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Nadi Qamar played a gig at Southend Musicworks in Chicago in 1990. To the extent i remember it, I think he mostly played piano and kalimba. Quite a feat for the venue to have tracked him down in those pre-WWW days. I assume he probably drove down from Wisconsin. I've always wondered what happened to him - amazing that he lived such a long, productive life.

I'll be sure to take my camera just in case.

I have to remember to stop in and see if the famous phone booth is still there. There are some Bird recordings alleged to have originated from there, but Lawrence Koch in Yardbird Suite says they are probably from a year or more after the November 1947 gig there.

I revisited the question of the Argyle Show Lounge's location after all these years. In case anyone is interested, I found an old directory via Google Books that listed the address at 1125 W Argyle. The building is indeed adjacent (to the west) of the El tracks on the south side of Argyle. It's now an Asian gift shop. You can survey the surrounding block by typing in the address (with Chicago IL) in Google maps and clicking on street level. It must have been a pretty hip place at one time, though the management evidently left something to be desired. Jimmy Heath mentions in his autobiography playing there with Howard McGhee. The band was staying on the south side, and when the gig was over the payment check turned out to be rubber. They returned to the club where the people insisted the check was good and backed up their claim by displaying a pistol. The band was stranded in Chicago until the musician's union was able to get their money for them.

Looks like Baby Face's son Steven is on Facebook: Steven J. Willette (he lists Baby Face under Arts and Entertainment). I'm not a Facebooker but if anyone contacts Steven and he's open to having info published here, I'd love to hear confirmation of where/when/how Baby Face died, the name of the Chicago club that he supposedly had a long residency at in the late 1960s, and what the story is on the supposed son listed on Wikipedia, Kevin D. Bailey.

I don't know the answer, but I've had some luck with the baking soda and vinegar remedy on sink drains. Clogged drains Plumbers have mechanical methods for opening clogged drains, but that's more expensive than pouring Drano down your drain (but less expensive than replacing damaged pipes).

I noticed that too. Pretty strange - I haven't seen any news about it being "reissued". And why would a domestic Sony release require that much time for order fulfillment? Good news and bad news for any interested buyers: the price has dropped to $117 but now it's "temporarily out of stock".

It doesn't say so, and buyers are going to be awfully disappointed if that's the case and they don't say so. Plus the CD-R stuff on Amazon doesn't have a 10 day fulfillment period.

Lyle "Spud" Murphy

I noticed that too. Pretty strange - I haven't seen any news about it being "reissued". And why would a domestic Sony release require that much time for order fulfillment?

The clip above certainly gives a good taste. That primitive sax solo alone tells me that this music is far more obscure than excellent.

Wilber Morris's Afro-Amer. Ind, which appears on Denis Charles's Queen Mary, Wilber Morris's Wilbur Force, and Wilber Morris's Drum String Thing

Thanks for the suggestions. How could I have forgotten "Native Land?" The version on Alto Summit with Phil Woods, Lee Konitz, Leo Wright and Pony Poindexter is really great. Listening to Jim Pepper's Comin' and Goin' brought the subject up. It's got more than a hint of "guilty pleasure" to it but the primal, sweat lodge intensity wins me over.

This has probably been discussed before, but I couldn't locate it. What are some good examples of jazz with Native American influences? Jim Pepper and Don Cherry immediately come to mind, as does Ray Noble's Indian Suite (though I don't know if this qualifies as a "good example".)

Thanks for the replies. Are there any solos lengthy enough to get a sense of where he was coming from stylistically?