JSngry

Good health IS simple. And as always, simple popular songs properly point us to the proper path.

I have no problem not joining in, nor do I want to believe, nor do I not want to sing along. I just want it to stop, especially when it's in a room I can't leave. I know there's people who feel the same way about music that I feel that way about, but dude, for me, the illusions behind "rock" pretty much ended when Hendrix died, Woodstock devolved into Altamont, and Grand Funk Railroad made it all too clear that going forth, "attitude" was going to be the whole game. Sure, exceptions here and there along the way, a few, but once I got into Coltrane & Ayler & then Bird & Sonny & Ornette, I really, really did not care any longer about "rock". That was not quite 50 years ago, and I still like me some good pop music. But "Rock" is not about pop, quite often it mocks the notion of "pop". Well, ok, but what do they offer as an alternative? Attitude and lyrics that tell me what I want to hear? What else? Nothing for me, that's all I can say about that. Nothing for me.

Pie?

Brubeck, that makes sense. Whatever else he was or wasn't, he was never clumsy. That's something he had in common with Monk. His time was always rock-solid. Even when he "pounded", it was rock-solid. And when he did his polyrhythms, it was especially rock-solid, it had to be. That album, is it all solo?

Is this a for real thing?

Tony Inzalaco, eh?!?!

not so much disconcerting as suspicion-confirming. about a lot of things.

Nope, no reason. But even now, when you tell people that Rock Band ____ is somebody you've either never heard or heard of, too many times the reaction is, whoa, how could you not have heard THAT?!?!?!?! Well, it's quite simple actually. And bad enough as that type of reaction is in real time, it's even more annoying as time passes. Popular Culture can become too easily devolve into a myopia of the majority. Myopia is not particularly healthy, no matter the affected population.

yeah, that part seems provably untrue. otoh, I have no problem believing somebody not having Pink Floyd on their radar at all. There's a lot of compelling music in the world, then and now, and people will have priorities as to with what they do or do not engage. I myself have still never heard DSOTM in its entirety (with or without the Wizard of Oz), and heard a full album side of The Wall only once - on a Saturday afternoon in a psychiatric hospital where I was working as an aide on a "young adult" wing. Saturday was "play the record player" day for the patients. When everybody in the room started softly singing along with that brick in the wall song, I figured, ok, yeah, so...let me soon get home and into something else... Not a knock against PF or any other "rock" band. Just saying, some people, for whatever reasons, have just not cared about all that. And again, plenty of other music. Plenty.

Before you send things to eBay, please allow me time to get home in the PM and give proper attention to the list. I will follow up with you either tonight or tomorrow AM, if that's ok.

Just got around to cracking open Tokyo...sounds like a club date, "reverb" not really reverb, just mike placement, imo. Everybody's good but maybe a little tired, was this at the end of a tour? Best cut for me is the last one, the "bonus cut" of Sweet Love Of Mine" with Johnny Griffin - and everybody else - in top form.

Pandora dropped this into my lap on my highly undirected Fletcher Henderson station. It's stuff like this that makes me happy to set up a station, like just a few cuts up front, and then let it rip in search of more likes. https://books.google.com/books?id=0uUvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1815&lpg=PA1815&dq=Breakin%27+in+a+Pair+of+Shoes+frankie+trumbauer&source=bl&ots=jKC_L8_YFs&sig=ACfU3U0Tl6tZ4S098CMG8kkYWtBIJ8Mcpw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiK1bC6wbfhAhUN-6wKHYJtDFk4FBDoATAFegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=Breakin'%20in%20a%20Pair%20of%20Shoes%20frankie%20trumbauer&f=false

Listened to the whole album on youtube, and yes, glorious mess. didn't bother me at all, actually (well, Skidmore was kinda superfulous, but oh well). I've played (and I bet you have too) in enough "local" (i.e. amateur and neighborhood and SO not in it for ANY money) blues bands that have been every bit this messy and every bit this glorious. The only difference is that those messes had a different accent than these do. As somebody who gleefully and scornfully LOLs when somebody from someplace else tells me that we "talk funny down here", far be it from me to prioritize the accent before the glory. ESPECIALLY when it comes to messes! There are toenails to be clipped, how can there NOT be messes?

I think those yanquis need to eat better foods and beverages, and get to bed before dark. maybe buy these books for their personal betterments. yujicy, there's a reason our frendly neibors to the north can afford to has them that good socialistized medicals. that does not happen by accident.

