JSngry

The accents and the vowels/consonants. For a non-singer such as myself, it's both illuminative and inspirational. Like, ok, I can't sing, but this guy can't really sing either. And yet he makes very musical music with his singing. That, and Cedar Walton and Sam Jones But mostly for the singing, the colorations.

This is a trip.

The singing record continues to fascinate me for purely studying reasons.

That's a damn good record.

Wow, more Bill Evans!!!

My only expectation was that it would stop and smile and say/wave hi as it passes me on the sidewalk, or, if not, throw off a vibe indicating why not. As it is, it doesn't even make eye contact, subliminal or otherwise. How rude!

I have yet to really warm to it.

It's a Stevie Wonder song. Blame him!

And I think they were already on the way to the Transamerica/UA world. That was a bit of a fluid time for all the labels in that family - and the label's labels! I mean, was this one World Pacific Jazz or Pacific Jazz? And whatever happened to plain old World Pacific?

It truly is. I still maintain that people who haven't heard/didn't get to hear a real live REAL Big Band have no idea of how much physical impact the sheer sound of it would make. It could pin you on your ass and not let you back up. This was one of the first 25-50 jazz records I bought...well not really bought, got it as an introductory offer from Record Club of America (the others were Transition, Time/Peace, The Best of Cream, Blind Faith, and maybe Burnt Weenie Sandwich?) As such, and this is a very trivial concern, the logo on that reissue "pisses me off" That's an early PJ logo. The OG cover very much reflected the corporate transitions that were going on (and were not yet finished: "Pacific Jazz Series"!!!!

I was alive then, heard them then, and have changed since then. So yes, we just strongly disagree

That's where I got mine. On cassette no less And just like that POOF they were all gone!

And then what happened, all hillbillies were raptured of the face of the earth? Really? Of course it's not. But it's on the same record as that BB King George Jones record. What bin in the record store does it go, and why?

This is on the same record. Is it Country?

For the first album anyway, she mostly got old charts from him and they adjusted keys and such. Didn't really do any new writing, not to any significant extent. Apparently riddle was not the happiest of people. He was appalled at Ronstadt's naivete about what it was that she thought she was doing. Maybe things got bettweer with subsequent projects, I don't know. But she herseld is hard to lsiten to on those records. At least Rod Stewart sings them like pop songs. He understands pop songs. So cringey as it is, at least it still sounds like a pop song, not som ekid trying to be Jo Staffitzgerrest or some whit.

My answer is now that I don't care what I am told that it is or isn't. It is for me what I say it is to me, and if it means enough to me, I ain't calling it anything as reductive as a record store marker. But.... I mean, dude, I am TOTALLY out of shelf space now. Literally out of it. So shit just gets set down wherever it fits in any order. So yeah, I got to put it where I can find it, which right now is mostly grouped by when I bought it, when it came into the house, simple as that. And more than once, I forget everything I've brought into the house, and it's like OH!!!! and everything takes a detour and that's almost always fune, especially when it doubles in and out of itself. Good free-form radio used to do that for me, but hell, when was the last time THAT happened, wight?

I never put together things like that (except for an annual BFT here), it's fine for those who do it, but me, I'm at best a willing consumer of such things. Otherwise, I only "need" to know what my options are so at any given moment, I can proceed accordingly. Finding it is easy enough once it's home. But finding it out in the wild...i like to be surprised by what I never realized I never knew. I also like having people over and to begin to play music that springs from the conversations being had. And as with any good conversations, unplanned things can and should happen! So my rule is a seemingly simple but ultimately definitive solution - PUT IT WHERE YOU CAN FIND IT!!!!!! According to his biography, he was anything but excited about the project. Unless you're Billy Eckstine or Tony Bennett or Frank Sinatra or.... Ronstandt's flaw was her phrasing, not her voice. She was not a singer who had experiencing singing that type of language (literally), and it showed.

Hillbilly is neither. Hillbilly is not really "Country" either, at least not in modern terms, endless lip service to the contrary. Where would this record go, why, and why not? This "need" (which I don't believe it really is) for categories closes doors instead of opening. Fucking constrictions...

I am, with the stipulation that although it might be in you from the beginning, it is not always readily apparent and in fact may often take a lot of openness to experience to get to, much less get out. But yeah, if it ain't in you, nothing can put it there.

and even more bonus points if they include hillbilly and cajun music! I've heard Stewart's records of standards, and he sings them better than Linda Ronstadt did. But Ronstadt had exponentially better arrangements, He sings them like the pop songs they are. She sang them like the museum pieces that they didn't have to be. He's fucking Rod Stewart. There has never been any real depth there, just projection of personality and a voice that met the demands of that quite well. So....what the hell would you expect? Better arrangements would have been nice, but even that wouldn't have changed anything. "What makes a jazz singer?" What a silly question!!!! They are BORN, not MADE!!!!!!!

So what do you have time for when you go into a record store? I'm kinda like, hey, let me look through these $1.00 records that you got under the shelves that are just thrown in there any whichyway. And if I ain't got time for that, then why even go in to begin with? If I know what I'm looking for, that's an online shopping session. Besides, if you have not mastered the Two-Handed KwikFlip, you have no business shopping in a record store, period.

For you. The are many who would feel soiled by having to climb over James Brown to get to Ray Brown. Or other people who would feel it bothersome to deal with Frank Sinatra to get to Sly Stone.