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Britten's "War Requiem" doesn't do it for me, but his short instrumental "Sinfonia da Requiem" from 20 years earlier gets me every time. Also Stravinsky's "Requiem Canticles." Also Vaughan Williams' "Dona Nobis Pacem," a good example of what he could do when pissed off.

Article from Kansas City Jazz Ambassadors magazine here. Sidebar to that article here.

When Todd Strait (from Karrin Allyson's band) lived in KC, his buddies would let him solo on ballads quite often. The results were always good. Wish I had a recorded example.

Simpson's Fifth and Eighth are just great. Some of his others are nearly as great.

It was probably flat-out cheaper for Columbia to record it in London. Columbia even recorded the great American composer Aaron Copland in London. This can probably be blamed on the AF of M.

We seem to have overlooked this gem, produced by Mr. Albertson:

Look, look! See, see! See Puff! Wack Wack.

Git it. But git the "Some Other Time" date on Evidence first.

Trumpeter at the beginning kinda looks like Louis Smith to me. That might indeed be Kenny Burrell sitting in with the Hampton band toward the end. But I thought I caught a glimpse of Billy Mackel earlier. (Billy was a southpaw.)

Love the Tokyo. Brilliant performances throughout. The Jazz Workshop is a step or two down from the It Club. But get it for the deep-blue ballad performances. (Maybe everybody was sad that night.)

I get so tired of hearing how modern jazz left the dancers behind. It's always painted as the music's fault. Nobody ever spins it around and says "Why were the dancers too lazy to keep up?" Dammit, let's dance!

Does it say "when they bring that way-gun 'round"?

An anti-Semitic code word?

I was going to get Lon to buy it for me. Then I'll burn you a copy.

That might be the guitar I saw him play at my first Dead-related show, the JGB in Kansas City in early '76. I was all of 16. We sat way up in the balcony of the cavernous KC Music Hall. Reflections off the guitar's white body kept getting our eyes. I went with a friend who was 17. He hated every minute of it.

You can stream the concerts here. It takes some wading and tolerance to get to the Ornette segments: 2-23-93 12-9-93 BTW, Ep1str0phy hit the nail on the head in his last paragraph.

Ornette played onstage with the Dead twice, in '93. (Just for segments of the second set. Recordings circulate. Unfortunately, neither show catches the Dead in good form.)

"Arrangements are by Dick Groove." Porn stars doubling as arrangers. I hate when that happens.

I was searching for a diplomatic way to say the same thing. Obviously the MacArthur folks haven't heard her most recent album.

This album needs a remix real bad. The overbalanced bass makes my speakers jump off the stands.

Highly recommended: The Other One from 7-25-72, easily available from GDLive. This one is so outrageous that Bob gets lost.

Out walks Bud.

Be advised that opening the booklet renders the set worthless to serious collectors.

Six. Five are functional. Two are for 78s.