I think it's the perfect sum of those particular parts, could have been a lot worse, could not have been better for that time/place/peoples. You put Sonny Boy into any mix, and right away, possible outcomes are pretty clearly set in stone. If you want better than this, gonna have to change the pieces, up to and including Sonny Boy. But if/when you did that, then whattya get? A John Mayall record? Not that there's anything wrong with that. But no matter - JOE HARRIOT!!!!

JESUS!!!! https://www.discogs.com/Jimmy-Page-Sonny-Boy-Williamson-2-Brian-Auger-Jam-Session/release/939936 https://www.discogs.com/Sonny-Boy-Williamson-2-With-Brian-Auger-The-Trinity-Joe-Harriott-Alan-Skidmore-Jimmy-Page-Dont-Send-/release/2313859 That TOTALLY makes sense now.

So it IS Sonny Boy (I guess he got hoarse or something)! Playing with a rock band, or something resembling one in its own world. But that's neither the Yardbirds nor the Animals, right? And that alto player sounds very..."indigenous". Impressive stumping selection!

Also, can't access the file from work, but iirc, it's a combo organ on 12, not a B-3?

Maybe, maybe not, BUT......

Ok, let me ask one more question about #12 - the singer, as I hear it, is doing a pretty good Sonny Boy Williamson imitation. But there are fleeting moments where it does indeed appear to be an imitation. So...behind that mask, how big of a journey would the individual likely had to have made to be able to do such a good imitation? My question is entirely socio-curious. I dig the cut a lot. It reminds me of a lot of, like, earliest Butterfield or Charlie Musselwhite, where both the sincerity and the slight "otherness" work with and not against each other. Sounds a bit like that happening here, although, hey, what do I know?

Is the Eddie Costa cut from that Dot record? House Of Blue Lights, I think it was? and #12...is that a, uh...band of peoples who might have come to the blues consciously more than waking up to find the blues already there? Somethings about the vocal and the organ have me asking this question, and asking because I really could see that one going either/both way/ways. is that you on #3?

That sounds ok, but sorry, not really a boat here to be floated...I got deep into Hendrix when I was, like 12-13 or so, and had dug the garage bands before that. Would have dug it then, for sure. They do sound "ahead of their time", though, for sure. VERY.

Small window for a small response, sorry... TRACK ONE - Little tenor, no madness, just sweebop! https://www.discogs.com/Kenny-Clarke-And-His-52nd-Street-Boys-52nd-Street-Theme-Rue-Chaptal-Royal-Roost/release/5386170 TRACK TWO - Is the song "You'll Never Know"? I like the tempo and the way it stays there. Like Monk in that regard, but his is not Monk. I guess I'll never know... TRACK THREE - Oh, THAT'S nice! Bowie & Tchichai? No? If not, one or the other? I do like it! That drummer got it. Trumpet sounds less like Bowie as the piece develops, and no, probably not Bowie. Still like it, a lot. TRACK FOUR - Bechet totally kicking ass. Excuse the redundancy. TRACK FIVE - Yusef (that sound!) & Elvin (that time!). Yonder be some playin', matie, full speed ahead! TRACK SIX - Braxton, almost surely? That narrows it down, right? TRACK SEVEN - I love shit that sounds like an ass purposely wiggling. This does that, so I love it. TRACK EIGHT - Not to my taste, but everybody plays well enough. TRACK NINE - Gator? Whoever it is knows how that shit works form the ground up. No fadcadism going on here. TRACK TEN - Is that a bass/contrabass sax on the bottom, or a priapic kazzoo? AND a tuba? I don't know enough to have an informed opinion, so all I can say with certainty that if I'm not going to like it, it would take a while to get there.Right now, it entertains me! TRACK ELEVEN - Liking that drummer! Eccentric piano...eccentric but informed! Eddie Costa? The way he's playing those low octaves pouts me in mind of him, but I've heard him in bits and pieces, never really on a sustained basis. But did he live long enough for somebody to let him make a record like this (no, I don't think he did) , and are we instead getting out of America? I like the bits and pieces of it, as a whole...maybe not quite as much...at what point am I supposed to stop being impressed and just start digging? TRACK TWELVE - that alto player puts me in mind of The Treniers, but not the vocal, not at all. No matter, that's badass, all of it. I can hear this being something that Cleanhead did with somebody, somewhere.There was a time when I'd have this figured out, but I'm afraid that time has passed. Oh well, besides, it's a groove! The whole thing was a groove, pretty much. Wish I had more time, but life is short, time is only there until it's not, so....onward!