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Well here, get this to them, right now. It should slow them down just a bit, at least for a while... The kamikaze attack at 3:06 is perhaps unequalled anywhere else in the history of time, both known and unknown!

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Wasn't he a boatsman or something? Had a yacht that he sailed to Newport? Something like that?

frisky!

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Oh, that was the guy. Sorry, my bad.

Time for a Purple Chick look at it!

Not yet. On the radar now!

Happy to get it out there! And in that spirit...Nicole Mitchell.

Looking more deeply at that online discography/sessionography, it would be neat if somebody would reassemble all the mid 60s/early 70s records into session order. I do think that might be a more rewarding listen at this point in time. Any session where Torrie Zito did the charts is almost always going to stand out on whatever record the cut ends up on.

Just change the key. It's not a crime nor is it a sin. Save us a all a bit of unnecessary pain. Listening to Bennett's version more than once, the opening line, "So close your eyes..." yeah, this dude DOES sound like Death coming to get you. Too bad about that Does anybody know if Bennett's live act was as...goofy as it is here? Did he really jerk back and forth like that and go all Jack Ruby into the audience to shake hands and give us all a c'mon gang let's go back into here for an instrumetal interlude? I mean, he does not seem comfortable with any of it, but I want to know that it's ok to laugh with him instead of at him, because, Milt Jackson? Candido? A gratuitous Buddy Rich? An uncredited Richard Davis? They all got paid, so if Tony is just taking one for the team, good for him. And my mom, God bless her, sewmed damn near every day. We never had to buy pajamas for our kids, she cranked em out as quick as they outgrew them. And she did it all on a Singer. So that buttonhole ad, I know what that is, my mom lived that. Singers!

I had to watch that entire show...amazing in so many ways... Richard Davis on bass. And Singer will sell you their record, a record player to play it on, a TV to watch their next TV show on, and TWO vacuum cleaners to clean up after yourself. Freaking amazing. The opening credits alone are enough, but there's more. SO much more.

And by all means: https://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=AR&Product_Code=TROY1200&Category_Code=a-Orch Albany has a series of African-American composer's that is worth checking out. The erasure has not been complete, not yet!

What about "the Birdlanders" stuff that Esoteric/Period did? Kind sluggish in both sound and performance, imo, but it happened.

Also:

I was truly surprised at how many pictures of "severed nose" there were on Google that involved magnets. Like, refrigerator magnets.

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That's a damn good record.

How's the sound on that one?

Shirley Horn & Jimmy Scott are the only ones who can get that type of thing consistently right, imo. When it works, hey, great! https://discography.bloggingtonybennett.com/session/february-1966/ arranged by Johnny Keating, coronet by Bobby Hackett! Just like a Jackie Gleason record! There' no sound of death here!

It's a Shirley Horn/Jimmy Scott tempo, but Tony Bennett is neither one of them. He can do those slow tempos, but on this song? Loving the arrangement itself, but the vocal itself sounds like Tony Bennet is Death Coming To Call. That low note in particular is kinda creey for me, just reinforces the feeling of Death. The arranger was Peter Matz, who was certainly capable (and then some). The producer was Teo Macero!

Tippy Thomkison - Hey, It's Tippy!!! (Recorded Live @ Fat Jenny's)

Same. Duke was a most interesting pianist.