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...that the proper "name" for a cow is Bossy. She won't believe me.

"Sonny Crisis", they said! The lingering shadow of suicide, I'd like to believe,,, Joining such illustrious performers of yore as "Count Bassey", "Hank Mobberly", & "Arturo Sand-OVAL". Listen here: http://www.kntu.fm and be amazed!

What's the deal w/copyright dates on LPs anyway? Seems like it only became legal in the early 1970s, but I'ce seen some labels (Atlantic comes to mind) doing it before then. Maybe it was the artwork they were copyrighting? All I remember is that it was kind of a big deal when the law changed to allow the copyrighting of the actual album, and I'm not sure if I remember that!

Have yet to warm to Maria's recordings, I'm afraid (literally!) to say. Great writing, but the band always sounds a tad stiff for what I like. My problem, most likely.

Got it for Christmas, finally popped it last night, got through the first 5 CDs. EXCELLENT! The sides w/Benny Carter are surprisingly NASTY! "Close your eyes"? I don't THINK so - ain't not telling what might happen if I do... Great, GREAT set. Avoid the future panic and buy now. Seriously.

Roy Eldridge, with Oscar Peterson's organ making me wish that this had been the house band for Jack Lalane.

Don't hesitate. Go for it.

Hey - one thing leads to another. And vice-versa!

You....you...you....

Well now, the question is - is this lack of understanding a permanent, incurable condition, and if not, is it a voluntary affair that you have no interest in changing? There are no right answers, but it has to be asked.

I always took that "heavy form" comment to mean that Hank felt that he could best get his groove on at medium tempos, where he could really sink his claws into the beat and play with it anyway he wanted to. That's where he could really get heavy into his bag. Although really fast tempos never shut him out, I do have to say that they left his vocabulary unnuanced, and with Hank, the nuances were often more the point than was the vocabulary. That's not in any way a slam or dis. It just is a recognition of the reality that some musicians have a zone in which they feel most at ease and free, and Hank's zone was not that of the uppermost tempos.

If July 3rd was your anniversary, I'm gonna FREAK!

Yusef has indeed done better work.

Wind without whirl, Amen.

A double shot of my baby's love?

I'll put RED CLAY & STRAIGHT LIFE up against anything Freddie's ever done in terms of energy and groupal unity. The rest of the CTI stuff goes into something else, and it's good for what it is, but what it is ain't loose and open small group jazz, except for KEEP YOUR SOUL TOGETHER, although by then, Freddie was well into his "star trip" trumpetisticalluraly. T? Man, Stanley's Stanley no matter WHAT context you put him in. I happen to think quite highly of Stanley's CTI output. No, it's not the same context (contexts, actually) as the BN years, but he plays great on all of them, and the production and arrangements are impeccable. Whether or likes them or not is one thing, but if one doesn't, it's because one does not like the flavor, not because the recipe was faulty and/or poorly executed. Milt Jackson did some of his very best leader work on CTI as well (been playing the shit outta SUNFLOWER lately). When the formual worked, it put great soloists into a different context than a blowing session, which as much as we all like that kind of thing is not the only venue for an artist to make satisfying music for either themselves or audiences. The ensemble arrangements were usually added on after the fact, so what you get is essentially the benefits of a small group record w/the "luxury" of what was more often than not interestingly written accompanying ensembles. The records had a distinct identity apart from the jazz norm. If that identity was of a populist/popular bent, oh well, and bfd. When it worked, that is. After a while, it did get predictable, and as the label's original artists cashed in and left the label, their replacements were not as distinctive and/or didn't fit with the formula as well. But the first 2-3 years of the CTI output works just fine for me far more often than not as part of a well-balanced musical diet.

Ever.

Same as it was.

There is water flowing

My God, what have I done?

This is not my house in the Everglades.

This is not my beautiful wife.

This is not my topic.

Test.

Details. please!