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If my memory serves, Chuck was working out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a very progressive college town where this type of music had a strong following. Wish I could have been there then...

And Sonny Burke did the kids record!

Who was the arranger? Ok. Buddy Bregman. That explains that. Jack Pleis got a go!

Ginger tea is stomach-soothing.

How do the performances compare to the Amsterdam gig on Celluloid? I imagine they would be about the same, right?

I really like Chico O'Farrill's sax voicing, deep and wide.

That'll play the whole album for you. Nestico brought a freshness of charts that were original compositions, something that the Basie book had not had for a while. But those compositions seldom stuck out as being more than Column A/Column B type assemblages of standard parts. But the Basie band didn't care. I read where Grover Mitchell told Nestico to just write his thing and then don't worry, that the band will take care of making it sound like Basie. A perfect summation of how it worked,! Ok, here's the play list for , Basic Basie: They're both albums of standards, but the band is just so... coolly killer on both. No "nice" days being offered or given here!

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/seattle-jazz-community-holds-benefit-for-julian-priester-who-helped-create-jazz-as-we-know-it/

Mike did the hiring for the band.

A long talk with Lenny Pickett about his life, his career, and all that stuff, including his sax teacher as a kid being Bert Wilson. It's actually quite the life, quite organic, but also, lives like this will not be led today, these times and places are probably gone for good.

Recently discovered their Ginger Citrus...took me half a pack to decide, but the decision resolved into becoming quite favorable!

You can get your Basie jones AND your MPS jones tickled at the same time, twice! Somehow Basic Basie also came out on Groove Merchant (sic) as Evergreens. So there's that. God only knows what that was about.

For that general time frame, we owe it to ourselves to check out the two MPS records - Basic Basie and High Voltage. Both are arranged by Chico O'Farrill, who in both cases is not asked to arrange current pop fare. He actually did better on many of those projects than necessary, but here there's no gimmicks to work around. And plenty of Lockjaw to boot!

Here's the 2nd Basie/Nestico album, done for Sonny Burke's Daybreak Records. No Lockjaw solos at all. No tenor solos, period. On a Basie record. What a waste. I've only recently been able to "appreciate" Straight Ahead. I may never get even that far with this one. I don't expect to really try. Such a great band...squandered. The Pablo records do come up a notch. Nestico was a formula writer. It was a good formula, and he was expert at it, but...Have A Nice Day results in me having anything but!

The Rotating Wasps - Sting In, Sting Out

Where I lived, they were to be found in the cutout bins, when they were to be found at all.

The Lonely Bulls - Walk, Don't Run???

Yeah, I tried to, but after a while...it just got obvious how wrong so much of it was. And yet it persisted. And persists. An honest man. Just one, please.

Nothing to discuss imo. And no surprise either. Some things are obvious to anybody who's not looking the other way (for sometimes totally understandable reasons...but only sometimes)

Camden - a most storied US budget label! A staple of dime stores, tire stores, and second-tier department stores across this great land of ours! A strange choice for a UK imprint?

I think the Eddie Jefferson tragedy/trauma threw him off in ways that he never recovered from. Before that, yeah, he was a hot commodity. But eventually the stories began to circulate, not good stories. And he finally just disappeared. I think he resurfaced in Pittsburgh at one point, but then, nothing. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Musically, I couldn't care less. But on a human level...no. Shouldn't happen to anybody

Hmmm...I could throw a few names out there, but nobody that you haven't known about for a while. So we wait!

Ok, how does that work, did BMG have a hold on Muse in the UK but not here?

Houston Person is thriving today as both player and producer, more than ever! And he still has his fan base here. He's here if you know where to look for him. Ritchie Cole is not. He's dead and apparently went through a lot of personal changes along the way. Never liked him much at all, but as a spirit, his was a real one. And I hate to see anybody live a life that never finds traction with other people. But it happens...