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    Bob Enevoldsen (tenor sax, valve trombone) and Stu Williamson (trumpet, valve trombone) are a couple of "white," California-based, "West Coast," "cool"-affiliated players whose playing isn;t as easily slottable as those labels / shingles hung suggest. Lots of nice sideman appearances in each man's discography... e.g., Williamson on Elmo Hope's Pacific Jazz quintet date, in a frontline with harold Land; Enevoldsen on the Herb Ellis / Stuff Smith LP... but the Andorran entrepreneurs have also assembled their otherwise rare leader sessions in some handy compilations that are worth acquiring if the right circumstances present themselves.
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    There's also Paul Smoker's GENUINE FABLES on Hat, with Phil Haynes and Ron Rohovit. MISSISSIPPI RIVER RAT, on Sound Aspects, is also worth hunting down. Herb Robertson is, IMHO, still a terribly underrated musician. Versatile, witty, but also somehow who plays with a lot of fire. IIRC correctly, he's recorded with Dominic Duval and Jay Rosen in a trio setting... for Cadence and CIMP, so there's that caveat. His JMT / Winter + Winter Bud Powell recital, however features a brass quintet (Brian Lynch, Vincent Chancey, Bob Stewart and Robin Eubanks) backed by Joey Baron. Someone has posted a liver performance (radio shot?) of this same band, more or less (sub Steve Swell and Joe Daley) playing Robertson's arrangements to the Tubes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnBxnYgB3j4
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    Just wait until you get to the episode featuring Frank Gorshin as an extraterrestrial deli favorite (one with less than six degrees of separation from Seinfeld)!
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    BAG

    Joe replied to bogdan101's topic in Artists

    Thanks for sharing this!
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    Saw that same tour and I gotta agree... it was pretty special. I mean, it was kind of like a touring Vegas review, but it was put together with great intelligence and even love. I was talking with an acquaintance afterward about it (I'd not known he had gone to the same show), and we were kind of laughing about the "deep cuts" the band played (e.g., "The Door Into Summer," most of the HEAD soundtrack), but, as he rather sincerely noted, "Yeah, it was like hearing THE WHITE ALBUM played live!"
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    Gene Clark

    Joe replied to Teasing the Korean's topic in Artists

    Yeah, you can't judge Clark as a songwriter by his years with The Byrds. Not that he did not write some fine, fine songs for them ("I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better"). But the real deal is to be found on the Dillard & Clark LPs, the 70s solo albums, and even on occasion in the 80s, when he went full-on Nashville and experienced a sort of mini-Renaissance. Here's a pretty good anthology that pulls work fro all these disparate sources and provides a fuller picture of what the man's music was all about. http://www.allmusic.com/album/flying-high-mw0000453561
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    Gene Clark is to Gram Parsons as Arthur Lee is to Jim Morrison. Papa Nes is no Townes Van Zandt, to be sure, but he's no Mac Davis either. Nesmith has appeared recently on PORTLANDIA. He still has comedy chops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRm0I7cTSNE There was a BS quotient to his solo tour last year (the spoken introductions to the songs), but the songs themselves retain much of their charm.
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    If you want to fully understand what was happening in LA "rock circles" there at the ass-end of the sixties, you are in some wahy obligated to own copies of the first three Nesmith First National Band LPs. Besides, he had Red Rhodes on pedal steel. Always loved Zappa's Byrds reference in this little bit, how it breaks Nesmith up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNJy-OgCzB0 PS - more incontrovertible, IMHO, Souled American > the entire mass of "No Depression" bands
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    Let me just say, Nathanael West is one of those authors that, when I first read him way back when, made me want to write novels. Enjoy! Some video from the Malvern Reading of January 8. It was very cold in Austin that night, but Malvern is a great bookstore (especially for anyone interested at all in contemporary poetry). http://youtu.be/XNu0gokwEpQ More footage can be found here: http://malvernbooks.com/tag/novel-night/ Thanks thanks thanks...
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    One of the quintessential LA "rock" figures; at his best, a kind of visionary (INTERNATIONAL HEROES), at his worst, too creepy for his or anyone else's own good. But what a life, and what a strange legacy!
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    Hannibal Peterson was a student at NTSU / UNT in a slightly later era, correct?
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    Hi all. Just a couple of news items to share... An excerpt from CREPUSCULE W/ NELLIE appears in the most recent issue of THE COLLAGIST. You can read it here: http://thecollagist.com/the-collagist/2014/12/5/crepuscule-wnellie-by-joe-milazzo-jaded.html. Also, I will be reading in Austin, TX at Malvern Books on the evening of January 8 2015 (a TH). More details about the even can be found here: http://malvernbooks.com/event/novel-night/?instance_id=739. Happy holidays!
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    Wayne Shorter, "Water Babies," SUPERNOVA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ6kSXWhJBU Please do not sleep on Budd Johnson's considerable abilities on soprano saxophone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnxY2euFe1Q Finally, not to everyone's tastes, but Lol Coxhill remains one of the more original players (and thinkers) on this instrument. Lacy-inspired, sure, but with his own sense of waywardness.
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    Call Mr. Lee! The chronology is rather scrambled, but for reasons (I won't claim they're good reasons, though). Trust that the section headers provide some guidance... And thanks! JM
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    Let's be thankful we have both.
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    Check out Parquet Courts / Parkay Quartz. May sound a bit too much like Pavement on Thorazine to some, but LIGHT UP GOLD (recent, though not 2014) is, IMO, a great scum rock philosophical tract. On a more gentle, shoegazey trip, I highly recommend Crushed Stars' FAREWELL YOUNG LOVERS.
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    Chuck: Amazon is as good a place as any, or you can order direct from the publisher, here: http://bit.ly/1rT6Kxn Thanks thanks thanks; best, JM
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    Greetings all. Again, my sincere thanks for all your support with this book. It has been a fascinating month, now that it is out and (very gradually) reaching readers. If I you have read and enjoyed or otherwise felt rewarded by your experience with the book, may I request that you please consider posting a rating or even a review at Goodreads and / or Amazon? Problematic institutions both, but they each do take feedback seriously, and it does help in raising the CREPUSCULE W/ NELLIE's profile. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22886178-crepuscule-w-nellie http://www.amazon.com/Crepuscule-Nellie-RECURRENT-Joe-Milazzo/dp/1937543609/ Again, many thanks; best, JM
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    Joe Bonner, R.I.P.

    Joe replied to mikeweil's topic in Artists

    Sad news. A player of real lyricism and power. His Muse dates are sadly MIA. Of the Steeplechases, another vote for the duets with Johnny Dyani. SUITE FOR CHOCOLATE, a quartet with Khan Jamal, is also quite fine.
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    :tup :tup for ANTIQUITY (the aforementioned duet with Michael Carvin).
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    Happy to see so much love for JACKIE'S PAL here. And, Late, totally agreed... I'd love to hear more of Jackie playing tenor.
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