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I actually suggested this to Cuscuna in a letter ca. 1991 - "The Complete Mosaic Fuckups" I called it. He wrote back saying that he loved the idea and the title. But let's get that Braxton/Arista box out before we focus on this, ok?

Hall's on some of the Hamilton Trio album. I think the 10" was originally w/Roberts only, but the 12" added some (later) cuts w/Hall. It's been on CD in Japan (what HASN'T? ), and is indeed an outstanding album, one which would likely raise more than a few eyebrows were it more widely available.

Hathy Burpday!

Well, that's what I meant earlier about context/individual perspective/whatever - in the 65-66 period (maybe even into 67), The Hollies WERE considered "rock" and not "pop". "Pop" was stuff like Nancy Sinatra and such. "Rock" as it is seems to be percieved today really didn't exist as a distinct, non-Top 40 genre until Henrdix, Cream, and all the aftermath from the FM radio revolution. Some groups, like Steppenwolf, crossed over and had seperate AM & FM "hits", but up until the floweering of FM, "Rock" & "Top 40" were in no way mutually exclusive, which is why I can put in a plug for Tommy James and the Shondells as another superb 60s rock band, albeit of the AM, singles band variety. That would no doubt be considered "pop" by today's standards, but in its time, it weren't nuthing but "rock"!

Yeah, the musical fruit provides a floor show and-a-half!

Great side, a real good'un. You know, for years I thought that that album was "newer" in date than it actually was, entirely because of the cover. How many jazz album covers from the late 50s/early 60s referenced palmistry & astrology?

You best believe I got me them Lockjaws!

A stop at the Taco Bell in Hillsborough will accomplish much the same thing...

or R2 Bb, since it IS a trumpet...

R2 Db

Jeff Foxworthy? Y'all not from these parts are ya'... What he talks about, we see enough of in our daily lives. We make our own jokes.

I say we RUN over there and kick it ALL. Wait, that's not how it goes...

Now, if you had picked up a copy of Coleman's AT YOSHI'S to go w/the Clay, I'd say grab the Depends and head for the mailbox...

Anybody ever heard the RCA(?) live album w/Steely Dan guitarist Denny Diaz? I never have, but I've long been curious.

Tinny Dorham.

I also find it interesting that most replies to the original question seem to think of "the 60s" as 1967 (roughly) & beyond, ie - "Hendrix & beyond". I can certainly sympathize with that, especially because I think the demographic here might have come to 60s music from a 70s (or even 80s) perspective. But as somebody who spent the entire decade with a transistor radio growing out of his ear, I can tell you that "60s rock" covers about as diverse and as eclecic range of music as pretty much any such categorization imaginable, including "50s jazz". Now... How about The Move?

Sure.

Checked it out once and found the "navigation" a bit awkward (and I spend most of time online after work, when ease of use is paramount). But I enjoyed what I saw of the content. Anybody with the good sense to give Joe Milazzo a forum is one step ahead of the game in my book.

A most enjoyable recording. WHOOOOOOO!

Love The Beatles or loathe them, but it's a sign of how completely they changed the popular music landscape of the 1960s that nobody's yet mentioned Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons. For a generation of Americam men (the one before mine), THEY were Rock & Roll, not the Mop Tops. And here's another plug for The Rascals, Young or otherwise. A REALLY strong run of singles, most of which still sustain interest beyond the nostalgic.

Jim Hall is one of the listeningest jazzmusicians who has ever played, and that includes listening to himself. If the man's ever played a cheap note, I've yet to hear it.

Go ahead, live dangerously...

? and the Mysterians, no contest. Seriously... Can't pick just one. CAN'T! This is the era that cemented my personal relationship w/music, and the perps all share the blame equally. I love the ear candy every bit as much as much as the grit, I guess because the yin/yang balance was so perfect during that era, or so it seems through the lens of youthful omnivourousness that still has not been sated. A few kind words, for the Hollies in the 60s - not as a "favorite band", or anything, but as a group that put out some really badass singles, finely crafted melodies, impeccable vocal arrangements, and slightly ahead-of-the curve production. "Pay You Back With Intrest" in particular continues to fascinate. But hell, I even dig Leslie Gore & Lou Christie, so what the hell do I know?

This one came at me out of nowhere, and landed right in the sweet spot. Not keeping up with everything as I used to (and probably still should be), none of the players here were known to me, but there's some really good music being made by this band, fresh, interesting, and "accessable". Sirota's politics and liner commentary are decidely leftist/liberationist, and if I didn't know any better, I'd swear that our own Johnny E was moonlighting in Chicago! But the music is largely not overtlly political, and is an attractive blend of straight-ahead, freebop, R&B, reggae/dub, African, and all the other "usual suspects" of players looking to play anything BUT traditional ii-V-I tunejazz w/o abandoning pulse/groove altogether. This "eclecticism", this "unpredictability", has become predictable in and of itself, but Sirota & Co. get around all that by employing the oldest (yet seemingly most difficult) trick in the book - they just play the shit out of the material with vim, vigah, and vitaliky, and never sound like they're revelling in their "difference". They're just having a blast playing the music, and I find their spirit most contagious. With a front line of tenor/trombone, and the backing of guitar, bass, and drums, they've got an instrumentation that lends itself quite nicely to a variety of "styles" and colors, and they utilize this potential for variety most delightfully, never getting hung up in one bag, yet avoiding the "pastiche" effect that is always a danger when the style is "no style". Forget about the political "messages" in the music if you can (or if you must - myself, I found the one overtly political cut, a tribute to Fred Hampton, replete w/ongoing samplings of his speeches to be a way-cool blast from the past, but that's just me) and check this one out. If you like music that ignores boundaries yet doesn't try to break them, if you like music that is "populist" w/o being "popular", if you like edge w/o edginess, and/or if you just like hearing some cats having a blast playing music that is jazz instead of self-consciously "playing jazz", then I think you might well enjoy this new release on Delmark. You can dance to most of it - in the house or in the street. The choice is yours. AMG Review by Thom Jurek that for once is not particularly hyperbolic! JimBobwe says check it out!

Exactly.