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She might have been born 'Ella Fitzgerald' and married into the name 🙂

Osar Peterson “Exclusively For my Friends” Verve 4 cd set, disc 2 Some great tunes on this disc. Sound is great!

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Starting off a cold morning with a disc from a compilation of Grateful Dead tracks featuring Pigpen that a friend made me years ago. Ron’s vocals are suiting my mood this week. I love when he fronted this band. . . so sad we lost him way too early due to his heavy drinking.

I'm pretty shocked that the "Local TV/Media" for the NFL even shows up as part of the pie. I assume that's just for preseason games. I would have thought that the NFL had to give that away.

They actually defined a metal flask as a "can" and refused to let them in. It made for a chaotic ticket line. People were laughing like crazy when I got to the front of the line and they tried telling me I couldn't bring it in. The head of their security team had to come over to let me in.

Verve 23MJ 3031 (Japan 1981) - Bill Evans At The Montreux Jazz Festival - rec.1968

This week at SFJAZZ Thursday: Clone Row w/Ches Smith, Mary Halvorson, Liberty Ellman, Nick Dunston Friday: The Cookers - current lineup w/Eddie Henderson, David Weiss, Craig Handy, Azar Lawrence, George Cables, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart

Yes, you do! Especially "Days of Wine and Roses", their instant classic.

RIP. Her astute notes to Coltrane Jazz are my favourite liner notes on a Coltrane LP. Also one heck of a pianist. I have the LP and it's definitely her, she's in the credits.

I almost thought a new sludge band just dropped but there's no way Dan G is into that.

Saw the MBs on March 6, 1972 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, France. I knew nothing about the MBs or their music. Went to the concert with a group of friends and my then girlfriend. We had center seats around 4-6 rows from the stage. Incredible concert that I still remember 5 decades later.

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Nobody had a flask full of hooch?

I saw the Moody Blues live several times back in the 80's. Once at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA, an outdoor venue which is better known as the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer residence. That was a wild night. I remember it well because they allowed you to bring your own alcohol as long as it wasn't in a bottle or can. Most people used wine skins but I bought a "beer ball" of Matt's Beer. which was a plastic little keg with a few gallons of beer. I got to the front of the ticket line and they said, "No bottles or cans". I said, "It's plastic". They shrugged and let me take it in. I sold several cups of that shitty beer for $10 so I drank for free that night. BTW - it was a great concert too.

Been revisiting some Jon-Erik Kellso discs over the past few days:

RIP- As a kid I was nuts about the MB's. I saw them live at the Fillmore East for free, because my sister worked there. During intermission, one of my other sister's friend's (who was in the habit of 'servicing' rockers...) told me she had a surprise for me. She led me down the aisle, to the side of the stage, where Graham Edge was waiting. I shook hands with him, and he recoiled in horror, because my hand was so sweaty, and let out an 'Ugh!' All I could think of to say to him was, "Man, I really dig your poetry", and that was it. Later on, my late cousin Chuck, who was a bass player, had a Moody Blues album, and he put it on the basement stereo ( which was in a little room under the stairs- a tradition in suburbia back then) and I was shocked to hear them play not psychedelic rock music like "Ride My See-Saw", but the R&B song "Go Now". Years later I was even more shocked when I played 'The History of Rock and Roll" video for one of my music classes, and in the segment of "The British Invasion", they ended it by playing Bessie Banks' original version of "Go Now". I said to my class, " But this was done by The Moody Blues in the 60's! This is freakin' me out!" The class just looked at me and said, "He be buggin' again."

yes, agreed. Without those bigger names selling at a decent pace, we wouldn't have had three CDs worth of People Band, Inaudible Collectif, George Khan archival material, Charlotte Hug, Sylvia Hallett, a particularly hairy solo Fred Lonberg-Holm CD, or any number of other things.