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And then there's the Basie album with the Alan Copeland singers (a name we should all know, btw). It combines the wordless air of sophistication with a delightfully oppositional whaft of worded bullshit, resulting in a really unique physics that proves that even if the downbeats are the in the same place. the notes in between are from where the swing emanates, and two different worlds can exist on the same record without swinging at all by being in two totally incompatible places. BUT - it works when it does by recognizing that if notes are held instead of moved, the is no conflict in swing, which means that you can have totally groovy harmonies sung in an expert manner, especially when there's a female singer who sounds like she also did time with the Ray Conniff singers, and I don't men that in a bad way. She's a voice (well, actually they all are, collectively) that was pretty much omnipresent for a decade or two, and dammed if I know her name. So, this record exists and is really annoying until it's not, and then it is splendid. But it doesn't quit while it's (barely) ahead, so I can't recommend it to anybody except really specialized specialists. But for them, hey, Basie, Green, Duvivier, and Ed Shaunessy lock it in and down, and are mixed up high enough (and the singers reverbed enough) that, yes, Bob Theile produced it for ABC-Paramount, and the lead track made something like #29 on the Billboard Easy Listening Singles chart, so...mission accomplished. Oh, two Lockjaw solos at the end of the record! TTK - you should probably drink a highball and sit in a meshnettingstriplawn chair for this one, but you can upgrade if you are able to tell me the name of the woman who takes lead on so many of these cuts...or of any of these other singers, really. They are definitely top-shelf and probably got rich as a result, because they did that in a time and a place where what they did was valued.

Same.

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Guess I'm not understanding what he means by " Side-Eye"? To whom is the side-eye being given? His own band? NYC? He, himself?

A better quality air:

Damita Jo Stafford James

It always means, oh, here is something not from my world, what is it to now be? And the solutions for these "problems" are either: the person tries to change the thing into something that the person can understand the person tries to change themself in order to understand the thing By their fruit you shall know them.

For historical reco8rdings, yes, I do find myself preferring European direction over American, at least until American understanding proved a meaningful unique understanding. But of course, Euro- American growing out of Euro is a totally different dynamic than Euro moving into African- American, where imitation to decide on meaning was the only route available. In both cases, migrations move musics along in ways that would otherwise not occurred.

The original, though...was Regina a Bob Shad thing?

Legrand's another one...just how desperate are people?

The cover art kinda bothers me, it's just too damn literal. T But the music more than makes up for it.

The Swingle Singers with Berio, yeah. Otherwise, that ShooBeeDoobieDooBach shit...just how low will white people stoop to feel justified in this fast paced ever-changing world? It's impotency is evident, like we got nothing left to fuck with, so let's but on a BachJazz mask and see who stokes us. Otherwise we die. Bach's musical dick is big enough to survive by itself, thank you And John Lewis showed that he had his own. Blues On Bach one hellagood record of recorded music. Speaking of which...I'd heard good things about Lewis' post-MJQ Bach records and recently got a few of them to see what the deal was Let me put it this way...uh...ok? If you like that kind of thing, well, there it is, but a very little of that goes a long way for me, and all those records seem REALLY long Just This Listener's Purrspective, and oh, check out Evolution, his solo record from 1999, and flush this other pernicious whitewashing out of your mind, and any other places it might be. That shit gotta go!

Jorge Ben Webster Armstrong

Rumor has it that at least one one of those is actually shot from above, that Sly was too high to stand up, much less jump. That's what the rumor has it.

Oh my...not aware of this one at all...but "Pablo Digital" kinda scares me...they had already gotten into a close-miked thing that might not translate well via earliest digital recording...but Bags & Jaws, maybe just go fix the tone controls on the hi-fi and deal with it?

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Is there anybody with a first name of Fleming, are are we just doing standalone entries?

The Cleveland Eatons!

That's a good movie

A lot of AA & AAA teams. The real players eventually made it to the bigs, as real players always do The rest, hey we got 'em here too, some people just like a ball game, period, that's why there's ball parks for every occasion, so root root root for the home team, and if they don't win... there's probably a reason. I can only take "European jazz" seriously once the "Europeans" stopped trying to play like " Americans". Wherever you are, stand your ground, your ground. Be neither conqueror or conquered. Of course, nowadays, whose ground is it anyway? Doesn't matter, it's all going to hell, what the fires don't burn, the waters will wash away But that Swingles/MJQ record, I bouught an American Phillips copy of it used in the late 70s and had gotten rid of it before the early 80s arrived. OMG, what a fluffy bunch of empty fluffiness... A lot of people have said a lot of nasty things about John Lewis, and I am happy to offer up plenty of rebuttals using many records. But THAT record...no defending against that one, just stipulate that it proves the prosecution's point and then move on.

Any kind of a link? I may or may not be interested!

Live longer and prosper!

I think so? The label, I can't recall...it came out in that year or so. I bought it right away, jammed it really good, and then put it up for the next time. It's a pretty good record!