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Eric, thank you for the links. Tantalizing stories. It's really too bad your father didn't write or dictate his memoirs.

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I'm going to my first White Sox game of the year later this week.

ejp and I differ. I waded through Colter's swamp of words and appreciated the hero's dilemma in City Of Light. On the other hand, apart from Augie March I tried 3-4 times and couldn't take Bellow seriously. It's sorta hair-raising. I'm still reading the memoirs of the unwilling monk.

looks like not much history at that concert

Anthony Ortega "Afternoon in Paris" is a gem.

In a similar vein, Clarence Williams' Blue Five, with Bechet and Armstrong, "Santa Claus Blues" -- that Bechet solo! And the Blue Five with the incredible "Texas Moaner" Oh, yes!

I may have posted this elsewhere: Billy Root played baritone sax at the very first jazz concert I attended (1958). It was the Kenton band and he and Lennie Niehaus and Jimmie Knepper were the featured soloists. Very strong music, memorable.

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Armstrong's original Hot 5

All the decades. I wish I had been born in 1900 and had longevity pills and no bad habits.

that Jason Moran show is sorta fun if you don't care about Fars Waller

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un-sexy

Thanks for the link to the Steinbeck article. Steinbeck is valuable. There were occasional exceptions to the general rule that Fred improvised entire performances, like 2 evenings when he played Ornette Coleman songs - once when he and Hamid played with Charlie Haden, once when he helped me peddle my Ornette book. Uli, how long did Fred and Ajaramu play together (beginning sometime in the '80s) and were they playing Fred's own songs some of the time?

According to rumor, it was Marsalis who influenced Crouch.

how "Nonaah" has changed over its many manifestations

maybe he needs the $

Wish I was there.

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But if (repeat "if") Bix died as a result of drinking alcohol that deliberately had been laced with methanol, one can be fairly sure 1) that he would not have drunk that alcohol if he knew what was in it, and 2) that if he had merely continued along the path he had been following, he would have lived a fair bit longer and left more music behind. BOTH 1) and 2) are highly doubtful. Sandke apparently doesn't know any addicts or alcoholics.

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I'd be jolly too.

Hill's quintet includes an interesting Hutcherson-influenced vibes player, Justin Thomas.