smart. And you can't tell the super-smart from the dumb. In a competitive, political working situation a thin-skinned person will always have a hard time making it. I call that person smart. The smart are easy to identify; they're defensive -- their egos are bruised easily. They seek the credit for everything they do and need approval from others. If something is said that they understand to be insulting to them they take great offense. The other two kinds react differently. The super-smart don't care and the dumb don't know.

Jacquet's band. No shortage of replacement placeholders when one strikes out. Self worth and market worth are the result of different calculations. Looking in Discogs, it appears that this guy was a product of the U of Miami program, so he was very likely sent into the world having been taught that he was part of the future and that he should expect to always be treated as special. Yeah, well, that ain't always the way it goes. Or has gone. Or will go.

My guess is that he was never in and never could/would be. I love it when all these interchangeable placeholders are going to talk shit about "disrespect" and "verbal abuse" to somebody like Illinois Jacquet and expect to be taken seriously. Talk about a clueless sense of entitlement... "Jazz" is besides the point. Totally.

So he didn't invest well?

This plum university gig that this guy "got" is reality? My Google and I both remain skeptical about that. As for those other reality...there are many realities for us to choose for ourselves.

Did he get a plum university gig? I kinda think not? If so, hey, first artificial insemination, then cloning, now AI, why bother with living a life, just plug in and be a tool. That's your destiny, should you accept it.

Jacquet kept a working big band almost to the end of his life, had an Artist-In-Residence gig at Harvard, didn't take shit from nobody, and made a buttload of money along the way. This other guy, who is he again? Who was he then, who is he now, and how does he justify his musical existence? "I played with Illinois Jacquet!!!" Small people thrive on small victories. Even smaller people can't tell the difference.