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Looking for the Horo web site that Aldo Sinesio has/had, or an e-mail for same. As always, thanks in advance!

Not cool.

no problem jim, that was actually a smile I needed. Ok, cool. Just didn't want any bad feelings where none were intended.

You HAVE to know I'm in a very good mood. Any particular reason?

SEVEN smilies out of Chuck. Must be a record!

Sorry couw. I just read on another thread that you have personal reasons for not liking nazi references. I didn't know this when I made the post above. No offense intended, and I will delete if you desire. I can respect the delicacy of the subject and want no unnecessarily hurt feelings.

I thought you wanted to leave the nazis out of this.

Rollins, Roach, & Grimes.

He cut their hair on Saturday morning and left 'em smellin' good.

Maybe Gitler's CYOA-ing. But I'm hearing "On A Misty Night" w/Trane and Julius Watkins, and I'm LIKING it!

This is Goober, This is his cousin Gomer, And this Howard Sprague, the man who made them both happy on Saturday nights.

My mod a-go-go stretch elastic pants. Technically not a body part, but they show all of'em, so close enough.

The REAL problem I have w/the whole Kenton trip is his "Great White Hope" image that he played into more than willingly, all the while borrowing from Lunceford, Ellington, Afro-Cuban, Be-Bop, etc. When I can lose that, I can here a fair amount of interesting music, and, occasionally, something truly innovative and/or swinging. But I have a VERY hard time getting there, especially when a lot of it is nothing more than borrowings and simplifications of other musics made to seem more "progressive" than it really was by flipping on the old "fasterhigherlouder" switch. But yes, there were more than a few good moments along the way. I'd be dishonest if I said otherwise. But Kenton himseelf, honestly, was more an "enabler" than a true "jazz giant". Not that their's anything wrong w/that, especially when you're enabling cats like Holman & Graettinger & Maiden. I'm reminded of a quote from Al Porcino (paraphrased, the exact source is in my closet): "Stan used to get some really good bands, but after a couple of weeks, he'd look up, hear everybody swinging, and say 'THIS IS NOT MY BAND!'" Never went to a Kenton camp, but I too heard the band many times in the 70s. The first time was when Willie Maiden was on board. Hung out w/him for a little bit, and that was 1,000,000,000% joy for a 16 year old, let me tell you! Favorite Kenton moment - a dance in Bossier City, La., ca 1976(?). The crowd was not a jazz crowd, but a "big band" crowd, and Kenton obliged their tastes most of the night. Late in the evening, Stan turned John Park loose on "Stardust", and MAN did he blow! About the third chorus, the bones started playing whole note backgrounds, totally uncharted, and with a LOT of non-chord tones in the mix. Beautiful, purely beautiful. A bit later, I caught the band at a college concert. I saw Stan backstage, and told him, "I know this is going to sound REALLY dumb, but could you let Park blow on "Stardust" like you did in Bossier City a few months ago?" He said, "We'll see" with a look that told me that he thought I was totally nuts, square, or both. However, about a third of the way into the gig, he started playing "Stardust" solo, got past the intro into the tune, started laughing, stopped, and siad to the audience (who was also laughing, "HEY - a STAGEHAND requested it!" That to me is the essence of Stan Kenton - somebody too restless for his own damn good.

Four minutes, to be precise.

Julius Watkins?

Bob Graettinger, most likely. The guy was probably a little insane, but still functional, possibly a genius of sorts, and his music is at once beautiful, frightening, logical, and totally, TOTALLY wack. There is a truth in his work that one either embraces or runs screaming from. Or both. What's NOT to like?

Middle C.

Looks like it's gonna be about $100 + shipping, and I've only been able to find a few places that carry it (best source/price seems to be directly from the label http://www.dust-digital.com/index.html ), but when I can afford it, I'm getting this one, guaranteed. Thanks for posting this, Weizen. I had yet to hear about it. This kind of stuff is usually guaranteed goosebumps for me.

No Young on the sides so far released. Cross your fingers about the future. If Soul Stream was around (dude, you there?), he might have specifics. Sound quality on the live stuff from the 70s varies. It's all "captured" if you know what I mean, and varies, but none of it sucks. A lot of it is pretty good, soundwise, and a few things are actually quite good. Worth a checkout, I think.

Not too much for Kenton overall, myself, but from the post-mid 50s era, ADVENTURES IN JAZZ & LIVE AT REDLANDS UNIVERSITY are quite nice, all things considered. The former has plenty of good work by Sam Donahue as well as very nice writing throughout (this was the "Mellophoium Band"), and the latter was the beginning of Kenton's resurgence as a "jazz" bandleader after plenty of overtly commercial work during his last years at Capitol, although PLAYS THE JAZZ COMPOSITIONS OF DEE BARTON, one of his last Capitol albums (I think that HAIR thing was his last) is pleasant enough once you overlook the fact that almost all of Barton's compositions sound somewhat the same. CUBAN FIRE has its advocates (as well as an appearance by Lucky Thompson), but I dunno. LOTS of sound and fury....

The link is correct now. I entered it wrong a few times. My bad. That web site hasn't been updated for a while, but both CDs have been released. I know this for a fact. So an e-mail should get you the hookup. It worked like that for a friend of mine, and Braith even threw in a CDR of his OOP King CD for free. So talk nice to the man.

What's up w/this Roulette side he did w/Marshall allen & Pat Patrick on board? http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=Axvev97ejkr0t

Milan, you RULE, dude!

Talk about obscure. These Braith sides must be hard to find. http://www.georgebraith.com/store.html geobi@georgebraith.com This disc doesn't seem to be offered through this page (but the Braith Family CD is, and THAT'S a piece of wack homemade coolness ), but I bet an e-mail could get you hooked up.

That was a drag about his son, John "L'il Plop" Shitter. Prime of his life, and more sitcommage in store.