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Well, yeah, exactly. Amazing, really, how people you might know, or work with, or live next door to, or, as with my daughter, share a house with, can lead lives so totally removed from each other's and still function as a society. I mean, if somebody offered to resurface MY face, I'd take it personal. Yet, there's thousands of people on the phone lines to get it one to them. And if some of them were to hear Jimmy Smith and Tina Brooks come on the alarm radio, they'd probably think they were being attacked or something. Life. What a trip it is.

There's a Valerie Wilmer photo of a looking-about-twice-as-old-and-broke-down-as-he-already-was Don Byas weakly grinning and holding up a shot glass that's pretty arresting.

Phil, how about the role that Bob Gioga's HUGE, ultra-metallic sound played in defining that sound? Built from the bottom up, so to speak? Didn't Kenton in the Mellophonium days add a bass sax? What was the cat's name, he's been in Dallas now for a good while, Allan...? Anyway, I've often wondered if the bass sax was an attempt to get back some of that Gioga thing. Personally, his sound kinda scares me, if you knwo what I mean, but it sure was distinctive.

Now there's some lady on selling skin-care products. She's talking about "resurfacing your skin". I'm allegic to asphalt... Thank goodness, the alarm just went off in the other room (yeah, I'm supposed to be sleeping, because I'm driving, but oh well...). It's KNTU & it sounds like it's Tina Brooks w/Jimmy Smith. Finally, something that I can relate to.

That's because you're a frickin' moronic donkey-ass jerkwad. At least he's not a donkey-ass moron who no like jazz.

I mean, I'm puttering around the house this morning getting ready for a road trip this afternoon, and HSN is on (my daughter watches either it or the Today show while getting ready for school, and I just left it on to have some noise going). There's these PERKY women on a VERY biright-lit set selling adjustable drawer dividers, and one of them says, "You buy it, and you use it. You use it, and you SAVE TIME. You'll always know where all your disposable razors are!" I'm all like, "Wow, why don't you just put them in the same place every time? That works." But apparently mine is an unpopular and/or naive point of view, because these things are selling like crazy! Whole 'nother world...

My daughter does, and all I can say is.... Whole 'nother world...

So, this thread is even more out of touch than the Grammies, right? Sincerely, The King of Scurf

In Texas!!?? I'm impressed. And New Mexico, too!

Used to see (and buy) it regularly at better U.S. newstands up until the early/mid 1990s or so.

Dude, Mary Lou was a HEAVYWEIGHT. Player, composer, arranger, spiritual leader (in both sacred andsectarian ways), you name it, the lady was BAAAAAD. Hope that answers your question.

with Adolf Hitler on vibes! --- Now playing: François Bayle - Voyage au centre de la tête And, of course, Eric Clapton on ukelele, J. Arthur Rank on gong, and Roy Rogers on Trigger. LOVES me some Bonzos!

Oh Nooooooooooo The Napoleon thing was COOL! Ever heard/seen the B-side? It's the A-side played backwards. They even spelled the song/artist info same-as-the-A-side-but-backwards on the label. True. The New Vaudeville Band was a poor (VERY poor) and offshoot (somehow) of the most obvious "points" of the Bonzo Dog Band, one of the greatest bands you may or may not have ever heard of. LOVE the Bonzos, oh yes I do.

Yez haz gotz mail

It have done been did.

Well, gawrsh! Thanks! Now, I recommend that everybody who reads this send me $100 cash. Don't ask what it's for, I'll let it be a surprise. But believe me when I tell you that this is one thing I highly recommend!

Sounds like one to get asap.

"Winchester Cathedral" is a song about impotence. Thought that was common knowledge by now.

Got both of those, and they're very nice indeed. Very pensive, soulful music. Had no idea that he was 70, though!

Ever think that just maybe, sometimes, the herd thins itself? Without any outside help?

Coda had perhaps the only at-lenght/in-depth interview w/James Clay. They had lots of other good stuff, too.

Rest of the players on the Hendicks cuts that "Jimmy Smith" are on are Jerome Richardson, Sweets Edison, John Williams, & Smitty Smith (the Hendricks band's regular drummer of the time, saw them live, and no, the piano player wasn't named Jimmy Smith); recorded in Hollywood, August, 1981. For that time and that place, and in that company, the odds of it being THE Jimmy Smith seem pretty good. OTOH, I've got that album, and there's no "Appears through the courtesy of..." thing. But on the OTHER other hand, Smith was w/o a deal in 1981, right? So....

Also know that, to the best of my knowledge, Arista only got the Savoy jazz catalog. The label continued to produce Gospel sides as an independent. somebody correct me if I'm wrong, ok?

Tyrone was King of the Beggers. One of the true greats. R.I.P., Tyrone, and if you can turn back the hands of time for a few more years, please do it. The ranks are getting too damn thin.

That set arrived today, and has discographical info. It also has but 41 cuts. Bummer... Gotta go to work now, but I'll try to get here tomorrow and post the full details, unless somebody beats me to it.