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My first guitar teacher used to talk about working with him on the phone during lessons. He was always like a mysterious figure to me.

I was listening to an interview with Danny Thompson on his time as a bass player for John Martyn and Nick Drake, and he talked about the session for "River Man". He talked about the violin section, and said that the leader of it was David McCallum. It turned out he was talking about the actor's father. He said that his son became a big actor on the American TV show, I Spy. We all know what series he meant.

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Sylvia Marlowe specialized in 20th Cent. Harpsichord music, and knocked me out with a recording of a piece by Henri Sauguet.

They definitely played a cut or two from the tape when PS was interviewing JD on the Swing show. Other than that it listed for sale on PS' website. So I might have to go to Nashville to search for it if it's not listed in the search engine? A friend of mine went to a jazz club in Nashville, and got stopped on the street it was on, just because there were a lot of hookers there, and they thought he was looking for one! He had to explain to them he wanted to hear a pedal steel guitar player who was playing in one of the jazz clubs, and they didn't want to believe him, and gave him a hard time for about 15 minutes!

So, Phil was selling a cassette tape of my close friend Joe Dixon's album we had recorded of a quintet with me on guitar, playing a bunch of my compositions and arrangements for something like $50 on his website. Joe, a star soloist with the Tommy Dorsey band with Sinatra and Buddy Rich (he was Joe's roommate on the road, and knocked Joe out with one punch when they had an argument), the Bunny Berrigan Band, the Stan Kenton Quintet, and many others, was also a guest on Phil's show, and they played one of my tunes on the air, with the meticulous PS pronouncing my name perfectly, something rarely done on the first try. Anyway, what I'm getting at with that tl;dr paragraph is: Is there any way that I can purchase that tape of my tunes, or is the tape now in the custody of Vanderbilt U, and I have to trudge my way down to Nashville (like the Gene Puerling Collection at N. Texas State) to buy it? I tried a search on their Aviary Search Engine, and that came up with nada. That's what we were just discussing. Sometimes it seems like there's no connection between what college winds up obtaining someone's collection, and they just get them to add prestige to the school.

Yeah, well you never got stuck in a band where a cornball keyboard player who as Art Blakey said, 'couldn't swing if he was hanging from a rope', chose to play RIB as his featured piece EVERY NIGHT. I asked him who his fave jazz pianist was, and he said in his Bullwinkle J. Moose voice, "Why George Gershwin, of course!" He never even heard of Oscar Peterson! That was the straw that broke this camel's back. I took some Mus. Ed. courses and that was that.

It's all rooted in the one thing that California is known for, in the commercial I just heard; California Psychics. They've got all the answers. How else to explain the 49ers comeback in the second half?- they called a California Psychic from the locker room...

On the Tal Farlow album "Fuerst Set", the trio (Farlow, Costa and Burke) are playing Opus De Funk by Horace Silver, and Farlow quotes the horse racing bugle call, and ends on the flatted fifth instead of the normal 5th, and you can hear Eddie Costa yell in the background, "Are you serious?!"

Eat Your animal crackers So the children in Europe won't starve anymore. RIP

Oh no. Oh no. Oh no no no no no! RIP. My sisters used to listen to her all the time. Back then girl groups were the big thing everywhere. My older sister was part of a group that did a song called , "What's Wrong with Ringo?" It was a local hit. The lyrics were something like this: "What's wrong with Rin-go? Why won't he sing a-long? What's wrong with Ringo? Etc.. Why won't he fall in love with me? I looked it up and they weren't The Bon Bons. They just did a cover version of the Bon Bons' hit.

he was a close friend of Bernard Herrmann's, and did films like Dr. Strangelove, Capt. Kronos Vampire hunter, The Maids , and many other UK movies.He used a very hip drummer on he last Avengers series Does anyone know who that was? Maybe Randy Jones or someone like that? RIP

I read about his "meeting" with Bird in the after life. I'm glad Bird is so well dressed over there...

