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Some favorites of mine from days gone by: The Weird Beard Cousin Linnie The Real Donnie Steele Clean Gene Kent Hubcap Carter (still active, but a shadow of his former bad self) Peoples, do yerselfs a flavor and pick up this badboy rat heah: Radio will never be like this again.

Personally, I think it's MORE "jazz" (musically and emotionally) than 90% (at least!) of what passes for jazz these days , but on that I hope we can respectfully disagree. Myself, I'll take Marvin Gaye over Kurt Elling any day of the week (and twice on Sunday!). Now, that's not to say that Marvin was informed by bebop, but jazz is so much more than bebop. Marvin was DEEPLY influenced by Billie Holliday, and to me, it shows pretty clearly in a tune like the one included (if that in fact IS Marvin... ). But this matter should probably best be left for the Post-Answer-Revealing thread, which will be around early next week. This is indeed Organissimo, not Soul-issimo, but "organ jazz" and/or "soul jazz" would not be what it is today without Marvin Gaye (that phrasing, that nuance, that depth of feeling!) and James Brown (those grooves!). There's good reasons why those genres of jazz stayed popular when nearly all others struggled, and the influence of people like Gaye & JB (musically and culturally) are prime among them.

A maddeningly inconsistent artist, but one with one of the most acute harmonic senses around nevertheless. When he's good, he's fascinating, and when he's not, he's just WAAAAY cheesy. He recorded Guarabe w/Tjader in 1976 for Fantasy, and what I've heard of it has been excellent - nice loose grooves with harmonic ambition that might well be called audacious. His contributions to and in the Latin Jazz idiom are nothing to sneeze at, and his tune "Morning" is somewhat of a standard in that idiom. Still, he can either be brilliant or quesodic in that bag as well. His AMG Profile gives a good list of all his accomplishments. An artist whose highs make the lows all the more curious, but one for whom I'm willing to take the risk. The guy has a lot to offer.

Dallas has phallus and stuff galore, but Cleburne makes meburn, they're just piss poor.

Jim, you're assuming that the "Sex Machine" that Woody recorded was the Sly tune, and not the James Brown piece of the same name.

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Am I alone in thinking that Evans played "differently" when there were horns around than when in a trio, duet, or solo setting, especially as the years passed? Myself, I prefer it.

Best of wishes to a guy whose work speaks for itself in a single word - CONSUMATELYPROFESSIONAL!

It was. Thanks!

Now THAT'S something to use the $750K on!

It's going to take me some time to write commentary (in the tradition of the BFT thus far, a tradition I like) for the initial answer post. I've got a busy week and weekend ahead, and realistically, Sunday or Monday will be the earliest I can get that done to my satisfaction. So hang tight. there's still some people who haven't posted ANYTHING (shame on you! ), and I'm sending out two more copies by Express Mail this afternoon. So let's give it the rest of this week to drain it dry, ok? I can say, though, that only ONE selection has not been at least roughly identified! Which one that is, though, I'll NOT say...

Was J.G.W. associated with Zappa? According to a friend who has the recent reissue, that's who the producer is. Obviously, I'm not a Zappa afficianado. Zappa often cited JGW as a seminal influence. This would have been in JGW's earlier, more "pure" Blues/R&B days in the 1950s.

No problem, guys, not at all.

For the record, this poll is not SPECIFICALLY about Saddam. Read the title, and the question and tell me if you see his name! Now, it might be "inspired by a true story", as they say... But really, you gotta laugh at the absurdity of the situation - you're on the lam, running for your life, you got half the world hot on your ass, you've dodged more bullets than any human has a right to expect to, you're literally "holed up", and you got SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND AMERICAN DOLLARS!!! CASH!!!! Sorry, but that just strikes me as an incredibly funny scenario, in either the abstract or the concrete. Like they said on National Lampoon's Radio Dinner (has that ever made CD, btw?): You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here. And whether you can hear it or not, The universe is laughing behind your back. That's where the humor comes from - the cosmic joke of the whole thing. Karma's a bitch, ain't it. BTW, I see that a whopping 10 people have selected hookers and blow. Remind me to look y'all up sometimes...

