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Wasn't there a Vinyl Freak column about this one once? I've got a friend who has a dub of a dub of a dub of a dun of this, and the parody of Ornette is something different than the rest of the album, which is pretty funny in its own way, especially hte narration. Whoever it is parodying Ornette is FEELING it! Speaking of Argo "jazz comedy" albums, anybody ever heard the thing by Professor Paradiddle?

You and Barry Gordy...

Oh Dude, that shit was wack! http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/index.shtml

I dunno, man, Denton in the 70s was not a place for amateurs, if you know what I mean...

I used to have a bong that looked like that...

And do you?

Pigmeat recorded for Blue Note, you know.

I had a buddy record us live on a mini-disc. He then edited that recording into a Moms Mabley album he had. Moms was on the same label as Pigmeat. Q.E.D.

Bumblewit? BUMBLEWIT? My God, it's Moe for the new millenium! NO MORE CALLS, PLEASE!

You can't just make "a few" recommendations for a buy at Dusty Groove. You really do need to browse the site, and in all categories. If I ever decide to plunge headfirst into Brazilian music, they'll end up with ALL my money (the BASTARDS!), as they will when I inevitably take the plunge into the whole "neo-soul" trip. But as it is now, I'll stick to looking at the jazz LPs and "Sale CDs" once or twice a month. That's more than enough for me. But tell you what - I've had my eye on that Ted Curson Canadian Concert thing for a while, especially since they now have it on LP for less than the CD. Why don't one of you guys buy it and let me know how it is, ok?

Everything good can be traced to Pigmeat Markham if you try hard enough!

No shit. Somebody asked why Norah's name was "Jones" since her dad's name was Shankar, and I posted (as "guest", but I'm not THE "guest") that "Elvin was her other father. The late 70s/early 80s were pretty wild times". Wellsireebob - THAT one didn't even last 24 hours. Deleted and scolded all in one fell swoop. Corporate, with a capital "K".... The only reason I even look is because, yes, I find DEEP pretty funny when he's not going all the way over the top, and he still gives out w/some good stories, like the e-mail from Bill Crow talking about Gus Johnson. Too bad he didn't do more of that here.

He's Barry Silverlight now, isn't he? Wasn't he?

Don't think so. Not sure if the hose was for sanitary purposes, or if some models came with that so you could hold it in front of you like a regular keyboard (perfect for the anal types who can't FUNCTION unless everything is "just so"), or if you could use it to get a Vocoder-like effect, not unlike what a harmonica player does by varying the size and shape of his/her oral cavity. I just don't know. I know a local cat who plays accordion AND melodica (in addition to regular keyboards/piano) in this wacked out Brazillian band he has, and I think the instruments make for an appealing and appropriate texture. "Peasant Cool", I guess you could call it. But this cat could play Tinker Toys and make'em sound good, so I guess that proves nothing.

Yeah, kids keep you up to date whether you want to be or not, at least to a degree you'd probably not be otherwise. Like so many things, it's a blessing and a curse. Mostly both. I'd have missed out on the whole "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" thing if not for my kids, and THAT was some funny shit!

I...don't know what you mean, Chuck...

Jack DeJohnette plays a mean melodica.

Just browse and add as you go. You can cull at checkout. Yeah, right...

And where's the other 5 seconds of #20?

So that's Murray instead of Adams, eh? Well Ok, Murray should always play so controlled and focused! But you say there's two tenors? Didn't pick up on that while folding the laundry yesterday. Serves me right. There's a few things in this life I can identify immediately, not many, but a few, and among them are Eddie Harris' tenor sound and Rudy Van Gelder's piano sound. There's nothing in the world remotely like either!

