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Yeah, you say "scat" in that world, and you ain't gonna get Ella Fitzgerald, that's for sure.

Una mas? Not likely. One of a kind, he was.

Hell yeah you ought to! You might also ought to get the sets of Keith's Impulse stuff. Some prime Dewey on that, and plenty of it. Ornette's SCIENCE FICTION set, you'll want that too. That duet thing w/Blackwell, you ought to get that one too. And TARIK.

"How Insensitive?" is one of those things that you have to take for what it is and go from there. It's grown on me over the years. The sleeper of the whole bunch, in my opinion, is "It Only Happen With You ". That's a really nice side, subtle and meaty at once.

Scooter Ames. If I change it to Scooter Aims, I guess I could do hunting-themed redneck porn. I'm sure there's a market, there's a market for everything somewhere...

Dude, I pulled an all-nighter about a year ago (I was copying parts, and I'm not too fast at that), and I had a stack of about 15 CDs out to go through while I worked. THIS mutherclucker ended up in the player for about 6 freakin' hours, just repeating itself over and over and over and over and... It's not that it's great. It's really not. It's just that it's SO DAMN GOOD!

Yeah, me too, but once never was enough...

Of course not. That could have been taken as an attempt to show up his guest, and would violate all rules of ettiquette. You have to admire a good host. It's becoming a bit of a lost art these days.

Sounds to me like they needed a good recipie for cock au vin...

Sonny Stitt, "Live at the Left Bank"? INSTANT PARTY!!!!!

Yes, and Dom Minasi as well. I think he did two, and I've only seen one. Once. Never seen the second Barbara Caroll 70s BN either. What does "not a widely available album" mean? Lower preesing count? Limited distribution? All of the above?

FWIW, that's the story I heard too. Wasn't Thad back to playing at least a little bit of flugelhorn by the time he took over the Basie band? Not sure about that, though...

It is NOT any kind of a mouthpiece, glass or otherwise! It is the device that Mike Fitzgerald posted a link to. Somebody should get back w/Mosaic on this before more misinformation gets spread. I showed the picture of the Visualizer to my son, who's a fairly good high school trumpeter, and he says that in spite of the fact that there's no mouthpiece per se, just the ring and the two posts holding it in place, that you can still play on one of those things because if the player's airflow is properly focused, supported, and directed, the airstream will not dissipate and will go right into the horn inspite of the open space surrounding it, and produce a sound. I don't know if he was pulling my leg, or if the last 6 1/2 years of private lessons he's been getting have been for naught, or if he's actually correcct, but that's what he says. Either way, that ain't no mouthpiece.

Tristano seems to have been a very complicated and/but brilliant individual. I'm quite fond of his own recordings, but tend to feel more warmth and attatchment towards those of his two main disciples, Konitz and (especially) Marsh. It's like Lennie had all the concepts, but as often as not had some kind of a block against getting them out with a full emotional pallate. Lee & Warne seldom had such problems. There's been a video out of a solo concert that Lennie gave somewhere in Europe sometimes in the mid-60s, a time in which his public performances were very scarce, and it is fascinating. There is a, not exactly "warmth", but a tenderness, a vulnerabilty in his playing here that doesn't always come through on his records. As well, his always astute harmonic sense is revealed to have continued to develop and deepen, and the standards he plays become full-blown recompositions and reimagings of their original sources. Well worth finding, if you can. Larry Kart's superb liner essay for the Mosaic set (truly essential music, imo) used to be online somewhere. I can't find it now, but it's highly recommended reading, some very heady stuff about some equally heady music.

Glad to hear ALL of that, Jim!

The essence of the photo might be debatable, but the essence of the performance isn't. "Autumn Leaves" is all I've heard, but it is haunting in the extreme. Hank's tenor sounds like a bari in spots, and what I hear as the "passive-agressive" nature of his later recordings is to the fore here - imagine the highwire tension of the BREAKTHROUGH album filtered through several years of long intervals of musical inactivity and physical/mental neglect, and that'll give you the picture. Not an easy listen, but a damn compelling one.

That's what I needed to hear. Thanks!

Herbie Hancock -- Spook Who Sat By The Door -- Original Soundtrack (reissue) . . . LP . . . $13.99 List Price: $17.98 United Artists, 1973 Condition: New Copy A legendary soundtrack by the great Herbie Hancock -- super-rare, and super-dope, and super-funky! The film itself is a really righteous tale about a disenchanted Vietnam vet who infiltrates the CIA, learns its tricks, and uses them to start the coming revolution -- and Herbie's score for the film is every bit as bold and powerful as the movie itself! The music's got loads and loads of heavy keyboards -- sometimes distorted and noisy, as on some of Herbie's own work of the time -- sometimes smooth and sweet, with a tasty Fender Rhodes sound -- but always tight, jazzy, and funky! The soundtrack does a good job of including background noises, sound effects, and snippets of dialogue from the film -- making for a listening experience that's served up in a number of dimensions -- and titles include "The Big Rip Off", "Revenge", "At The Lounge", "Training Day", "The Stick Up", and "It Begins". (Pressed up with great vinyl, a super-heavy cover, and a bonus photo of a cool scene from the film!) I've never heard OF the movie, much less the soundtrack album. Anybody ever heard this. I like Herbies Death Wish score.

Art Blakey killed Bird, did you know that?