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  1. Anyone making the "Brotherhood of Fred" show this coming Wednesday @ the Jazz Showcase in Chicago? This is the second installment of this event to honor the late, great Fred Anderson. Featuring Kidd Jordan, Tatsu Aoki, Ernest Dawkins, Ed Wilkerson, Mwata Bowden and several others. If you like your music a little left of center, this is the place to be Wednesday night.

    http://www.jazzshowcase.com/shows/2012/brotherhood-fred-kidd-jordantatsu-aokis-miyumi-projectmwata-bowdenedward-wilkerson-amy-ha

    I'll be up there at some point on Wednesday and will stay over until mid-day on Thursday. If anyone's in the area, stop in and say "hello"

  2. nice post, agree with you.

    I'm in favor of the whole forgiveness thing - I think ultimately it helps both internally and externally - it doesn't mean you don't seek justice or punishment or that you associate with the person who is the object of the forgiveness - I think it means you don't let it consume you to the point of warping your whole world view.

  3. The book came out in January of this year.

    The book came out in January of this year.

    Yes, that's why there is a gap in his recordings. He spent 5 years in prison.

    He talks about in the late 40s while in Dizzy's band snorting heroin with Coltrane. Coltrane over dosed and Jimmy revived him. But they both kept using heroin. One fact he did clear up was, Dizzy was clean. He didn't didn't use heroin and would fire anyone in the band if he found out.

    It must've been January of last year, since I myself bough it in March of '10.

    ...got mine from Jimmy last fall in Chicago....so certainly it was 2010.

  4. ...afro-semitic was pretty cool!!!

    Looking at the schedule, there's a bunch of FREE stuff, some of which looks mighty interesting. Just a couple that caught my eye, probably others of interest (but names I didn't recognize)...

    Friday, Feb. 25th

    PDX Jazz Free Performance

    Jazz Shabbat w/Afro-Semitic Experience

    6:00 pm | Location: Congregation Beth Israel | FREE | Artist Profiles: Afro-Semitic Experience

    Saturday, Feb. 26th

    PDX Jazz Free Performance

    Klezmocracy

    9:00 pm | Location: Rogue Distillery and Public House | FREE | Artist Profiles: Klezmocracy

  5. ...was a fan of Buckley's. Your last sentence sounds like it could come from a porm film promo....couldn't resist.

    m~

    I realized this was a jazz town when I stepped into the lobby of my hotel and heard a tenor sax (Stan Getz?) playing on the sound system in the background and then, a few minutes later, when I entered a coffee shop down the block and was treated to a piano (Erroll Garner?). (My metrocentric pride was wounded as I admitted to myself that, in equivalent spaces in New York, we'd probably be subjected to Muzak.)

    If Chicagoans love jazz, it probably has a lot to do with Dick Buckley, who for more than 50 years was the voice of jazz on Chicago radio. "There were other guys on the air, like Daddy-O Daylie and Sid McCoy," said Neil Tesser, a veteran music journalist and broadcaster who worked with Buckley at WBEZ for 16 years. "But none of them had Dick's endurance, and none was as widely loved as Dick."

    Continued here:

    WSJ

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