JSngry

Just a fact. Do facts skew cynical?

That would seem like bad production then. You book the time, you book the players, you should have an expectation about what you're going to have. Maybe there were complications the day of the date, but still... Maybe it was Elvin's call. But it just seems weird

Yes. For whatever reason. Made no sense, imo.

The gig paid really well.

That Links record is a trip. Very popular on the blogosphere back when that was a thing. Funny thing is that I can totally relate to the environment that spawned that type of thing. Back in the day when damn near every lounge and hotel lounge had live bands, there was a LOT of that going around. But hardly any of it got recorded for posterity. Regarding Peterick, he also was in the orb of Chase, post Ides. Lounge bands, one more opportunity for a musician to get practical experience gone. Sigh.

Who was in the Detroit Contemporary 4? Was that a Kenn Cox thing,? If so, with who?

Tell McClayton - A Woman Like You

That it helps you get laid?

Fresh Sounds makes the trains run on time.

Norm Peterson, that's my guy.

It's not a lost masterpiece or anything, but it's an interesting companion to the Verve Songbook records in several ways, not the least of which is a more modern recording technique and sounb. Just checked, and Dream Dancing is on Spotify.

Ella/Porter got a second chance in 1972 on Atlantic, this time with Riddle. Granz must have liked it so much that he reissued it on Pablo! And recorded two more songs in 1978, again with Riddle!

Like No Maps On My Taps, it's a movie ostensibly about dance that is ultimately about something far more than just that. The line about the distortion of the hands with each generation...yes. Not just hands and not just dance. Recommended to any and all jazz lovers who have noticed the ongoing distortion of the hands.

Some people like that kind of thing.

No, it's already there, no action on your part required.

Not liking Bregman as well. Love Riddle with everybody. He does a lot of easy-expectations things, but he's got a zone that set him apart from anybody except, maybe, Robert Farnon at his most outre. Like this: I mean, WHO DOES THAT?!?!?!?!?!?!

Not just talked about, but performed...especially by instrumentalists who don't really pay attention to lyrics and or use of same to reach people who used to be dancing to them for some form or another of satisfactions.

Pops Poopadeaux - The Second Return of Pops Poopadeaux!!! The ageless wonder returns.

I guess those people read the liner notes instead of listening to the record. Oh wait, yeah, the first CD issue of it was jacked up, not at all the original record except in partial part. THAT version should be panned, just because. But the OG record itself, I will go to the mat for THAT one.

Gomez Morticia Uncle Fester

Who gives this a bad rap? I've always loved that record and it was also a hit!

Diaphanous duets with Alan Broadbent

I think it might be a wonderful thing, all the pointillistic pinging. I can see there being an awesome time out of that. Wat Dickerson, that is, not you.

Ram Das Buck Ram Shirley Horn