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This was in 1975 or so that the guy did the arrangement. Half a century ago.

Cool, thanks! Who else is in there? I swear, everybody looks too familiar to be random.

GREAT bridge. A friend arrange it for lab band last century, and they laughed before playing it. They laughed afterwards as well, but not for the same reasons. Some tunes get stigmatized by context and require a certain distance in order to be taken seriously as the tunes they reall are. Sometimes that happens, sometimes not. This one should, it's on the par with, imo.

Ok, making amends for my participatory slovenliness in the last two BFTs, getting in early here. TRACK ONE - Definitely Ursula Rucker, but with who? 4Hero? I don't recognize this as being from one of her own albums? This is really quite musical in every regard, like it a LOT. Ursula has a great cadence when the music hits a pocket that allows it, and this definitely does allow it. Fice Stars +, Leonard! TRACK TWO - Don't recognize the tune, but definitely the texture. That's the Ellington album that Dizzy did with arrangements b Clare Fischer. Not a particularly visceral album, moreon the cough syrup tip, but if you're ready for that, then it's a great listen. Another winner, Leonard! TRACK THREE - "Sleeping Dancer Sleep On", one of Wayne's most beguiling compositions, Blakey really allows it it's space, which is not necessarily what he always did. I love ho you can hear Lee working his way through the changes, knowing the patterns he's going to use, but also being able to work with them on the fly while he goes through the, We don't always think of Lee as a "thoughtful" player, but this is extremely thought full work on changes that are logical but not obvious. And Wayne wanting to get fl;own to the moon!!!!!! Like Someone In Love was maybe the first "vault" Messengers album by this band, but it might also be my favorite. You're batting 1.000 Leonard!!! TRACK FOUR - Blu & Junior Cook on what seems like it could be a Jimmy Heat tune? The solos are all aces, but the center attraction he is the drumming, almost New Orleans in feel, interdependence of the limbs. I think I have this record? Ok, yes I do. It was my last BN Blue to get (not counting the two Monk Higgins ). It's a good'un all the way through. We have to assume that Duke Pearson is the arranger, right? You're on a hot streak, Leonard! TRACK FIVE - This is a weird one....thought it was going to be some oddball Chet Baker Italian TV show, and then, obviously not. Totally professional band, but the singing is very show-biz in a way that I don't like. It could be a sad song, but here it turns into a "sad song", very superficially and manipulatively "bluesy". Not a fan here, Leonard, not really. Low and away, Ball One. TRACK SIX - Unmistakably Arnett Cobb!!! One of the most real voices of the instrument, ever. All I do the whole day through is dream of a tone like that, one where the note and the tone are the same thing, speaking, You're back on track here, Leonard! TRACK SEVEN - Oh my! I don't know this record at all, but that is Budd Johnson, for sure. One of the heroes of this music, imo. Budd Johnson was a baaaaaaaadddd motherfucker. Period. Badder than you, Leonard, badder than me, badder than all of us. TRACK EIGHT - Hank. Avila & Tequila. There it is, Leonard, there it is. TRACK NINE - "Kush", Dizzy. Don't know this version, but it's on point all the way. Ok, that's Leo Wright, I like the drumming is that Chali(e) Persip? And Lalo Schiffrin on piano? Did Dizzy ever do this one for big band? Seems like it could really work like that. This is good, maybe not great, but it's in the zone, so you get the call, Leonard. TRACK TEN - Sounds like a Gerald Wilson sax section, but that is definitely not Gerald Wilson's writing. Whoever it is wrote a helluva good chart for a helluva damn good band. This why big bands matter (and so often don't!) Damn Leonard, you got your good stuff today! TRACK ELEVEN - Not sure what else this is, but that sure sounds like George Coleman. Not really top-shelf George Coleman, imo, lots of devices and exercise type chord connecting. At his best, he still does that, but with a greater design than this has. That sounds like Tony on drums? Liking the pianist. Overally, this is not quite gelled enough for me to put it on the table for desert. Broke a little early and missed the zone,, sorry Leonard, can't give it to you, not this time. TRACK TWELVE - Azar & Jean Carne inviting us into some kind of glorious new age that, uh....never was really there. A lot of people tried, but it takes more than trying to change humanity. Apart from that...the playing is in there. This one has become a bit of a classic, and rightfully so, Azar was playing a lot of tenor back in those days, he meant it. And Woody Shaw!And that Woody Murray guy, whatever happened to him???? In the long haul, none of it came true, but keep think8ing good thoughts, Leonard, keep thinking good thoughts. The alternative is not a good place to go. TRACK THIRTEEN - I think I have this record? It's a DJ/Nu-Jazz take on "Las Vegas Tango", but I don't know if the call it that. But i like it. There's enough there in terms fo recontextualizng the original source material that it takes on a shape and space. Not everything of this ilk does that, some of it just does the cutting and leaves it there, but the real musicians who work in this medium know that there's more to it than that. And this might not be working from a sample, which is kind of even more impressive, maybe. Either way, it's thoughtful engagement at all levels. Good to see your scouting department is serving you so well, Leonard! TRACK FOURTEEN - Frank Lowe? Sounds like a Don Cherry piece from Complete Communion, but memory fails now as to which one. It sounds like Lowe in how he's just putting himself out there and in there, not worried about running shit, just playing the moment as he is living in it. No idea who this is, though. But whoever it is came to play, and playing they are. Can I be forgiven in thinking that it's the vibist's band, how the vibes are always playing. Finishing strong Leonard, now go in and ice the elbow, you've earned it!

