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I gotta stop dropping acid; I thought I just saw a bunch of unshaven eight year-olds wearing shades and smoking cigarettes while drinking from martini glasses and singing some Serge Gainsbourg song!

How do you think he stays a multi-millionaire? No, this guy just married rich.

We just played a new chart that the millionaire leader of a BB I played in last night bought for the band of "Mr. Lucky" It was weird, in this world of computerized copyists, the chart looked like it was dashed off in a few minutes by hand. Each chorus of the tune was separated by the bass line of "Hey Big Spender" . Is that a thing? It gets kind of old after the tenth time. I brought in my arr. of a Gene Puerling thing I worked a long time on. As usual, the band completely effed it up, cause the drummer just had cataract surgery, the saxes couldn't come close to playing it, the trumpet players held a rebellion cause they couldn't follow the signs, we were missing one trombone player, and it just sounded like cacophony, instead of the beautiful way it sounded on the computer As usual, I'll bring it down to the other great band I play in and they'll play the sh-t out of it. This is my general procedure, but it's getting to be a bit much with these guys, and their little tantrums, but I should have outlined the form before we started.

James Chirillo put out a good CD under that name.

Oh man, Calvin was a great player. Very sorry to hear this. RIP.

She also appeared on the Wynton Marsalis 1994 album, In This House, On This Morning. The other album I mentioned was recorded in 1971.

There's the album "Much in Common" by Ray Brown and Milt Jackson, where they finally lured Marion Williams into the studio to make a jazz album. Maybe they should have spoken to her about it before the session, because when she got there, she refused to sing any of that "Devil's Music", so they did one Thomas Dorsey tune, and the other four were spirituals that everyone could get by on, because they were so popular. She later recorded an album for Atlantic, "Standin' Here, Wonderin' Which Way to Turn" that had a picture of a confused looking hippie on the cover, obviously in need of some direction, because the poor white boy was just standing there on the corner..LOL! The record had a bunch of upcoming jazz dudes like Joe Zawinul, Keith Jarrett, etc,,, trying to give her spirituals some type of 'contemporary' 60s groove. Probably because of her refusal to sing ANY secular songs, the album didn't expose the best living female gospel singer to the mainstream audience Atlantic wanted her to reach, and that was the last time she had anything to do with anything remotely jazz related.

Nick Travis--- Nicholas Anthony Travascio

Red Rodney Robert Roland Chudnick

Red Norvo-- Kenneth Norville Teddy Charles--Theodore Charles Cohen Shorty Rogers--- Milton Rajonsky

Walter Piston used to make his living as a 'dance band' saxophone player before he went legit, so I guess he counts. Walter Piston- Walter Pistone Artie Shaw--Arthur Jacob Arshawsky Joe Dixon -- Giuseppe Ischia;

Louie Bellson- Luigi Paolino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni Joe Pass- Joseph Passalaqua Joe Farrell- Joseph Carl Firrantello My fave one, because my sister's mother-in-law knew him in Brooklyn by this name: Terry Gibbs- Julius Gubenko

Tony Scott- Anthony Sciacca.

I've got to remember to celebrate the centenary for the man who said on the cover of DB, "If you want to make money in music , get into the marching band uniform business! That statement woke me up to reality.

It even had words: