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seashorepiano said:I suppose you're right. I wasn't sure whether snapcrotch was trying to take a stab at my weak mention of Gitler... but anyway, let's all forgive and let be forgiven. A simple misunderstanding; my apologies.
seashorepiano said:Just a little curious (note that I'm new to this place), but why was it a "good move" to move this to the Jazz forum? I'm kind of mystified by the "deviations" possible to anyone in the thread... did I cause some trouble with this??
Mr Bill said:Good move, Harry!
--Mr Bill
...and welcome back... How was the vacation?
Harry said:Vacation was a lovely, welcome respite from the ravages of this current winter. Visiting Florida in January for a person from the Midatlantic region is akin to Dorothy opening the door of her black and white house and seeing the Technicolor Land Of Oz outside.
Harry
...happy to be back in the swing of things online...
seashorepiano said:Ira Gitler had a gift for writing notes for music that was either out of its time or was far ahead of it. Popularity seemed to mean nothing to him, the way he wrote liner notes for Samba Blim. As I said before, he wrote, almost elegiacally, that the commercial bossa nova era had ended. True enough, I think, given that the album was released in late 1968.
In terms of depth and thorough treatment of the artists, their history and music, I have to say that Leonard Feather takes the cake for his notes for Wanderley's "Moondreams." I can feel the spirit of 1969 when he says "Walter is a Taurus..."
seashorepiano said:Well? They're great A&M liner note-writers. I'm sure I can speak for a lot of people in saying that they had great influence elsewhere, and also did great work. (I'm just learning this about them recently, however.) I never meant to limit their finest hour to the CTi period, but I certainly think that their work enriched the class that niche of A&M had.
seashorepiano said:Yes... I was thinking of picking up Gabor Szabo's "Rambler," a post-A&M album. Have you listened to that, Dave? I hear it's got some EXCELLENT electric piano work by Bob James.