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  1. I love this - from two of the most frequent offenders. Welcome to Hypocrisy.com. A couple of years ago, I think it was, I decided to stop participating in this forum because of all the hate expressed on it. Not just, "I disagree with your opinion, because...", but outright pathological hatred toward anyone who expressed an opinion contrary to the prevailing popular one. Plus, flagrant lies being posted, unchallenged by anyone. I was away for a couple of years and recently thought I'd try it again. Bad move. The same assholes are doing 90% of the posting, egged on by their sycophantic handful of "fans." This recent Stan Getz thread was the final straw. Larry Kart and Allen Lowe, if you were men, you'd issue a profound apology to Bev Getz, but for obvious reasons that's not going to happen. To the hatemongers, who appear to have nothing better to do than write hundreds of offensive posts per year, think about getting some professional help before it's too late. To Bev Getz: Don't waste your time here - read Doug Ramsey's Rifftides, or Marc Myers' JazzWax, or Ted Gioia's Jazz.com. Enough; once again (not that anyone cares), I'm outta here.
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    Bill Triglia

    I always thought he was one of the most underrated, and undeservedly neglected pianists in modern jazz. When I used to buy LPs, if I saw his name on one, I knew it would be worth buying. I've got him on several CDs - with Mingus, Fruscella, and others. In fact, isn't that his voice asking Tony Fruscella for a cigarette on the Open Door sessions? It leads to a back-and-forth between them that never fails to crack me up. As part of a comment a couple of years ago on Doug Ramsey's Rifftides, I asked if anyone knew whatever happened to him; I never did get a response from anybody. Please pass along to his daughter, and him if possible, that many of us still remember him and treasure his recordings.
  3. it's years ago that i read it... gave it to a friend two weeks ago and what he said matched very well my own memories: it's mainly about sex and (with few exceptions) it ends somewhere in the early fifties... it's a good book but there's room left for other mingus biographies... Let's just say this one should be filed under "Fiction" in the library.
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    Upgrading iTunes

    The last time I upgraded iTunes, from 6 to 7, I thought it would just overwrite the application with the new "improvements" and leave everything else the way I had it set up. No such luck. It completely destroyed the playlists and other categories I had set up. It didn't lose any of the music; just randomly scattered my music throughout the computer. It took me a couple of weeks of painstaking work to reconstruct everything and it's still not exactly the way it was before. Now I'm afraid to upgrade to 8; is this going to happen again?
  5. Actually, it'll be much later, since Chambers' book has been out for several months; it's very good. I got mine through Amazon.
  6. Steve has an interesting sense of humor. At a trio gig at the Regattabar in Cambridge, MA, a few years ago, he announced he was going to play his tune "The Zoo," and would sing some lyrics he had written for it. He warned us it wouldn't be very good singing. He played the tune, sang his whimsical lyrics (he was right, the singing wasn't very good, but it was enjoyable) and then played his solo. At the end of his solo, he segued into a two-chord vamp that sounded really familiar to me; after a few seconds, I realized it was the figure that McCoy Tyner played behind Coltrane as Coltrane chanted, "a love supreme, a love supreme..." He continued to play it for about 30 seconds and then started chanting, "I love the Supremes, I love the Supremes." I cracked up and when I looked around, just about no one had gotten it. There were just a lot of puzzled looks. So much for those musically sophisticated Boston audiences.
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    RIP Dave McKenna

    Dave's memorial service was held yesterday. This is from today's Boston Globe: By Matt Negrin, Globe Correspondent | December 8, 2008 WOONSOCKET, R.I. - For the musicians swinging to jazz at the front of the church, something was missing. They had for years tuned their instruments and their ears to Dave McKenna's piano. Now, he is gone. But in a way he was still with them at St. Ann Arts & Cultural Center yesterday, amid the fluttering brass notes, the thumping bass, and the light chatter of the drums as some of his oldest friends paid tribute to the legendary New England pianist. "Dave was so supportive. Whenever we were playing solos, we would just become enhanced," said George Masso, a trombonist who had played with McKenna for nearly 50 years, along with trumpeter Lou Columbo and clarinetist Dick Johnson. "He was one of the greatest jazz pianists in the world." McKenna, who was 78 when he died Oct. 18, became one of the most internationally admired jazz pianists. Noted for his solo flair, he had filled bars and lounges in New England and New York for nearly four decades. He grew up in Woonsocket with a father who drummed, a mother who played violin, and musical siblings. By the time he was a teenager he was accompanying bands, and would go on to play with Woody Herman and Charlie Ventura. He moved to New York, and then to Cape Cod in 1966. During the 1980s, he could often be heard at the Copley Plaza Hotel, where he was the chief pianist. Performing with McKenna could be euphoric, his bandmates said. "It was like partially singing with an orchestra and floating on air at the same time, because he was buoyant," said Daryl Sherman, who had sung with the pianist since the 1980s, including at his final performance in the Oak Room in New York City's Algonquin Hotel. She called McKenna the "Woonsocket hero." Watching the piano man's friends play and laugh from the front row of the church, his wife, Frankie, was moved. "I think he would be delighted to see so many friends in such a surrounding," she said, beaming. Although, she said, referring to the 500 people who came to the memorial, "Dave didn't like a whole lot of fuss." McKenna was a humble man, whether on the piano bench or with friends and family. Columbo, the trumpeter, joked of a recording session 25 years ago when McKenna asked him to lay some tracks for his album, and their roles were quickly reversed. "He said, 'Lou, if you don't want me to play too much, I won't,' " he recalled. "It was his album." Standing at stage right while guitarist Gray Sargent filled the cavernous fresco-lined church with deep melodies, the three brass men laughed as they shared old stories about McKenna. Remember the time he ate nearly an entire ham? Or when Red Sox slugger Ted Williams stopped by to hear him play at the Plaza? "Ted Williams loved Dave," Columbo said. Jean O'Donnell, McKenna's sister, sang the slow-jazz classic "My Ship." Before she took the mike, though, she thought of what her brother would do if he were there. "He might like to be up there," she said, "playing with his friends."
  8. Amazon.com has notified me that my copy was shipped on Nov. 23, at a price of $13.57. At last!!
  9. It's available for pre-order from Amazon, to be released in October-------they say.
  10. Couldn't have said it better myself. You're right on the money as far as the tune, Miles' version, and especially the thoughts in your last two paragraphs.
  11. Jaki Byard recorded on piano and tenor sax, and I've heard him play both in person. His father, John Byard, Sr. told me once that Jaki also played trumpet and other brass instruments, bass, drums, vibes and even violin.
  12. Actually, he's left the UK and is now a resident of Florence, Italy. I'm sure he, for one, would be offended to be referred to as "Zoot Sims lite" and I find it mildly annoying, too. But, if that's all you hear.............
  13. Just out of curiosity, is this Fresh Sound version in stereo or mono? Stereo. Thank you. Tony always seemed to be able to put together interesting, eclectic groups of sidemen. I remember seeing him one time in the 60's at the Dom in NYC. I forget who was on bass, but he had Jaki Byard on piano and Rashied Ali on drums!
  14. Just out of curiosity, is this Fresh Sound version in stereo or mono?
  15. Bird was on tour with the Kenton band from January 28, 1954, until February 28th. I was fortunate enough to see them on February 9th in Worcester, MA. The concert also featured Dizzy Gillespie, June Christy, Lee Konitz, the Erroll Garner Trio, and Candido. Apparently they couldn't get any big names to come along.
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