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And it began with Vernell Fournier back on drums! It's odd, maybe, that Chess' two big piano trios -Ahmad Jamal and Ramsey Lewis - went on to have second, equally great yet significantly different groups that sooner or later went to other labels. Actually with Lewis, there's no comparison for me. As popular as the Young-Holt group was, my preference is for tha next one .

But you know the Clooney/Rddle version, right? On Love Some of the other songs on that record are equally... obscure. The one that immediately comes to mind is "Yours Sincerely"... Rodgers/Hart, but apart from an instrumental version by Rodgers himself...who else did it? Anyway, that album has what are for me the "ultimate" version of almost every song on there. Almost including "Invitation", and if you limit it to just vocal versions, that one too Intricacy and pain and nakedness all at once. Rare in any medium, much less pop music.

Sister Schubert Charles Louis Fleischmann Martha White

And before that, Extensions on Chess. And then the ABC record which then was reissued on impulse!, Tranquility.

That version is very Lorez-y. I have to be in the mood for Lorez...who else has done this song? . I'm really curious to hear it done in a square "sheet music" type version, if there is one. It's hardly a "normal" structure for a pop song, so I wonder how that would work. Or if that would work.

"how will I remember you" is a very good song. Not sure if I've heard it done by anybody other than Rosemary Clooney/Nelson Riddle?

Simon von Thunk - My Pleasure!!!

Not paying that for this.

I would like to see MoFi deal with 45s in THEIR original mastering.

Anxiously waiting the MoFi version of this:

which essentially means that he was getting gigs again. Those "lost years" or whatever you want to call them, late 60-early 70s, when he didn't have a band because he didn't have gigs becuase he didn't have a band etc, he still had that flame but he didn't have a band or the gigs. He'd be calling cats up to make a hit here and a hi there, and if he was lucky, he'd get some known (enough) quantities. But apparently he wasn't always luck. It was the overalls band where he started working again, although how or why that started happening, I don't know. Some agent or backer or somebody got busy getting Art Blakey busy. But even that band...I'll definitely give "you" all of James Williams and some of Bobby Watson, but the only real function they all had was to be ready willing and able to play Messengers Music, wear the clothes of whatever band it was, and to be on time. In other words, don't fuck up the Art Blakey gig. I think it was Keystone 3, the one with that Toussaint guy on tenor where I thought that maybe this was going somewhere new, but it didn't, not really. Again, if Blakey had died in 1975 or so, his "legend" might have been even more solid than it now is. But living into and in the age of hype, he benefited from that, and I'm so glad that he did.

Woody Okrah - Well Hell, That's A Shame

Mary Jane Rick James Teena Marie

Hey, let's not defile the well-meaning and ethically produced porn of the world (where and if it exists...) by associating it with this sort of piffelooxication. THIS is EuroMusiPorn, a category quite unto itself! Not that I don't understand such temptations myself. But...you should never pay for porn. Never. Ever.

Trust me, they got it from somewhere else, possibly/probably Japan. These types of companies never do their own work.

Leslie Gore Party Doll Judy Turner

The kind with franks, at that!

thanks, will keep checking websites.

1989. When all that OTHER nonsense was raging, some people were doing stuff like this. Thank you, Gary Thomas (and crew).

Cab Calloway Tab Smith Jabbo Smith

I hate that I missed this.

Hey Ken - what's the Indian classical concert series site? Is that still happening?

The Porter Milque Socktet- Brownshoe Stomp b/w Slake It!!!

I like this a lot.

Interesting alto chairs... Do I miss Marshall Royal & Bobby Plater? Not sure, but I definitely notice their absence. OTOH - LOCKJAW APLENTY!!!! And George Duvivier!