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I had only been familair with the old SS album and a subsequent release of the (I think) unedited first 2 cuts on LRE, or whatever that bizarre Lester-consrtium label is that releases Solid State stuff even though EMI owns it (never could get Tom to adress that matter on Board Krypton, nor where the facsimile LP reissues of some UA material that Dusty Groove (the bastards!) sometimes sell came from. I smell a Morris!). Found this BN CD used last year, and picked it up. It's good. REAL good in fact. Joe Bob says check it out.

My hunch would be that the repertoire is similar to those Red sides the same trio cut. But maybe not.

That second, unreleased, session has a funny vibe to it. Jackson's tone sounds MUCH different, like he had changed his mouthpiece, or maybe showed up really loaded. Either way, bad career move for somebody who didn't have a "name" yet. On a happier note, his playing of FACE TO FACE is at time a glimpse into a secret world of tenordom - the world of the EXPERT R&B exciter. I treasure that album, and "Whatever Lola Wants" is one of those cuts that I have, and will continue to, repeat by itself for hours on end, days at a time. There is a SERIOUS mojo going on there.

Yeah, blame that one cigarette.

I've never lived in a world without Bob Hope, so it was easy to take him for granted when I was a kid - the old cornball who did admirable but EXTREMELY shows for the GIs every yearand spent the rest of the time doing NOT so admirable, but even MORE predictable, TV shows. He seemed pretty full of himself. But I was reading an interview with somebody, Woody Allen maybe, sometimes in the mid-70s, and the point was made, and discussed at length, that Hope was once a VERY "cutting edge" comedian in both style and content. Well, if WOODY ALLEN dug Hope... So I checked out some of his earlier movies and radio shows, and sure enough, there was the reality - Bob Hope was an archtypical Americn Smartass. Like so many others, never mind what they BECAME - their truest legacy best lies in what they once WERE, and Hope in his prime was a funny mutthaphukka, period. Besides, how do you NOT like the "Road" pictures? So long smartass, and thanks for..., oh - Big Al beat me to it. But seconds from me.

A collection of all the live tapes by Miles' "Lost Quintet", with in-depth musical and personal commentary by the 4 surviving members. Wait - SONY should do that...

Agreed overall about Quartet West - Ernie Watts has always struck me as an outright puzzling choice, and Alan Broadbent, although an excellent player (and arranger, in his own right) has never really done it for me emotionally. I like the concepts of the albums, and the way the concepts are executed, I'm just not crazy about the group itself, if that makes any sense. Fortunately, I had about a 15 year head start on Quartet West, so it doesn't really factor into my love of Haden.

Speaking of Mose Allison, I picked up a copy of HELLO THERE UNIVERSE (his only Atlantic album not yet on CD) and found it to be a collection of really, REALLY dark material, moeso than usual for Mose, and often lacking the sardonic wit that usually balances out his darkness. I'd call it a concept album in the Sinatra-esque sense of there being a unified mood and theme running throughout, but not in the post-PET SOUNDS way of there actually being a discernable (if often loose) narrative. No matter - it's one HELLUVA "interesting" album.

I ordered this from Dusty Groove (the bastards!). Don't know if it'll be in this week or not. Who produced this one?

Christmas albums are a sub-category of concept albums, right?

A twist on the "instrumentalist pays tribute to singer (or songwriter)" conceptual trip:

Could we call TIAJUANA MOODS & THE BLACK SAINT AND THE SINNER LADY concept albums? If so, they DEFINITELY work for me.

Several of Wayne's BN albums could qualify as concept albums in the way that MAIDEN VOYAGE does. SPEAK NO EVIL, THE ALL SEEING EYE, & ODYSSEY OF ISKA all "tell stories" if you choose to believe Wayne's comments in the liner notes, and I see no reason not to. Verve in the mid-90s was the KING of concept albums. It seemed as if every one of their albums had a theme of SOME kind. I reached the point with them where I just wanted to hear an old-fashioned, Prestige-style, round-some-cats-up-and-let'em-play-for-3-hours blowing session!

Vol. 29 No. 8 August 2003

Pet Sounds.

Well, we don't have Photoshop, but the lovely and talented 12 year old Kristina Rae Sangrey has worked wonders with a few paint programs! She says she doesn't like jazz, but that's ok. Supposedly Reid Miles didn't either! [Kristina talking here] I hate it. X_X Gah...I made a smaller version, but he won't upload it. >< So I did. ^^ I don't like the bigger one, really. I don't think i smeared it enough. But gimme a break. I'm 12. -Laughs.- I don't like jazz...but hey; YOU CAN'T GO WRONG WITH IKE! XD No, I listen to it every day. -Points at her dad.- Courtesy of him. Lol, I get used to it. ~Kristina Tony, she's 12.... Bon Chance!

Can somebody w/Photoshop or some other such make this work, if you get my drift?

Archie Shepp - FOR LOSERS (Impulse, not yet on CD) Because it is what it says it is, and lovingly so. With Clarence Sharpe, Wilbur Ware, Cedar Walton, Cecil Payne, Woody Shaw, and many others. Everybody loves a winner. 'Specially when he's thinner. Up and down, Like a clown. Who gives a damn For losers?

jazz1, I wasn't being sarcastic when I asked you what you WEREN'T hearing in Haden. I was genuinely curious. Maybe you're looking for something that's not there. But there is plenty meat in his playing - great tone (an understatement!), great time, great swing, great lyricism, as well as a rural, "hillbilly" influence that is VERY real and might account for why he and Ornette (another cat who at his roots is about as "country" as you can get, and beautifully so!) gelled so well together. If you're looking for flash or ultra boppish drive ala P.C., Haden's not your man. He speakshis own language in his own voice. But it is a mighty strong voice, and a language that speaks to many. If you don't "get" it, don't sweat it. But please - be careful with that word "overrated". That's a VERY loaded term.

You might want to dig a hole in your back yard and see if you strike oil... http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/radio.html