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As does, I swear to you, having two distinct sides with an enforced pause between them.

Yes. That tune was only included on mono versions of the album, as I understnd it. Why, I can't say. Ammends of sorts were made in 1976, when Columbia included it on THE WORLD OF DUKE ELLINGTON VOLUME THREE. A gorgeous piece, indeed.

Incoming!

Err...that's 22 & 21...

Hey wait a minute!! I gotta call the school ... that looks like MY daughter! You'd best hurry and give her a song then!

Yep!

My workputer REALLY freaked out on this one, so I got one listen on Saturday, and another one as we speak. The usual thanks and disclaimers apply. First thing I noticed, there seems to be some clever programming going on here! TRACK ONE - Seems as if #23 begins where #22 left off, and in more ways than one! Last tune on 22 was the last cut of that album, first one on 23 is the first off the same album. Nice touch! TRACK TWO - Genius + Soul = Jazz. Of course Ray sounds great, but the band is icing on the cake. Big bands don't play like this anymore, precise yet soooooooo relaxed, full of sectional nuances and inflections. Soul + Road = Great big band playing. TRACK THREE - Well, this one can only be one outfit - the J.B.s. From Ray to JB, the evolution of R&B, only in both cases here, w/o the vocals (and with BN of BN hits). Those guys were just TOO damn funky! Never surpassed, and only rarely equalled. FRED! Hellyeah. TRACK FOUR - It's the News For Lulu band (Zorn, Lewis, Frissell) A nice idea, and some nice playing. Not a direction to pursue for your entire life, but nobody here has, so all the better! TRACK FIVE - Movie music? Danny Elfman? Not my area of expertise, to put it mildly. Nice enough on its own, but probably much more effective as film music. TRACK SIX - MOVIE MUSIC! Gato, Last Tango. But this almost sounds like an alto. Been years since I heard the ST album, but still, I think this is it. Who did the orchestration on that, Oliver or Lalo? I forget. Nice writing either way. TRACK SEVEN - GATO! Impulse! Love that stuff. Gato is a somewhat limited player in some ways, but the thing I dig about him is that he usually finds a good context for himself and then plays his heart out within it, what ever it is. This is no exception. TRACK EIGHT - "Monk's Mood", NY COntemporary 5, short and (bitter)sweet. If you never feel this way, you have my congratualtions. And my sympathy. TRACK NINE - More Shepp, this time w/Parlan. Yeah. TRACK TEN - This bugs the piss outta me, because I KNOW this piece, probably even have the album, but damned if I can call it. guitarist sounds like Santana, but I don't think it is. Everybody and everything sounds REALLY familiar. Hope somebody's already nailed it so I don't have to wait to get my memory jogged. Simple, but VERY nice. TRACK ELEVEN - Ginger Baker on Atlantic w/Frissell & Haden. Overall, that album's a bit of a snoozer for me, but this cut is the highlight for me. Maybe it's polemical or whatever, but it gets me anyway. Radicalism dies hard, especially when there's no need for it not to. TRACK TWELVE - Yardbirds? "Beck's Boogie"? Seems like I have this (or something very much like it) on an old Epic 45, as a B-side, but I'm not about to go looking for it. I much prefered the Yardbirds as a psychedelic pop band to a blues band, and that goes for this tune too. TRACK THIRTEEN - Programming again! Three Sounds cover The Yardbirds. "Still I'm Sad". As a whole, I prefer the original, but if I was in a club having to choose which one to hear played live, I'd take this one. TRACK FOURTEEN - Butterfield? EAST-WEST? God, it's been last century since I paid attention to that one... Carried more "impact" back then than it does today (for me, anyway), but it had to be done, even if there's a distinct lack of pocket. It was necessary. TRACK FIFTEEN - For a second, I was expecting "Oh Last Night". Don't have a clue. The horns definitely don't sound like "real" Soul horns. Disposable, but good fun before you do. TRACK SIXTEEN - "Willow Weep For Me", and suspiciously incomplete, it sounds like, which is too bad, becasue I heard things I liked and things that were too predictable, andI'd've liked to hear the whole thing to decide which it was, in balance. TRACK SEVENTEEN - "America The Beautifu" as performed by the Wire Choir?!?!?! Sounds like Les Paul, which could mean that Chet Atkins is along, off that album they did. Fine playing by all, but not to my tastes. TRACK EIGHTEEN - It's an old C&W tune, I think, one I've heard a million times, but I couldn't tell you the name of it. The playing is fully in the style, and sounds like a Van Gelder recording. Gene Harris? TRACK NINETEEN - Well, that's some real playing there. I enjoy this type of thing more when I'm on a gig listening to somebody play it in the flesh, where I can see it as it goes down. sinc eit's not really my bag, the real skill involved hits me more there than just listening to it at home. But hey - these cats can play! No idea who it is, but the Hendrix bits (especially the "Wind Cries Mary" tag at the end) tell me (as does the use of ELECTRIC guitars) that it's relatively younger cats who have been to the outside world, if you know what I mean. Much respect here. TRACK TWENTY - The alto on the intro sets up expectations of a Billy Vaughn record. Fortunately, this is not one. The vocals actually sound a bit like The Browns, the group that C&W star Jim Ed Brown was in, but I dunno. With the programming games going on, from James Brown to Jim Ed Brown would make sense, but I really don't know The Browns much past a few songs, and this ain't one of them. Gimme a second, I gotta AMG this and find out who this is, just because it's such an odd selection for a BFT .... a-HA! NEVER would have guessed!Indeed, this BFT might well be called "The Wanderer" so diverse are its contents! TRACK tWENTY - Don't have a clue, but I dig it! A bit self-consciously "noisy", but, hey - it be's that way sometimes. Well, this one WAS a trip! Thanks for the ride! Now - what the HELL is Track Ten?

