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Good stuff. Not quite what I was expecting/hoping for in terms of input from Bartz and Harper, but still good.

Bev is male.

Well, if somebody wants #20 who hasn't had a spot once, it's theirs, no problem. Speak up, please! But if not, like I said, I got plenty of stuff that not's going to be on #4.

Yeah, I've heard stories of him writing out charts on the bus, not even bothering with score paper, just writing out the individual parts as he went. Maybe not the most exciting thing to ever happen on a band bus (with or without Bobby Shew on board...), but I'd have given a fair amount of money to see it just once.

I've heard the same criticisms that Chuck mentions. Seems to me that LaFaro was sort of the "dividing point" in the developement of the role of the bass, although I still think that he was basically (no pun inteneded walking through doors that Mingus opened. My personal preference is for the older, fat, "bottom" approach to bass (an approach that, while older in conception, carries over into all "modern" styles just fine), but that's not to be taken as a knock on LaFaro by any means. It's just my personal preference as a player and as a listener. And my "preference" is a matter of degree only, not absolute. I dig LaFaro.

Dr. Michael White has always left me unconvinced, to put it mildly, but Art Davis? What am I missing? (...2...3....4)

Thanks. From what I hear (secondhand), Willie and Maynard had a special bond back in the day. Slide and Sebesky wrote a bunch of good stuff, but Willie's shit was always hipper than anybody's. "Tinsel" - that's about as brilliant a piece of writing as there is, at least within whatever the hell genre it's in. The way that thing screams and sighs, I hope it got played in some form or fashion at Willie's funeral. Seems like it would have fit.

I think it's safe to say that if you're uniformed and not in the military or an athlete, the odds are good that you've been uninformed in some way somewhere along the line. Hell, that probably holds true for a lot of folks in the military as well, God bless'em. Athletes too, come to think of it. Dr.Billy Taylor's bigass glasses have always bugged me (but not as much as his playing...). Not that that's relevant to anything...

Hell, I'm one of the few guys around here who's played "Played Twice" with anything remotelly resembling regularity, and it's been in the Real Book for as long as I can remember. The "ability" factor is certainly legitimate, but the "lazy" factor is not.

Did Willie go back with Maynard for a while after leaving Kenton, or was he already ill towards the end of his first stay w/Maynard?

"What" INDEED!

Don't know if that's the location of the club in question, but there was a joint with that name here that fits that description.

I quote this merely to say that the phrase "a spot of bother" just seems REALLY cool to me. Much like recent hip-hop lingo, I could probably never actually say it myself without sounding totally stupid, but it sure sounds cool coming from the source. Seriously.

Put me down for #20 if nobody else wants it. That's probably a year or so off, and I got LOTS of leftovers from this one. Hell, put me down for #30 while you're at it!

Yeah, and Carlton pitched in the age of the specialized bullpen, where if you got a lead after 6 or 7, you should get a win. That's the theory anyway...

Get a bulletproof deer suit and a Winchester (loaded or not is up to you) and wait for the asshole to come back.

After trying to eat it, yes.

If I was only going to have one Donald Byrd album, this would be it, no contest.

That Vickie Carr & Cliff Edwards were secret lovers?

Met him once while in my earliest teens, at a Kenton gig. Approached him with "Mr. Maiden", and was promptly rebuffed with "MR MAIDEN? That's my FATHER'S name. MY name is WILLIE!!!!" The guy was as nice to a 13 year old dweeb as a veteran Road Dog could be, and oozed hipness and highness while doing it. The impression was indelible. I know there's stories. There's GOT to be stories. Anybody got any?

If Pat Cooper dies, the gig's covered, ok? I'm sleeping (better) already, knowing that the circle will be unbridled. But in the meantime, how about a few words (or more, preferably, like a new thread) about Willie Maiden, one of my favoritest cult figures and arrangers, and somebody I've been told that Wingy can elucidate on with no little fecundity to spare. Of course, who CAN spare a little fecundity in this economy?

My question to you, Jim, is was there a point where this seemed like a good idea? Yeah, man, from the git-go. I like turkey (once), love chicken, and virtually bust a nut over duck. Put'em all together w/some good moist stuffing, and what's NOT to like? The turducken, apparently. Definitely less than the sum of its parts.

What the hell is over the line about THAT? Thanks for sharing those notes. That band and the earlier British one were big favorites of mine when I was a high-schooler. Maynard has always been hipper (as a player and a leader) than a lot of the "jazz snobs" give him credit for.

Yes. It owns US!