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This is just SO tabloideque. Y'all make me sick. I guess I'm the only one here who pays attention to Leeza Gibbons for anything longer than a quick wank. SO typically male, that is... Anyway, here's the REAL inside skinny: That picture of Bert is from the new NyQuil commercial that he filmed last week. The spot is scheduled to run in October, and it'll show a depth, a RANGE to Bert that the CTW folks have kept under wraps all these years. The cat REALLY convinces you that he's got the worst freakin' cold in the history of the world. The buzz on the street is that a Clio is a lock and that Bert's going to use the juice to get CTW out from umder the wings of PBS, since he figure that Bush & Co. got it in for that crew anyways. Besides, there's bad blood between Vicks and PBS going back to the Ford administration and the whole Nixon pardon bizness. Vicks wanted to underwrite some investigative reporting shit, but PBS put the kibosh on it and handed the gig to the MacArthur foundation. Bert, up until the pardon a loyal (and lifelong) Republican and significant Richardson-Vicks stockholder (this was before the P&G takeover, remember), smelled something rotten in the deal and vowed to bring PBS to its knees when the time was right. Well, it looks like that time is FINALLY here. Bert's a player, baby. He's got it goin' on on the shure 'nuff fer real side, and all this trash talkin qin't nuthin but some tired sadass bullshit. Y'all aint got ANY kind of a clue.... Now, Forgetful Jones, THERE'S some dirt for yer ass!

Tristano - it's an older set, most likely the 1st on the list to go OOP, and if you dig Konitz but don't have any Warne, then you've put on a pair of really nice shoes just to sit around in a recliner. A comfortable recliner, sure, but as long as you dropped the dough on the shoes and bothered with putting them on, why not go for a walk? And Lennie, btw, is the shoestrings.

Opie be deep, man, Opie be deep.

Ok, I'm driving to see my Mom a few Sundays ago, get out of range of Dallas radio, and switch to East Texas Radio Survival Mode, which means looking for the least barfy oldies station of the moment (used to be a really good Soul station, KZEY-AM, in Tyler, but they've long since turned into a really BAD hip-hop station. Besides, even the best hip-hop ain't made for AM). Anyway, I found one that seemed to not rely too heavily on the cliches. Commercial break comes up, and the DJ says "When we come back, something by The Rascals. But first, this..." "Oh shit," I think, "it'll be either "Groovin' (great song, great record, but WAAAAYYYY overexposed for me after hearing it for 36 years) or "Good Lovin'" (never cared all that much for it. Nice enough, but...)" So I did a quick scan, found nothing of interest, and came back just at the end of the break. To my surprise, they very next record they played was "A Girl Like You", one that I haven't heard in a good long time. Well, tell you what. I had forgotten jsut how good that record sounded. And especially how good it FELT. Not really pop, nor rock, nor R&B, none of the above, it actually swings like a jazz side, but of course it's not jazz. It's just a joyous little slab of music that sounds great on the radio and sticks with you in an equally joyous manner for quite a while afterwards. Hell yeah. So I got to thinking about all the other Rascals hits that were similarly sui generis, and there were quite a few, actually. Good songs, good records, a mighty impressive Top 40 musical legacy. Then it dawned on me that you really only hear just a handful of that legacy on a regular basis today, and that's just not right. When was the last time YOU heard something like "A Girl Like You" or "It's Wonderful" on the radio? AMG call this one "Arguably the greatest greatest-hits album of the '60s", and I'll not quibble with that. So, here's to the Rascals. They done good and deserve better. Check'em out.

Plotting the Bay of Pigs?

The news is indeed sad. The legacy, however, is anything but. So long, and thanks.

I remember those Robert Goulet/Charles Branson ECM sides very well, especially the one where the Eicher invited Claudine Longet in and she "serviced" the band on the ski slopes outside the studio. Philly Joe Johnson talked about it in Beat Down magazine. He though that she was being paid, but he found out later that she was just a big Goulet/Branson fan. Well, most of America was! Anybody got CDs of those for sale? My old LPs are shot to hell.

Saw the title of this thread and thought I'd somehow linked to a different kind of a swinging site... BTW - how IS that "Kind of Blue" album anyway? Seems like that's one I've nver gotten around to checking out.

2003, like age, ain't nothin' but a number... I hope that song is a hard-hitting dissembling of the myth that all white people bathe regulary and never have body odor. But it's not, is it... Oh well, you can bet that when/if Tate does the number at his shows, there will some fired-up white chicks storming the stage, as well as some equally fired-up (but in a totally different way) sisters looking to take 'em out (and I don't mean for dinner). 2003, like age, ain't nothin' but a number...

Don't think it's Cooper. That guy you're talking about vaguely rembles Serge Chaloff, but his head ain't big enough, and I don't know that Chaloff played bass clarinet. Here's another shot from the same gig - Club Troubador, NYC, ca. 1947, with Georgie Auld standing up (and that's Red Rodney in both pix!) BTW, Club Troubadour was a club opened by Auld, so that's probably his house band, not Kenton's. Don't think that's Kenton @ the piano. Well, guess what? There's a photo of Chaloff as a member of Auld's band that I've heard is going to be used in the new Uptown Allan Eager set's booklet, and he's got the same doubles set up as in this picture. So that's definitely Serge Chaloff, big head or not.

Guess I don't get as repulsed by some of these 32 covers as sumyall do. Now THIS is a truly bad cover Talk about "camp appeal" and other such matters all you want to. The fact remains - look up "hideuos" in the dictionary, and you should see this cover.

So, did anybody "backwards track" via the link address and see what other goodies were on this site?

I don't know nothin' bout being haunted by no postcard, but if you mean that the swordfish lives and dies by itself so what goes in round comes out around midnight, then, yeah.

Roughly 450 left is the word from Mr. Nessa his ownself.

A tangental note - Sample's "Jazz" can also be heard as the only "straight ahead" number on this album

Are you old enough to remember the early days of TV when the opening titles of a show were superimposed over some stock footage because it was easy, cheap, and nobody knew any better? That's what that cover reminds me of. Woulda made a GREAT show, eh?

Max owns BEEHIVE. He leased it to Columbia because of his relationship w/Bruce Lundvall. Same thing w/the Electra Musician PURE GENIUS. And if you're thinking what I'm thinking... As for the recording quality, it is indeed amature, but that never stopped me from listening to it or enjoying it immensely. You go with what you got, ya'know? I've heard, and enjoyed, far worse, that's for sure!

You know, if you magnify that Thad cover something like 1000X, you can see Ruth Lion walking down the street getting shot for the COOL STRUTTIN' cover. They were both shot on the same day at the same time. Only in New York! Now, who wants 5 free Larry Young Mosaics?

Yeah, it's a darn fine side. I got the old Inner City release of it. I dig Vass inparticular, lots of "snakey" (as in winding phraseology, not as in "snakecharmer") playing on his part. If you dig Hill at all, I think you'll be quite pleased with this one.

You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.

You're all wrong - it's Murray The K.

Brown was also the lyricist for "Freedom Now Suite".

Anita was at one time a consumer of any number of things that can make your handwriting wobbly...

I've only heard a tape dub of a tape dub of a tape dub of a tape dub of a tape dub of a tape dub of a tape dub of this, but its some really, REALLY hip shit. One thing - who is credited with the lyrics on "Groovin' High"? Talk about summarizing a lifestyle in 32 bars...