Hey Allen, great tenor playing at Small's! What a band. Aaron Johnson's last solo on alto was as close to perfection as anyone's going to get. He played incredible clarinet, too!

I found the book in the library, but I'm reading Jones' book on Donald Fagen, which is fantastic. Maybe if MM didn't overdo his improvisations on the great songs he sang, he would've won a Grammy

Aaron Johnson completely killed on his last alto solo of the night! He stayed inside, and every note was perfection!

I got a ton of wax removed from my ears last year by an ENT, and I was hoping it would make a big difference in my hearing, but when the ENT asked me if I heard the change, I had to say no. He just said, "You're probably so used to it that you don't hear the difference. Then his nurse gave me a hearing test, and the results were I had mild hearing loss. That was a relief to me considering the thousands of gigs I played throughout my life. I was afraid it was going to be much worse.

Yeah, listening to that now. Allen sounds great on tenor! The alto player's also great, but I prefer his clarinet playing to that wild Dolphyesque stuff. The rhythm section is excellent. The guitar player shreds a lot, but I can't play that fast so I can't criticize it. Very enjoyable, turn on YouTube and dig it!

Damn, it's gonna be CJ Stroud against the Ravens next week. I like them both, but how can you not root for a guy whose mother and father helped build their own church, and the father was a football coach and a pastor who's now doing 40 years for carjacking, drug dealing etc...?

Great, we can pay 10K to stuff ourselves with pasta filled with carbs that will clog up our arteries, so we can have a cardiac event like he did. We'll probably wind up sharing the same hospital room with him, so he can tell us why his music is more creative than jazz, something he's claimed in many interviews Sign me up!

Love that layered harmony they used. Reminds me of Carole King's "Snow Queen". CK did her jazz-rock thing with The City. Karen had no problems with that fast 5. She should have had a drum battle with Dennis Elliot of If. He could really groove on those complex time signatures, too.

Here's a link to RMJ;s 99 corrections on Wikipedia's entry on ND: https://galacticramble.blogspot.com/2023/07/nikipedia.html#comment-form

BB always claimed that bebop was his greatest influence.

Thank God I've been spared the Sunday NYT for the last few weeks, while my Sunday visitor is out of the country. I'm also thankful they don't let you read it online unless you're a subscriber. I might have missed it, but was this the first year that they left out the category of music for their best books of 2023 issues in the Sunday Book Review?

I had a dream that I went to NJ and hung out with some Org. members and had a good hang. Strangely enough, there was no one that I knew from here. Maybe they were from another dimension Hey TTK, I got the new book on Nick Drake, Nick Drake A Life by Bruce Morton Jack. By interviewing everyone from ND's life he basically gives a day to day accounting of ND's existence from Cambridge to the end. He was a 6ft 2" dude, who was an athlete in school, and played the sax and piano. He started his own jazz band. then he discovered the steel string acoustic guitar and I think he tried to make it into a piano by using insane tunings that enabled him to play chords with seconds in them, but he never strummed like Joni Mitchell. He practiced up to 12 hours a day, and developed the technique of a virtuoso classical guitarist, but used all five fingers on his right hand to play a constant stream of arpeggiated 16th notes with a concept of 4 part S-A-T-B harmony and the MFer was able to sing at the same time as if he was doing nothing! Here's a BBC John Peel radio session he did with no accompaniment: There are 4 or 5 other tunes from the set also.. including the cello song, here played by a flute: He'd ignore his work at Cambridge, and spend his time practicing all day and night. listening to music on his headphones, and smoking a potent type of hash that may have eventually messed up his brain. I'm up to p.337 of this 500+ page bio. and he's fed up with sharing the bill with loud rock groups like Atomic Rooster, Genesis, etc... coming out there with only his acoustic guitar, and being largely ignored by rock fans. His first two albums aren't selling, and he did his last live performance, running off stage in the middle of a song. With no live performances, there won't be any more record sales. He's on the escalator to hell...