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  5. Why Listen to Music That a Cat Wouldn't Like?

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    Posted · Edited by Teasing the Korean

    I was getting ready for bed, brushing my teeth, and Alexa for some reason started playing "Rock 'n' Roll Woman" by Buffalo Springfield. At about this time, our Siamese cat Pyewacket wandered into the hall and was just sitting there, looking bored and mildly annoyed.  I was watching her while the song was playing, and I realized how ridiculous the song sounded when juxtaposed against the image of our cat. She may have been enjoying the (minimal) chord progression and the harmony vocals, but I could tell she thought the lyrics were incredibly stupid.  (She's right.) I then asked Ms. TTK if our Siamese cat was a rock 'n' roll woman, and laughing, she exclaimed "No!"  This then got me to wondering why any of us would want to listen to music that a cat wouldn’t like, or or at the very least, that would not pair well with the image of a lounging cat.  The mind boggles.

     

    I should add that I am currently listening to the Gil Evans Pacific Jazz twofer CD, and Pyewacket seems to be enjoying it.

  6. Buddy Bregman?

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    54 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    Did you know that Jimmy Smith paled a janitor on one or two episodes of the first Bill Cosby Show? The one where he played a coach named Chet Kincaide.

    His character's name was "Jim".

    Did not know that!

    54 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

    IIRC, one of the key hoodlums in "Guys and Dolls" was Big Jule, pronounced with a long "e."

    Gotcha.

  8. Buddy Bregman?

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    Posted · Edited by Teasing the Korean

    1 hour ago, Larry Kart said:

    It's pronounced that way, but he's a guy.

    OK.  I didn't know if the name was technically pronounced "jool" and "Julie" was a nickname.  But that makes sense. 

    Like guys named Angelo who go by Angie. 

  10. Buddy Bregman?

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    8 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

    If Jule Styne himself had written those charts, they would have been better. And if Jule felt he didn't have the chops, he would have hired Billy Byers. :D

    :rofl:

  11. Buddy Bregman?

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    6 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

     Bregman's uncle was composer Jule Styne ("Gypsy," etc. ). Bregman wasn't related to Granz, but the connection with Styne carried some weight in getting him those gigs. He sure was a drag musically.

    Thanks for clarifying.  I knew there was a famous relative! 

  12. Buddy Bregman?

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    18 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    Nor architectural instincts, either. That stuff just blops out there, like Billy May writing too drunk to write (if that was even possible?)

    I seem to recall that at some point he realized his shortcomings and tried to get better? 

    This arranging shit isn't easy, there's more to it than just filling up space with generic action figure discards, right? 

    I don't know much about him, or what he did later. I think I have him on an Anita O'Day record also.  

  13. Buddy Bregman?

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    I became aware of Bregman through the Ella Fitzgerald Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hart Songbooks. I instantly thought the arrangements were subpar.  The best are serviceable, and the worst sound dated and old-fashioned. I don't think Bregman had a very good harmonic instinct.  I found out only later that he was a relative of Norman Granz.  Having friends and relatives in high places always helps.  To this day, those are my two least favorite Ella Songbook albums, and that's too bad, because they are among my favorite songwriters of that crowd.    

  14. Conductor Pranked by Orchestra on Live Radio

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    Posted · Edited by Teasing the Korean

    My Dad told me a story ages ago about a conductor - not sure if he was classical or pop - who had a live radio show and was rumored to be a real bastard.

    One night on his live show, they pranked him.  The clock was set ahead five minutes, and when the conductor gave the downbeat, the orchestra just sat there and did nothing.  Silence.  Apparently, the conductor turned pale, and they then told him that it was a joke.   

    Anyone know the story I'm referring to?

  15. Creed Taylor, Jazz Giant And Impulse! Founder Has Passed Away At The Age of 93

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    45 minutes ago, medjuck said:

    In some ways it's too bad that CTI overshadows his earlier work as a producer:  Genius + Jazz = Soul, Blues and the Abstract Truth, Out of the Cool, Africa Brass,  Jazz Samba.... 

    I don't think CTI overshadows Taylor's work at Verve.  Possibly impulse!, as he was involved for only a short time, and also ABC Paramount, because no one remembers that label anymore.  

    So let's all enjoy a track from Lonelyville.

     

  16. Creed Taylor, Jazz Giant And Impulse! Founder Has Passed Away At The Age of 93

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    Several years back, I e-mailed discographer Doug Payne and asked him about the color prints of the Pete Turner CTI album covers that were hyped on the inner sleeves of CTI LPs.  The price of these went from $19.50 on the earlier CTI albums to IIRC $1.50 on the later ones.  I told Doug that I had never, ever stumbled upon one of these prints in the wild, at any price, and asked him what the story was.  Doug replied that he never saw one either, and that when he interviewed Taylor, he claimed to have a storage unit full of them.  

  19. Creed Taylor, Jazz Giant And Impulse! Founder Has Passed Away At The Age of 93

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    6 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

    I don´t have many Verve Records from the 60´s...

    1960s Verve albums are essential to understanding - and partaking in - the international jet set aesthetic.

    9 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

    Your idea of MOJO is worlds away from mine.

    He seemed to make choices to find a larger audience by bloating backgrounds and smoothing out corners. This happened well before the exit of Sebesky.

    "Bloating" the backgrounds is precisely what drew many of us to CTI albums.  Without the backgrounds, those albums become run-of-the-mill quasi-jazz records.  The backgrounds made them something special, conveying that delirious, introspective early-70s post-Jesus Christ Superstar ethos of ecology and solar energy.  

  24. Mobile Fidelity: Uh-Oh, Spaghetti-Os

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    11 hours ago, Eric said:

    ...but I have found I can assemble an amazing system for a couple bucks.

    It's like wine.  Most of us can taste the difference between an $8 bottle and a $25 bottle, but many of us may not be able to taste the difference between, say, a $50 bottle and a $100 bottle.  

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