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Dear Friends – Tony Hakim, Dallas treasure and owner of the beloved music venue and restaurant The Kitchen Cafe, was diagnosed with cancer a month ago and is facing a long road to recovery. For 15 years, Tony and his partner Lisa Reichenbach have brought music, love, laughter, and people together at The Kitchen, creating a beautiful haven of togetherness and joy for musicians and audiences. Now, we need your help to keep this special place alive during this critical time. Please give what you can and help spread the word.

Neither the original liner notes (which just say that the title was inspired by comedian Flip Wilson who was a follower of the band) nor those on the later twofer reissue discuss the changes of the tune, but composer Marty Sheller just might have heard or most probably kept track of the jazz scene of the time and picked up the inspiration - which is not that unusual. Dozens of jazz musicians picked up the changes from Morton Gould's Pavane as Coltrane did, and Jazz Messengers and other hard bop formulars were common language. Actually Marty Sheller's tunes on that LP are the jazziest. He was underrated as a trumpet player pigeonholed as a Latin player, even more after he had to give up the trumpet after a fighting incident that cost him some teeth. I can't see anything unusual in this combination of things - common jazz lingo. Unusual is the insertion of a passage with Afro-Cuban bembé rhythm for Mongo to solo on - this kind of rhythmic switch between gooves was first done by Cal Tjader and Dave Brubeck in their trio, then continued by Tjader and then probably picked up by Mongo while he was in Tjader's band. Very very few arrangements like this before 1960.

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In his book, Memoirs of an Amnesiac, [Satie] joked about his strict timetable: “I rise at 7.18; am inspired from 10.23 to 11.47. I lunch at 12.11 and leave the table at 12.14. A healthy ride on horseback round my domain follows from 1.19pm to 2.53pm.” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/26/unheard-works-by-erik-satie-to-premiere-100-years-after-his-death