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Marchel Ivery was in Paris for his Army stint and saw Bud more than once. He was also present for the Olympia concert of Miles & Trane. Marchel is no longer with us, unfortunately. But he passed the stories and images along. One striking thing he said was that Donald Byrd figured out that when Bud was in a stupor of some sort, he could bring Bud out of it by playing like Fats Navarro. That would seem to trigger something in Bud to get him back in from wherever he was.

Yeah, I only know them as the 4 CD set. Wouldn't have them any other way, to be honest.

Some older reading that might be of interest: and especially this, which needs to be protected against digital holocaust:

Mr. Dog - Got A Triangle Head

Jaws! Rick Henderson! And pf course, Dinah Washington!

It was Pete Burbank.

Derek Fats Domino Duane Eddy

Brad McCuen, check him out, his RCA jazz productions in the mid-late 1960s. Some very good stuff there past Burton and Ellington

Stepney not only did the arrangements and production, he also did the "electronic effects". I hear that he was eager as hell to get a Moog and somehow did. That little electronic WTF? in the middle of EWF's "Getaway", that was pure Stepney. History will not be rid of him as easily as it might otherwise do:

Apparently it's a Prince fan site.

Because he's now dropping on Verve?

Check out the transcript of the DownBeat interview here: https://prince.org/msg/8/169991

Like the guy in the CarShield commercial says - WHO DOES THAT?!?!?!? A LOT of people are made queasy by it, but I'm like, fuck that - WHO DOES THAT?!?!?!?! It's the Dells covering Burt Bacharach on Chess for crying out loud, for starters. Take it from thereAnd oh, look at whos on the session: Additional musicians Charles Stepney – Fender Rhodes, piano, harpsichord, congas, percussion Phil Upchurch & Roland Faulkner – guitar Cash McCall – guitar (on I Just Don’t Know) Art Hoyle & Robert Lewis – trumpets Ed Druzinsky – harp Ether Merker & Paul Ondracek - horns Morris Jennings & Donny Simmons – drums Bobby Christian – percussion Derf Reklaw, Ealee Satterfield, & Oye Bisi Nalls – bongos & congas Charles Stepney had an agenda! I mean, I LOVE The Dells and I LOVE Charles Stepney, and/but this album...WHO DOES THAT?!?!?!?

Not at all well-served. And if you can buy into the premise (ie - these are RECORDS, not replicas of live performances, and ultimately they are producer-centric creations), some of that shit is EPIC. I mean, count the ingredients, count the moments they get inserted, my god, this is not hack work, this is vision.

Charles Stepney's vision was MASSIVE!!!!!

They did indeed1 It's the type of thing that people claim is from the Everly Brothers, which yeah, sure, but they didn't invent it, if you know what I mean. But they did bring it into the Pop consciousness. I like looking out, but I like looking in as well. And those accents...that's what I heard before I realized that there was life past the cradle, so to speak. At least Gene's was...I was well into adolescence when I heard one even remotely like Debbe's...ot at least realized that I was hearing one...

I don't think so...she just has a really husky, deeper voice...if she was double-tracked, you'd hear a bit of intonation/phrasing clash, that almost always happens on unison double-tracking. I'm just fascinated by this pair (at least on their better records, of which there are a few, but not many) because...I recognize the accents, if that makes any sense to anybody. Gene Thomas was from Palestine, Tx, and Debbe Neville was from...wherever voices like that come from...

Nile Rodgers Chuck Niles Mavis Rivers

Mildred Long - Me and Paul

I want to dislike these, but I can't. I also want to like them, but I can't do that either. Go figure.

Is this going to be a limited window of availability? Or #?

Identity crisis! x2!