Spontooneous

Galveston Galumpher? Waxahachie Wailer?

On later listens, I like the drumming on 7 more and more. The first gear shift is kinda awkward, but the second is very graceful. Something about it all made me think of Idris Muhammad, but ida know.

Maybe thinking of Denis Charles?

The KC stores have had most of the titles mentioned also. But only one Barry Harris. Looks like these discs are getting better distribution as cutouts than they were getting at full price.

I am surrounded by stacks and stacks of undigitized CDs. I feel so behind the times. This weekend I'll begin doing exactly what this informative article tells me to do! Thanks, Brandon!

How interesting that people think 4 is live. (I thought so myself the first time.) It ain't. A backhanded compliment to the artists there.

I thought I picked up an inchoate Barney Kessel vibe. (I got that five-dollar word from Robert Christgau, and I've been dying to use it for years.)

Wow, Jim. This is fun. Here goes: DISC ONE 1. You got me here. Love the organist, dislike the overenthusiastic drumming. Somewhere there’s heaven, but it ain’t in the first tenor solo. Guitar is fun, second tenor is OK. Cute coda. 2. Yes, it is who everybody thinks it is. I used to hear this fairly often on the Dr. Demento show. The band mostly sounds like it’s given up – there’s some life left in the clarinetist – but Pops has definitely NOT given up. 3. Love the bari player, love the many shadings and gradations in the percussion. No idea who it is. On second listen, loved the tenor even more. 4. Some overlooked newklear engineering from the mid-‘70s. It’s aging well. Track 6 here. 5. Is it is or is it ain’t Brubeck? The piano can pass for him. Perhaps Desmond imbibed a little too much on this evening. I can see why someone thought it was a parody. 6. Sounds like an early JATP thing, but I can’t nail it down. Possibly Eldridge and Willie Smith, two men I love. Can’t hazard a guess at the guitar. Interesting piano; early Hank Jones? 7. An overproduced Turrentine thing? In a Sebeskian or Ogermanian setting? Early or mid-70s. The change in grooves is interesting but disconcerting. It gets results from the tenor, though. I’m not happy with the bass player (‘zat you, Buster Williams?); I’m never happy with sliding in the bass. 8. Too many Billieisms in the vocal. Too many people trying to play obbligato at once. Very strange. Like the alto; not sure what to make of the tenor. 9. This one’s also who you think it is (check the piano solo). Tight and right. Very nice Jaws. My copy is a Quintessence reissue LP; it says the material comes from the ABC label. link 10. Ouch. I'm pretty sure I’ve heard this thing before, and it’s probably in my collection, but I can’t place it. It’s beautiful, beginning to end, top to bottom, front to back. Oliver Nelson is my first guess for the arranger; Gerald Wilson is my second. 11. The band is trying awfully hard to sound like a dinner-music version of MJQ; the drummer even copped Connie’s cymbal sound. No idea. They don't fly very high. 12. You say Windows, but the LP says Ugh. And Uph. (It gives the title both ways.) Nate identified the tenor correctly; the tune’s composer is on piano. The LP is full of misfitted odds and ends from the workbench of the tenor player’s most famous employer. This cut is also apparently track 17 on this CD, which I don’t have. link 13. It’s great to know that when we find life on other celestial bodies, there will be guys like this to mash on their women. He loves his Moon Maiden madly. Apparently on this disc, but I don’t own a copy; I should. link I see in an online discography that there's more than one recording of the tune. 14. Though I love ‘50s R&B, have no idea who this is. Maybe Jaws on tenor, or the tenor plays a common lick that Jaws liked to use. Note the riffs borrowed from “Two Bass Hit.” 15. Soulful tenor and organ, with bass that’s plucked and not kicked. It’s the First Couple of Greaze. My copy is track 8 on this CD. The long meter opens up some interesting possibilities. 16. When I was a child, this sort of music poured from the radio and TV. It delayed my appreciation of jazz by decades. 17. No idea. The singer’s seen better days. It’s off-putting but absorbing. Far more genuine and less creepy than 8. On to Disc Two.

Yep, it was Sears. I'm a Philco man myself.

Al's package addressed to Spontooneous arrived today.

Christiern is right about the Nancy Wilson performance. The mannerisms -- yelping and gasping -- were painful to hear. I can't be charitable right now about the teenager finessing her way through "Taking A Chance on Love" and demonstrating no real grasp of the melody. Maybe she'll get better. I liked Paquito's number very much. In the house rhythm section, Billy Childs crammed some very good stuff into his short solos. The interview segments were fairly useless.

Heard the entire "Sidewinder" album once in a very crowded Italian restaurant in Rockford, Illinois. A nice change from the Dean Martin records I often hear in such places.

I almost forgot. In the Quad Cities, you MUST eat at Jim's Rib Haven, 531 24th St. in Rock Island, or Jim's Rib Haven II, 1600 10th St. in East Moline.

Some strong Iowa City recommendations: One of America's best independent bookstores, Prairie Lights, at 15 S. Dubuque St. (Check the tables near the back for cutout CDs.) The record store in the back of the Northside Book Market, 203 N. Linn St., is run by a jazz fan and has a very hip selection. And the Chinese restaurant across Linn from the Northside Book Market is great.

Next Liberation Music Orchestra disc is due August 30. I will not be a shill for Universal, I will not be a shill for Universal...

Another fan of "Domination" here! I'm all over this one.

The guy deserves wider recognition. Another yes for "Antiquity." He had some solo albums on Muse that weren't bad at all. A very interesting cat to talk to. He came to Kansas City and played in a sax-bass-drums trio with Bobby Watson. Wish I had a tape of this. He kicked Bobby into some of the best playing I've ever heard him do.

I forgot to mention... A lot of jazz CDs from the same pawn shop where Timothy McVeigh wrote a phony check for his Glock.

Not one but two Johnny Coles LPs, "Katumbo" on Mainstream and "Little Johnny C," at a flea market outside Gower, Mo. A Don Redman 78 under a sink at an estate sale in my old neighborhood. At a suburban estate sale, in a split-level '60s house with '70s blue shag carpeting, there was only one 78 rpm record. But it was a rare Victor blues disc by the Shreveport Home Wreckers.

Nobody's mentioned the "Good Bait" on "Soultrane" yet? It makes me smile when little else can.

recycling a classic MJ joke from the '80s: "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"

And I have to be out of town both nights. Dang. Drat. Crud.

It says "Charles Minus" twice on the back of the CD of Bud Powell Jazz at Massey Hall Vol. 2. (Which reminds me. When Al Haig died, in the obituary, The Associated Press named his principal influence as "Bud Powers.")

Concord doesn't need Norah. They've proudly signed Debby Boone.

I've notified their webmaster and asked them to correct it to "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Pants."