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Has anybody done a good look at the Granz/Criss relationship? That one has always seemed a bit odd to me. Seemed like it was as off as quick as it was on?

So who's really gullible here, then?

I would never try to alter your perception of anything. I am not a psychedelic drug I would wonder if your perception of the whole thing being "forced" isn't your own reaction to whatever triggers such impressions in you rather than an objective assessment of what is going on with that record, but again, not trying to change anything. Hey, I read Down Beat all through the 70s and Milt Jackson never did not bitch about money. Hell, about EVERYTHING. The whole arc from now that the MJQ is over I'm going to make some real money to hell, there's no money to be had playing jazz to ok, good to see the MJQ re-forming is in retrospect pretty hilarious. I mean, Sunflower was a pretty big hit, one of the core CTI records imo, and this guy goes to Pablo and cranks out, what, 89 records that combined probably sold half as much, and he's wondering where the money is. Kinda seems like Bags' Schtick to me! I also know that Milt Jackson never played falsely in his life, at least not that I've heard. He made all sorts of records doing all sorts of things. I doubt he loved all of them, but I also doubt that he could have done any of the any differently than he did them. In other words, I seriously doubt that anybody could force Milt Jackson to do too much of anything!

I also don't find Hal David's lyrics at all corny. I did when I was a teenager, but what does a teenager know about parking cars and pumping gas being anything other than a potentially really cool summer job?

Hey, she did a smash hit tribute to Don Schlitten, which is more than I can say about Rusty Warren

Yeah, not exactly pro-grade hype...

Affectionate mocking seems like an oxymoron to me .. See above. That has been explained

That's a good question...I would imagine that that he was owed money and at the same time owed money, so when that happens, most people hide out and proceed accordingly I also have visions (totally unfounded) of him going into a deep Phil Spector type psycho-depression with Astrud Gilberto as his Ronnie. Or that they didn't enjoy doing it

Are there still punk rockers?

I was thinking of the Blakey Rutgers thing. Too bad about Emerald Records. This would have been a job for them, only I don't think that Horace really dug Tyrone. Or so they say

Are you saying that Milt was forced to wear all that polyester?

"...astonishingly close to that of audiophile vinyl" Close to? So we're re being asked to settle for second best?

Is the new JATP stuff actually new to release or just new to CD?

Coltrane already has a church. Does he really need a new picture book? One thing I notice is that most folks go for the trance without having a clue about the actual theories involved. Suckers.

You mean they had a gun at their heads or their babies were being held hostage?

Does it need to be?

I believe I already have it from collector circulation...is there any value added? No, wait, that's something else. Never mind

Have you never been mellow?

Exactly! STEPNEY DOES THAT!!!! Have you heard Rotary Connection's "Ruby Tuesday"? The Dells... The Dells could sing "Knoxville Girl" and make it sound like an impassioned love song. I went on a Dells bender a while back and came away stunned, and never moreso than when Stepney was at the helm.

Kinda the long way around, eh?

Simon was a HUGE Glenn Miller devotee iirc.

Moe Drabowski Don Sebesky Eddie Kasko

Gotta remember that Gleam was originally released only in Japan. It would have been nice to have had it here at the time. Same thing with the Herbie Hancock records that were released only in Japan. You know who did not do well on CTI imo? Ron Carter. One album, All Blues with Joe Henderson and Roland Hanna was pretty good, but the rest .. not so much. They all seemed to be of his own making, though, not Creed Taylor.

Thanks. Now I know!

Don't necessarily "like" that one, but five stars for, what...audacity on Mangelsdorff's part.