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Recommendation strongly seconded, but I myself find Getz' playing some of the most moving he ever did. The vulnerability is palpable.

Doesn't everybody?

I try to never click on anything in a pop up. You mean you can play htese games safely?

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Same.

ERNIE HENRY!!!!!!!!

Tony Scott on Carlton.

I do "Big", just as I file Little Richard under "Little". But Rich Little still goes under "L". I haven't heard all the Savoy stuff, but the few things I have heard are at least as good as this OKeh material. Not sure that it all is, though. I'd sure like the chance to find out.

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Or try a heavy immersion in THERE'S A RIOT GOING ON & any competent JB comp spanning, say, 68-71.

Did exactly that thanks to your post. Sincerest thanks!

Makes me more than happy - I never got the CDs, just the dual-cassette set.

Are you man enough to handle it? There were times when I wasn't sure I was... The last session is sad, but everything else is cause for goosebumps. And Mickey Baker is INSANE! Highly recommended for those still on the fence about Eric Clapton or Bonnie Raitt.

Lyrics only, right?

"Imitator" is way too strong a description if you ask me. He felt the power of Trane and confronted it head-on, rather than deny it, ignore it, or some other ignoble response. "Strongly influenced by" might be more accurate, I think, if for no other reason that Pepper was probably congenitally incapable of letting himself imitate anybody outright. The fact that he even allowed himself to be influenced might account for Pepper's description of himself as an "imitator". The man seems to have had more twists in his psyche than an O. Henry story encoded in a DNA strand stashed in a pretzel. Having said that, try THE TRIP.

Thanks, Brownie!

Heard it. Pretty nice stuff, and mostly worth having for Mitchell, imo. If you want a "star" rating, 3.75, 4 if the weather is good.

I did not even know the danish label had something to do with the Mingus/Roach one! Nor did I. I knew of the Fantasy issues of the Essen, Taylor & My Name Is Ayler sides w/the Debut imprint, but had no idea that there was a "real" connection. Just figured it was a business deal with the name (if that makes any sense). Anybody capable of elaborating?

Lots of people I know and love dig Harrell. I've tried, and haven't given up yet, so the "maybe in a few years I'll look back and agree" thing goes both ways, y'know? But all I get out of him so far is superior musicianship, imagination that is perhaps too "dry" for me to pick up on, and an emotional projection I don't connect with at all. But that's just been for the last 25 or so years. The next 25 may see a reversal of all that.

Dug Clapton w/Mayall & Cream. Since then, I'll take "Lay Down Sally" and the like, but only on the radio. Blues? No doubt the guy is sincere, so I give him that. Sincere and/but harmless. He's there if you want him, and if you don't, he won't hurt you by being there. He never slapped my momma or pissed on my carpet, and I haven't bought any of his records since the days of Cream, so I guess we're even. Whatever that means... People ragged about Marvin Gaye being on a Blindfold Test, and here we are, in the Artists section no less, 4 pages into a seemingly serious discussion about ERIC CLAPTON? Some of my best friends are white folks, including my parents, but jezzuskhrist we some weird motherfuckers sometimes...

Buddy's hardcore devotees are quite rabid and tend to stick to themselves. There's also a lot of them, but you'd not know it unless you went into their world. Maynard's fans are a lot like that too. Those of us who can take or leave either one of them depending on the item in question tend to not dwell on them, because the choice is usually "leave", or at least "remain indifferent". But there are a not insubstantial number of people who really, REALLY dig these guys. Interestingly, though, they tend to not mingle in the realm of small-group jazz as a rule. Whole 'nother world, that of the "big band fan"...

Indy. Manning comes to play, and does.

Titans. McNair comes to play, and does.