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Tossup between '66 & '67 for me, but I finally went with '67 because of the Top 40 hits. More meat, less cereal. But it's a damn close call. 1967 was also the year that the album really began to be the main expressive outlet for most rock artists. It had been brewing & bubbling for a while (and some great singles bands like Creedence came afterwards), and 1966 was the prequake tremor , but after the massive impact of SGT. PEPPER, it was official. But besides that - radio was still a singles medium in 1967, and the singles that year were great. Check out these lists: http://www.oldiesloon.com/il/wls89of67.htm http://musicradio.computer.net/Top1967.html http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Top55-Plus/1967.html http://www.knuftcom.com/topsongs/countdown.php?year=1967 http://musiclab.co.jp/billboard/at/no1hc/top40hits_1967.html Especially, check out that last one. Hell, even most of the crap was cool!

Yeah - Indiana's in Eastern time. Sorta... http://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/indiana_time_zone.shtml (TOLD ya', David )

No, you'll have visions of Rachel stuffing her face with yet another plate of Key Lime Chicken.

Thanks, Mark. I'll tell LTB in the morning. Deeply appreciated.

What's this "On Demand pressing" bizness?

This is the one to beat, I'd think!

Hopefully not in the same direction as that car...

Hey, I'm about a third of the way through the last year of my first half-century, so I find this highly encouraging!

Ok, so I'm listening (again...) to the ONE MORE tribute to Thad Jones album, and it suddenly dawns on me how freakin' old everybody on it is. So I did the math to find the average age of the players, and here's how it breaks down: Jimmy Owens - 60 Benny Golson - 75 Frank Wess - 82 James Moody - 79(*) Bob Brookmeyer - 74 Hank Jones - 85.5 Richard Davis - 74(*) Mickey Roker - 71.5 Ages were calculated elative to recording date (3/8-9/2004), and the people maked with an * had their ages rounded up due to being about a month or less away from their next birthday. The average age of the participants on this album is 75. Now, I'm sure you can get a higher average age on some smaller group sides, but this is an octet, and that's a pretty old average age, I think, especially since Baby Owens is 11.5 years younger than the next oldest player on the date! Used to be a time when a jazz musician who even made it to 70 was more often than not a beaten soul at worst, a relic of the distant past at best. But these guys are still going at it quite splendidly. A bit more mellowly than in days past, but the chops and imagination are still fully functional. The three tenorists in particular sound freakin' GREAT! And Richard Davis continues to dance gracefully and grooviliciously. For the math/trivia/etc buffs out there, I ask - what, if any, records of a group of this approximate sixe have a higher average age?

Well DUH, why didn't I think to ask this earlier? Who's listed as the publisher on the label of the 45?

Byrd began pursuing extra-musical activities in earnest somewhere in the mid-1960s, iirc. His Landmark albums of the late 70s/early 80s show him to be playing not particularly strongly, but with sidemen like Joe Henderson & a young Kenny Garrett, it's not a distraction. FWIW, he was Artist-in Residence at NTSU (now UNT) in 1981.

KD probably thought that Baby Face was the square one! What that review brings into focus is how dismissive many of the more progressive beboppers were of the notion of "Soul Jazz". They found it regressive, tasteless, pandering, and simplistic, a step backwards, only one step above rock & roll, and, maybe, a step-and-a-have above R&B. This is a reality that that we in the present are in danger of overlooking - all those organ sides that we love today were not universally loved by the entire jazz community in their time. But scratch the surface of today's jazz community and I think you'll find some of that sentiment still lingering, if only subconsciously.

That's how. Times are changing!

He's an intriguing player, indeed.

Dude.... Give me a call.

Richard Davis' walking on this album is a treat beyond words. Makes you realize just how much of the "Thad & Mel Sound" was specifically because of him.

No, because a lime is a good thing!

A good friend let me hear the album LIVE, and although not all the playing from within the group was what I would call at a "deeply inspired" level, Harold Faustin himself was a mostly mesmerizing soloist and comper. All I can gather from the web is that he's originally from Haiti and now living in Canada. This guy plays like a cross between Blood Ulmer, John Scofield, Kenny Burrell, and Pat Martino, more or less. If that makes you go , well, it did me too. But it works. The guy can play! Anybody know any more about Harold Faustin?

9-3, lime. Has lemon passed its prime?

They seem to keep a relatively small inventory on hand, probably for economical reasons. Do the "notify me when this item is back in stock" thing (or whatever it's called) and jump when you get the notification. It also seems like they get things back in stock once a certain number of such requests have been made. Pretty shrewd inventory control, even if it is frustrating as hell sometimes, especially if you're slow to pull the trigger. but yeah, they will have it again.

Behold the opportunistic tilapia!

First time I ran across tilapia was in a "New Asian" seafood restaurant where the chef was a Japanese-American dude in his mid-20s and waiter was an old cat with a thick Cajun accent. The waiter says, "Tilapia is what we hyah like to call an opp-o-tun-is-tic fish, which means that when we have an oppuhtunity to soive it, we do so. Now, Chef Andy's gonna do that piece of fish up right for y'all..." etc. etc. etc. Only in Texas, right? Well, Buster (that's what I think his name was, really) told no lies. That was a damn good piece of fish, and I've been opportunisticizing with tilapia ever since.

I'd like all the cuts, thank you, and in a box set if you please!

I've got PRES on CP LP (STEREO-PACT! & DEDICATED TO JAZZ THRU SOUND, says the album cover's front and back, respectively), and the equivalent of PRES IS FREE, I think it is, (the one with that incerdibel "Mean To Me" & "On The Sunny Side")on AJ Records. They're the band w/Jesse Drakes, and Jo Jones is on at least one of 'em. Live, dance recordings iirc. Recording quality is adequate at best, piano's often almost sudible, and Drakes is a fine but repetitive player. But Lester is WHOOOO-EEE!