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  1. I'm glad someone's saying it. Thanks for posting it!
  2. Oh, I see; I must have wandered into some type of Bizzaro World Organissimo,
  3. I'm reading "Mr.PC: The Life and Music of Paul Chambers", and I can remember arguing with some posters here that Bill Evans was an important part of "Kind of Blue"and various posters saying he had barely anything to do with the album. I reach the section of the Kind of Blue sessions and I read a passage saying that Miles Davis "planned the music around the piano playing of Bill Evans", taken from the book by A.Kahn, "The Making of Miles Davis' Masterpiece" London Granta Books. I mention that fact to a friend of mine today, including the discussion here on Bill Evans' role in KOB, and he just mumbles, "sounds like a bunch of racists" in regards to the discussion here...
  4. Since your screen name is Face of the Bass, I've been reading "Mr.PC": The Life and Music of Paul Chambers" by Rob Palmer. It deals heavily with every note that PC played for Blue Note. I'm not kidding, this guy analyzes every aspect of the Blue Note albums PC played on, even his walking bass lines! In 1958, PC played on 53 now classic jazz albums, and in addition was working what must have been over 300 gigs in clubs, concerts working with Miles, Coltrane, Hal McKusick, Chet Baker, Wynton Kelley, Red Garland, Philly Joe Jones, Jimmy Cobb, Cannonball, Phineas Newborn, Wilbur Hardin, Bill Evans, Bobby Jaspar, Eddie Costa, Kenny Burrell, etc...he was even doing a gig on Christmas Eve. And he was only 22 years old!
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    RIP Sylvain Luc

    A heart attack at 58.
  6. According to this video on his You Tube channel the great jazz guitarist Clint Strong won't be able to play the guitar again due to a stroke that he suffered in the middle of 2023. Very sad news.
  7. RIP, I liked the timbre of SL's voice a lot.
  8. Only 63? What a terrible thing. He was an Indiana cat who was friends with Jim Herrington of SD, which was how he got with Fagen. RIP.
  9. I guess I fall into the "better with horns" camp. Last Sunday as we drove in to Brooklyn for what's left of the family's annual dinner out together, we listened to Sid Gribbets' Sunday special on Stitt on KCR. I kept thinking, "Who the heck is that pianist playing with him? He shaw nuff be sounding good. I was amazed to find out that OP was the pianist on almost all of the quartet cuts Sid played. I said to myself, "Well I'll be darned!" We had a very nice, peaceful dinner together, until I made the mistake of asking my sister (an R&B fanatic for 60 years, and ex-Jimmy Garrison student) what she thought of hip-hop. Just for asking that question, I was met with a torrent of four-letter words that I can't mention here. and we rushed out of the restaurant, and made our separate ways home.
  10. He didn't seem to understand English too well back then. I was just reading the Mark Murphy bio by Peter Jones, and he was so desperate for publicity for his album, that he appeared on The Dating Game back in the 60s. I doubt that he told them he was gay, but he was the winner! LOL! All he cared about was showing the audience a copy of his latest album. His date was the actress Susan Strasberg. They won a 'dream date' to Greece. He said she was only four feet tall! I looked for it on You Tube, but I couldn't find it.
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