jazzbo

Okay I looked at it again, very carefully. Still saw "high maintenance!"

Personally, I think this thread is different from that, serving a different purpose. Further thoughts: in a way a number of the jazz things that Charles did fall in the Nat Cole/Charles Brown sort of West Coast idea of what was "jazzy" . . . . And a number are more hard bop with a further side order of soul sauce available on the side. I have one friend who doesn't really consider Charles a jazz musician in the way that Miles or Cannon or Monk or Brubeck was. And in a way I agree because his scope was so much broader and his desire to entertain . . . different, he was needier I think than most of the "jazz musicians" may have been . . . .

Georgewelbub! Or is that Georgewelbubba?

It is marvelous stuff. Soulful jazz. . . soulful jazz singing, jazz piano, jazz alto, jazz writing. The complete box set is going to be great. . . I'm not going to get it because I have all the released stuff, and a friend of mine tells me quite a bit of the supposedly unreleased stuff as well. . . .

Previews for this made me make sure to stay away!

It's a great date. A "real" tribute, not a merchandiser's.

Blakey

I'm in the 226-300 category.