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I have the direct to disc Sheffield's of his later band, but it was interesting to watch his earlier big band. They played Herb Alpert's Taste of Honey from Whipped Cream And Other Delights and took it a few steps beyond. I never saw it live before.
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I heard them many times in Reno while in College there for 2 years.
Buddy Rich and Sonny Payne were the Drummers.
Yes, at different times...!
A really great, tight band!Joe Riggs Lead Alto, Dick Mc Creary Bass Bone, Thad Jones Charts, the whole book.
Way better than the band of young LA musicians on the Sheffield.
I have 3 or 4 Sheffield, LA Phil too.
I don't like any of them,
poor balances on R&J for example.
I have both James Sheffields, not my favs by a long shot!This video is from 1964.
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You should read the liner notes from Harry himself about the different bands he was involved with.
I consider Sheffield technically, as a whole, an accomplished art of recorded sound and still enjoy it. Live will always be much different no matter what system you have period. I like to think we are all here because of people like Sax and Mayorga and RR and every great label before them. We would not have a High End if it weren't for people like this to establish high standards.
Buddy Rich is technically the best drummer ever including anyone after, although they are many great ones. No one today can approach what I've seen him do. I speak from experience but I'm open to the future.
I wish I'd seen him live. I won't comment on his pro personality.
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Harry, Direct to Disk!
I have a bunch except that one, he's awesome and Sheffield is divine
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I had already gone to bed (I like to read for an hour or so before I crash and the TV is a distraction), when my wife opened the bedroom door and said "Henry James on Sullivan, playing a song that goes 'ba-dum, ba-dum, ba-daaaa.'"
I said, "It's Harry, not Henry and I can't hear it." By the time the Missus was done tunelessly humming the melody, the segment was over and the audience was applauding.
So I looked it up, let wifey know it was "A Taste of Honey." Told her it was a big hit for Herb Alpert, who she then called "Herb Albert."
Also told her the Beatles covered it on PPM but I didn't get into the time signature or I'd never have moved on to the next page in my book (it's about the naval wars at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries). Mrs. Ghost can't grasp the difference between 4/4 time and 3/4 time.
Anyway, I do enjoy some of the stuff on MeTV. We can pull it in here on antenna, too. Don't even need fucking Verizon or Comcast.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
I watch WJLP once in a while, wife wanted Direct cause the cable here sucks. My wife loves the big band music and both of us can't dance to anything. We listened to the King James later and I explained to her the DtoD thing; what a triumph.
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It all started with The Man From UNCLE , which MeTV was showing a few years ago. I loved that show when I was a kid, and Mrs. Ghost started enjoying it, too.
The first season is my favorite and the theme song--written by Jerry Goldsmith--was in 5/4 time. I loved the music when I was a kid also.
For the second season, MGM didn't want to pay for a full orchestra to re-record the theme song (apparently that's a thing), so it brought in Lalo Schifrin to re-arrange the theme song and have it performed by a small combo. One of the things Schifrin did was change the time signature to 4/4. I never liked that arrangement. Started telling the wife about it and thoroughly confused her. She couldn't hear the difference between 5/4 and 4/4 time.
Funny.
Ironically enough, "A Taste of Honey" is the only song I've heard where I consider the changed time signature (it was originally in 3/4 time, the Alpert arrangement that Harry James used is 4/4) to be superior.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
your wife might not mind bands like Genesis and Happy The Man and their wild use of all different time sigs, even from measure to measure.
Man from U.N.C.L.E. I haven't seen in quite a while. Vaughn was ok but he was such a mean prick on Bullit. I always liked Ilya 'cause back then it gave me hope for Russia. That didn't work out very well.
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One of those bands/performers I have zero LPs from. Like the Eagles or Joni Mitchell.
Also, I wanted to be Napoleon Solo when I was 10 years old. I used to practice Robert Vaughn's facial expressions and vocal ticks in the bathroom mirror.
It figures. Ilya was the cool one, not Solo. Vaughn said that David McCallum got the girls, he got the blue-haired old ladies.
But that's my MO. Never been cool, never will be cool.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
if you don't have any, look for Banco, PFM, Kayak, Triumvirat, Bella Band from the progressive era.
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But I'll keep a weather eye out for them.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
add 'Le Orme' to the list - verita nascoste is a whirl.edit - for PFM I really like 'Photos of Ghosts' and 'Cook'
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