I've got this one: I've yet to fully warm to Mildred Bailey, but otoh, there are lots of nice arrangements by Eddie Sauter. Worth a chckout, at the least.

Same here. Only moreso.

Don't think that the TV version was identical to the album version, though.

Not bad, just not worth listening to:

The good thing about Girl Scout Cookies is that they come in the conviniently packaged single-serving size.

Not my consensus at all. There are any number of gems. Just not entire albums worth, usually. Oh well. I think I've been in cyberjazzland too long. This is the umpteenth time that this subject has come up, and I'm out of anything new to say.

As a straight-up player, yeah, good, not great. But a very adept arranger, producer, etc. Not an innovator or anything, but his arrangements did have a distinct flavor to them, and his production work in the last days of the "real" BN are not unworthy. And a composer of catchy-yet-meaty tunes as well. If you follow baseball, you minght know what I mean when I say that he reminds me of Mark McLemore - no superstar numbers or anything, but winning follows him wherever he goes. I don't think that's accidental.

Pretty sure that's Jerome Richardson playing the theme on the show.

Seems like some parts of the country get a few types of cookies that the other doesn't. Those Iced Berry Pinatas sound real good to me. I'm surprised a black market hasn't opened up yet...

http://video.google.com/video_about.html Seems like it's going to be a repository of closed-captioning content. A search for "miles davis" http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22miles+davis%22 provided ephemeral results.

Hello Cutty!

A-HA! From http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art11418.asp

Hmmm... I ordered Samoas from the locals. 1000% certain of that. There's a story here...

"Say man, play that famous thing of yours. You know, 4'33"."

Damn straight.

Seems that I remember another member who once expressed an interest is obtaining similar objects... (always good to have a Plan B, doncha' know. Just in case...)

I though he was asking if Paul Lynde was goofy.

Didn't you read your confirmation e-mail? The O-Board secretly installs software on your computer that turns your monitor into a camera. We can take your picture any time you're at your computer, no matter what you're doing there. You think Jim pays for all this just through donations and personal benevolence?