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RCA had some very good lps. . .with silly covers . . .

I'm sure she felt silly. . . .

I like this animal cover. . .

Organ fascination eh. . . . Dmitry, the Welk Orchestra SWUNG. Trust me. It was never missed in my maternal grandparents' home. Dave, you're welcome! I was surprised that I found such a good scan so soon! The Richard Marx is pretty jazzy really, not a bad session.

After finishing Santoro's "Myself When I Am Real" which I liked, I've started Walter Van De Leur's "Something to Live For: the Music of Billy Strayhorn" which is equally fascinating.

Wow. . .there are a lot of objectionable layers in this picture from a 21st century viewpoint. . . silly may not be the right word for this one!

Kind of looks like a young and slimmer Al "Jazzbo" Collins before his morning coffee. . . .

I'm sorry. . . didn't mean to beat you to it. I think they are the same, just one is really badly scanned . . .?

Now THIS is sillY:

I always have thought covers like this were SILLY, I like them, but they are still silly to me, and there are many contemporary companions in silliness:

Monsieur Ubu, that makes a lot of sense to me! In fact since Evans apparently was involved in small group arranging as well for Miles from Round About Midnight to the integration of electronic instruments in the electric era (Filles de Kilamanjaro at the very least) the Miller analogy is even weightier. . . !

David, John, I can sympathize and hear what you are saying. . . but I think that the lack of solos and the form of that title song. . .sets one up for the whole rest of the album. . . makes the drama and release larger when "Hand Jive" gets really cooking!

The Ella Mae Morse Bear Family is really nice, fun stuff, most of which is pretty interesting to a swing/jazz fan. She sure had personality and charisma almost B) as big as Texas!

Cover looks okay to me. I like the blue better on this than the TOCJ. Deeper. . .more "note"-worthy. But that's just my esthetics. This is a killer session if you haven't heard it.

I like the new RVG of Grantstand, I picked it up today and listened to it several times. It's clearly better on my system. I love the sound of Green's guitar and when Teefsky does the slurring tones on the tenor it's clearer. Maybe it's just the way that RVGs interact with my system, but I hear marked improvement/differences over the earlier versions, and prefer the RVGs. . . .

Well I was going through my bills for July and my eyes were popping out at how much money I spent at Red Trumpet that month on Impulse lp facimile cds cheap and I realized I hadn't bought any Miles at all (though a cdr tree set WAS obtained.) I KNEW it was a bad month. I did listen to some Miles, but lately haven't been listening to music by the Shorter-Hancock-Carter-Williams group. Then I remembered I hadn't responded to this Album of the Week so I put on Nef and actually listened to it twice. First off this is a Miles release I have in a Sony mini-lp, and I have had several lp copies of this and I had a big deja vu moment or two holding the minilp and listening to "Hand Jive." I must have heard this recording many times holding the lp in my lap. . . reading the liner notes I guess. Love these liner notes! (okay so there are no liner notes!) The sound is really good on this Sony disc and it's the way I listen to this session. It never sounded better; vinyl MAY WELL RULE, but my cd based system sounds so much better now than my any previous system I ever had . . . . Anyway, I really like this "lp." These guys were superstars, and this was a supergroup recording that lives up to any hype. The lps they put out were each a little different. This one is very well programmed! The music flows from track to track, side to side, with variety and pacing that fits. My favorite section is "Hand Jive" and "Madness" which were both recorded at one session and I think the sound perfectly presents the music, with a rich bass and drums not too closely miked that they don't light up the room with rhythm and the soloists coming in and out strong. And the music is very very captivating. I find that it is at this point that my attention is fully engaged. "Nefertiti" and "Fall" are the warmup, and these two tracks are the main course. . . . It hardly gets better than this. These cats were just so well suited to play together, so confident and listening so hard. . . . The material was varied (what no Miles tune?) and from three composers. . . . And the execution was breathtaking. IF I hadn't been listening to this music for nearly three decades and IF I weren't athat familiar with modern jazz someone could fool me into thinking this was played today. There are a lot of cats playing today who couldn't pull this off, but try like HELL. Good choice Al! This and the music by this group before and after will always be timeless! (My bold prediction! )

Yeah. . . I figured it would be. BUT I'll never say never. It may come into my clutches one day! ***insert evil laugh***

Thanks for posting that Merrill cover Dmitry. That's ONE album of Beatles material I might buy one day!

I finally ordered the Coltrane, and the Dexter, and the Rollins. . . and I hope to pick this Green up at Tower this weekend. I LOVE this session, because of Lateef's presence; he really makes it special for me. I'll grab this remastering just because I really like this one, I don't have the TOCJ and it gives me an excuse to give this special attention again!

Yes, he recorded a bit for Commodore. One LARGE ensemble session, and I THINK (memory is going. . . too much mercury in my fish oil?) a small session or two as well. An amazing pianist and arranger. I appreciate him more and more.

I think the Mel Powell sides are FANTASTIC, and the Sid Catlett sides are a hoot.