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[publicacionesdeunachica]

[saidthewizard]

Those Special Moments ...

... when you and I miraculously seem to melt one into the other: Where do I end, where do you begin? Is there a beginning, an end? Does it matter? Does anything matter when we are flooded with that (almost) unique sense of oneness love's heat can generate?

Such moments are ephemeral, a fact which - some say - lies at the heart of the human drama. Then again, some say the real drama begins where we try to sustain the unsustainable or - I'll tone down the rhetoric - to nail the moonstruck pudding to the wall.

Whatever. As these episodes go, they tend to go down particularly well when the soundtrack supports the illusion that together, we cease to be alone. Here a tune - complete with the old-fashioned noise of crackling vinyl - which surely fits the bill. Its title sums up all the known facts in two words. Alone Together is get-to-the-point, cheek-to-cheek West Coast jazz without frills, but definitely not without emotions ...

Alone Together is the second of the dozen tracks which make up the Herbie Harper Quintet's 1955 album Five Brothers (Tampa Records Tampa TP-25), and - despite what, erroneously, the youtube clip (”Presenting Red Mitchell”) initially claims - it's played by

Herbie Harper - trombone Bob Enevoldson - tenor sax Don Overburg - guitar Red Mitchell - bass Frank Capp - drums

[mosaicrecords]

Drummer Frank Capp, RIP

Frankie Capp, drummer and big band leader, has died. An alum of Kenton’s outstanding early 50s big band he was a mainstay in Los Angeles and among many other outstanding groups he co-led one of the great big bands in the 1970s along with Nat Pierce. Monk Rowe published this interview with Frank Capp.

-Scott Wenzel

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