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I don't think that Rene was adopted.

It would have to be something from 1965, when they hit the burnout wall for a quick minute due to all the touring and stuff. Probably something from BEATLES FOR SALE. I think their cover of "Kansas City" is pretty ephemeral, although it might have been better served by having been recorded a few years earlier. "Hello Goodbye", eh? Goofy, yes, but I still get drawn in by the production/engineering job on that one, how truly FAT all the stringed instruments (guitars, bass, and cellos) sound and how the drum sound is like you're inside the drum (which may very well have been how it was miked, I dunno). And if you were buying 45s back then (and I was), it's a good chance that you played the B-side of this one more than the A. A little ditty called "I Am The Walrus" (and with a different mix that on the MMT album at that!) it was... When it comes to Pop, good/clever/innovative/whatever production can render a song's relative "merit" irrelevant as far as I'm concerned, and I can't think of too many Beatre songs outside of the period mentioned above where this is not the case for me. They weren't all great songs, but they were, for the most part, all great RECORDS. In Pop, the rules are different...

Well, if the choice is between IBC and Fanta, hell, you got the winner! But Fanta is a Coca-Cola product, and they got their stuff everywhere, I'd have thought.

Was anybody as surprised as I was when they heard this cut for the first time?

All I can say about Mr. Kart's essay is that it is pretty dense (as in thick) verbally, but it bears repeated reading in conjunction with repeated listening to the music. Give it time and it'll all fall into place eventually.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Claude Schlouch.

Allah is not dead, but his sex partners apparently are...

In what form? I'm hoping it's some live bootleg date that I don't have. But what are the odds...

Kenton was probasbly not a racist, but his popular image in his heyday was that of jazz' "Great White Hope", and he seemed more than willing to play into that image. Naivete is an "excuse" for only so long. Eventually you have to either really believe it or else play along with it for your personal gain. As well, several biographers (and sidemen) have noted that Kenton's political views were of the far-right, John Birch Society type. Of course, that is not automatically a cause to suspect racism, but it's not automatically a cause to suspect the man of being a crusader for progress in race relations, either.

You can add "New Rhumba" to the mix too, the way the bass plays the melody inbetween chordal punctuations. I'm realizing that the whole modal thing was hardly a sudden innovation, but was instead an evolutionary inevitability, and if you go backwards, there's landmarks aplenty. especially in the work w/Gil.

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Isn't it Gary Bartz who's on only one cut?

Bafaffity Hirkeleday!

Didn't those used to come with every stylus?

Can you hear how Gil's accoustical pallate was being stretched to the limit? Synthesizers, electric bass, and all that followed seem inevitable when listening to this cut. There were colors that couldn't be gotten any other way, it seems to me. It took him a few years to get there (the Ampex album being another notable "can't get there without 'em" effort to do just that), but get there he did.

Scratches reduced, but what's up w/that swishing sound?

...and why couldn't they ever graduate? ...and if they never DID graduate, can we get a court order to stop that damnable "Graduation Day" from ever being heard again?

BTW - I started this thread last night whilst in a hurry to leave for work, and forgot to mention that it's in no way meant to be an "Ask Jim" thread. If it were that, there'd most likely be more questions unaswered than answered. Shoulda' made that clear up front. Sorry.

He corked some keys shut so that they wouldn't open. Which ones, I'm still investigating.

Many. I'm not sure, but I think that Jimmy Giuffre was in the "original" section, to be replaced by Herbie Steward by the time the record was made. But I could be wrong.

That was Jackie McLean using a pseudonym.

Ok, so you know your Jazz 101 pretty well, but there's some things that you probably should know, but don't, or there's some things you THINK are probably "stupid questions" so you're afraid to ask them, but if you don't ask them, you'll never know, right? So I have taken it upon myself to create this sanctuary whre anybody can ask anything without fear of being told how stupid they are, or why didn't they look it up first (maybe because they prefer the informal personal interaction of a cyber community?), or anything like that. Only one rule here - no ninnies allowed. Anybody violating this rule gets grilled by Chuck Nessa, Larry Kart, and Chris Albertson about the stuff that THEY know, and failing the test gets you smacked upside the head with a lead shovel (and I've made arrangements w/Home Depot to keep a steady supply a-comin') by the assaultant of my choice (and I know some REALLY "interesting" people in that regard). So if you think you're just too fucking hip and all that shit, stay away from this forum. I've been hit by that lead shovel once or twice in my lifetime, and trust me - it hurts. This forum is now officially open - show your ass w/o fear, and learn what it is that you've been too afraid to find out.

Those store brand sodas are usually pretty lame when it comes to "regular" flavors, but you can get some decent results when it comes to he fruity ones. Do they still make Shasta? That was a brand that was cheap, and their colas, etc. sucked, but their various fruity sodas were none too bad. I particularly remember with fondness a black cherry soda.

Three more words: Diet Lime Coke! One of each gets me through many a night at the office. I usually start w/the lime because the citrus flavor is kinda "WAKE UP", and the vanilla is more "chill out....", but I'm feeling passive-agressive, I'll reverse the sequence. Gotta keep the bastards guessing!