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I just dusted off an old 45 rpm single I bought way back when I was still young and foolish, Give me one more chance c/w Get it, the latter being a real nice funky instrumental. The band doesn't sound as big as the listing, but they hit a groove. Cover depicts only five guys. But that list sure IS impressive. I'll give it a spin ... Click here and find out yourself! Picked the personnel listing off of HERE. You know, it's interesting, becasue the way this guy kicks sometimes, it's like he's superimposing funk accents over a jazz pulse. Which brings to mind an off-topic point. Does anybody else hear, on Jimmy Smith's "Messy Bessie", Donald Bailey slipping in and out of a groove that is VERY similar to what James Brown would be up to a few years later? Bailey stays on the ride cymbal, but the accents he plays in spots, and the feel he plays them with, sure sound like a JB groove to me. Knowing how popular Smith was in that circle, I can't help but wonder if somebody in JB's band, maybe even JB himself, didn't pick up on that and put it to a more overt use. But maybe I'm just imagining that? And, BTW, what other recordings of this trombonist did this drummer appear on? Enquiring minds want to know!

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CAPTAIN MARVEL is one of my favorites, but not as much as SWEET RAIN.

What was the quote? I didn't hear the Buddy tapes until just a few years ago.

Yeah, I can just imagine Sgt. Friday having Bird thrust upon him by this buxom beautifinous bombshell that he found himself somehow being married to. Puts all those Dragnet/Adam 12 episodes involving hippies, acid trips, and dead babies into a whole 'nother perspective.

Just to clarify, Wilmer & the Dukes are NOT heard on this BFT, although, apparently, Vinnie Ruggiero is.

Wilmer & the Dukes = Arnie Lawrence Baritone Saxophone Jerry Niewood Baritone Saxophone Ron Alberts Drums, Percussion Vinnie Ruggiero Drums Doug Brown Guitar Wilmer Alexander Jr. Keyboards, Piano, Tenor Saxophone Gap Mangione Keyboards, Piano Larry Covelli Tenor Saxophone Jerome Richardson Tenor Saxophone Sonny Ausman Trombone Dennis Good Trombone Chuck Mangione Trumpet Sam Noto Trumpet Good Gawd. How are they?

"All The Things You Could Be By Now If Snoopy's Wife Were Your Mother" "Baron" Mingus, as he called himself back in the L.A. days, would rechristen himself "Red Baron" Mingus. "Little Red-Haired Girl's Table Dance" "Duke Ellington's Sound Of Franklin"

Creation is literally vibration, and so is music.

That might well be, Harold. I was going by an article in, I think, Jazz Times, that profiled Jerome's "re-emergence".

Ronnie Alberts? Wilmer & the Dukes? Chuck Mangione? My GOODNESS, what strange places these things lead! LOVE IT!!!!

I really don't see the publishers point. Smells like a shakedown to me at first whiff, or at least a negotiating ploy. If they want to argue for a higher overall royalty to cover unauthorized copying, that's one thing. But the way they're putting it now doen't ring true to me. A question for the vets - if, in the old days, a 45 would have been released commercially with the same song (and same performance) on both sides, would a double royalty have been paid? If so, then I guess there's a case. It's not like this "2 in 1" format is cutting into sales and depriving anybody of legitmate royalties. I mean, who's going to buy both a copy-protected version of an album AND a non-copy-protected version? Right? These are all first impressions. Somebody persuade me otherwise, I'm open to it.

The AMG link doesn't list a drummer, but a look into Bruyninckx revealed it is not Dunlop on that album - somewhat too busy for him, anyway, but that drummer sure is great, but completely unknown to me! - if it's that album. Who does Bruyninckx list as the drummer?

[Conjunto] Libre is percussionist Manny Oquendo and bassist Andy Gonzalez's group. I think that their music is generally more traditional (in an Afro-Cuban-Puerto Rican way), more intense, and more innovative than most of what has been released by Jerry Gonzalez's Fort Apache Band. I thought that Jerry was on the first Libre album or two back in the 70s, but I could be wrong.

The BeeHive stuff that made it to The Bridges Of Madison County soundtrack is superb as well. Also, the Bethlehem STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART is pretty good, but Hartman's not quite fully matured yet, at least not to my ears. One thing you GOT to get, though, is the Roost/Blue Note AND I THOUGHT ABOUT YOU. If you dig Hank's version of "There's A Lull In My Life", you'll dig hearing this version too. But the whole album is really nice.

Indeed, and the two covers of material from the Kenton book are as wonderful as they are successful. Ricky Ford, who goes back a long way w/Blake (I believe he was a student of Blake's at the New England Conservatory - where Byard also taught - and was on Blake's great Arista/Novus LP RAPPORT, as was Chris Connor(!) ), plays throughout with a laser-like focus, something he was not always wont to do at the time. Although I like him (Ford) no matter what, to hear him play like this is quite satisfying to me.

Anybody heard his Milestone album THE BLUE POTATO? Never been able to find that one, unfortunately. Another one that is well worth a listen (well, really, they ALL are, or have been so far...) is IMPROVISATIONS, a duet album w/Jaki Byard. Byard is more than compatable with Blake, and vice versa. Love the Mapleshade side w/Jordan too. Clifford had an "adventurous" side to him that his earthy feel sometimes disguised if you don't pay close attention, and he too is totally at home in Blake's world. Pick up on the IAI solo album BREAKTHRU if it's not in your collection already. www.cybermusicsurplus.com used to have it for a good price, don't know if they still do, though. But it's my-t-fine indeed. And by all means, read Joe's piece. Outstanding in every way, and one of seemingly innumerable reasons why I am both proud and delighted to have him as a personal friend.

Jerome was house saxophoist for Cameo/Parkway records, so I asssume that it's him you hear on hits by the likes of Chubby Checker, Dee Dee Sharpe, Bobby Rydell, etc.

I do, and that's not it.

No thanks. I want others to learn from my mistakes. If we prevent even one mistake from being made, it will be a life well lived!

Well worth seeking out are the albums that Jerry & brother Andy made as Conjunto Libre. RC, I don't know the answer to your question, but thanks for mentioning that album, long a "genre bender" favorite of mine.

Went on a Blake kick of my own about 6 months ago. One very pleasant discovery was ROUND ABOUT w/vocalist Christine Correa, on Music & Arts. Correa's no Jeanne Lee, but who will ever be? Correa's readings of the standards are almpst straigh, which throws Blake's reimaginings of them into that much higer contrast, and her work on the originals is clean but true. Blake came to NTSU the same year as Clare Fischer. To say that the contrast between the two men was a marked one....

Jim, your first link to track # 3 leads to your guess for track # 2 - you probably didn't notice. I concur with you on # 3 - didn't realize it was the identical take. But who was the cat that Alexander used to go after ? YIKES!!! I pasted w/o copying! Bad scene, man, bad scene... I've corrected teh error by inseting THE CORRECT LINK.

NONA HENDRYX?????