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  4. Hank Mobley, down beat, March 29, 1973

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

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    7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

     

    Another strange Thing I´ve read About him is that in Paris or near Paris he got a room in a Kind of Hospital, a doctor who was a jazz fan arranged for Hank to stay there. Really strange, a world famous musician and he was forced to get help of that kind…...

    At that rime, Mobley was not world famous. He had trouble making ends meet.

    The hospital room you mention was at the Hopital La Rochefoucauld on the avenue du Général Leclerc on the Paris Left Bank. I was with Mobley at one of the Byg recording session (in August 1969) where he was invited to play by  Archie Shepp and I went with him from the Studio Davout and the two of us traveled back on the Métropolitain to the hospital. I could not enter the hospital at night..

    I already mentioned this in a Mobley in Europe thread  here several years ago.

    Incidentally we did not speak about thé Algerian war then.

  11. Manny Albam

    in Artists

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    2 hours ago, mjzee said:

    Listening now to Drum Suite, which I found at a record convention last summer.  There's no bassist listed.  Any idea whom it might be?

    Buddy Jones was the bass player on that one.

  13. COVID-19

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    Life is going to be more difficult to cope with these next months.

    Hoping to have thé people in charge will be taking the right décisions.  Glad we have several knowledgeable ones over here.

    Now there are some saying  that the annual Tour de France race may be postponed. Damn! This is getting serious...

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