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Godspeed, John Glenn.

Sorry, but for Dexter, Our Man In Paris and Manhattan Symphonie are noticeably different expressions. Not saying you need them all, you don't (among other things, a few BNs and many of the Prestige sides are non-essential, to put it mildly, and Steeplechase is just an embarrassment of riches), but there's no one Dexter Gordon record that neatly sums it all up, unless, of course, that's all you want to know about Dexter Gordon. If I want to luxuriate in the Dexter Gordon Story with a minimum of inventory, I'm having to do it with no fewer than these: GO! Our Man In Paris Any one Steeplechase studio small group record Manhattan Symphonie I have quite a few more than that (and some that are really not particularly necessary), but if forced to cull with an eye towards on any given day wanting to hear one chapter of Dexter, I think I'd be cheating myself if I didn't have those four on hand.. Which begs the question - what is your one Dexter Gordon album, and why is that all there is to it for you?

Would that that was the movie they were actually making. This "serious cartoon" shit left me behind a few decades ago.

Between masks during the big surges (data might be a little inconclusive - and that means just that, does not mean proven ineffective - but geez, common sense, really!) and vaccines over the long haul, I am cautiously optimistic about being cautiously optimistic. I trust Fauci but not implicitly and not in any way infallibly, but I do think he shoots straight with real-time data as best he can. Speaking of which, so good to see Dr. Birx emerging from the shadows, still rocking those scarves and this time with her hair un-putup. She's an attractive lady, a smart lady, an sharp dresser, and I'm glad that both she and Fauci were there and fought the good fight as best they could. Now - ask how many people have gotten their third booster (we have) and their fourth (we haven't, not yet, but fully intend to). I think if you want a predictor of how "over" this is really going to be, I think that might be as close to a predictor and you're going to get.

Conduction, as performed here, seems to me to be an exponentially more evolved version of "jam band", like people with more ideas and resources than some stoned-ish "advanced rockers". Still, as with all such things, advanced or otherwise, too many repeated listenings reveal the hard truth that nobody can just make all of that up without having some shit in your pocket to begin with. With that in mind, I like it a lot. And with that in mind, I'd like to see more attempts at "free improvisation" carry some notion of road maps along. It just makes for more interesting listening for us old folks to feel like you're not just starting and ending, but actually going to places in between.. The best already know that and plan accordingly, but how many best ones are there, really?

I have unfiled stuff that is filed, and unfiled stuff that is not filed.

Oh, I was hearing it as late as the late 20th Century. I actually phoned one of mine fairly recently. Staff answered the phone, listened thoroughly, thanked me for my call, etc. What happened after that, I don't know, but some (most?) of these folks like to have an ear to the ground, even if it's vicarious.

If you jack it up, will they still come?

Apparently not.

Yeah, looking that site over, it's full of anti-Jewish and other racist crap. I am removing the link so that there will be no more direction to a site such as this from the Orgnissimo board.

Write your congressman, isn't that what they told us back in the day?

Or you can think for yourself.

Any organization is only going to be as good - or as bad - as the people working it. My experience with in-office postal workers has always been goodor better, and fortunately the same with all but a handful of drivers over the 30+ years we've lived in this house. Management is one thing, I wonder what the end game is for this regime of UPS management, but the frontline workers I interact with have always been friendly, professional, and conscientious. They want to help you! Glad to see them getting some love here!

Of all the records with good players playing well out there, this is one of them. Congratulations to all concerned -y'all made a record and I listened to it one time!

As far as Epstein recs, I will buy any of his records, to be hones. On his later works for Motown & Enterprise, he doesn't at all sound like an old guy trying to make record for the kids. He sounds like Billy-Fucking-Eckstine, period. The MGM stuff is still not all out there, thus my call for a Mosaic. His Mercury & Roulete stuff too. Again, sometimes less than:hip" settings, but also again, Billy Eckstine trumps all. Here's one that a probably lot of people already have, but if not, carpe diem! If ?love wants to continue in his attempts to counter "Black erasure", he could do far worse than turn the spotlight on Billy Eckstine. At his peak he ws known as the "Sepia Sinatra", but that was notas much a praise as it sounds. It ws a limiter, and as his career progressed the imposed upward limitations played out. By the time he died, he was at best a "cult figure" (maybe without a cult). And today's people..."who is Billy Eckstine?" should be a question that is never asked.

Indeed. That one gets lost in the shuffle sometimes, probably because it was a one-off for Verve. It should be far better known, imo. It's a bit Creed Taylor-y (motly in the recording sound and maybe the song selections and lengths), but oh well about that. Kirk's Atlantic sides were often a bit John Dorn-y, so again, oh well about that. Rahsaan could function in a blowing setting and a production setting equally well. His was a true voice and its message/meaning was never dilutable.

Grant Stewart is fun, but fun in and of itself might not be appropriate for every occasion, especially when the bass/drum hookup is, shall we say, not always a given.

Eyes.

Took me a while to figure out that the liner notes to Unit Structures were essentially poetry. I was, like, 15-16 when I got the record and really was unaware of such things. Had Cecil been documented playing the inside of the piano prior to this telecast, on record or elsewhere?

I think the entire LP is on that comp, but they break it up. It's really a standalone program, imo. Eckstine deserves a Mosaic, imo. Such an artist Behold and believe.

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Was Jazz Guild one of those Jerry Valburn labels?

I wish the splices had been able to have been made less obvious, but that's a technical point, not a musical one. But please, nobody try to remake it, please. No good can come from that. None.

How deep into the Arthur Prysock catalogue have you gone/are you wanting to get? I only ask because I was delighted to find that almost all of the Verve and very many of the Old Town records contain absolutely superb singing in sometimes/often less that superb arrangements/settings. If you've gone deep enough, you'll have learned that already, but if you haven't, do so knowing that. Me, I've hardly ever heard one where the meh-ness of the settings overwhelmed the exquisite vocals. That guy was a treasure. And the kids liked him too!

Pancey Michaels - I Ain't Gettin' In THAT Car!!!