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"The Birth of the Cool Songbook" on Night Lights
Larry Kart replied to ghost of miles's topic in Jazz Radio & Podcasts
The Desmond/Miller is a gem, but there's also a lovely one by Meredith D'Ambrosio, which incorporates some of Gil's arrangement of the piece. You know, of course, that its composer, Chummy McGregor, is played in "The Glenn Miller Story" by the same actor who played the C.O. in "M*A*S*H" on TV, Harry Morgan. -
Song lyrics that make you want to scream
Larry Kart replied to Jazzmoose's topic in Miscellaneous Music
OK, in the pseudo-cabaret category, here's Alan and Marilyn Bergman's "When Summer Turns to Snow." I suspect that the incoherent parade of metaphors in the first chorus owed something to another kind of white powder. When the summer turns to snow And you’re alone once more The memories pass your eyes Like treetops from a plane You watch them slip away And helpless you try To catch one in your hand A silver year of love To prove that you were there … Were there at all Once, you memorized the night The shape of every cloud The patterns of the stars The color of the moon You memorized it all But now it’s gone As if it never was No souvenirs to show When summer turns to snow -
Wow. ... I guess if a person was desperate for cash, one could always throw an ad in the paper or a magazine with a number for a dedicated phone line and ... watch the money roll in? My question is, if someone is willing to pay for a phone conversation, why not just pay for the real thing? I mean, if talking dirty is your thing (not you Dan, just in general) and your sweetie ain't the one to confess your darkest desires to (another set of issues altogether), why not hire a girl (or guy) and talk dirty face to face? Or put them on the phone line in the living room or something. Then at lease you get the added bonus of possible direct physical contact at some point. ... or ... maybe that's not such a good idea. People who want indirect contact want indirect contact. Sexual fantasies are ridiculously specific, which is why there are whole industries built around satisfying specific needs.
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I'm thinking it should have been John Adams -- or better, no one. BTW, has there ever been an opera based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses? Seems like a natural to me.
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Song lyrics that make you want to scream
Larry Kart replied to Jazzmoose's topic in Miscellaneous Music
In another vein, a good number of lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman. The worst I know of is "When Summer Turns to Snow," originally recorded I believe by Sergio Mendes back in the '60s. (I know it from a 2003 album "Love Locked Out" by talented singer-pianist Patti Wicks, who is utterly defeated by this piece of s---.) The f----er makes no sense, beginning with the damn title. This side of a Hollywood disaster movie or two, summer doesn't turn to snow, not without an intervening little season known as autumn. Unfortunately I can't find the lyric online, and I don't have the stomach to listen again and type it out. -
I must be wrong about Ventura, but I thought I saw a moustache. I was going by that more than any aural evidence. Eddie Shu? As for Prez-like figures, Flip had his share, and, as Allen says, the time, the overall assertiveness, the compactness of tone, etc. say Flip to me. Clearly the relation between what we see and hear on this clip is very random.
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I know you were asking about those arrangers, but FWIW here's a Donahue bio: http://www.hepjazz.com/bios/samdon.html The Hep Donahue collections are definitely worth hearing. Some felt that Donahue's remolded version of the Shaw Orchestra was the best of the service bands.
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I'm pretty sure that, despite the images, all the tenor saxophone work on the YouTube clip is by Flip Phillips (except for the brief bit of Charlie Ventura with Krupa).
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Just to be clear, my "walking STD" remarks were not a reference to Spalding but to what I said (JSngry has a good memory) a few weeks ago about a red-haired TV actress (don't recall her name) whose photo Bright Moments placed at the bottom of his posts at that time.
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YMMV, but I'd say not better -- provided (in the case of that particular walking STD) you're forewarned, take precautions, and disguise your identity (to me, she looked potentially vengeful/dangerous if crossed).
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She looks like one of the Jackson 5 in a dress.
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Listened to a few samples, and based on my memories of many other Tatum recordings, especially the well-recorded late solo Granz albums and the fantastic stuff recorded at a party at Ray Heindorf's house, the note-to-note relationships sound "off" in terms of time and attack -- too raw, abrupt, and clattery, lacking in shading/nuance.
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Done. Thanks for the nudges.
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"Beautiful Love" on "In the Red" by the D.S.M. Big Band (D.S.M. refers to Des Moines, Iowa -- who knew that a city of that size and locale could have a band this good?) Dick Oatts is the featured guest soloist, his brother trumpeter Jim Oatts (seemingly the band's de facto leader) is one heck of a scary-impressive player. So far (two tracks in), I'm also very impressed by tenorman Wayne Page. In any case, kudos to Free For All and the D.S.M. people. Again, who knew?
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BTW, I was just listening to that bootleg DVD (shame on me) of two 1967 concerts (Stockholm and Karlsruhe) from Miles' European tour. Herbie sounds terrific on the Karlsruhe tracks, in part because he's playing a fabulous-sounding piano (a Bechstein).
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Great minds can predict the future.
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Great minds think alike. In a two-star review in the Oct. 17, 1968 issue of Down Beat, I wrote among other things that "Hancock's 'bluesy' playing on First Trip sounds like updated Billy Taylor. On the two ballad-like pieces, Speak like a Child and Goodbye to Childhood ... the playing anticipates the Muzak of the 1970s."
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That's not what Doug Ramsey's authoritative Desmond biography "Take Five" says. Desmond did for a while believe that was Jewish on his father's side of his family, but he was wrong. The Brubeck Quartet IIRC did have to play without Desmond on a tour that took them to Saudi Arabia because it was thought that Desmond was Jewish, but Desmond's father, Emil Breitenfeld was of German ancestry.
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Fine work -- lots of heart, no b.s.
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"Barney Miller" theme bassist was Chuck Berghofer. Story is that what was written wasn't coming off, and Berghofer said, "Let me try something" and supplied that introductory lick, which made the theme and for which Berghofer got thanks but no further coin. P.S. Some sources credit Jim Hughart, not Berghofer, but I know that Berghofer claimed to have done it as described above, and I have no reason to disbelieve him.