Jazz for aficionados

Parmesan cheese and a touch of dry oregano is killer on popcorn.

Could it be.....?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DD-4zPe4wNg

Great Cannonball, O-10; thanks.  My favorite alto player.  This record with John Coltrane as co-leader is classic and features some of the best Cannonball on record.  Check out Cannonball's opening solo break on "Limehouse Blues"; amazing!  And, of course, the best version of the beautiful "Stars Fell On Alabama" (4:41) that I have ever heard:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EMY667lKfnM

Could imagine some black pepper with that...

Yes - I've been checking in here periodically over the years.  Sometimes the family squabbles are entertaining.  Sometimes a little tedious.  Rok do have attitude (or, as they would say in NE Phila., at-tee-tood) along with some strongly held positions.

But enough of this chitter chatter...
Check out the Jazz Pistols recording, "live".
From the opening crowd noise, sounds like a small venue. The SQ is very good.  So is the playing.  

Jim Carrey is genius.  The "out take scene" in the bakery at the end of Bruce Almighty when he does Sammy Davis Jr. singing The Candyman is screamingly funny (well, it was to me).  I looked on-line but those unused bits ain't quite as good as what I recall being in the movie.    

B.B. King and SRV:

This is an example of a phenomena that is played out across this country all the time.  I will explain in a moment.

First ask yourself this question:   Under what circumstances or scenario do you see B.B. King commenting on SRV?

1.  Is he a big fan of SRV?   Owns all his records.   Praises him at every opportunity?

2.  Did he see SRV perform Live, or on TV and then jumped up and called the media to tell them what a great blues player he is?

3.  Was he asked by a member of the media, or interviewer, to comment on SRV?

Since you are an Oracle, you already know the answer.   For the sake of any mere mortals that  may be watching, the answer is #3.

Why would they do that you might ask.   Well, it's done all the time, esp if it's an interracial thing.

IOW, The black person at the top of their profession, will be asked to comment on, up and coming, or lesser whites in the same profession.

Also, The white person at the top of their profession will be asked to comment on, up and coming, or lesser blacks in the same profession.

The comments will always be positive and encouraging.

It's a seal of approval type thing.   It's a game that's played by the PR folks.   If Mingus says you can play, YOU CAN PLAY!!  That will be printed a billion times in countless articles.

I have other examples but this is too long.

Cheers

***** he will post clips (for God knows how many times) of a third rate swing big band "(Sweethearts"), or ridiculous scat singing, *****


The Sweethearts were not third rate.  Only a person with zero knowledge of music history would make a silly statement like that.   They represented people that overcame almost impossible odds, to do something great.  After all, this was 1930's Mississippi.   This should be enough to call your position as Oracle into question.  
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Ridiculous Scat singing??   I have never thought of the Ferrell clip as scat singing.  I realized she did it, but that was not what the clip is about.   What it was about is passion.  I know that is foreign in your type of Jazz, but quite common in other types.

Sometimes you Oracles can't hear the music for the critical analysis. 

Cheers