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Paul Bryant & Earl Palmer ready-made for airplay, not necessarily "funky" in any but the most vocabularyistically limited circles, but still, not bullshit in any way. Color him/them pretty badassty fluent.

If you were in that place at that time and were entertained by that sort of thing, I suppose so.

I've found hardcore Dave McKenna fans to be a pretty militant bunch. Can't say that I see what all that much fuss is about.

Not all at once, for sure! But if the piano usually has 88 keys, most pianists usually have two hands, ten fingers (again, Earl Hines is the exception)...if they're not going to be used, cut them off. Worked for the Rhodes, worked well for all kinds of electronic keyboards, might well work just as well for pianists. Too much of a good thing is a function of too much, not good thing. And a good thing done poorly is no longer a good thing. But, some guy starts walking 10ths in the right way at the right time, yeah, that works for me. But only if it's not too much and only if it's not poorly done. It's a resource!

Took a few listens for the Sessions to come together for me, but it got there. The McPhee seems to reveal itself immediately, no idea what the long-range implications of that are. Cool cover, too.

How hot does a New England attic get?

and Andy Williams, which then leads to the Osmond Brothers, which leads us to here: Now, where that leads is up to the individual, but eventually, I end up at Booker Ervin, although god knows how.

You don't have cats, do you?

It's a piano. 88 tuned drums, and an orchestra on a keyboard. You got options, especially if you have two hands and/or ten fingers (not counting Earl Hines, who had three hands and 75 fingers).

Plenty better than you might expect, which might also be an admittedly pretty low bar, but just sayin'...it don't suck, ok?

I like Percy Dovetonsils too! It's those glasses, the camera or something gives them a PD look.

Why is Lennie Niehaus looking like Percy Dovetonsils?

Don't know the work, but maybe it's the pianist who's at fault? Found this on You Tube, sounds ok enough: This, otoh, sounds really creepy, almost like it's not a real pianist playing:

I think he chose to "just" stay in New York and play. Whatever life circumstances allowed him to do that, hey, good for him!

Neither drawers nor britches!