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Wedding bands of the world, GET READY!

A-HA! ANOTHER hunch confirmed, this one as to the series where this item might be found! (Sorry to be such a gloating geek, but this cut's been driving me NUTS!)

"While in" Mayberry, I'll call the "deputy". The Andy Griffith show was a popular American TV comedy in the '60s. Andy Griffith plaed the lead, Sherriff Andy Taylor, and Don Knotts played his bumbling Deputy, "Barney" Fife. It's another one of my "cryptic crossword" things. Don't hate me for being a geek, ok? What made me think of him? The age thing, basically. I knew that Wilen was a gifted player at an early age, and the playing here is not out out of character with what little I've heard of him from around this time. A LITTLE more idiomatically "boppish", but not enough to be implausible. Then I looked at AMG for his birthdate, and it fit. I got a scare when I looked up Bernt Rosengren - he was born the same year! Told you I take these things seriously!

Put the call back in - that Jazzland side was recorded in 1960, not 1958. http://www.jazzdisco.org/rv1960-dis/c/#495 The only Wilen I can find from '58 that fits is a session for a soundtrack that's got Bags on PIANO(!!!!), Percy Heath, & Klook. Howeveer, a percussionist is listed in the discogrphy, and I don't hear one on here. Otherwise, it fits my initial impression perfectly (ok, SORTA perfectly ), except that I don't know Wilen's work hardly at all, he's NOT Frank Foster, and who knew that Bags was such a badass pianist? (yeah, I know, SOME of you did ). but other than Wilen's totally authentic bebop phraseology which he didn't learn on 52nd St, it fits the bill of "cats who were there". Assuming that it IS Wilen. And if it's not, hand me a bottle of SOMETHING. I give up!

Oh shoot, cancel the call to the deputy, maybe... I was thinking Barney Wilen.

That's enough! While in Mayberry, I'll call the deputy.

Bring it on! Give the people what you want them to hear!

Probably so, but the irony is that he had just the opposite effect on generations after him. Or at least on many segments of those generations. Go figure.

You mean Sonny Criss playing "Up, Up and Away" isn't the shit? Oh, that's beautiful all right, but a different kind of beauty it is.

"Other" people's music, perhaps? If not necessarily other people's musicians... Remember the time and the place where this music was made. Remember the initial concept. Remember where Criss spent the majority of his career playing when not on the road. Remember that video of Criss, Teddy Edwards, and Sweets. Remember the audience therein. THAT'S what I hear on this album, and hell yeah, liberation rings from every note, and not just musical.

Very basic discography of leader dates only: http://www.joyousshout.com/chencyclo.html Here's a VERY cool Flash e-card about Chico: http://www.joyousshout.com/e-card12-02.html As long as we're talking Chico discography matters, did he make any records with Lena Horne during the time he was with her?

A souvinier from Claudine Longet, no doubt....

I think it was some kind of Satanic hoop that RCA made their artists jump through. Remember Al (He's The King) Hirt?

(but it's hard for me to feel TOO much warmth towards a man who's married to Geri Allen. Jealousy abounds!)

Ray Charles claims to have been a huge Shaw fan in his youth. Says he felt Shaw's soul. And yeah, he makes the Goodman comparison too. What that has to do with anything I don't know, but I think it's a neat piece of trivia. Interesting, also, is that in the next generation, the Goodman/Shaw "debate" lived on in the DeFranco/Scott "debate", and with identical premises. The more things change...

Super Nova.

Indeed, a true masterpiece. The pairing of Criss and Tapscott was an inspired one, and the results have a very real "flavor" that something like ""Up Up & Away" just can't accomodate. That's not a slam on "Up...", just an observation as to the power and the nature of Tapscott's material.

Thoise who think that Coles had "limited" or even "poor" technique should check this one out. GREAT record with a version of ''Duke Ellington's Sound of Love'' that doesn't make me scream obscenitites or hurl furniture in revulsion at the desecration of a sacred anthem, not as easy a feat to accomplish as you might think.

Hey Mr. Ties - thanks for the scope on that cut w/Joe. I didn't even know that such an album existed! But that doesn't answer the question I posed with my first guess - what the hell happened to Wallace Roney?

I just got off the phone with Zager & Evans, and MAN are they bummed.

I'm embarassed to say that I do. I SHOULD be able to call this cat, so don't make the hint too easy, ok?

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