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But there was a Warne Out record made, a damn good one too, on Interplay. Tenor trio too.

Zone. Pure zone.

Electric bass can give it a certainpeople sound. Not better (or worse), just different. Sound is sound. Say what you mean how you mean, it's all right.

A few things...Rhodes was a Fender product, so, hey. Also, they were more roadworthy (relatively speaking), Then there's just the sound, for whatever reason, the Rhodes sound gained popular favor. But the old heads still remembered that Wurlitzer sound... Rhodes ain't gonna do that.

Wurlitzers kinda disappeared once Rhodes really took root, which was a shame afaic, those things were really funky sounding, especially with an expertly applied tremelo. The Rhodes "mud" could be used to advantage, imo, but as far as trying to play it "like" an acoustic piano is a non-starter, imo. Might as well try to play a violin like a trumpet... otoh, the 70s saw a lot of people adding effects and EQ to really get specilized/personal tones and textures out of it. Some were better than others, though...I knew one guy who went out of his way to make it sound like anything but a Rhodes, and I was like, you know what that sounds like,, neither fish nor fowl. And then you had the people shaving the tines to mico-tune the sucker...go with the mud, I say. Learn how that shit works, don't try to use it to imitate something it,s not. Tines are not strings, tines make it closer to a kalimba that a grand, nothing you do is going to change that. And yet...Tommy Flanagan had a good touch on it playing straight-up bebop. Definitely the exception rather than the rule. I doubt he liked it, but he showed that touch is all.

Different instruments with different sounds and different techniques of basic sound production cannot be played with a generic technique. Doing so ensures inadequate outcomes.

Milt Frink - Meet Milt Frink (Recorded Live!!!)

Vaughn Nickleberg - The Emptiness Of You

Hopper Topper?!?!?!?!?! It's "Cherokee", but Harris' voicings are just oblique enough to make a difference. What else was on this label, and where is it now?

Frank Lowe...burned so brightly...having a healthy life should never be taken for granted...but here he is in full fire and fury, telling the truth, as affirmed and attested to by Rashied Ali.

Herman Nistico has always struck me as a very personal take on the whole Johnny Griffin bag, or what that was at that time. Both players deepened and evolved over time.

Not bad at all...and would definitely NOT induce rogue vomiting at a cocktail party, at least not from me!

Red Allen Doc Severnson or Bob Rosengarden?

You wanna talk about getting mindfucked out of nowhere... I still remember buying the 45 of "Kiss" to learn the words in a hurry or some tax-deductible reason, and flipping it over for this thing called ❤️ or $... Still a gas to listen to that one...details!!! And out of nowhere. It's like the guy figures no way I ain't NOT gonna sell the fuck out of THIS record, so let me do THIS on the B-Side, I got choices here, I' m gonna make one. It's my own personal consideration that the true mark of a Pop Artist is not the A-Side, but the B-Side. And now that there are NO sides, what kind of a trap have we sided ourselves into? And Prince never(?) used Ricky Wellman either. But Chuck Brown did, so you got choices there, can't- miss choices

I hope I live long enough to find out who's got the craziest shit in the deepest recesses of their vault, Prince or Stevie Wonder? My gut says Prince, but my mind says "assume nothing".

You know, when this guy's gone...the next successor is gonna be James Carter's organ group if he wants it to be. But not everybody's gonna come along with James Carter, if you know what I mean...but they could if they wanted too...and if he wanted to... A friend sent me a copy of this, and although I was not really all that hep on Houston Person until the very late 1970s, I gotta say that although he has not changed one bit since...ever...he continues to deepen (which i think is what I began to pick up on as far back as those very late 1970s, the Muse album with Cedar Walton, which was, I think, just after his Gospel album on savoy, maybe?). I didn't think I was gonna like this past the "respect" lvel, but dammit, there's nothing to do her except enjoy it while it lasts.

Of course! But seriously...I LOL about stuff like this, like, ok, "if only" Bix would have been Chet Baker, who would Chet Baker have been? Maybe they would have been roommates and gone to church together! It's a silly preposition, that "if only" a person's birthdate would have been different that everything about their life would have remined otherwise the same and they would have been exactly who they were EXCEPT for _____ (insert desired outcome here). I mean, c'mon, that's some cartoon shit. Talk about a message from outer space...Bix was Bix precisely because of he he was, where he was, when he was. So he had a tragic life? BFD. The world is full of tragic lives who don't make ANY kind of music. And plenty of happy people make plenty of shit music. No, if Bix had lived in the 1950s, he'd have lived in the 1950s instead of when he did, that's about all you can say with any certainty. And in order for him to have still been "Bix Beiderbecke", he'd have had to lived when he really did, did what he already did, and still lived through it all. That ain't what happened, in outer space or anywhere else.

But there would not be all the Bix-derived music for him to work with, so how would he invent himself when he hadn't existed yet?

And Prince never used Kenny Garrett or Marcus Miller.

I think Gilmore is in the shadows as an influence more than is realized...is there a less grammatically loopy way to say that?

CD version. LOVE the inner gatefold picture of the church under the roof of the cathedral! Also love the inner sleeve design that makes it look like an old 5.25" floppy. and of course, LOVE the music.

This is part of an incredibly invaluable resource: http://campber.people.clemson.edu/parrot.html A beautiful cover!

re:Maupin - I always put him in the Joe camp as far as source code, but...what about John Gilmore? Those moments where he enters on a long strong tone and then rides up and down from there? I ws reading an old Gilmore thread here and it was posited by people who were there that a lot of people were checking out Gilmore, not just Coltrane, and not just early on. Maupin's time-line definitely would have him plenty close real time proximity with Gilmore, no?

hey, they didn't ask me about it. there's actually some justification give in the liners...

They removed the verbal interruptions, made it a straight instrumental.