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Well, ok. But why should whether or not Sondheim's songs are suitable jazz vehicles even be a matter of consideration in the first place? There's only one world, but the only way to enjoy it is to let one worlds be many worlds. One world is not one same world. I still say - songs? Still? Really? and right now, I'm answering, yes, but not real-ly. Not like that. Because it's not like that any more.

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Minnie Minoso!

Jazz, Sondheim, why do either need the other, they shouldn't, they don't, what is this narrative that insists otherwise?

This Percy France guy can play!

Celebrity Bowling brought me here.

The wife was an adult. The kid was a kid. And btw, look up Nat Adderley, Jr. The kid did alright for himself.

As it is, he gained a lot of weight, bought a 60s tux, and allowed his wife to play on a lot of his albums 60s version of that 70s thing.

Didn't Verve do the Emarcy albums?

Wasn't Chico O'Farrill involved with at least some of the Gato impulse! records?

Into whose industrious hands does the "classical" series need to fall before OUT they come? Am I going to live that long? Is Earth? Is the Universe?

Gato's impulse! albums, especially the first and last ones are pretty glorious, imo. Reception at the time was that he had finally found his voice. People liked the FD stuff, but sometimes they seemed a little directionless/skwonkyskweeley. The Latin America series, otoh, was TOTALLY focused. Mileages may vary, but not so much that I've heard? I also agree on the A&M stuff. Sure, they're "mood music", but it's a legit mood done really well. The question is how much is the little that goes a long way...I have a pretty high tolerance for it, but that's just me. One thing I learned from checking out his version of Eur0pa, though - that thing was studio constructed, either that or he's the greatest circular breather ever! But - you can still pack a dance floor with it for a slojam. Still.

Gato is not on the Lonnie Liston Smith album (Astral Travelling). It's somebody named George Barron. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/george-barron-mn0001717573 I have not heard these of his.

Ok, Lonnie Liston Smith, first Flying Dutchman album. Bob Theile has been accused of trying to make Gato Barbieri into a "white" ie - popular Pharoah Sanders, and I'm not sure I can get with that. But what he was doing with Lonnie Liston Smith here certainly suggests that he was looking for a spin-off of same.

not only is it allowed, it is encouraged!

Patience Higgins Monk Higgins Abbey Lincoln

Ok, disregard the "earlier" business, this one was the second. I hear the first one and the third one together and this one years later, so...my bad for scrambling reality and experience. Those first three, all ear openers, though. Reissues serving their best purpose of shining light on neglected gems.

#11 is by a drummer/composer who got a bit of recognition late in life for his records made before this one. A very accomplished, if waaaaay undersung, talent. Knowing now who it is,y uncertainty about what the deal was is removed, and thumbs are now up! I do like his earlier records better, but this one is certainly ok! #12 comes by it's Pharaoh-ishness naturally/honestly enough....I suppose...but the leader devolved rather quickly and drastically, imo.

What are you getting out of this one? I'm afraid to go back there, but I think I do have a blogged mp3 somewhere...

Sparky del Video - Mi Mundo es Muy Grande

We Three Kings of Orient We Free Kings Captain Kirk

I have the Harley on a reissue that I should probably get reacquainted with. It was not of an Atlantic album!

The first I heard them do that was on a Don Kirshner Rock concert (iirc) and it was a mess by the time it was over. So hearing it on their album was, like, oh, ok, well this isn't THAT big a mess. But then when I finally DID hear the originals. perspective was finally and permanently I like Richard Perry too, as a rule. What he did, he did extremely well. But it is what it is, no illusions. Same thing with Phil Ramone, those guys made those types of records as well as they could be made.

Damn phone typing....stung, not dying...jeesh.

They never really totally fit into the "Soul LH&R" thing imo. It didn't seem organic most of the time. David Rubinson tried, they tried, EVERYBODY tried. But as with love, you cant hide trying. I mean, Yes We Can" was from that same period and THAT was organic to them, no trying there. some of the other things. But I find their "jazz" work (including this one) to be...on a level of that Maria Muldair album with Benny Carter - well intentioned, and not without SOME merit, but...it's a billboard for a town, not the town itself.