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Karma again running over dogma.

This is a really good record.

Looking to be a Sonny Simmons day here today. Good!

Hey, there was Rhodes. You know how that goes....

So...going through a big pile of indeterminate age of all sorts of things, and so many of them appear to have Jay Rosen on drums. So far, I like how he plays on all of these records. Do you like the way he plays on those records (whatever they are, I can't be bothered to list them all right now), or on other records that he's on? Please talk about Jay Rosen here. Hopefully many people like his playing!

Good band!

Sonny Simmons' vocal on "Autumn In New York" is one of the more, uh...real moments on record.

Here's one from 1954: https://www.discogs.com/ja/Ren%C3%A9-Thomas-Guitaristic/release/4921421 More about that (and more, period) here: http://www.united-mutations.com/g/buzz_gardner_bio.htm

Ok, on the whole, I prefer O'Day the "character" to O'Day the singer (but only by some, and then not by THAT much), but this is a helliva good record. for both her and Gary McFarland.

Yeah, that runner on 2nd thing isbullshit, intellectually, morally, in every way, it's bullshit. Why not just start the motherfucker on there for eVERY inning? No longer is this an extra "inning", it's like a shoot-out or something, at least more like that than an actual inning of baseball. Plenty of improvements to be made in the marketing and the execution of baseball, but the game itself is still a sound creation, probably as sound as any sport except for maybe certain types of shower heads.

Everybody's broken, not just "them".

Other than eric Alexander's indigenous cypherness and Fathead being mislabeled as being on tenor when he's clearly on alto, nothing to complain about here!

You're gonna get the 45/EP, don't forget.

Popular Favorites Played With A Touch Of Class seriously, it's a nice enough record until Peterson "improvises", which is almost always a bunch of mood-busting notejaculations. Riddle do what Riddle do, though, in a good solid B+ version (ok, A-, maybe), and when Peterson just plays the melody, more or less, it's a fine "mood" record. But that motherfucker is hellbent on busting the mood first chance he gets, unfortunately. Great pianist, excellent musician, but just a damn poor concept of what he need to do to matter. The less he plays, the better he sounds. Did nobody ever tell him that? But i like Nelson Riddle, I really do.

Good plan in theory, hope you find it....and also hope that 70s vinyl quality was good on the day they pressed it. No guarantees there, I'm afraid.

Hubert Laws on meaty tenor, Harold Ousley, Wilbert Longmire, Ceasar Frazier, Porter/RVG, just all kinds of stealth.

It was Bobby Womack's tune, and Tommy LiPuma's production. Rene Hall did the string arrangement. It sounds like a pretty simple, riffy/vampy song, and it also sounds like something that Bobby Womack would have brought to the session pretty much "as is". Szabo may or may not have contributed something to the song/record, but if he did, he got no credit on the original record, or any reissue of it since (somebody correct me if I'm wrong. So whatever ire he felt at Benson seems wholly misplaced to me.

A working band!

LPs correct?

Or you could curse at Chuck, dig up your scanner, and send me your set, that would work just fine as well!

As long as there are ears, those two Von records are going to outlast time, they'll be there waiting for ears to come back after time does (even if it never does). That's how strong they are.

Merry Christmas y'all. Bonnie Herman does Phil Spector better than Phil Spector:

I read about the ulcer, but that ws a bit after he came back hoe, right? Just wondering if he had an ongoing illness of some sort that forced him off the road. I always enjoyed his playing, almost as much as I enjoyed his name!

Seriously? It's as basic as they play the same brand ax?

Refresh my memory (seriously), how did Benson stiff Szabo? Just don't give me that "Breezin'" crap - it's a Bobby Womack song, and Szabo doesn't play anything like Benson on it, and vice-versa. Did Szabot get a writer's credit on the original? No. should he have? Hell if I know. But he didn't. Tommy Lee Puma gave Benson a better production, but how is that ripping off Szabo? And I bet that Bobby Womack's not in the least bit bitter about any of it! I dunno man, I love the cat's playing (at least his earlier stuff, at some point it sounds to me like he just got lost), but...sounds like maybe a pretty flawed person (as are we all) who did not at all have a good solid head for too much except addictions? Tragic, sure, but hey, we all make our choices, and then we die.