JSngry

Indeed it is!

Name your price. I'm serious - NAME YOUR PRICE. You understand the concept TOO well. Name your price.

See? There IS a market!

Ok, so... I'm driving home from work this morning eating a McGriddle (the syrup's BAKED IN!, and DAMN is it good, in a McGriddly kinda way) and all of a sudden it hits me that America loves nothing more than a good dance craze. Well, that's as it should be, right? After all, we ARE a nation of dancin' fools. Americans love them some dance crazes allright. But - Americans DON'T love them some jazz, and that, Dear Friends, is WRONG! As in Wrongadelphia! So I'm thinking to myself, how to get America in touch with its inner jazzdom AND make them dance AND profit shamelessly from it in the process (gotta make this a definitvely American deal). And then it hit me (and yes, it DID feel like a kiss!) - The Monkarena! Yeah, take that little shuffle step Monk did, simplfy it and stiffen it out JUST enough so that people without any rhythm whatsoever can do it and feel the giddy pseudo-ecstasy of pseudo-copping a groove, get a clever little novelty # to go with/define it, and BINGO - watch what happens! I'm thinking that the song ought to have a lyric about a "far-out cat" who "lives in his own little world", a man who has no name but "Monk" and who "never says a word, all he does is grin" while he does his dance, which "the only folks who know him" call "The Monkarena". Ok, the Macarena is still fresh enough in everybody's stool sample that it might be a few decades before we can pull this off, but if we get all our ducks in a row and patent/copyright all the shit, including, ESPECIALLY including, Monkarena Merchandise, we can all reap the benefits when the Craze finds its moment. It's a gamble sure, but whatcha gonna do - count on Social Security? I don't THINK so! Since I came up with the concept, I own it, ok? Let's get THAT straight right off the git-go! But anybody who contributes to the final product gets points, and I'm a fair guy. I don't want ALL the money, just most of it. I'm entitled too - it's my idea. I just hope I'm still able to participate in the worldwide festivicles when The Monkarena hits big. I'm ESPECIALLY looking forward to going to Philly (where I INSIST the dance be introduced on the local teen danceshowparty showdance, so I can have the distinct pleasure of saying, "Thank you, you...PHILADELPHIANS!" That would only be right. Whaddya say, we can ALL get rich, and just because I'll get FILTHY rich won't mean that everybody else won't get SOME rich. Like I said, I'm as fair as the day is wide! So let's all practice saying, in our MOST hyped up sexually ambiguous (but nevertheless non-threateningly aroused) voices, "COME ON AMERICA, LET'S DO THE MONKARENA!!!" McGriddles for the house!

No tellin' where THAT meat's been...

Damn straight!

Tequila?

What's up w/the John Bubbles?

Where do thee two sessions fit chronologically with Stitt's stint (hmmm..song title?) with the Giants Of Jazz? I dug CONSTELLATION more than TUNE UP!, seemed "deeper, which is why I took an offer I couldn't refuse for it aways back. I'd like to have it back, though. A buddy of mine found the Muse CD in a cutout bin a few months ago, so maybe there's some more out there.

Want a 50s label to "discover", one that'll mess you up good? PanArt. There. I've done my good deed for the day. G'night.

Moreso on tenor than violin for Chombo.

Nor about Chombo Silva.

But not about Pigmeat Markham!

Just kidding about Tomita...

Tomita

Tapscott indeed!

Bernard Herrmann

Kay Starr!

Gina Martin!

No shit!!! And you know, I'd seriously pay good money to read a lengthy post from Aric in response to him listening to a bunch of Nancarrow. And, you know what else?? - I think Aric could actually kinda half-way get into Nancarrow --- maybe with a little chemical encouragement, perhaps. I think Aric would have the same reaction straight OR stoned. If you're not high when you start listening...

You don't have to understand the question, you just have to understand Aric!!! No, the question is a simple one (well, as simple as things get with Aric when he posts loaded, or seemingly loaded) - what records might be out there that go into someplace different than the what "we" already "know". I know that Aric's hip to Ra & Tristano, so those two REALLY obvious choices aren't an option. He was talking post 50s, pre 70s jazz, but a "hard bop" record, which basically means "jazz". Well, ok, we've gone beyond those parameters, but so did the kind of musicinas he's looking for. OK, that's not a simple answer, but if I get the gist of the question, it's "what else is there that relates". Berg relates, Bartok DEFINITELY relates (Reiner's CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA, Dude, get it NOW), all this stuff relates.

You know what's cool? Those Columbia recordings Lotte Lenya did of all the Kurt Weil shit. I like to A-B those with Gil Evans' arrangements of the same tunes. Too bad Gil & Miles never did THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS.

Predictable would be George Crumb.

I have his "Big Nick" album on India Navigation. But I don't think it solves any mysteries. Indeed not! If anything, it creates one. Namely, "Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to let this cat SING?" :D But check him out w/Dizzy in Paris, or with Miles and Jaws at Birdland. Now THAT'S some shit!

Conlon Nancarrow, now THERE'S another realm!