Now how in all the world did you do THAT?!? BTW, congrats to new status!!! Very appropriate for a new year in your life. I just noticed! The first one got broke on the way home, if you can believe that. I had to slam on the brakes, and it went flying off the seat and into the dash of the car, a not particularly well-padded 1976 Plymouth Duster. Not a major break, but it too a chunk out of it and rendered it unplayable. The second one, somebody sat on. My bad for leaving it out where they could do so, but jeez, people, the human ass is a WMD if used improperly. Proceed accordingly! The third one, was in a sack of sides I was carrying over to a party, and the bag got jostled and fell to the ground. Guess what the only item was that landed JUST "right"? I was really pissed - I had the cut already on an old Atlantic LP, and now have it on CD, of course, but THIS WAS AN ORIGINAL 78!!! THE WAY GOD MEANT FOR IT TO BE HEARD IN IT'S TIME!!! IT SOUNDED IN-FUCKING-CREDIBLE!!!! At 3 bucks a pop, a small price to play for a slice of heaven, even if only for a few days, as it turned out... But hey, life goes on, right? And Fathead's bari solo STILL goes to the desert island if and when I do.

I think the implication of "transcription" was that they were using recorded music to simulate a live performance, replete w/announcers, etc. Remember, in those days, most everything WAS live, as foreign a concept as that might be to us today. I think most people just assumed that if you heard music on the radio and it wasn't a record you could buy at the dime sore or hear on the jukebox, then it was live. Even more astounding is that the providers of the content often felt a moral compunction to mention somewhere (usually at the tail end of the broadcast) that the material WAS recorded and not live! I don't think there ws any legal reason for doing so. Things ain't what they used to be, that's for sure... Hindsight Records released a slew of these things over the years. The Claude Thornhill might be my favorite. Great band, great playing, and captured in really clear, detailed sound. Priceless, at times. I think it was Ajax who released an LP collection of transcriptions of Basie w/Pres & Don Byas (not together though, I don't think). That's some pretty exquisite stuff too. What I need to get into but never have is the whole "A Date With The Duke" series of transcriptions. I keep hearing such good things about it, but there's jus SO much of it... The transcriptions often offered a clearer sound than commercial studio recordings, I think, and are especially valuable for checking out the intiricaies and/or specifics of various larger ensembles. You can hear the details better, at least sometimes.

Ca. 1978, I found a store in Ft. Worht that had 3 copies of Ray Charles' "Greenbacks" b/w "Blackjack" on mint Atlantic 78s. In the space of a month, I had bought and broken all three. The remnant of the last one hangs over the inside of my clsoet door, as a kind of Bizarro horseshoe. But DAMN, that "Greenbacks" is a good cut.

There is another cut or two frow the session, and the estate wants more money for their issue, acording to Osama Bin-Markatverve (he who has vanished), and that's supposedly what's been holding up a new issue.

Even more obscure than, say, The Fringe, George Garzone's longtime group? OH yeah.

Lyrics? On disc 2, track 11? My bad. 2-10!

We'll do that. German Police = easy to annoy, 'cause humour ain't in the book, and if it's not in the book, wel... Howzabout Texan police? Dude - I think we better look for some neutral turf...

Your opinion counts!

Someday we'll hook up in person and have a joint birthday party. Won't THAT be something! (...are German police easily annoyed?)

I tried to celebrate by ordering the Eldridge Mosaic, but for some reason the thing wouldn't go in my shopping cart (NO Mosaic would, as testing revealed, although further testing revealed that True Blue items would). But the sucker WILL be mine one way or the other. I DO pay my phone bill... Many thanks again to all. You all are an oasis of sanity in my life, and if that frightens you, imagine what it does to me!

I've had something in me trying to grab hold and hunker down for about three weeks now, but so far, the only damage has been a general and constant feeling that something ain't right. And Lord knows I'm plenty used to that in some form or fashion... My son had it a few weeks ago though. NASTY stuff...