Larry Kart

Can't measure what we all owe him.

Woody Herman's "Jackpot!" (Capitol) with the eight-piece band Woody had in Vegas in the summer of 1955. (Dick Collins, Johnny Coppola , Richie Kamuca, Cy Touff, Norm Pockrandt, Monty Budwig, Chuck Flores. Sublime Kamuca, and the best Touff I know.

Delightfully loose album.

Yes we are, technically I suppose,we're not sharing the same dwelling, but and she still says warm caring things to me. My shrink and my lawyer both say how can you ever trust her again? Then there are heavy duty financial considerations. --- a prenuptial agreement that would take a large chunk out of my assets, divorce maybe less so, but I stlll care for her, don't want to hurt her. I don't think of her as a venal person, but she does have a lawyer and who knows?

She said "This is the best place for you," and because dementia is a progressive disease all I could conclude was that she thought I should stay there until I died. But I was only 81, and my dad, though there are no guarantees, made it to 95. Also, when I talked to my friends on the phone, they all said I sounded like myself, and I thought I did too -- though the was then cited was then cited as evidence a la Catch 22 of my continuing deterioration (as in "what would a demented person think"). My lawyer said it was the most amazing situation he had ever encountered. And my wife's role/motivation remains a mystery to me. My shrink's verdict: "second marriage."

I somehow still have warm feelings for my wife but don't understand what she was thinking when she put me in there and lied to me in order to do so. All she will say about it is "I can't go back" (presumably in time). And she came to visit me only three times in those six months.

"Buster Williams Quartet Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1999" (TOB) with Steve Nelson and Carl Allen.

The NE JW was a jazz pianist per see and a damn good one; I believe that he and Horace Silver crossed paths in NE their formative years. John Towner Williams is the film composer. Horace silver v good one who came a film combo;we the WC JW was nst pe v v Moderator 13.2k Location:Highland Park, Il. Posted just now · IP The NE JW was a jazz pianist per see and a damn good one; I believe that he and Horace Silver crossed paths in NE their formative years. John Towner Williams is the film composer.

Westcoast based, kinda bland. The NE JW was akin to Horace Silver and a gas. A Getz sideman.

attorney for healthcare tosign me in there and there I remained for six months until I could scar drooler in wheelchairs re a lawyer to spring me out. it wasn't easy. I had been dignosed with a mild form of dementia, BUT IN THt joint I learned what dementia was reLLY LIKE.droolers sin wheelechairs and guys ahouting obscenitiea.s As several members of the staff said t0 me, "Larry, why are you here?" but with THt power oF thorny in force, I couldnt get out until it was finally revoked. Sorry, my typing skills have yet to recovery.

To be more specific, my wife lied to get me in there. She told me thart her sister was having surgery in NYC (she wasn'O) and the she had to go there to take care od her (she didn't go). Then she SAID THT she couldn't leave met at home with ac .......acarergiver, tookmeto amnassissred living joint without any discussion with me. used hgerpowwr of

not ill but confined to an assisted care living facility from which I've now escaped to home after six months. I do have have a mild form of dementia (so it seems to me and others) but my wife used it as an excuse to put me in the slammer

My wife. It is a long crazy misterioius story to which I may never know all the answers.

I'm back after a six months unfairly enforced absence in an assisted care living facility. Maybe I'll tell you the whole story after enough time has passed, but it's a strange one.

His "thematic" solo on "Green Chimneys" from that album is annoyingly mindless B.S. IMO. He didn't back down from that "challenge,"; he embraced it and then produced pompous musical B.S. His "ambitious" projects likewise.

Yes, Chambers certainly was the victim in the case of Miles' autobiography. But I'd point the finger at "collaborator" Quincy Troupe. As you may know, Dan Morgenstern asked Miles what he thought of the autobiography now that it had been published, and Miles said, ":I don't know -- I haven't read it."

That Pulitzer win was a put-up job (i.e. the fix was in). I have chapter and verse on that.

Having met several bone-fried bopsters in my life, I love the term. As for it being a piece of deliberate Zieffian wordplay, all I can think of, if so, is that it would refer to someone who exists totally within the more or less cliched bop lifestyle. But I think we've exhausted the topic.

You need to be a linguist to tell the difference between "bona fide" and "bone fried"? Also, IIRC you seem to think that Bob Zieff actually used the phrase "bone fried bopper" in an interview, which seems highly unlikely. No, Zieff said "bona fide bopper" (the context makes that clear) and Chambers, or someone who was transcribing or transferring the Zieff interview for him typed "bone fried bopper", and no one caught it. It does it rank high on the list of. the funniest typos ever.

Can't find my copy of the Twardzik book to nail this down but there was a passage early on about Chaloff and Dick that stated/implied that when Serge came back to Boston he and Dick were on equal footing in the jazz community. What nonsense. Serge was a poll-winning headliner and Dick was a talented novice who was jiust getting started.That Chambers could put the two men on the same plane meant to me that his overall grasp of the jazz world of that time was fairly dim and/or that he was so focused on Dick that his view dangerously distorted.

Nice memory.

Returned for the fist time in a long while to trumpeter Dick Collins' album "King Richard the Swing Hearted" (RCA, 1954), with a a cutdown version of the Woody Herman band of the time, in which Collins was a featured soloist. A lovely lyrical player with an unusually mellow tone. Arranmgements by Nat Pierce and Al Cohn. There was a previous album, "Horn of Plenty," which I used to have. Collins became a music librarian. Both albums are packaged as one on Fresh Sound.

A terrific Junior Cook Muse LP date, "Good Cookin'" from circa (40!) years ago that sounds fresh minted thanks in good part to RVG. The two-CD 32 Jazz reissue, coupling "Good Cookin'" with a with a similar date of the same vintage, "Senior Cookin'" is damn pricey ($59) but can be got used for much less. Damn, Junior was so good. With Bill Hardman, Slide Hampton arrangements and trb., Albert Dailey, Walter Booker, Mariano Rivera, and Leroy Williams. Just pulled this off the shelf and wow. Standards were high in those days. In the notes Hampton mentions his time with an edition of the Jazz Messengers with Hardman, Billy Harper, McCoy Tyner, Junie Booth and Blakey. "It was Very intense, heavy company to be in," Slide says, "Hardman and rest of the cats ran me ragged."

I caught him live once at jam session in his hometown of San Diego. He was terrific. Played a beautiful version of "Body and Soul."