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This.

This, yes: But that...no.

I can like me some Andy Williams just fine, but not like a bouncy-in-place Sinatra clone with only the occasional blank filled in.

To whet your appetite, hopefully.

I used to dismiss her as a "showbiz" singer who often sang with jazz backgrounds. The record with Cannonball was an anomaly. shouldn't they all be that good? And they weren't. Or so I thought. It was the rediscovery of Jimmy Scott and her advocacy of him as as her #1 influence (even above Dinah Washington) that got me to relistening and hearing that it wasn't that she was a showbiz singer, she was a singer who did showbiz. Because Jimmy Scott put me in a DEPP zone from the git-go. So...son of a gun, he was all over Nancy, sure enough. And then THAT let to the crate digging, I'd see a Nancy Wilson record for a few bucks and home it would go. Plenty of enjoyment but no real surprises until T.L.C. a superb presentation in every way, including the tuba-enhanced arrangements of Billy May. That one REALLY made me reconsider a lot of things that I was already reconsidering. As "jazz vocal" records, eh...whatever. Just a singing records, hey, stop it right there, what's all you need. Just a singer, some charts, and a song. Everything else can be argued amongst musicologists and polemicists and all that. Not that I'm immune to that type of thing, but not about Nancy Wilson, not now.

That would be inconvenient for the bystanders, but, really, that would be the best way to go, imo. Get in that zone and just keep going. Seriously.

So they had to call an ambulance and a sub at the same time?

Probably some kind of contractual/management thing stemming back to Roost/Roulette?

I severely underappreciated Nancy Wilson for far too long. It's not that I started hearing different things there, just that I've become able to hear those things differently.

Bizness Man wants to know how an entity such as this got hooked up with an Orrin Keepnews label that was seemingly all about acoustic mainstream small group hard-bop etc, kinda like a next-gen Glalaxy only with some younger people as well….then again, Kronos Quartet.

That's the Orin Keepnews Landmark label, alright.

Yeah, that thesis needs adjusting. Indeed it does.

What book is this in? I think I skipped class that semester? What kind of Commie professors were these?

That could easily be Milt Buckner. He was not one to be silent! The proposed Mosaic is the Black & White label, totally different time/place, but full of interesting material. Here's hoping it makes it to market. Besides this LP cover, that Jacquet record has seen two different CD issues! It's not the most consistently organized catalo, let's put it that way.

That's funny!

This is as good a place as any to start: But really, so much more...

Griffin is another one that came out of the Lionel Hampton band! All the more reason for a Hampton Decca Mosaic, imo. The records of both Jacquet & Cobb on Black & Blue put them in a much more "direct" settings than did the Prestige records (all of which are great, of course), but once Milt Buckner gets added to ANYBODY's mix, hey, that changes the recipe automatically.

It's the same label, but repackaged. Sometimes there's added tracks, and sometimes (rarely, but still...) the break up the original LP. But in the end, it's all good. To widen things up a little more, there was a CD series before this, some of which did not make it to this series. And then there's LPs that (I think?) haven't made it to digital yet. Really, it was a pretty extensive catalog, and none but the most obsessed will have (or will want to have) ALL of it. Having said that, I very much try to pick them up as I see them, when I see them, as best as the budget will allow for.

I'm glad that guitar playering record got ID'ed. I liked that one a lot, the end of it with the air-raid siren sounds reminded me of "The Unknown Soldier". I was glad to be reminded of that in a way that didn't piss me off because it was superficial or wink-wink.

James Beard Whiskers the Cat Toonces

But it's the only record I have!!!

Is it jazz? Is it blues? Is it urban? Is it country? Is it sophisticated? Is it grass roots basic? Why yes, it is! Oh, Michael Silva's drumming...flayva. Sounds like a guy who if you got a bass player, cool, but if you don't, like if the guy got a flat or something, also cool, or even if for whatever reason Milt Bucker don't feel like working them pedals too much (if at all?), no problem, he knows what to do either way.