JSngry

I would start with getting people to loosen the fuck up about things like dancing and body movement and otherwise interreacting with the music instead of thinking you're supposed to be some kind of a passive recipient of jazzwaves. I know too many people who think that having a genuine verbal exhortation in the middle of a performance is rude and uncouth. I mean, really!

Oh yeah....more than touches on it....

"dumb" seems to infer an issue of intelligence. What I'm hearing is more a matter of sensory openness to, in this case, all types of music. That's more a spiritual//psychological matter than it is intelligence. Even in the best of times, people were not particularly open. These days, the incessant propaganda of always-on noise has people programmed to only hear a limited range of the various elements of music, They're not dumb, and they certainly don't need to be made dumber! What the world could use is a good de-programming/re-sensitizing. And that includes musicians. Especially musicians!

Secrets of Playboy I never liked Hugh Hefner, just on instinct. Well, this confirms my hunches.

That could be good.

I'm not sure I understand "dumb:? It's the regurgitive hollow re-creative stuff that I find to be dumb.

Kirk Whalum. Najee. Less so, Gerald Albright. Playing *real jazz", they sound like they're giving props to their parents/ etc., but on their own stuff, it sounds like them.

Strongly. Yes. Very much so

Don't be seduced by all those alternates unless multiple takes of Curtis Fuller working on his solo(s) sounds like a good time.

My Little Margie Big Mama Thornton Thornton Wilder

I like this one. no make that love it.

Ernie Henry had that True BeBop Bob and Weave, in both his rhythm and in his tone. A lot of people do it with the rhythm, but you get somebody who does it with their tone, that's what I like the most, enough to call it love.

Very coherent music by a very diverse cast of characters.

I love Ernie Henry a lot. Your turn.

I like that record.

Happy Haines Lester Gruber Tinker Bell

Randella Pittington - The Animals Now Awake (and other songs of forthrightness)!!!

Wally Schirra Carol Kaye Doris Day

Sandy Plub - Pat Yer Bistter, Clipe Yer Hinds!!!

Ezra Pound Elke Sommers Wendell Willkie

Art Belletto Giovanni Bellini Tony Baretta

I mean, not "play" like George Coleman or anything, but this seemed like a totally natural language for him, as it did with Grover. Some of those guys, like Najee, Gerald Albright, Kirk Whalum, spoke to their community more or less organically. They were/are well-rounded musicians with multiple skill sets. They could play more horn than George Howard, but George Howard was pretty much dancing with the thing that bring him, if you know what I mean.