Bill Nelson

Yet one more of life's pleasures denied by authorities.

About the above, my cab driver from Lagos would say, "That is the REEL SHEET!"

As currently listed for 2023: "Joey DeFrancesco is Ready to Sail on the Jazz Cruise '23." I believe that ship has sailed.

Also dig this Eddie 'Hendo' Harris' bossa album on VeeJay w/ Lalo on keys and arranging, plus Jimmy Raney!

After Hurricane Ian, nearly EVERYONE below Tampa was having a yard sale.

Dig on Cuba Gooding Jr. gettin' down with the Main Ingredient on this Willie Hutch tune: Err, uhh, let me identify the above singer as Cuba Gooding, SENIOR.

Already learnt -- having got the two J's with Jamie on ABC Paramount and the two more on Columbia. To me, Jamie's voice doesn't have the honey-dripping, buttery quality of Anita or Bonnie. YMMV.

In 1965, the newly divorced Anita Kerr moved from Nashville to L.A. and recorded an LP with Marty Paich arranging. Here, Kerr's lead vocal suggests Bonnie Herman and the Singers Unlimited, who followed in 1972.

In '86, I was given front row tix for a comic "you just gotta see". When I realized Tenuta's act included frequent 'razzing' nearby audience members, I bailed out before showtime.

Similar reaction here. Found a $3 copy at an antique market booth and expected so much more given the supporting cast. The music is standard organ fare you'd expect on early 70's Prestige. (Flipped it for $35 at the next record show.)

Kaper's theme to 'Butterfield 8' gets me every time.

Albhy Galuten majored in composition and arranging, Berklee '68 https://www.berklee.edu/berklee-today/summer-2002/On-the-Watchtower

Berklee arranging grad Albhy Galuten made up the groove for three (above) Bee Gees tracks. "In 1977, RSO needed four Bee Gees songs for the 'Saturday Night Fever' soundtrack, so I took a drum loop from 'Night Fever' (a single bar that felt really good) and ended up using it on 'Staying Alive' and 'More Than a Woman'." from http://www.berklee.edu/bt/141/coverstory.htm/

Which I translate to 'BFD'.

Elvin Jones - 'Puttin' it Together', bought in the fall of '68 while a sophomore in high school with money from lawn mowing. My biology teacher, Bill MacEneaney, had started a jazz club' in South Kingstown, RI and played it at one of the meetings.

"Some assembly required", for the above.

I'm not buying into the current millennials who employ mannered croaks and coarse vocal affects to disguise their lack of actual dues-paying 'road time'. Such creds don't just 'arrive' a year or two out from the parental nest.

Those dry-cracked, throat-scratched vocals usually indicate years of road-weary existence. Young millennial, please tell us how hard life has been.

My kvetch with recent Tone Poets extends beyond Kevin Gray's cutting -- to the triple-shift pressing activity at RTI. In the last two years, my returns-to-keepers ratio has been 3-to-1, which I attribute to oversight in quality control at RTI due to the overwhelming demand for limited-edition colored vinyl for every Record Store Day and the flurry from new indie labels. My returned TPs merely join the pool of many which are absorbed by parent Universal without apology, concern, or corrective measures.

The above jacket artwork could've been used for Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead'.

The above 'Kenton Presents' is my nomination for Worst Mosaic Cover. It begs for the return of covers with black-and-white photos. Of course, I bought it anyway.

As a frequent seller at Atlanta record shows, trying to move country LPs was the kiss of death. The only interest was for hot guitar pickers and buyers might offer $5-10 for a good one. Black music -- jazz, soul, funk -- would always sell.

'Lovesick' is my favorite mid-60's jazz LP of Jackie & Roy. It was their last album for Verve. Afterwards, their manager convinced them to chase radio hits with the wretched rock-oriented 'Grass', a one-shot on Capitol. A four-year recording hiatus followed. (Dana, their 10-year-old daughter, might be the one perched in the tree clutching a small dog.)

Perception did have unexpected commercial success in early '73, when they leased the pop single, 'Dancing In the Moonlight', by the U.S. rock band King Harvest, from the French Musidisc label. 'Dancing' went to # 13 and the hit single undoubtedly caused a distribution problem for Perception. A hurriedly assembled King Harvest LP for Perception went nowhere and the band became a one-hit wonder.

You take the one with bangs, I'll take the one in the turban.