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ASK THE MAN WHO OWNED ONE!!! She Had You Soaking In It... referencing an endless series of:variants of Madge The Manicurist print/TV ads, such as:

Which one is Shorty Petterstein? It's embarrassing (or should be) that they front and back announce "Blue Monk" and then play "Epistrophy". fwiw, as expected, the end-around digital realm is waiting for no one on this Palo Alto thing. Money is being lost, probably by people who don't care.

Mingus? Piano?

Well, actually somebody DID notice! But it is indeed good news to hear that the offerings continue to expand!

YOU DESERVED A BREAK THAT DAY... Horror genre just waiting to happen. might already be happening, actually.

You bet you couldn't eat just one.... sorry, see that Dan had already included that one.

How does this compare to Hit Men?

I would think that it is.

RIP. He brought more than Cornbread to the table, a lot more.

TOOK SOMINEX LAST MONTH AND SLEPT...

now you're making me feel old... On radio/TV ads I seem to remember the tagline being that it comes from contented cows?

IT CAME FROM CONTENTED COWS!!!!!!!!

Used To Be The Real Thing

Quality WAS Job Number One

On a blog, yeah.

So you want to guilt him into sharing? This "art" crap is real, yes it is, but selling it is not. I think that since people make art but business sells it, you should allow people to determine for themselves how they do or do not get sold. The world will continue on, as it will with art. That's the essence of personal freedom, really.

Same as it ever was, right? So buy direct, that's what I believe in. Whenever possible, and you, Chuck are very possible. Keep it that way as long as possible, please.

Ok, you're talking esthetics, I'm talking business, pure and simple. If Creed Taylor wanted to get Mel Lewis to do some overdubbing on a Paul Desmond record being made at the time when his company was doing very well, then hey. so be it. Remark on it all you want, question all you want, deride/mock/etc all you want, but it doesn't change the basic business truth that creed Taylor was making those records the way he made them, and they were selling. so....yeah, his call, Absolutely.

Ok, so we don't like Creed Taylor for whatever reasons. Still, he sold records until he didn't. And as long as he did - and yes, he did, he made the records according to what kind of records he wanted them to be, and they did sell - he was making those calls. Just as Blue Note records reflected the Lion/Wolff sensibility, so did Creed Taylor's reflect his (once he found it, which was certainly no later than the middle 60s. Alfred Lion certainly did influence what did and didn't go on his records and he controlled how they sounded and looked as well. To the extent that people buy "the blue Note Sound", they are buying Alfred Lion's records. Same with Creed Taylor. And they both controlled the end product, Taylor more obviously, but Lion no less substantially. So we don't like Creed Taylor for whatever reasons. Whatever. oh btw - solid State records were VERY much mixed for radio - all that reverb that they took out years later, that shit was made to play on AM jazz radio, don't think it wasn't. Sonny Lester knew what he was doing with those records.

Well, hell, who else would have made Sunflower, Salt Song, Road Song, any number of commercially successful and musically solid records? Who else had that game figured out? nobody, really because it was his game (cf. OV Wright "Ace Of Spades") "Riding on the backs of others"? Dude - that's pretty much what a producer does, even the best ones. ESPECIALLY the best ones. Also - Sonny Lester sold a BUNCH of "Mel Lewis records", probably more than anybody else. Mel Lewis sold Mel Lewis' music, but Sonny Lester sold those records of that music.

just some homemade tapes of a club date, i don't remember who all was on it, quartet. But Grossman was playing long LONG solos and feeling no pain. Ask the next "that kind" of tenor player you see, they will probably be able to tell you. Or maybe not, maybe they're still kept secret, the way that Trane's Paris date with Miles was before that got leaked out little by little.

Hey, Creed Taylor sold records until he didn't. but while he did, that was his call, right or wrong. It's not Mel Lewis who was selling those records. Just sayin'...art vs commerce, eternally.

for people who do "that sort of thing", perhaps the most influential of all Grossman recordings are the Live @ Brown's stuff. I've run into more than enough people to say this with confidence.