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@alexblue1231 You joke, but that's actually one of the words that people think "jazz" is derived from!

We had Kevin Mahogany sing for our eighth-grade class back in 1994--right around the time that "Double Rainbow" came out. That was my first real exposure to live jazz. God--what a smooth tone.

This tune is a Kansas City original--written by Russ Long, a KC-based piano player. Never heard anyo...

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13 years later, that is ;-)

I would have stayed in my HS marching band if they made it like this! Awesome tunes mixed in with some marching. Seemed like everyone in our band was hung up on the whole "section leader" ego BS. There's no room in music for that, but sadly, it occurs even with professionals.

Insane! This tune's hard enough to play for a big band, let alone for folks who are marching.

The title on "Mingus Ah Um" is "Better Git it in Your Soul," but "Better Get Hit in Your Soul" is how it was listed on "Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus"--I'm guessing for contractual reasons, Impulse didn't want to record anything but "new" music. Nobody calls it "II BS" instead of "Haitian F...

Holy shit! Group scat improvisation! And to such a cool song--Duke Pearson's Jeannine. Anybody know what the first recording of this was?

Good version of this tune! Really faithful to the original Woody Herman version. Vocalese is rather difficult to do--it's hard to to make words with your mouth as quickly as a sax player can play. Just imagine if someone could improvise both coherent lyrics and melody to a song, rather than ju...

Wow! Didn't know Stanley did an entire solo album! I'm getting this ASAP.

First heard this song when Stanley appeared on Piano Jazz for the first time. What a wonderful song! I was lucky enough to find the eponymous album on vinyl back when the Music Exchange was open in Kansas City. As for this recording, holy drums, Batman! The recording balance is WAY out of whack.

Just saw Bob Brookmeyer in the background there--the Clark Terry/Bob Brookmeyer Quintet from the early 60s?

@gingersoll6 Especially the Clifford Brown Pacific Jazz version. The EmArcy version, not so much--that's more the Brown-Roach sound.

As a kid, I thought of jazz as Kenny G. Couldn't stand the man's music. Then I heard Count Basie, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles.... Perhaps it's Kenny G's canned backgrounds. Perhaps it's his near-lack of improvisation and original melody. Perhaps it's his constant pentatonic "tonalit...

UN-BELIEVABLE! This absolutely blows away the version from Manhattan Wildlife Refuge, and I thought that was a pretty darn good recording....

Those group improvisations are just wonderful!