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The amount of misinformation on Facebook regarding this matter is mind-boggling. Among other things, Billy Harper was asked about it by some interviewer and said he would never play there. Some concluded that it was this comment that resulted in the Cookers being canceled. Nonsense - Harper left the band two years ago. He was just saying that he himself would not play there. Also, some dude wanted to go down a racial rabbit hole. Unfriended that dude quickly.

Right, I always loved that version and many folks who came to my place asked me to spin it, since I was the only guy then who had it.....

It was a great show, I noticed the great Harry Sokal playing a wonderful version of Naima, and there was a rare appearence of Matthias Ruegg who had founded the Viena Art Orchestra somewhen in the late 70´s ..... some great duo performances, but then it was over for me since a crazy woman slammed a door at my head and I was inconstient and rushed to hospital. Maybe.....they recorded it...... so I could also hear the rest...... it was supposed to be a long night......

Live at the Bastille (1982), by Maggie Nicols, Joëlle Léandre and Lindsay Cooper

great ! I think Raymond Ross made a lot of photos of the only session Bud did for ESP...with Scotty Hold and Rashied Ali and there are photos with all the guys, with Bernard Stollman and even Dizzy Gillespie, thought he had nothing to do with ESP. I also wondered where it might have been recorded..........

I don´t know who are the All Stars, but when I was in my early teens those Prestige Double albums where the best way to get to know the older music, the acoustic Miles, the still straight ahead stuff or standard ballads blowing Trane, the early Sonny Rollins, they all seemed to record for Prestige. I have heard there were many other recordings artists too, but I think it was those giants who....with the exception of Trane were very active when I was going to high school. Well Trane was dead for maybe 5 years, but his spirit was so strong you could feel him everywhere....... he never had died !

great trio. I heard Kenny Barron also with Ben Riley but it was in Ron Carters Group, they had two basses, Ron and Buster Williams, what a great group ! But I think that was the only time I saw Kenny Barron live. It was in the late 70´s I think.. Great ! Such a great performance. It´s interesting that in the 2000´s Sonny played much more straight ahead than when I had heard him. I think 20,30 years earlier when I would see him, there was not even one straight ahead number left in his repertory, but he was great. I never categorized musicians like I heard so often back than that fans didn´t get beyond "Tenor Madness" or stuff like that..... Same with Miles......I heard them folks shout "All Blues" or "Sketches of Spain" when Miles did what he did in the mid seventies.....same thing, people who don´t move on , can´t follow what an artists want´s do do after he gave it all with old straight ahead stuff......

Shit happens ! Some crazy woman slammed a glass door at my head, I was k.o. for about half an hour and they called the urgence and here this a selfie at hospital, some crazy stuff I went thru .... they were okay and I´m better now, but they had some troubles to get the pills I need for my bipolar disorder, so I went a bit nuts for a short time, but finally calmed down🤣

so great !!!! I love that records so much ! Miles is in top form and plays some incredible things. And listen to Al Foster.......and Mike Henderson, they all my favourites. Well here you have a bit another rhythmic conception than about 1 or 2 years later when I heard Miles, but all the stuff from 1972 - 1975 belongs to the music I like most, I have liked from the time when it was made until now and forever, forever !

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Someone who plays that venue after all the absurd things that have happened will suffer possibly greater reputational damage. But I still can't get over suing an artist for cancelling a free concert. This is supposed to be a center that patronizes and supports the arts and here they are suing an artist for a million bucks for not doing a free concert? Harrumph! With a sugar daddy like that it might be time to go on a diet.

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I'm hearing that The Cookers cancelled as well. It sounds like most artists are bailing. Meanwhile, someone has posted that they're in the process of swapping out the armrests for MARBLE armrests. Fucking marble armrests??? Who wants to rest their arms on stone while watching a show? That sounds incredibly dumb. Don't these look comfy? And I thought the Regattabar's seats were uncomfortable.

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Not about that specifically, that would be kinda rude, hey Joe Henderson thought you sucked. Thoughts? 60 years ago...long time.

the only "Kennedy" that should be mentioned here without issue has a name that begins with Edward and ends with Ellington. The other guy, well......

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Re: the million dollars that the TKC center are suing those no-good scoundrel scofflaws for (i.e. the musicians who cancelled)… People forget the immeasurable reputational damage to the person whose name had been newly added on to the outside of the Kennedy Center building. If a few hundred members of the public suddenly couldn’t go to what was to have been a simple, low-key free holiday jazz jam/concert — that might even irreparably sully the name of he who can’t be mentioned here.