JSngry

How cool would it be if somebody suggested that your post suggests otherwise?

Auditioning for the Baja Marimba Band.

TuffAss is to the 21st Century as Greeeezeeyyyy was to the 20th.

Buzz Aldrin Buzz Sawyer Poteet Canyon

He's done a half a dozen things in the past few years on HighNote. Exactly. And Muse before that, and Westbound before that, and Prestige before that. Am I leaving anything out?

Just now checking it out, and I am...intrigued.

Mal Waldron Mal Evans Artie Malvin

Mtume Tootie Heath Kim Fields

GOT IT!

I can believe that, too. Shit happens, right? Especially out of town.

Was it on one of Kim's sides?

up The usual kind in jazz. Bubbling media praise, invitations to record with others on their projects, a record contract...just the usual... A good manager and a cooperative client should be able to get that kind of action going in next to no time.

As long as it's not prozac, I'd not sweat it.

Who says you should?

Not with THAT mug on my mind I won't!

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He was booked as a single to play a Coltrane tribute. He showed up with Montego Joe and a shitload of originals that none of the locals wanted to play (their myopia, no doubt, but the understanding up front was that the focus was going to be on Coltrane's music). After a rather laborious afternoon rehearsal, where Curson repeatedly taunted a "sick" James Clay and made no friends with his extremely condescending attitude towards all present (and his claims of superiority for his originals over Coltrane's music), a compromise was reached - 1 Curson original for every 3 Trane tunes. The evening gig rolled around, and Clay was no longer "sick" (able as he was to always find "medicine" when it counted). He came loaded for bear and totally fried Curson on the Tranetunes and the originals both. Montego Joe was a freakin' sideshow as well. Clay talked for years afterwards about "Turd" Curson, and word got back here that Curson had gone back to NYC taking about the no-playin' motherfuckers he was stuck with in Dallas. Truth is, he really did not play very well that night, and the locals at the very least were propping him up. A commonplace event in the world of singles travelling with a book, no doubt, but Curson made no friends here, to put it mildly. Not that he really gave a rat's ass....

I love cymbals.

If Ted Curson's behavior in Dallas a while back was any indication of his, uh..."integrity", I'd take anything he said with a grain of salt...

Clark Terry Paul Gonsalves Babs Gonsalez

You have strong feelings FOR and I feel the opposite. I always HATED Gladden's cymbal work; if fact I used to avoid him like the plague. I tried, having heard him not only on recordings, but seeing him many times in person. I always thought that "whoosh" was just either bad equipment or sloppy playing or both. I't been a while; maybe time to re-listen. Nah, that whoosh IS Eddie Gladden! I'm a huge sucker for cymbal whoosh, when a drummer really works the overtones of he cymbals into their sound and it creates a luxurious sonic cushion. Gladden, Tony, David Lee, those guys play cymbals the way I like to hear 'em played. Can't STAND that dry "ping" sound that has been so much in favor for the last 25 or so years. No sounds, no character, no flayvah. Gimme the whoosh any day!

You had the experience then that I didn't yet have. Getting some of it, though. Oh well, life is for the learnin' as they say...

Walt Dixkerson Sirone Norris Tunney