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LOU DONALDSON/Lush Life: Donaldson was pretty well known for his groove records, but this mid 60’s return to Blue Note was a different set for the saxman where he put it out there on ballads with a future all star big band behind hind. His most pretty ballad album, you can’t take the blues and soul out of his playing, but it isn’t front and center. Just the same, you wouldn’t mistake this for an easy listening album, even for the period. 40 years of age can give anything gray hair, but this is never any less than great mood music to today’s ears. A great sonic peek at Blue Lou when he’s more blue than blues.
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HORACE SILVER QUINTET/You Gotta Take a Little Love: The latest in the Rudy Van Gelder remaster series, this is one of the odder entries in the Silver canon. Probably overlooked because of the overly 60’s flower power cover and the lack of benchmark tunes, this well played set closed out the 60’s and the quintet years for Silver, but it did it in fine style. An overlooked set that swung to hard for where music was in general at that time, which was one of the jazz is dead periods, it’s a fun listen today. Silver was never less than reliable, so this is a good set for hipsters to rediscover and champion without fear of being disclaimed.
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STANLEY TURRENTINE/The Spoiler: A Rudy Van Gelder remaster that didn’t really need the master to revisit the master. Even though you’ve got a bunch of first call cats backing him up, Turrentine is so front and center that it’s simply his show and nothing can change that. Not much different from last decade’s straight reissue, this is for those that like their honking and blowing right up close and in their face. Turrentine blows up a storm and that was this date is about from start to finish.
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DVD SUPPLEMENT
PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
PENN & TELLER BULLSHIT! Complete Fourth Season: In another age, it was H. L. Mencken proclaiming against ‘Barnum bunkum bible beating bastards”, today we have P&T hollering ‘bullshit’ and winning awards for doing it. Season 4 of their crusade against the tsunami that hammers us into stupors of submission finds them turning it up and hammering back. With Penn’s bombast showing no singing of abating, this is like watching a punk rock John Stossel unmask the charlatans. A fun way to get back at those that ail you.
(Showtime)
FAMILY TIES Complete First Season: Hippies raising proto yuppies. The show certainly was a product of it’s times. That aside, the first season had a lot of heart and was a family comedy, with the requisite moral at the end of each episode, that manage to rise above the dictates and straight jackets of what you were supposed to format. While the early stuff was a little rough, Michael Fox hadn’t dominated the show yet and the cardboard episodes hadn’t begun to roll. Whether kids today will get it or not, 80’s kids now into their adult years will certainly have a warm spot for revisiting this. Whether it’s aged well or not will be a moot point to those that remember it as the video equivalent of comfort food.
Volume 30/Number 107
February 15, 2007
MIDWEST RECORD
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Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
(c)2007 Midwest Record
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