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  1. Anyone here remember Denis? He was a good guy and player. We played in a street band years ago led by a trombone player who jumped up and down while playing what seemed like 80 choruses on what he called 'Tenodd Medness'. Denis would stand up after a while and tell the guy 'I love you, but why don't you learn some new songs?' I hope Denis isn't forgotten about:

    http://www.denischarles.com/

  2. On 04/09/2016 at 10:58 AM, rostasi said:

    Well, my days of street pick-up tries are long over, earbud defense or no. Too old, and anyway never was much good at it. But the woman who wrote the Guardian article only makes my point: the reason for wearing the damned things is (I'll be optimistic and say in part) to shut other people out.

    'I vant to be alone'---Greta Garbo

    'Be careful what you ask for in life. You just may get it'--Some wag or other... 

  3. I used to read Bob's blog, called Currents, and his sometimes-merciless public thrashings of very good musicians started to get to me.

    So I reached out to him via email---prefacing my comments by saying he was a hero---and respectfully calling him out on some of the things he had written. He gamely responded, writing that he 'had some strong opinions. Maybe they are not correct, but I listen for a living'. Then he proceeded to tear into the same people again, if anything even more viciously. He called one guy who is a friend and a terrific player and person a 'fake', etc. 

    OTOH, he was very supportive of and devoted to his students and their charts at the BMI workshop and elsewhere, and very devoted to and loving of friends he admired like Bill Finegan.

    I suppose a person has a right to call them the way they see them. I just don't know where people are coming from sometimes, or what good especially pillorying people publicly does the world. Don't feature throwing wood on fires myself. I remain an admirer of Mr. Brookmeyer's playing, composing and thinking about same...   

  4. On 08/02/2005 at 6:33 AM, AllenLowe said:

    like more than a few musicians I've known Percy was very comfortable in his hometown, had his own little niche, and may have been just a little bit nervous about trying for wider exposure - I've seen this in more than a few musicians who just didn't want to deal with a lot of the business aspects of the music and the complications of greater fame -

    C. Sharpe was like that. Jimmy Raney, too. Did they have egos? Sure, but they were really about the music... 

    On 10/02/2005 at 5:53 AM, AllenLowe said:

    I honestly don't remember who was backing Marsh (it's been almost 25 years); the banded for LP thing was posted by someone else, I think - and as an added comment on Percy's other recordings, which are very good, none, I think, captures him as well as my little "live" recording -

    Usually quartet with guitar. Randy Johnston played with him at the West End, and, I think, a guy named Bob Ward...

  5. To tell the truth, I felt bad for both those guys. Joe seemed close to senile. He remembered his tunes---blues in C, shuffle and slow. Every. Tune. Every. Set. Every. Night.Talked a bit at the one rehearsal, even told a joke or two, then never said squat to us. Except once, when the band didn't pick up his tempo and he turned around to say 'what we waitin' on?'

     I wish I could have worked with him in his prime. I saw a video later of a TV performance from, perhaps, the '50s. He was vibrant, and communicated so much naughtiness just with his eyes...

  6. 23 hours ago, duaneiac said:

    Welcome to the modern world, where image is everything, talent is secondary and media exploitation is the only way to fame and fortune, no matter what field one pursues.  I wouldn't fault this film in particular for being "exploitative".  Has any Hollywood biography of a musician, be it W. A. Mozart, Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline,  Ray Charles, Brian Wilson  etc., completely adequately explored the musical end of things?  Movies are not illustrated lectures, they are entertainments.

    Could one not argue that Chet Baker himself cashed in on the "junkie-outlaw image" for a long part of his career? 

    Any one who saw Let's Get Lost and was inspired to buy the soundtrack album at least added a very good Chet Baker CD to their collection, so that's a good thing.

    Can't answer your first question. Sure, or I suppose, to the rest.

    I didn't know that documentaries were 'entertainments'. Entertaining, sure, hopefully...

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