JSngry

Dark Metals is a seriously great record. Ditto African Venus (under Dewey's name).

Nor on Caney. Right now, all I have is two cuts on Aquel Sabor de Cuba that have long fascinated. Time to poke around, I suppose.

Heel erg bedankt voor het delen van dit stukje Nederlandse cultuur. Hou ook van jou, lieverd

You can tend to your own hygiene as per your own standards, but if you keep it up with the hostile political commentary, you're going to end up flagged as a spammer,.

This. Just deleted that little bit of nonsense. Don't do it again, either one of you.

So this could be Stan Levey on some of these cuts...or the other guy...interesting. This really really is far better record than I was expecting. I wonder if there's more...

Can't really find any. Haven't Jor Dee's nephousins gotten to this stuff yet? If so, where is it? Looking for the early stuff, 50s-early 60s.

The Amazon delivery got sidetracked to the point that they volunteered to ship a replacement, which arrived today. Can't really call this a "bebop big band", the soloists aren't really there (Al Cohn (?) is the closest), nor are the charts, totally. But - there's no mistaking that bebop was what was driving this music. The tempos and definitely Tiny Kahn's drumming keep this from being just another "advanced swing" band...that's what it almost is, but the scales have tipped just enough forward. Just enough. And the charts...they're trying to get there, and again, leaning just far enough forward. "Swing to Bop" indeed...and it's close, real close. Truthfully, I was expecting some hipster novelty that only touched the surface, but this is a really interesting record in terms of chronology, and not without some musical interest as well. Looks like Henry Jerome and/or his estate is responsible for this package, which might explain why the packaging is so "aw shucks, we played be bop, but more importantly, we had Allan Greenspan" quality of it. A deeper examination of whatever archives are left, and a more serious annotation about time/place and implications would serve this music better than does this incarnation. Heartily recommended for anybody who likes that type of thing.

Well see, that's jsut crazy - there are no bad Johnny guitar Watson records. Period. None. At all. Period!

on Antilla instead of Puchito b/w

I'd like the good doctor to help me with this one, though - my first exposure to his playing was ca. 1976, a college buddy from the SF area came to NT really enthused about his (Zeitlin's) playing, and had a couple of his Columbia records. I kept checking them out, or more accurately, TRIED to check them out. No matter the record, no matter which side of the record, I was asleep by then end of the side. Every time. Literally every time. And this went on for about a year. I'd borrow the records for a weekend, put them on, and drift right off. Try again, same thing. Take them back, wait a month or two, borrow them again, put them on again, out like a light in about 10 minutes. This went on for about a year. Finally, hey. I didn't know if the guy had subliminal hypnotic messages recorded into his records or what. But I've never tried to listen to him since then. I'm sure he's a wonderful player, but if you'd have the experience that I had, you too might just want to leave well enough alone. Plenty of other piano players!

Wow, this month went by really, really fast...I had hoped to get in, but never did. Sorry, looks like a good set.

That's a damn good record, and one of the most organic sounding/feeling CTIs of the bunch.

What's so hard to understand? You get a shrink talking about "remembering", hell, look out for how many turns that road can take!

up.

Orange or yellow? I put one of those "daylight" bulbs over my kitchen sink. Not the intended (or desired) result after dark. We got used to it, finally, but... Y'all be careful with that.

A keen observation and resultant question, and the answer is that you're both right. Pitchers will try to get batters to hit grounders, or, if their defense is good enough, to "pitch to contact", which just means let the batter make contact, just not GOOD contact, and let the defense take care of it. If a 30% rate of success for a batter is outstanding, then you can do the math. The maxim is that good pitching beats good hitting, and the maxim is true far more often than it's not. However...a good hitter with goo plate discipline and good bat control can, if not totally beaten by the pitcher, can, if not exactly "aim" where they hit the ball, control the direction of where they hit it, and that's a very useful skill set to have, not jsut in getting on base, but in terms of moving a runner over to the next base (or two) or even getting him in to score. It's also a skill set that is in diminishing supply these days. Perhaps it's a reaction to all the defensive shifts (which is counter-intuitive, imo), or just the stats have gotten so developed that it's been shown that an all-or-nothing approach pays off over the long haul, or maybe it's jsut a symptom of the world as a whole gone over to the dark side of BIGGNESS. No matter, that is what it is. Those of us of a certain age can remember teams that either won it all or else came pretty damn close with puny but efficient-enough offenses and pitching and defense that made that work for them. Them was fun teams to watch too, because for people like me, a 1-0 or 2-0 game is literally in the balance with damn near every at bat for all nine innings. Mathematically, so is a 6-5 or a 7-5 game, but if it's a game that at one point was 5-0, then, hey, do the math. As far as the lack of action, well...yes. Except when you get to the level of engagement where you're watching every pitch location and how it sets up the next pitch, and who should have the advantage on this pitch, yeah (and that's a hardcore hardcore fan of the game itself that lets themselves get that into it...they should be getting paid, the suckers ), but somebody once said something along the lines of "baseball is the most boring game in the world until it's not. And when it's not, it's the most exciting game in the world." Something like that. I concur 100%

Apparently Buddy would have been ready for this!

What is he remembering, exactly? Are these recovered memories, repressed memories, vivid memories, just what?

Never mind the "styles" of music. These three speak with true voices of working musicians and their lives.

Modly merged.

Indeed they are: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B06XNWP29F/ref=tmm_acd_new_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=1561840694&sr=8-1 Not exactly "WOW" prices (I paid a lot less than that for a really good OG LP issue <5 years ago, from DG iirc), but it's a damn good record. Besides, if you wait to find an LP....good luck on that one!

Well, yeah, a deer in a pool, not much use comes out of that. I mean, who eats clorinated meat?