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Whoa...that was a ride!!!! RIP

I like them all. A more germane question might which period of his do you most (or least) like to hear other people imitate?

Boris Rose also used intentionally bizarre lo-grade packaging, and set a low list price. He also didn't publicize his labels at all. They just...showed up. And then they disappeared. I had no problems buying Boris Rose records. Oh, his goods were not at all ill-gotten. They were just airshots that he made. And I believe that his first customers were musicians themselves! Boris Rose did his own work.

Boris Rose. Discuss.

So "Weather Report" now is just the Zawinul estate? Ok... ?

Fresh Sound probably did not license that material. Maybe, but probably not.

If it's the same Jackie Mills, he was a hot shot LA drummer in the mid-late 1940s. Played with Boyd Raeburn, Harry James(?), and was one some Gene Norman shows. I think he moved into production, etc. But not 100% sure.

All non-cover material by Shorty Rogers. A&R is Jackie Mills, probably the drummer?

Oh, that's right!

Might have been reissued in the 70s as Bananas Equal or something like that?

We're visiting our daughter up here, and we're able to see a delightfully varied set of shows over all four days. This is a totally splendid festival, highly enjoyable, and one to which I will gladly return whenever logistics allow!

Jane Place - In Love With The Shadows

Keep an eye open for My Way, also on Solid State. It has all of the bad points of that one and none of the good!

Ok, but how do you mention Teo's tenor playing and not mention Warne Marsh? Dots only partially connected! Equally odd is the near-total overlooking of the totally transitional Bohemia date with Eddie Bert and George Barrow. If you wonder how it got from there to there, here it is.

It's Germany.

Kind of a lost cause at this point. The team is folding. Yes there is still a month left but there's a difference between tough losses and folding. This team is folding.

I'm saying that me myself am totally indifferent. My HVAC guy is my only window into that world. Literally my only window. Nobody else I know cares one way or the other, nor do I.

My HVAC guy is a huge parrot head guy with the resources to go all in on the rituals. He's a really nice guy of unimpeachable ethics and skills, so the loss will be felt there, for sure.

One the whole, that band was mostly very square. Louder than shit and very aggressive, but take that away and it's usually very faux. Very. But not always! The really "bebop friendly" band was the so-called New Concepts band, which actually did swing. Konitz, Zoot, Kamuca, Rosolino, the Holman charts, a lot of non-stop heavy Russo, odds and ends from others. And other bands up until the end found their pockets, sometimes swinging traditionally, sometimes more uniquely. The later 60s into the early 70d bands were actually quite strong at this, imo. The tell to it all, though, is something Al Porcino said about working the Kenton gig, that Stan would get a really good band and that they would get to swinging really good. And then, inevitably, Stan would look up and say, wait, this band is swinging, THIS IS NOT MY BAND!!!! And the he would get weird about it. But the cycle would always repeat. It sounds funny, and it kinda is, but hey, this is the leader, the alleged visionary, and he doesn't have half an idea about how his band should be playing? even at that, though, there were some good bands that made some really good records. But Stan Kenton himself was at best the enabler, not the creator. So... don't believe the hype, as they say. But do listen to the records, the good ones.

More near A-Listers came through Herman than Kenton, players and arrangers. Kenton tended to feed the machine, Herman the music. Although in Ralph Burns and Neal Hefti, the machine was well-fed as well. To an earlier point about not being able to identify Kenton soloists...in the Artistry In Rhythm band, that was not the case, if only because the soloists were generally advertised. But after that, it's not an entirely inaccurate point. But - Lee Konitz., Frank Rosolino. Dee Barton. Sam Donahue. The only serious A-Lister there is Konitz, but the others (and they are not the only ones) are identifiable enough, I should think.

A listers? Getting their start there? What kind of list is this and what kind of jazz are we talking about? You got Art Pepper and Bill Holman, but that's on some sort of "expanded" A list. In fairness, my definition of A List is really, really narrow.

Herman's LP presence in the 50s was a bit dimmed, but the 60s and 70s resulted in plenty product. The Fantasy stint was downright prolific!

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