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There's only ever been one cut on YouTube, but it's pretty reprsentaive of the arrangements, if not songs. As the saying goes, it's not going to be for everybody. But I have no shame. Standards, yes.. Shame, no!

I would be remiss if I did not also add that bill Watrous made one of the greatest Avant-Garde Easy Listening (TTK probably has his own category for it) records ever. Haircut still "Yeesh". Trombone playing, unchanged. But that playing, in this particular context,,,I'm a big fan of this record, for that. Seriously!

You're surrendering the strategic advantage there! But seriously...i find myself hearing what i want to hear better than I've been told that I do, but not as well as I probably could. So, at some point, just not wanting to hear something will stop being a self-defense strategy and turn into a real disadvantage.

Interested in this on an ongoing basis...probably going to bite the bullet and get a set before I retire, while my insurance still covers the expense. Not more than another 18 months, probably less.

Zawinul, hands down. Feldman played the gig really well, but Zawinul made an impact, changed the music. The piano chair, hell that band, was never he same after. Frank Rosolino at his most excessive, or Jimmy Cleveland at his most excessive? (and no, Bill Watrous is not an option! )

Oh yeah, the Paris gig really is the last band. The Houstonian contingent is on board and Duke is trying to make the change. But hell, he was close to dead as it was, so...

the Beacon is back on! CHANGE THAT HEADLINE, WSJ!!!!

AZMATON HAVE DELIVERED!!!! THE LEE-GLE HAS LANDED!!! NO MORE CALLS, WE HAVE A WINNER!!!

THOSE guys, yeah! As for the Squatty Roo things...they are clearly boots and people will rightfully complain about the cassette-grade sound quality. So if you have another source, by all means, go there for it. But otherwise, that's where that lives. Not pretty, but...real.

Azamon is telling me I'm the NEST STOP!!!! Oh please, let my heart not be broken THIS time by an empty promise left on a deserted doorstep. Please god, please.

If/When the Bird In LA thing gets a release, that, what was his name, Zazatranian? Ranch jam session...the last thing on that (which has yet to see an even bootleg release AFAIK) is Bird and somebody else, the last two left standing (probably literally) and Bird is obviously WAY high, not palying any tune or changes or anything, just pre instinct/relex...and it's beautiful, it speak, it may or may not be "rational", but it's musical. It's truth. It was harder to keep a band together as well...cats got old and either died or retired, well, who are you going to get to play that schedule for that money? Not an easy undertaking, not for any meaningful duration. Maybe the very last band, where the Houstonians began to come in, that might have taken root (and di, posthumously), but...too late for Duke to really get into that group of personalities. I try to imagine MErcer trying to keep that shit even halfway together...Duke getting more and ore...eccentric, eccentric, visible, and writing at least as much as ever and getting more urgent about it. Mercerhad his hands full, no boubt, and god bless him for doing it. What I like about those last Duke bands was like they sounded like Archie Shpp projects, only with Duke writing. Rogh, ragged-jagged BLUES, a very Black Essence with no punches pulled. No time for ambiguity, time was closing in faster and faster. It's remarkable music, really, and yeah, band is "ragged" but...NEEDED to be. Those two Squatty Roo boots - Rugged Jungle & Last Visit To Paris...not easy listening. Nor should it be. But the saga doesn't end until it ends. Gotta deal with that or else deal in wishful thinking.

yes, even then... and even during that session where he plays "My Heart Belongs To daddy", after Pree was dead...oh my god... I really, seriously, deeply have come to believe that we as a society are "genius-happy". Everybody want to feel good about shit, so everybody has a chance at being a "genius". Sure, why not? Because that's bullshit, that's why not. Genius and intrinsic worth, not the same thing, not even, not ever. Bird gets "genius", by any standard.

Maybe...I keep reading about how Bird would go through periods of really REALLY trying to stay clean and live clean. Like right out of Camarillo, when he first moved in with Chan... Now what that meant in terms of traditional definitions of "sober", I don't know. some people would say that weed is perfectly sober, that it's just medicine, wheres your 12-Steppers, no. So, I don't know. And since i don't know...I don't know. I'll just take Bird, period, because even when he was clearly in a bad way, he cut through. Bird always cut through in a meaningful way.

He actually made a few trips to Africa (the continent, not the country!) and got down into it to see what the real deal was with "record" distributions of popular musics. Real life observations. Doing the work! I think he had hopes of doing the same when he came here, but...this shit has been locked up dead for a good long while now. All the mom-and-pop stores long gone. 30 years ago, heel yeah, we'd have kept busy. But...

Yeah, that's a good set. I'm in. I'm not the biggest Jordan fan ever, but...props aplenty, all deserved. I do hope the research into the origins of this session continues. I don't know that Capri really has a handle on how interesting this could get...

Hamilton. Allen gives me the willies, Hamilton really tries to say something in his own way. High Bird or Sober Bird?

oh-HO - Azamon now says between 1-5 PM today. Santa got the lead out of his ass and into his gas tank!?!?!?!?!?

35 minutes, yeah, could be a long demo or a typical LP of the time also...17 minutes a side, not a typical at all....how many songs are there? I think i should just order the damn thing and see myself! Sounds tasty, so nothing to lose! What I do like about our Fiona is that she will go after the squirrels trying to eat out of the bird feeder. Damn squirrels...I have eaten their ancestors, but they don't respect that. They don't respect anything.

35 minutes is cool, totally standard LP length, maybe even longer. Temptation is stronger now... Our dog is named Fiona also. She's a rescue dog of many possible origins, and has just (as of yesterday) developed this weird maternal attachment to her new chew toy. Brenda bought it at Costco, some Peanut Butter Flavored stuffed beef bone, god only know what it really is. But she's clinging to it like a puppy, square business. Country of origin is Brazil, who knows what's really in it. The Sheila sounds like a very real possibility with that playing time. I was worried that as a demo it might be, like 15-20 minutes or something in htat neighborhood. But this raises the question - if it's LP length, was it really a demo? Just because it was found as an acetate doesn't mean that it was a demo. This mysterious label...I bet there's more to the story!

Total playing time of ???? I can be tempted on this one...

No contest - Garzone Black Saint or Soul note?

RVG or the Contemporary Storeroom (Roy DuNann)?

Ok, cool. Wanted to make sure after screwing the pooch the first time around.

Ellington in the 70s, hearing that band get more and more ragged as the new pieces kept getting jaggier and jaggies is, as the man himself said, "beyond category. Can I do this? Or are the rules wound really tight, like you have to answer the question exactly as asked, nothing else? Probably not? But still, just checking.

Yeah, definitely an invaluable resource with a deep knowledge base.