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If you're expecting to be surprised, how can you be surprised?

It's like Sonny Payne only different. Totally different. But only once you know that it's not New Jack Basie, ok? Think on it!

On acid?

Wait, is New Jack and New Jack Swing the same thing? Starting to think it's not? What I'm think of is from Bobby Brown etc. back in the day. I LOVE that stuff. If this is something else, please excuse an old guy.

I liked New Jack actually. But I had the advantage of paying in a band or two that knew how to cover the tunes effectively in a club setting. Let's just say that the drummers who could do it right had...well-developed biceps. And they knew how to tune their kits. It was a very physical music meant to make the body move in infinite but unambiguous ways. I liked the results when done with that in mind on all sides.

I was 14 in 1969, and the field was already narrowing for me. Kids my age were all up into the Grand Funk Railroad crap and anything else that was loud, simple, and (often) stupid. So Fall of 1970 (after a summer of Zappa) , I got introduced to a rather narrow range of jazz. Even though it was a narrow range, it was infinitely more interesting (in many ways) than the stuff everybody was getting in to. So I flipped the switch more or less right away. There were some interesting rock/pop things still, but mostly R&B and some other stuff that had jazz inflections and or implications. That switch flipped pretty hard. I got so alienated from the rock/pop musics that from 1972-1973, the only radio I listened to was this FM "Easy Listening" station, because they played a lot of records of standards, multiple versions in multiple styles, and as my jazz awareness grew, so did my awareness of standards. so...that worked. And once in a while they would play some unobtrusive jazz. That was where I heard Lenny Breau! "King of the Road"!

That back liner suggests that all the tunes are Bagby's.. Upper right of the back cover.

All I ever hears is "Classic Rock" interest in which I have less than none. Country radio can be interesting for however long it is before the formulas sink become apparent, which for me is usually halfway through the first song. But they are incorporating some basic elements of hip-hop beat making in some of the stuff. But once the WTF? reaction fades, it's still the same old same old. I can have fun with Tejano radio, probably because I understand only a few of the words. And even there...formulas are formulas. Really though - why stop at music? Pop culture in general is besotted with a creepily necrophilic narcissism.

J.S.W. = John S. Wilson?

Is it just hip-hop? Spent any time on any of the various Country stations lately? Or whatever Rock radio there is? I'll not blame the product, the product is just giving the people what they want.

Pleter Pitorik - Splok dun Klammerstitt

Totally CapitolJazzy, and in a better way than that often means. Ralph Carmichael is trying to keep things vaguely Kenton-ish and Raney pushes back in a way that gives the whole thing a bit of...character.

Jordi goes legit? Charts by Alan Broadbent, wonderful charts.

Tatum's virtuosity was his top level, and if it was a gig that called for it, his only level. But Jeezy Weezy, that was not his only layer, certainly not his deepest layer, and when he went there, it's evident to me that the only reason he needed a piano was because that was what he played, if you know what I mean. uck "so much piano". No - so much music.

I have heard this and it is not at all bad. Plus, Dave MacKay is one of those guys whose dots connect in some interesting ways.

I think credit is due to producer Dawson Lynne. He had a real feel for everybody's playing.

Pookie needs a minute or two, but he'll be there shortly.

Mad crazy skills as far as pitch and phrasing. Would I want to go into a dark room and ponder my existence with this? No. But if I just wanted to hear some skills on display, yeah, I would turn on the light and let this in the room for a little set of this.

Indeed you can and indeed I have! C'mon Pookie, get down outta that tree and come on inside. We got dinner waitin'!

I paid attention to what I let my kids watch...until a certain age. of course. The Sesame Street about how a saxophone got made remains a favorite!