JSngry

Eddie van Halen was the first player I ever heard favorably compared to Jan Hammer in terms of stylistic similarities.

Once.

I did see a video of that commercial one time but I couldn't tell you where or when and I don't think it was on YouTube.

Sure you can. Depends on where you want to set that particular bar. She was a pop star and had some talent who was also well-produced and who also benefited from the promotional machines that all popular pop starts do. I don't think anybody cannot deny that.

Already I'm hearing the Keith is dead and John is dead and John is dead and George is dead rumors.

So this is the one where she remembered to forget the words?

I like the saw solo. The record sounds wrong without it being there.

Do you want the saw solo? If do, you need the LP, correct?

No, I meant, like, some fed-up dad talking to his full-of-it kid, you, like, "Jesus Christ, superstar, what, you think you're too good to take out the trash? Gimme a break kid". THAT kind of thing. Here's a good'un!

Does anybody have the tapes (audio or video) of the segment of her summer replacement show where she had both BB King & the MJQ as quests? They go out with a group jam with Reddy singing "Everyday I Have The Blues". True. Never liked her singing, but she was big and "I Am Woman" certainly captures a moment in time that is still a moment, so...more than a moment, perhaps. RIP, and somebody's got to have tapes. She did? I thought it was from Jesus Christ, Superstar (and just who was talking to whom there, anyway?)

Is this the one where she forgot to forget the words?

More like a "follow up hit" to "Watermelon Man".

GO PREZ!!!!!!!

I mean, this is pretty "basic knowledge", isn't it? and "the wind beneath my wings", a google search gets you in literally seconds...who puts this data up like this? Lord himself?

Which is why I was asking to be reminded if Bird payed lead alto in that band...

Is this an attempt to split the Kanye vote?

I hear more and more of this as they get deeper and deeper into what are surely older magnetic tapes that have hiss and high-end loss from both age and repeated playings, and, maybe, slower tape speeds to begin with, sounds like it's all getting compressed or some other wankydoodlery to make you think it's not as gone as it is, more "alive" by being louder. I'm not complaining. I'd be shocked if anything of this vintage and origin wasn't aged beyond repair and therefore in need of disguise. That band is ON, that's all I care about.

interesting....

So twice, then Trice?

I forget, did Bird play lead alto in that band?

Going to take advantage of a window here, first-ish impression. TRACK ONE - "Serenade In Blue", sounds like it wants to be Heath Brothers/Jimmy Heath, but not that serious, almost sounds like Grover on soprano. Almost. Leaves me wanting...something, everything? Probably really good players all, but, nothing there, sorry. TRACK TWO - No, you weren't. TRACK THREE - Nope. TRACK FOUR - Ok, I get it, country players can play jazz. But the time on this is pissing me off, it doesn't swing in either a country or a jazz way, and the only ones who have a sense of being organic are the fiddle players. And ok, that is not how the head goes, nor is there a convincing case being made for it going this way instead. The fiddle players, though, they got the right thing going on. Everybody else, some other record, maybe, just not this one. TRACK FIVE - Didn't Shearing do it like this, is that his riff? Or Brubeck?This sounds like a country player too, but this swings in a jazz way, the guitarist has an accent, but is fluent in the language. Not feeling the vibes, though. Guitarist "gets" jazz, the vibist is just playing at it. Plus, the whole "Baroque" thing....never again, ok? TRACK SIX - Charlie Barnett? Some weird mix between "Caravan" and "Cirribiribin"...oh wow, that's Willie Smith, so I have no idea past that. Can't get past it being such a derivative tune, but the playing itself is sounds or better,. TRACK SEVEN - that shouldn't be anybody besides Ronnie Cuber, but if it is, has sounds older and a little less solid in his sound than he used to. Then again, we all get old if we're lucky (hopefully it's luck and not punishment...). Not sure about the band, it's definitely a retro thing, but it's not geeky about it or anything. Nice record, actually. TRACK EIGHT - That sure sounds like a Chico Hamilton record! And with good reason. I wonder how this record would strike people who had no awareness of the OG Quintet or their sounds in general. I dig it, there's a certain "corniness" built into it, what they might call "irony" today. that might get lost, but maybe not. I love me some chico Hamilton, evern the bad records, of which this is certainly not one. But crap, what if they could have gotten Jim Hall!!!!!! https://www.discogs.com/The-Original-Chico-Hamilton-Quintet-Reunion/release/1805811 TRACK NINE - Not feeling this one, but it is masterful playing. TRACK TEN - Took me a few second to pick up on it, but that's Randy & Billy. I need to play that record more than I have. It came out at a time where I didn't have the time to go deep on any single record, but hell, listen to this, one should go deep on this record. TRACK ELEVEN - That whole post-Now He Sings...thing has worn itself out for me, has for a while now, but this sounds honest enough. Bassist sounds like one of those low-action guys, has the speed but not the deep sound. It's a tradeoff, a choice, no wrong answers. If I had hear this 35-40 years ago, I would have been more taken than I am now. TRACK TWELVE - FUSION!!!!!! I'd love for this to be some unreleased Billy Cobham demo, but pretty sure it's not. But that could be Woody Shaw from his west coast sojourn? Don't think it's Freddie, Freddie was not making records like this by the time this would have been made. I love it though, it's just good energy and good playing, no stunts. People don't ever pay attention to how early fusion and early bebop both would sometimes go for playing fast js7ut to prove to themselves that they could. That's a legit thing to do. TRACK THIRTEEN - I first heard this song on a set (tree?) of post-Fortune Miles bootlegs, and they played it just a tad slower there, built it a lot more. But never really knew the name of it until years later, and then, ok, yeah, THAT makes sense. But it's a CREAT tune and hopefully someday there's an official/cordinated rel;ease of that band, Miles was still evolving, and hearing how they did this one live, yeah, it's a treat. This one could have replaced "Maiysha" as the "cool pop song" in the bood for the middle 70s if the band would have gone that long. Sam Morrison, whatever happened to that guy? Is he the one who turned to tennis instead of music? TRACK FOURTEEN - Sam Jones, "Holy Land", and this was a record I had to sleuth out (the song/band is pretty much obvious, but with a string quartet?!?!?!?!?!). I am curious! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Minds TRACK FIFTEEN - Sounds like Hannibal wanting to be Maynard, or vice-versa. Oh, now we're going to "burn" on Soimpressionwhats changes...this sounds like it might have been recorded digitally, early digital. Or some super-fi technology. Sorry, but a worse recording might have actually been better for the music. Sounds a bit stunt-y and it's NOT Fusion. TRACK SIXTEEN - Still haven't gotten to the Mosiac...but this is a nudge in that direction for sure! 16 tracks is a lot to listen to and a lot to type about. Listening I can do, typing, not so well. But there was some good stuff here, so, typing came easily(ish). Thank you!

I was just thinking to myself we're long overdue to have Miles Davis on a blindfold test.

Would that have been the first commercial release of a Left Bank recording?

Paid in full and in cash. Perfect ending!