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The album's really good. It's not really "Miles-y" in either sound or flow, (how could it be w/o Miles?), and Finnerty gets a little (or more) "fusion-y" at times, but overall I can recommend it, if for no other reason than that Sonny Fortune is on FIRE throughout.

Established Mythology: Ra killed Trane New mythology: Blakey killed Bird. These ARE interesting times!

Well hey, a lot of people rag on the thing she did with Claus Ogermann and blame the arrangements. WRONG. Claus Ogermann is one of the more inventive, tasteful, outright MASTERFUL string writers in the history of jazz and pop music. He's not a hack, and he doesn't write sickeningly sweet. Lush, yes, but if the artist he's writing for has the chops and concept to work in his contexts, the results can be stunning. Check out the Sinatra/Jobim side. No, the problem here is with Krall, Listen to how she sings "The Look Of Love", a song whose lyrics rely heavily on sensual vowel-ization. Krall displays no sensitivity to this at all, and just ploughs through the sucker like it's the Notre Dame fight song. The rest of the album offers similar examples of interpretive bedlam. If she's trying to do a Betty Carter and run counter to everybody's expectations, she' going about it all wrong, because, regardless of of how you feel about her reworkings of standards, there's never any doubt that Betty Carter understands the implications of vowels to a sung lyric as well as anybody has. Krall still sounds clueless about this stuff. But it's ok for me, overall, becasue I really think she knows that she's a kid who got lucky with a few breaks and is taking advantage of that. She'd be crazy not too. And I never read an interview with her that sounds like she thinks she knows more than she does, so I've no doubt that she's not complacent about her skills. I'm just not INTERESTED in following her career (at this point, anyway), but it's not like she's evil or anything. Her handlers on the other hand...

It's Wayneherbierontony, and they're doing Round Midnight, No Blues. Mascalero, I Fall In Love Too Easily, Riot, Walkin', Green Dolphin Street, und Da Theme. Those are the tunes on the JMY disc, and as Mr. Ties notes, the Gold Collection disc is a slightly abridged version of this. I've got it on cassette, but a bunch of my cassettes are in storage right now so I can't tell you what the changes are. Mascalero is on there, though, in a beautiful rendidition. The level of this band was such that as far as I'm concerned, every live thing by them that's available is worth having.

Oh, I'm not buying it either. I'm just saying that based on some of the stories I've heard about Blakey. it COULD be true.

Exactly.

Try this link: http://www.holeintheweb.com/drp/bhd/CharlieParker.htm That Blakey reference is, uh... It certainly COULD be true. I think...

It's "porn" if you feel guilt over viewing it. Otherwise, it's "erotica".

Well all right then! Let's make some more!

As a piano playing singer (or a singing piano player. more to the point), I can handle her just fine. But as a SINGER, and all that that implies, she's got too many deficiencies in phrasing vis-a-vis lyrics and phonetics for me to enjoy her. Sorry for the dichotomy, but when you set yourself up to be something you're not yet being, them's the breaks. The bar has been set quite high, and walking under it, no matter how glamorously, is not the same as getting over it. On a side note, is it just me, or is there the same "Canadian Female Singer" thing in her voice as I hear is such disparate vocalists as Joni Mitchell and Anne Murray? What would you call that, a "twang" (too strong, and possible derogitory in its implications, but not meant to be)? I hear it unmistakably (and it's not a factor one way or another as to whether I like/dislike any particular singer/performance), just wondering if anybody else does.

Well hey, I'm gonna buy 15 or 20 discs of something sometimes anyway, so it might as well be this stuff.

This is a good'un fersure.

If it's all been released, does that mean it's finally time to move on?

That too, but we DEFINITELY need to make some MORE!

MJQ Music, or whoever owns THEM now. The REAL money's in publishing, that's what I keep hearing...

some MORE! Oh yes we do! Am I right or am I right?

Yeah, that's one of the quotes I remembered. I just didn't interpret it to mean that Gil had directly participated in the actual writing of these charts, but had rather been an influence through example.

Hmmm...I could swear that these were 10" things I saw. Maybe my chronolgy's messed up, or maybe the Garner was a 12", and the Kelley was a 10". In fact, I'm certain about the Kelley, and I'm certain I saw the Garner (and wasn't that an album of previously unreleased material never originally on BN) in the 80s, so maybe I'm adding 2 and 2 and getting 6, allowing for inflation and for objects in the rear-view mind being closer than they appear......

I remember seeing the Errol Garner & Wynton Kelley things on Japanese 10", but this was in the '80s.

I thought that Herbie had just learned about Evans' arranging methods from playing in his band for a while, notably writing the inner voices "horizontally" (to where the melodic "sense" of each part comes foremost) instead of "vertically" (where every stacked voicing makes harmonic "sense"). I'm unaware of any direct input by Gil on these albums, but no doubt I could be wrong.

There's a lot of lonely women out there, just as there are a lot of lonely guys. An adult chat room seems like a perfect outlet for these folks to live out a fantasy or two without having to actually make contact. Quiet as it's kept, women get horny too. And nasty.

Not my favorite Herbie BN, but a "snoozefest"? Sorry, can't even begin to go there with that. But different strokes, doncha' know.

Another good thing about the Elvin set is that you get to hear lots of George Coleman in a more "progressive" style than that on mot of his own records and those with Miles and others. This is the George that a lot of fellow tenor players enjoy hearing the most, for whatever hill of beans that is worth. Another good place to hear George w/Elvin is the Enja date recorded at the Vanguard. It's a trio w/Wilbur Little, with Hannibal sitting in on one piece. This album's sort of a "cult classic" amongst tenor geeks ("Laura" in particular is one of those "Oh My God!" type of performances), but I'm not sure if it's still readily available or not. So if you see it, buy it. I doubt you'll be disappointed!

That's really her name - Ann Onimus. Sort of a cult figure, but she turns up with surprising regularity...

You're old, dude...