Surely #1 is Ursula Rucker!!!! That's brilliant

This commercial has been running damn near non-stop here for at least a month, and I KNOW I have seen at least half the cast elsewhere, on multiple occasions, maybe. But where? Help?!?!

Everybody's forgotten everything!!!

Does it come with an Arthur Prysock record. I hope?

It certainly seems that there was enough of a local jazz ecosystem in the Cincinnati area to keep going for a good while. And there was this little commercial AM station going right along with it. That means that they sold ad time, which means that there were enough advertisers who didn't mind paying money to reach that jazz audience, who it must be assumed were listening to that station? And why wouldn't you, at least sometimes? Where else are you going to hear what the river level is at any given moment? Oh, the jingles. Those cost money!

Is there an American distributor yet?

So was Julie London. So were Garry Lewis & The Playboys. So was Bobby Vee. So were Jan & Dean. So was Canned Heat. So was Vicki Carr. and that's just Liberty. Add in Imperial....

Posting your inquiry in the Discography forum should get you your response, thanks.

Last nigh is right now? Way to start your morning INDEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trane is The Little Engine That Could.

I would never have guessed McPherson...the tone... Maybe I have the wrong speakers for that record?!?? The were also victim to the economic dictum that liner notes cost money.

Ok, That's right. But it was a real gem. The dude was dealing. Didn't take long for me to move the game to the forefront of my attention. On paper, it's not really going to stand out, since it was not a no-hitter, and it was in service of a loss. So much for on paper.

Wow, a really sharp no hitter thru 7+ getting zero run support, and then the game lost as well, just like that. BAM.

Kenny Garrett? The tone is more Cannon-ish than what I associate with him, but I kinda let him drop off my radar a few years ago. And 7 would be a Ron Carter date? The Elektra/Musician date with Art Farmer, Tony Williams, and Bill Evans?

Well shit... I have listened and enjoyed, but haven't been disciplined enough to sit down and put thought to screen. I do apologize. It's a really good set!

School Vomit Spoon - One Did, One Didn't

By that time, Liberty also included Imperial, which had a buttload of charters, as well as Minit and, oh yeah, Pacific Jazz/World Pacific. And Dolton, for the Ventures fans in your house. And Soul City, for The 5th Dimension fans everywhere. Just saying, by the time that Liberty sold to Transamerica, it was a really meaty group of holdings.

Wow. Took advantage of some afternoon downtime to use my TMobile free MLB TV account to watch the Marlins-Red Sox game. Wow.

I'd try it. Cola & Dr. Pepper both can work in a barbeque sauce, so this is not too much of a stretch. The other way around, though... yuck++++

The Uptown set of the Baron Mingus LA stuff is historically very interesting. Of a checking out, it is worthy.