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Beneficial for all, I should hope, not just for Jesuits.

Hank Aaron Hank Hill Hank the Cowdog

Deep Dan Purple - High Up Down Yonder

Jesuit scholarship?

Good for him!

We shall see. It's waaaay too bigass a book for a quick read. But Mark Stryker gave it a glorious advance notice in these pages, and I trust Mark like that.

Oh. I thought you were soliciting advice on what to do with your coffee table. My bad about that Nevertheless, the advice and the rationale behind it still holds! Or maybe you need a bigger coffee table? Some people do ya' know!

I have long very much liked Mathis, and still do. But... A recent deep dive into the catalog via Spotify seemed to be one song after another of absolutely gorgeous singing accompanied by absolutely annoyingly bland arrangements, usually by Glenn Osser. Now, Osser is (was?) a very skilled guy, but with Mathis it seems like he was tasked with (or chose) the job of making generically "modern" arrangements with no real tailoring of them to Mathis' quite exquisite vocal stylings. Still - sleep on Johnny Mathis at your own peril! btw - the period between Columbia stints (on Mercury) had some REAL gems, arranged by Alyn Ferguson (iirc). And the later R&B-ish records are often very nice as well. This was a guy who cared only to sing, period. And sing he does!!!

Hey, here's the thing - god knows why or how, but this damn thread gets views, about 100 or so every 4-5 days. It just topped 10,000 today. Didn't pay any attention to that at first, but started noticing a few months in. The view count keeps going up. It seems to be getting traffic, and traffic on this thread means traffic on this board. I'm ok with that. Besides, I like making something up every day or so, especially M-F. It's a vanity project (for my part anyway) but dammit, somebodies keep looking in, so... #NP - Bub Laster - Daddy Brings Beef, Baby Brings Beer

Get the new Sonny Rollins bio and get rid of any detritus on your coffee table. It's one bigass book! And as a bonus, it's about Sonny Rollins, not Bob Dylan. Win-Win!!!!!!

June Darvocet - Gonna Get Real Quiet Now b/w Love It Down Baby Now Rare Argentinian picture sleeve!!!!

A truly bigass book will soon be yours!

Sounds like the same guy to me. Lee and Helen obviously had different impressions of him.

I wonder whatever happened to Gary's notebook?

Don't underestimate the impact of the real things, like Miles, Coltrane, Chico/Gabor Szabo, a few others. That stuff was "crossing over", and for that you can thank not only public mentions of their names by the rock players, but the late/great "underground"/"free form" FM radio, where a LOT of things got played.

The arrangements used to be offered for sale in the old Creative World catalogs, but not sure about actual scores. UNT would be my starting point for that search. After that, try Terry Vosbein: Terry Vosbein – Contact Apparently, Kenton basically just orchestrated the piano scores, so there's that.

Please advise?

Direct Hit - Here Come The Love Bombs

It wasn't improvisation as much as if was freak out, but I did make for a soul being psychedelicisized...

11:06 long enough? Chambers Brothers 1967-68 LP version of "Time Has Come Today", if so. Sides 3 & 4 of Freak Out also.

Pee Wee Herman Reese Witherspoon S. E. Cupp

Are you going to sue the owner?

8 Bold Soules Old King Cole Big Bob Dole

Lanny Larcher - Live at Ball Four

RIP to a true life-changer.