Short nap, dammit.. At first I thought that this disc had a theme of "soundtrack jazz", and I'm still not certain that it doesn't but I don't think so. But to that end, some of this material seems to have come from contexts where the intent was to provide music that was "jazzy" rahter than to be "jazz", so I reacted accordingly. No sense in finding fault for something no being what it's not meant to be. And all the cuts COULD function in a soundtrack/score setting of some sort. Certainly a different bunch of material than other BFTs to date, that's for sure! OK, my guesses: TRACK 1 - Pretty cool. Sounds like an old Alex North (or somebody like that) film theme sampled and remixed into a "Space Age Bachelor Pad meets Art Of Noise" kind of thing. This wouldn't be "The Man With The Golden Arm" theme, would it? Haven't seen that movie in decades, but it WOULD make for a good "wink and a nod" opener. Whoever/whatever, it is the contrabass clarinet towards the end works marvellously as texture. TRACK 2 - Cool intro, reminds of that big band album Ray Brown did on Verve, nice tight, slightly dissonant voicings. Gets a little less interesting for me as the theme begins, loses me once the samba section takes over. But if this is an underscoring of a films main titles or something, that's a different matter. Plenty of little orchestration quirks along the way that bespeak skilled and clever writing. I just don't care for the theme and its handling in "jazz" terms. But as film music, well, that's something else. And I thought I might have heard Ronnie Cuber there towards the end. TRACK 3 - Sounds British, whatever that means, and again, like a title sequence from a movie, this time a closing title. Johnny Dankworth or Johhny Spence perhaps? The alto soloist reminds me tonally of whoever it was who played on the closing theme to A HARD DAYS NIGHT, the big band version. TRACK 4 - in spite of the "Pink Panther"-esque opening, it sure ain't Mancini! Tune is kinda like Monk with all the nightime removed. Altoist is kinda Woods-y in tone, but not as "inside" the music as Woods would/could have been. I like the trumpeter quite a bit - real personality, and he treats the material with the sincerely dignified whimsy that I think was intended. The only guy I've heard do this kind of "Monk By Daylight" material is Stan Tracey. I'm liking this one more with each listen. TRACK 5 - Pretty sure I recognized Mulligan, and, maybe, Gene Quill. Less sure about Mulligan after the solo, though. Trombonist sounds VERY familiar. Trumpet solo is very nice too. Sounds like a Columbia recording. Nice, but too short! TRACK 6 - again, sounds like "film jazz", and as such works nicely. But too short! TRACK 7 - Sahib Shihab in a Francy Boland setting? Sounds familiar, I might have this one in my "listened to once or twice, need to come back to it again" pile. Or not - that pile is waaaayyyy too big. Anyway, this is some really good stuff! TRACK 8 - back into filmland again (sorry whenever I hear alto flute, vibes, conga, and blue notes together, I go to the movies in my mind). Again, as a film cue, it works very nicely - evocative and colorful. TRACK 9 - Benny Carter on one helluva drunk! No clue, but I like it, even if again, it's too short (unless, again, its a film cue). TRACK 10 - Sounds like it begins in the middle of an already begun piece. Lyrics remind me of something from the Kid Creole/Coati Mundi school, but the singing and arranging doesn't. The "parts" of the arrangement are typically Latin, but how they're put together isn't, not always, which makes for some interesting tensions between expectations and gettings. And if that ain't the GREAT George Adams, then I need new speakers! Well, I need new speakers any way... Is this Kip Hanrahan? Never got around to checking him out, and I've been meaning to for YEARS. I'm liking this one becasue it's "wrong" in so many ways, but it's an intentional, knowing wrong, and because George Adams was a BAAAAAADDDDDD MUTHAFUKKAH! TRACK 11 - "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, we'll be right back after a short intermission..." TRACK 12 - thanks to a few years of constant prodding by my online brothers, I think that I have finally gotten to the point where I can identify Barney Wilen. Tell me I'm right. This is damn good! Is it from the same disc as Dr. J's cut a few BFTs back. I bought that one, just haven't internalized it yet. TRACK 13 - I think I have this. I think I've listened to it in the last month or so. It sounds DAMN familiar. But I can't call it. Mike Weil's Law, I guess. Sounds like a melodica, not an accordion, and the piano has that Van Gelder sound, so I SHOULD know what this is, but AAAARRRGH, I can't call it. WAIT A MINUTE, YES I CAN!!! Listened to it on a road trip last month. LAST CUT ON THIS DISC. Glad I'm not losing my mind! TRACK 14 - Now THIS is accordion. But who or what, I don't have a clue. guitarist has a slight "country" flavor in his playing. Nice. Not my bag, but nice. TRACK 15 - Sorta hints at "The End Of A Love Affair", but not enough to actually be it. More accordion! Who knew? This music is VERY "cinematic" in effect, even if that's not it's function. Tenor playing reminds me a lot of Trevor Lawrence on the "Trouble Man" soundtrack. Don't think that's Wayne, but it's close, and I'll probably kick myself when the altoist is revealed. He sounds REAL familiar. This is a most interesting cut that grows on me w/each listen, mainly due to its struturing - very fresh, very novel, and appealing as such. TRACK 16 - Sorry, but more "movie jazz", it seems to me. Not a dis, just an observation. And again, it reminds me of the "Trouble Man" ST, which is not a bad thing at all. But that ain't what this is, obviously. Again, nice. TRACK 17 - Angelo Baldamenti? Pretty intertesting layerings of different textures, and yet again, Trevor Lawrence-esque tenor. As "jazz", it's lacking for me, but as music for a specific purpose, I find this short, but full of interest. TRACK 18 - I might be wrong, but the "clattering" sounds sound sampled from the intro of Mingus' "II B.S.". If not sampled, then somebody's playing the same thing, or damn close to it. A nice interlude, if nothing else. TRACK 19 - And speaking of Mingus, these folks sure are! Might be a Jack Walrath band, but I can't identify anybody w/any certainty. I could ALMOST buy Zorn on alto, believe it or not. Interesting, loose, and fun. TRACK 20 - I know two things: 1)that is DEFINITELY Eddie Harris on tenor, and 2)this is one of the hippest songs ever written! HAD to do some research on this one, it's TOO damn cool for me not to know NOW exactly what it was, and what I found was TRACK 7 FROM THIS. Confirmed HERE. HELL YEAH, I'M GETTING THIS! Thanks. Vint. It was a long, often strange trip, but your selections forced me to listen differently than I usually do, and for that I'm thankful. I know I folded big time, as far as guessing goes, but that's life. It was fun, and I heard some new and different things. Can't beat that! Contest ends at midnight!

Dave's for us old folks. She could verify if it was from some anime thing, but that's about it.

Can anybody verify the Lettermanosity?

Got my disc Saturday, listened to it a few times yesterday. Stopped reading this thread when the first actual guesses were posted. Going to take a nap before posting mine. All I can say is that with very few exceptions, I'm like a clear-cut forest on this one - totally stumped!

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