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A great one, in my opinion.

Damn, that's GOOD!!!

Well alright then - let your imaginanation run wild! Make THIS into a Booker Ervin album: or THIS: or THIS: We gotta get Booker back into the game. Do what you gotta do.

Who do you think is pulling Tony B's strings?

Y'all trying to turn Booker into Sinatra?

It's on the Moncur Mosaic Select, and it's on a 2-fer LP from the 70s.

Anybody remember the 60 Minutes profile of Basie & band? Forget whose piece it was, maybe Morley Safer's... Anyway, the reporter sticks a mike all up in Freddie Green's face like he has a RIGHT to and says something stupid like, "Don't you ever think about retiring?" in a semi-hyper voice. Freddie looks terrified, like this, this... HOODLUM has invaded his sacred space, and quietly says something like, "No. Why would I?", and leaves it at that. The reporter tries a "hip" follow up or two, but Freddie just looks away. It's times like that when you fully realize how truly clueless a large portion of America is. These fools can't even handle BASIE. How the hell they gonna handle Miles? But people watch them and hang on their every word just because they provide news. Well, big fuckin' deal. I got some news for their ass - not everybody lives in their world. Not everybody WANTS to live in their world. Some of us might even prefer to never even HEAR about their world. Bet that's news to them!

Useless trivia - Used on the Arista/Freedom original issue of SPIRAL.

I've got the LA Phil album somewhere in all my mess. I think it was Hutch's working band of the time w/Manny Boyd, James Leary(?) and some other guys. No vocalists as I recall.

rofl, fun things sure happen on the construction site... Talk about erecting!

Fourth time was when Amber mentioned the murder of her old boy friend by African-american drug dealers (she believes it, but it's till the same riff). So that's four times in one episode, too many to be coincidental, I'd think. Is this a setup for further plot twists, a one-time highlighting of one of this subculture's traits, the writer making a political point, or just what?

NOW is an OK date overall, but the cut "Black Heroes" is worth the cost of admission alone. GREAT tune!

I hear ya', John, but this reminds me of a "jazz appreciation" class I took at NT taught by Leon Breeden, no fan of anything "progressive" if it wasn't associated w/Stan Kenton. He played Dolphy's "You Don't Know What Love Is" from LAST DATE and prefaced it by going onandonandon about how "abstract" and "difficult" it was, how you couldn't follow the melody, blahblahblah, and finally, just before he stopped pontificating and actually played the record, he offered one last "insight", delivered in an OH so worried tone: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is NOT something that your average housewife is going to listen to while hanging up the laundry!" I kid you not.

Hmmm... Tom, Joan, Abby, Mary, David, Joanie, Nancy, Elizabeth, Susan, Tommy, Nicholas... I don't remember a "Bobby". Was this on a DVD?

And your preconcieved notions were what, that it was butt-ugly everywhere and that everybody was Neanderthal rednecks? Glad you found out otherwise, but trust me, I can take you places that will get you back to thinking that way REAL quickly.

Well, I DON'T buy everything on BN, and I'd not buy Prince just because he was on the label, but I would consider buying an instrumental album of his on B.N. simply because I think he's an interesting musician. No other reason than that. But I'd have to hear it first. As far as I'm concerned, with Prince, the quirkier the better (usually), and if he tries to make any sort of a "normal" jazz album (smooth, funky, straight-ahead, whatever), I'd most likely pass. But if he lets the creativity loose and tweaks some/all conventions like he's shown himself to be more than capable of in the past, then I'll be interested. As far as the "Blue Note should =jazz only" thing, yeah, ok, I'm as sentimental as the next guy, but Heinz makes ketchup, pickles, soup, and a bunch of other stuff, so whaddya gonna do, not eat?

No more calls, please. We have a winner!

Hermeto's nuts!

Love the Laffite I've listened to so far. Like everybody else, I love the tone. Plus, he swings real nice. There was a nice interview with him in JJI about a decade ago. Seemed to be a real forthright-yet-gentlemanly kinda guy.

Never really considered either one of these even remotely "essential", but both have some enjoyable enough moments.

I might hear SOMETHING click...

Thanks for all the comments so far. We're taking notes!

They keep PLAYING and PLAYING and PLAYING and PLAYING and PLAYING and PLAYING this thing on KNTU and I keep TRYING and TRYING and TRYING and TRYING and TRYING to like it, or to at least "hear" it, and it just ain't happenin'. My self-confessed "Wynton Syndrome" is in full effect on this one - the opening moments catch my attention and spur hope, but I... just...... can't........ stay .......................focused and before you know it, my attention has wandered off somewhere else. Is there such a thing as "Teflon in reverse", something where you can't stick to it? Because if there is, this album qualifies. I don't DISlike it, I'm just...indifferent. If I didn't have it exposing itself to me on a seemingly hourly basis on the radio, I'd not say anything. But I do, so I am.

Mike - thanks for the prompt attention. I apologize for the breach of ettiquette. If ignorance is an an excuse, I have one. Otherwise I don't. On the bright side, this is the kind of lesson I don't forget, so I'll not be making that type of mistake again!

Thanks for that info, Alejandro. I'm a big Hendrix fan and so is my son, so we might have to bite the Experience Hendrix bullet and fork over the bucks. Oh well, maybe we can have a "boy's afternoon" & a "girls's afternoon" one day. Chuck, thanks for that heads up. That's the kind of thing that I think we'll all enjoy seeing, and the proce is right.