JSngry

So you don't read every thread that pops up here? What, you got a life or something?

This would be the one to look for:

Hey, not just on YouTube! I wasn't paying attention to any Warhol, though, missed that.

The album exists. I had a college buddy whose dad was an, uh,,,,opinionated "big band fan", and this album came to school with his son. He tried to hip me to it, but I just couldn't dig all the mallets. To me, it sounded like a novelty band, with really serious players and charts that were harder than they had to be. Now, this guy was really serious about big-band writing, and did some nice arranging of his own while at the school. We never discussed Sauter-Finegan after the one time, but this is the record, Under Analysis, the cover sticks with me to this day. No, I thke that back, I think a few years later, the topic came up somehow, and the dude said something about the charts being corny but amazing, something like that. I'm still working on the first disc of the 2 CD Jasmine set. I'm not really changing my overall opinion of the S-F Orch, but I am finding more to like there than I had expected. But seldom in one chart, start to finish (sounds like the issue you have with the albums, only for me it's with the charts!). So far, the closest is "Rain" (which is almost all based on "On The Alamo"?), but I think there will be a few others. For real, though, when that sax section plays straight up sax section and isn't off doubling on cute stuff, that is one hell of a section. "Rain" is again what stands out now, but there are some other cuts I'm going to be circling back to that have that thing too. Badass all the way. It's funny, though, how you get exposed to things without having any control over or awareness of it. Bobby Nichols, his name is very familiar to me, and has been for a long time now. Why? Just because my folks had the old RCA Miller AAF Band box, I think they got it for joining the RCA Record Club or something. And yeah, Bobby Nichols, they got a picture of him in the booklet, they talk about him a tiny bit, something about a redhead whose playing was as fiery as his hair, something like that and he gets a fair amount of solo space. So, yeah, I've been knowing this guy for as long as I started listening to those records voluntarily and reading the book, which goes back to when I was...9? 10? The time passes, I forget all about Bobby Nichols, and now, here he pops bak up again. Crazy! Same thing with bari players Chuck Gentry (on the same Miller set) & Gene Allen (who was on the Goodman/Moscow band record), they're on records that I randomly got access to at an early-ish age, and age when I could easily know who every player on every record was, because that part of the brain was very uncluttered.

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Clifford Scott! No wonder!

Bing Crosby, sometimes?

Red Nichols?

I gotta think that Metropole gig is fun.

Leon Ware, Gary Bartz, and all that's good. one more gem from Syreeta tonight

He did indeed!

What is a 'Wally' issue?

Isn't that a Dylan tune, "My Bent Pages"?

Totally inappropriate inner-response to this record (Disc 3 of the new box) I hear it with my Blue Note ears never leaving. Kay's piece reminds me - somehow - of Wayne Shorter's last few records for the label & Walker's trombone concerto of Grachan Moncur III, not it its overall writing, just the trombone part. I can easily imagine/hear Grachan playing those notes in that sequence. Wrong? No doubt. We come to where we are from where we have been. Oh well. Walker I began exploring a few years back, but Kay is a totally new name to me, one I must explore more if the work here is in any way typical. Strong stuff that I can "follow" now, with no real "understanding" (at least after these few listens) of the elements being used. To me, that speaks of a strong spirit, and although I was surprised to lean that he was King Oliver's nephew, I was not surprised, if you know what I mean. This is turning out to be a fascinating series, fascinating and valuable, shining a light on a world that is still one of the more underground of the musical undergrounds.

That was a farm team for Los Angeles, correct? Isn't that who Sandy Koufax played for before he got good?

Why does the Dodger player have a "B" on his cap?

All I know is that the Milestone records were HOT from the git-go, got great reviews and plenty of press. And he assembled and kept a great live unit(s) to take out on the road. Records/press/gigs, that's a cycle that builds on itself if properly executed. That, and backing. The part of the story I've yet to hear is where the initial backing for this endeavor came from. Agent, record label, family friend, gambling winnings, who know, I don't? and we both know that it's very possible that the Platters didn't have a clue that it was either Eric Dolphy or Don Byas on their gigs. Gigs like that, then and now, go through either a contractor or the musical director, not the artist (unless it's a personal favor for somebody). Even the big bands, if Basie needed a sub, Basie didn't find him, you know. Studio sessions too, especially for singers, the singer wouldn't generally be hiring the players. The got people for that!

There's the boots that came from the Nagra(?) reels, just open-ended tape rolling to correspond with the footage, I forget the exact mechanics. But there's enough hemming and hawing and posturing and positioning going on in those....it's enough for me.

I've investigated a fair enough number of the bootlegs that have already come out of those sessions to know that some are better than others. But there's really no upside waiting to be discovered, unless there's a wormhole to a parallel universe out there somewhere. Color me skeptical that this will be that.

I crack up at the notion that Paul & Ringo didn't approve whatever it was that kept the original from being remastered (or whatever it was) because it was too sad for them. And now they want to make it happy. Hey Jude. Yeah, I know, oversimplified, but I'm with Chuck on this one, only instead of Raymond, make mine Full House. Once you've seen Let It Be, you can't unsee it, no matter how many correctives are attempted.

happier..

We might be talking about different things. The Goodman in question is a collection of individual broadcasts, not a single event.