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WAHOO!!! Happy Birthday

What's a "sultana"?

Chris - was Hugh Downs still hosting "Concentration" in 1965, and if so, were you ever a contestant?

I think he's asking if Arizona's not-participation in DST occurs every yeay, or if this year was an anamoly, To be honest, I don't know.

Moose, you have a different set of RCA airshots than I do,

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Yep.

MORE DOOKIE THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A STICK AT!!!

Oh, OBSCURE! Sorry, shoulda read the fine print... Brownie's mention of hodges reminds me of his '60s Verve THE ELEVENTH HOUR, with arrangements by Oliver Nelson. Ostensibly an "easy listening" date, the listening is anything BUT easy if you pay close attention to some of Nelson's delightfully subversive perversions of what an "easy listening' date is supposed to sound like. And this one totally obscure Bill Watrous album on the totally obscure MTA label (can't remember the name, but it's a typically lenghty and silly 60s type thing) has strings, voices, vibes, and heavy reverb in conjunction with something/somebody called The Walter Rain Concept that can best (only?) be described as "avant garde muzak", keeping in mind that by "muzak" I am referring to a generic description of a certain type of music, not the specific output of a specific company. Whatever, it's a trip of an album.

Is either "Big Fun" or "Holly-Wood" the slightly "poppy" tune that shows up in the just-prior-to-retirement live shows that's not heard on any album nor is even remotely similar to anything on any of the albums? I've been wondering what that thing was.

"Mother Wit" on IMPACT.

I like Wynton's HOT HOUSE FLOWERS. Wynton plays rather nicely, if Wyntony, but with arrangements like those that Robert Freedman provides, that's enough to make for a good album.

There will be no argument. What Harry Allen does on this cut is so deeply and fundamentally offensive to everything that I believe in as a human in general and as a musician in particular that I will be unable to discuss it in anything even remotely resembling a civil or "reasonable" tone, so I will refrain from saying anymore than I am going to say here. Hopefully. I don't expect anybody else to understand where I'm coming from about this, not the depth of my feeling on this matter, nor do I want to be perceieved as attacking anybody who doesn't and/or finds the performance harmless. After all, it IS a personal offense that I feel. Strictly. I neither expect nor desire for my personal morailty about life/music to hold for everybody, or even ANYBODY else. That would be obscenely wrong in so many ways, as obscenely wrong as I feel that Harry Allen is here. I'll just say this and quit - Eric Alexander's strong George Coleman influence merely bugs me. But I totally understand it, and actually sympathize with him. Really, I do. Thank God he DOESN'T get it exactly right! That means he's still got something of his own inside himself that he's trying to find, to get to, to nurture. God bless him on his way, because it don't come easy for ANYBODY, outward appearances to the contrary. But if this performance is indicative of how ALL of Harry Allen's work sounds, he is unequivocally evil. Purely and simply evil. Forget about Marilyn Manson and all that cartoon stuff. This is TRUE evil in action right here. If he's just doing this for this "tribute" album, well, then he's not purely evil, but he's got more in him than I care to think about. But that's his business. Just keep him away from me. Permanently. Totally. If you don't believe in evil, cool. But I do, and this is it. On the grand scale of evil that has occured in the history of the world, this one won't even register. Of course not. But that doesn't alter what it is. As serious as your life? Damn straight it is. Let the laughter begin. But that is how I feel, put extremely politely and briefly.

WEll, what I want to know is, does Harry Allen ALWAYS sound like this, or is this his idea of cute or something equally revolting but not nearly as intrinsically evil? Either way, it's wrong, but one is a LOT more vile than the other. Good thing I got a gig to go to, because I'm about THIS far from unloading on this vampiric stooge of the deepest darkness in a seriously major way. People have been justifiably executed for less...

That's the scary part - what if you don't? But you'd almost have to. Sometime. Somehow. Doesn't Hollywood make movies about creepy stuff like this?

I dunno man. It's kinda like some wacko chick wants your stuff so badly that she goes off and has years of plastic surgery to perfectly duplicate your wife and spends those same years learning her life history and how to perfectly duplicate her every mannerism. Then one day, your wife goes out to the mall, this psycho kidnaps her, puts her clothes on, comes into you house, fucks your brains out for a month or two, leaves, goes back to your wife gives her her stuff back, and goes away, never to be heard from again. Or maybe she kills your wife, moves in, and takes over. What happens when you inevitably realize that it's not really your wife? So, are you supposed to feel good about enjoying having your brains fucked out by a total stranger when you think it's your wife? And how messed up is somebody to go to all that trouble to be that perfect an imitation of somebody else? (and that's the REAL issue I have here) I mean, I enjoyed the piece for the same reason you did, Mike, but you gotta admit, there's something really perverse about somebody sounding THAT much like Getz (and fwiw, I never had a problem differentiating the Prez from the Vice-Prez). It's a mindfuck fersure, and although some mindfucks are good for you, I'm not so sure about this one. I'm not adulterous by nature, and this one seems to be aiming in that direction...

Hey - I'm a tenor geek. I've got perntneer the whole past present and future of the music therein, and that's good enough for me.

Indeed.

Same here.

I'd rather have HALF a diamond in the rough than a million cubic zirconia.

Indeed. Perhaps the cloning of Getz is just the tip of the iceberg...

Well hell, I'm late again.... Best wishes, and may the tires on your car be the rubberiest thing you ever have to sit on.

Belated recognition to Jack Washington of the "Old Testament" Basie band. He didn't get to solo much (on record anyway), but when he did, it was always good.

I'm with you on all of this, but apparently this IS a Getz clone, and I believe I have identified him. No More Calls, Please, We Have A Winner??? I suppose that since Getz is dead, and this cat sounds EXACTLY like him, that we should accept the fact that...... Getz is still dead....

Karma's a bitch.