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Stalina Vanderglans - Your Face Or Mine?

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https://youtu.be/6JBS1rYU5m4

Little Jimmy Omlette - Live @ The Denver Room Hotel Lounge!!!

Welcome back Big Al!!!! Late to the party again. retirement is agreeing with me (at least as long as we don't run out of money...) TRACK ONE - A little navel-gazey for me. Then again, maybe other people have more attractive navels than I do? eye of the beholder, etc. Oik, now the alto - a LOT too navel-gazey for me. TRACK TWO - Textures are a little softy, but the pocket is there. And it's an interesting tune in terms of changes. Metheny/Mays? I was ready to not like it, but it never quite gave me a reason, so they win!That's quite often my result with Metheny. The guy has substance. This is kinda like if Zawinul had been white, from Kansas, and a decade or so younger. Make mine Zawinul, but I am ok recognizing Metheny. TRACK THREE - Not gonna tune up that bass are we....guitarist has a non-learned attack, I like that. Same with the trumpet, almost plays like Charles Tolliver. Alto is boppy,almost too much so. ALMOST. And then less as it goes along, good. Going out on a limb with/for time/place/sound...Michael Howell? TRACK FOUR - This tune sounds familiar? Baja Marimba Band with Vince Guaraldi sitting in? This is one of those things I can defend without liking at all. So there's the defense. Done. TRACK FIVE - Herb Alpert & Herb Geller, from the album Smokin' Herbs Today? But where there's smoke, there's not always fire. Case in point. TRACK SIX - I like this. A bit of frisky, it is. And fluency aplenty. TRACK SEVEN - Oh crap, I think I have this record...one of the Blue Note 78s? I like this too. Wait, that's Ben, right? and Vic Dickenson? Pretty solid individual voices, those two. The others should be too, but cranius en rectius here, sorry. There's some playing going on here. If you imitate it, you will suck. But this is not imitation! Check out that bass tone, hey. I like this one just fine, thank you! TRACK EIGHT - Oh my...ok, thank god for Lee! I mean, yeah, in general, but in particular here. Orchestration is good, but the idea is...light. And not like a fresh loaf of bread. TRACK NINE - See Track Four, only with even less enthusiasm! Sounds like one of those Living Jazz/Bossa/Whatever things on the RCA Camden label, with a bunch of paychecks being collected, and no overtime needed! TRACK TEN - That's groovy as fuck!!! Not really impressive on top, but DAMN, underneath is all the way there. TRACK ELEVEN - See Track One. Really well-produced, though. Just not for me. TRACK TWELVE - Too much freaking navel. STOP IT!!!!! I will thank Steve Swallow for doing God's work and taking care of Carla Bley in so many ways for so many years. But Gary Burton is not Carla Bley, even though Gary Burton at one point might have been in the mix, and seems to have made the effort to do the tunes, although maybe that was at Swallow's urging. TRACK THIRTEEN - Mid-late 70s Muse? I'm thinking this got some AM airplay on the AM Jazz station. The tune is doing a Marvin Gaye thing on the bridge. so that dates it (chronologically). Definitely by and for a particular demographic, in other words, FLAYVA. Not Earland, but Holmes? Phillips? McGriff maybe? I like it, it brings back memories of people and places and things. TRACK FOURTEEN - Ok, THAT'S Earland. That record....there were 2-3 cuts off it that got VERY heavy airplay on the AM Jazz station. this was not one of them, but hell, once you bought the record (and I did), you got all of them. This may not be the strongest cut, but oh well about that. Also, it seemed for a little bit that this might be the last real "organ jazz" record, the B-3 just went away for a few minutes, so this seemed like a swan song for a great idiom. But it came back soon enough. But this one...I dig listening from the bottom up these days, and this one has a strong bottom, so there you go. Besides, fire one up, find a smiling girl, have a good time. That's what stuff like this is for, and having Joe Henderson & Freddie Hubbard & Charles Earland along amplifies the nobility of the experience instead of cheapening it. We live in pretty fucking cheap times today. It's not good. Ok, this was fun to listen to, Al. I can call you Frankie Beverly & Maze, because you're back in stride again! Are you sure about that?

Was that a France-only release?

Some folks buy the latest Bob Bowtie Mosaic to support the company. I bought Henry Threadgill for that same reason. That, and CDs prolong the life of my LPs...

Tell that to a dog.

Is that the era of the group with or without Harold Taft?

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

At some point you're going to have to get into Gospel, you know.

Mark Lucas - Oil From Afar

Marvin Gaye. It's all Willie Mitchell...

Dance music!!!

Looks like a pickup group. I've heard myriad tales of Blakey not having enough work during this time to keep a regular band, but this is the most blatant example of that. Still - Blakey got the gig, and Blakey brought a band. Blakey wins.

Barbecue me baby.

Dare I say Jackie Wilson?

Get the Mosaic!!!