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Been years since I heard it, but I think that Pat Williams THRESHOLD album was a kind of bigband/strings job. Not necessarily "jazz", but Williams is a really interesting writer of whatever the hell genre he writes in ("hip commercial jazzpop", maybe?). And surely Gary McFarland did something along these lines?!?!?!?!?

Neither have I! I have a friend who loves 'em to death, but I just--man, I can't bring myself to pick up a Dorsey CD. They don't push any buttons for me, or rather, they push the wrong ones. I've never sat down and tried to analyze why, but I really recoil from that band for some reason. Yeah, I her you. Even with all the great players he had on board, and all the great charts (Sy Oliver's in particular, but also Paul Weston, Axel Stordahl, and a cast of others as well) that band always sounded corporate to me. It's a band that sounds good but doesn't feel good. Then again, it doesn't feel bad either. It just DOESN'T feel, and that's the problem, at least to me. Impeccable product, but still product uber alles. Still, I'd give anything to spend a month or so with that band when Sinatra & Buddy Rich were both on it. I think that might have been, uh..., interesting.

Oliver Nelson did a few projects w/big band & strings. Oliver Nelson was BAAAAAD.

Tolliver's Music Inc. bib band used strings on IMPACT.

But then again, I've never "gotten" the Tommy Dorsey band.

Dorsey, but it sucked.

I thought this thread was going to be about transmission repair.

Beer make me burp.

If Donovan makes a comeback, can we call you a hurdy-gurdy man? If you want to do a tag-team, I'll be the roly-poly man.

It is indeed Perelman. I was hoping to find one of those wack Hirschfield chariactures that populated many of his (Perelman's) books, but other than one that would not make a good avitar, I came up blank. Perelman was brilliant, afaic. Witty, surreal, unfiltered misanthropy with a total command of the language is a "can't miss" in my bood.

Anybody remember Donovan's "Atlantis", which was a big hit right around the time that scientists were predicting an earthquake that would send California a-slidin' off into the mighty brine? Might be time for a revival. Donovan was goofy, but cool!

Who won? Holliday Inn.

They misspelled "creeps"...

JOE SAMPLE ALERT!

Love that inbreeding!

Which one is Scooter LaFairo?

Everything? Including a warning for horny truckdrivers to keep away from psycho-nympho housewifes with lots of knives hanging on the wall?

SYNERGY!

Gain the world...

Hey, hold on a minute... who started this board?! You'd all be on the street, or worse yet, at the BlueNote Europe site if it weren't for me!!! Not me - I'd be in bed.

I can hear all the instruments clearly.

Up, because I'm not letting this one go quietly into the night. Up, because I listened to this one again 4 or 5 times last night, and each listen revealed new details and subtleties. Frank Hewitt was one of those guys who sounded pretty obvious and straightforward on a casual listen, but a close listening proves that his playing was anything but. Up, because attention MUST be paid.

Sure. Haven't you ever done a revenge fuck? And lest there be an uproar about male pigginess, let's ne honest - the revenge fuck can be and most assuredly IS practiced by both sexes. Oh yes it is! Now, see what I mean about reality and fantasy both coming up losers when they get together? This ain't chocolate and peanut butter ya' know...

When reality and fantasy join forces, both lose.