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That is indeed Bill Perkins.

Here, this should clear up any confusion:

Watched it all in one day (today) and feel rewarded by having so done.

I keep my CC on for everything, and it's everywhere, these inexcusable fuckups. I bet it's all AI by now, but even at that, proofreading is very much needed. But apart from that, I'm enjoying the show!

Please give me a gig proofreading the closed captioning of something, anything. Chip Korea?

The New Sounk Dreggo Jazz Experience - Throbbin' and Sobbin' !!! Marginally but meaningfully better. This one has more tint.

I do not know the answers to either of those, sorry.

Have not. Thanks for the pointing

Great is stretching it a bit, but this one surprised me at how non-moribund it was. I think you can thank Buddy DeFranco for that. and check this out, a token nod to modernity that has nothing to do with Glenn Miller!

Thanks

https://www.scribd.com/document/499649741/little-b-s-poem-1 https://www.scribd.com/doc/309687243/Black-Narcissus

At some point, if the chart it right in the first place, you gotta just give it up, get the old lady in the white dress to get her ass to wiggling, and hey, that's what it's all about. If then asses ain't wigglin', then it ain't bein' done right.

Yeah, Time-Life was not really forthcoming about that, but whoever reviewed it/them in Down Beat called it out in the opening paragraph of the review. Don't ask me how I can remember trivia like this and not any number of actually important details... Apparently Glen Gray was active at Capitol in the early 1960s and this was a thing he started. And then he died. But at some point, Billy May got called in to resume it. So the project came back from the dead even though Gray did not...at least not yet! Not too dissimilar to those Crown things led by Maxwell Davis made by "members of" whatever band it was that the record was about. Some of those actually clicked good enough. But they also let the players play their own solos, which AFAIK neither the Gray nor May projects allowed. The wanted EXACT reproductions. Me, I would always want to hear live players playing live music with life in play, regardless of the project.

NP: Because I will buy ANY record of Pres with Basie in 1944. It seems like there's not all THAT much of, but I keeping finding things like this. Some are richer than others This one is not the motherlode, but it is above average. And the immediate post-Jo band with Shadow Wilson is also a treat. Anybody who does not know 1944 Basie/Lester, stop what you're doing right now and get a copy of this by any means necessary: Discogs has at least one copy for stoopid cheap for some reason: https://www.discogs.com/release/3203384-Various-Historical-Prez-Lester-Young-1940-1944 It's times like this that my life has real meaning. So carpe diem!!!!

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Two examples of "leaders with books" were Ray Anthony and whichever of the Elgart Brothers retired to Dallas. I actually saw one of those Anthony gigs ca 1997. It was at a big country club at Christmas time. I was in a side ballroom playing one gig, and "Ray Anthony" was in the big main ballroom. And yes, Ray Anthony was actually fronting the band. But also yes, the entire band was local guys, former 1:00 players who got called for any and all such gigs. I knew them all. The room was packed and so was the dance floor. The book was what you would expect from Ray Anthony, dance band charts, but nothing really retro except for the covers of the "Swing Classics". But everything was written in a modern-ish way so that if they were played well, they would sound good. And these type players played everything well, that's how they were trained, and that's why they got all the gigs like this. Point just being, between the fad of jazz-rock horn bands, the ongoing activity of the surviving OG band leaders who kept it fresh to one degree or another, and the new-oriented big bands, I would certain say that "big bands" did come back, if not to live forever, to at least get an extended lease in life. But the flip side of that is that as these bands, almost all of them, became populated by players who had all been trained to play the same way, personality was eventually lost. I doubt that there's a traditional big band anywhere in the world today that can be as purely visceral as their antecedents. I heard a fair number of them at least once, so I think I have a big enough sample size to day that! Not that this devolution into human AU is unique to big bands... Some of those recordings were originally released by Glen Gray, who died in 1963!

The Famously Bad Bulapenni Brothers - Yes We DO Suck!!!

But they were still big bands. Plus, Woody Herman and Basie went strong up until their respective ends. Stan Kenton too. Evolution is not disqualifying! Off the public radars were the ghost bands, who had plenty of work, enough to provide steady gigs. And then after that, the corporations (by then the names of the leaders had become corporate entities) could still book periodic tours and hire local players to play the book if needed. That went on at least until the end of the century, and hasn't really stopped yet. Worth noting that there are "jazz fans" and there are "big band fans", which creates a Venn Diagram that doesn't have as much intersection as you might think!

Big bands did 'come back", but with repertoires that only occasionally had GAS material. First and foremost it was about the ensemble format. Thinking back to ",The , Swing Era", look at any typical "Best Of The Big Bands" compilations and my hunch will be that the instrumental hits were mainly originals and the vocals were pop song type stuff. Not always, but mostly?

Monica Debris - Living On Borrowed Love

I do miss the used stores being full of promo copies. Seemed like an easy way to get some money for nothing.

Easier on the ears than on the eyes, right?

He looks like a sportscaster.