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Where can you see that now? Someplace "normal"? I never knew about it until I found a VHS of it in a Blockbuster cutout bin in the late 80s (and that was when I knew that home video was entering a new phase, when all the "arts" stuff started showing up in cutout bins...). I find it unintentionally comic, the acting is just SO chariactured (as is the script, in retrospect), but the band is ON. Wish there would have been some documentation of later productions, where the band started getting involved and improvising lines. I think that's where the Cecil/Shepp connection took root? Can you imagine those two contributing to a real time version of that script?

I do, because by the time I bought that record, that woman would have not looked my age, she would have looked like somebody I was watching on old movies. Of course, Like the man said, I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. But even at that, Bill Perkins propelled my fantasies in ways and in directions that no earthly human could...our most profound imaginations have no gender, gender is for Earth.

The man got The Ravens out there, hey. magnificent in a HUGE way. I dream of a chance for history to repeat itself only with the fuckups fixed, among them, put a Bird solo in this record. Or more to the point, no fuckup to fix, just...in order to form a more perfect union. Those guys riffing behind Jimmy Ricks, SWING. and on the out chorus...swing on top of swing. Ravens on a JATP package with Bird and Pres, just once, please future, please. Not THAT crazy, really, didn't Jimmy Ricks do a bit of a stint with Basie? Yes! https://aadl.org/N023_0387_005 As they say, no matter where you go, there you are.

Ernest McCarty talks about Erroll Garner This is beautiful, the gratitude.

West Coast, yeah, most of that music made it out on LP more or less from jump. 10" then 12" This series (the ones with the ST- prefix kept the cream of the PJ crop in print until the latest 60s, and then, when they got remaindered, well into the early 70s. https://www.discogs.com/label/830628-Jazz-Milestones-Series Great record, better cover: Also, Liberty budget label sunset would be good for some Bud Shank stuff here and there. Of course, Shank was having "hit" records in the mid-60s, so they made them look like they weren't older than they were. Dameron is trickier..but here: https://www.discogs.com/artist/251783-Tadd-Dameron you will find a fair number of LPs that were in print when I began collecting in the early 1970s. Blue Note consolidated it's prime stuff onto LPs somewhere in the 1950s. Prestige kept most of it in print, even if they did repackage it every few years. The label that was a bear to get when I started was Savoy. Their OG LPs went really, alomost, "underground" once they became a primarily gospel label. So, yes, in print, and yes, send a dime(?) in coin or stamps and get a catalog, but...good luck. But all that changed in the 70s. Design quirks aside, Savoy had about THE best reissue program of them all in thier 2-Fer LP series. They covered the shit out of that label, and not just jazz.

The first two series of Echoes Of An Era were prone to haphazardness, especially the first series, but eventually somebody realized that hey, we're going to be doing this for a while, maybe we better start adding vale or something...and so they started doing straight-up 2-Fers like everybody else. Americans might lose sight of the fact that the Bird Savoys were always in print in some for or fashion (even if not always well-distributed), but the Dial sides never really had a proper release until that limited edition Warner Brothers box (and then "best-of 2-fer of master takes)that was supposed to accompany the supposed to be Richard Pryor Bird movie...so you either srpung for the Spotlite imports or you took what you could get from other sources.

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He did interesting work all his life. Wish we could all say the same. Check out the Shirley Clarke film of the play. The music is by far and away the best part of it, but it is GREAT. And Freddie Redd is right there in it, as should be. Oh my, one more film credit to his name! https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714660/?ref_=tt_cl_t10 Danish!

Just for grins, check out reruns of the first few seasons of The Carol Burnett show, and The Tim Conway Comedy Hour (which is a bit of an oddball classic anyway). The check out the Away We Go clips on You Tube. There's a unity of sound there in the writing, and they all have Allyn Ferguson in common. Jack Elliot too, although not on the Buddy record. The dance numbers on the Conway show quite often sound like charts written for but not recorded by Buddy's band and/or the Away We Go Show. I watching this stuff thinking that wow, this sounds familiar, and it did. The New One was the first Buddy record I heard, one of the older kids in stage band had it, so...you know how that went. Now...I just found out about a Johnny Mathis Mercury record that Allyn Ferguson wrote for, and it is...intricate. In a good way. Did he go on to make any Seabreeze records, or things of that ilk? Seems like a writer with a pretty large palate.

Is "foal" the correct term here?

It was a good time to get earlier bebops on LP: Then...Side Two of this one is, in a sense, a perfect record - four of Bird's best ballads, nothing else. We played it for both of our kids while they were in utero. Perfect.

I had to get that one here, pre-OJC, coupled with the Bud set from the same gig: Yeah, I don't think those type sets are really meant to be enjoyed in their entirety in more or less one listening session too many times. I have them as sort of a library, a source to go to for a piece of whatever it is that I'm looking for.

I never had this one, but apparently a lot of people did: I had this one: Dedicate to jazz through sound, please note.

Picked this one up out of the cutout bins pretty early in my discovery, guess you could say that it imprinted. this one too, especially as it pertained to imprinting on airshots, not studio recordings: there were others...cheap records used to be everywhere, like this one:

I'm maybe figuring out a nexus between Allyn Ferguson & the variety shows recorded live at Television City in Hollywood that had great (I mean HOLY SHIT great) orchestras playing live and some the music on this album, which definitely sprung out of that environment. I know Allyn Ferguson wrote on this one, did Jack Elliott also? Whoever played lead trumpet on the Carol Burnette show....that whole band sounded like it was full of jazz players, just the sound and the phrasings...and they were picked up crystal-clear, whoever the sound engineers were on those shows were state of the art. Not something you really notice when you're watching the shows for the entertainment, but on rerun....yeah, there's a BAND on these shows.

Atta boy, Ted Hearne!

Jeru Teru Nero

Toots Schor?

Yeah, my first three look to be immaculate. Go Bob!!!!

Denardo?

New Vocabulary and he did those two cameos on that Geri Allen record... Eyes in the back of your head, that one

That's a damn good record.

My hunch is that there was a buttload of recording going on at Prince Street, and that it's probably a mess to sort out.

Never mind grants, some opera company or foundation could commission this.

I pay taxes for stuff like this, and if I don't, I should, and if I shouldn't, then I will. "Crowdfunding" is one step short of begging. At this level, anyway. I's not like Baby Littlejimmy needs a new kidney and his momma got the covid and his daddy got a badback.from doing non-union contruction work in Texas, or some sadbuttrue shit like that.