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Jim Trageser's avatar

Will have to pick up that Ella LP - did Pablo ever put out even a mediocre album? I think Granz was at his peak as a producer in the '70s - and the musicians he recorded were, too. Basie's small-group recordings on Pablo are uniformly revelatory.

And McCartney's superb bass playing has almost always been overshadowed by his songwriting and singing - but he and Ringo formed one of the most supple rhythm sections ever in rock 'n roll.

Besides, he IS aging gracefully! I don't remember if it was Paul or Mick Jagger, but one of them said that seeing the earlier generations of swing, jazz and blues musicians keep producing vital music into their 80s had inspired them, and made them realize that their earlier notion that rock was strictly a young person's game was foolish.

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Bruce M Hunt's avatar

Ella....what a talent. In my day I was a pretty good singer, and once in a while I tried to imitate that kind of scat vocalizing and failed miserably.....it's really difficult to get that kind of control...or it was for me anyway. She was amazing.

Music to alleviate dental pain? Isn't the varying tone of the drill supposed to do that?

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