Randy Twizzle

I seem to be breaking all sorts of rules on this thread. Makes me feel kind of James Dean-like.

I don't seen anything political about it. It's simply a light-hearted look at Ephebophilia (which has nothing to do with modern jazz). Why this mania to delete things?

Radio historian Elizabeth McLeod has written extensively on the show. This is from http://www.midcoast.com/~lizmcl/aa.html

I visited Stereo Jack's this summer and bought this album among others.

Unlikely? I don't get it. It's more than likely. And this time it will be competitive, as opposed to that dreary 2000 series. Likely? Not nearly as likely as it seemed at mid-summer. The Mets have a deep lineup and a closer. Everything else is a question mark and they've been playing like crap for several weeks. NL champion will come out of the West. They have excellent middle relief, and just finished the season with a sweep of the Nationals. Wright finished with a 12 game hitting streak. They're ready.

Unlikely? I don't get it. It's more than likely. And this time it will be competitive, as opposed to that dreary 2000 series.

It seems every news story or PR handout about some group playing in a church basement or library rec room, must include the phrase somewhere in the headline. Ditto, if there is going to be a concert at a local park. "BAR-B-QUE AND THREE-LEGGED RACES AND ALL THAT JAZZ!"

"Randy Twizzle -- Where the heck did you come up with that Eddie Fisher review?" I found it at the same place I get most of the stuff I bore people here with, newspaperarchive.com. A simple "Larry Kart" search brings up number of syndicated entertainment articles and reviews, mostly from the 70s and 80s and largely from papers in Elyria and Lima Ohio and Syracuse NY, though there is a rave Johnny Mathis review from 1977 that appeared in a Pasadena newspaper. The Fisher review came from the Lima News on Nov. 30, 1977.

Was it worse than this?

I understand that he also has bad breath, is lousy in bed and may have also kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.

I prefer Richard Cohen's opinion of Colbert's performance:

Very interesting, but you left out Shelly, the greedy ex-wife, Sapperstein the blood sucking attorney and Vince the brawny loan shark.

Fats Navarro was born in Florida

I'm not trying to start further trouble here, but I did find this Scott Yanow reference to Allen Lowe in an AMG review of a Pete Fountain CD."New Orleans All Stars." I don't think it's been mentioned in this thread. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:ez1uak3khm3p

In my travels through time I found this article. I wondered who these unfortunate musicians were and what happened to them after the attack. A google search shows that it was the Sammy Stewart Orchestra, a society orchestra out of Columbus Ohio. They went on to have some success throughtout the 20s and later editions of the band even included Chu Berry and Sid Catlett http://www.redhotjazz.com/stewart.html

Society is to blame.

Ahem. When did Colbert appear on the Charlie Rose show? Rose's own site makes no mention of a Colbert appearance, and you can search for every guest who has ever appeared. If we can't trust you to correctly remember a simple incident like someone appearing on a talk show, why should we trust your memory of larger trends? Who the fuck is asking you to trust me? I'm not your goddamn spiritual advisor. I'm giving my opinion feel free to ignore it. The alleged Rose appearance was mentioned early in the thread. Perhaps you should base your opinions on actual facts, and not some stuff one guy on a jazz bulletin board happens to misremember. Sorry but I don't think the Rose mistake changes much of anything. My real mistake was daring to deviate from the accepted opinion of all you free thinkers. OK I'll make a mid-course correction: Colbert was a brave truth teller daring to confront the evil Bush at great personal risk to his career and possibly his life. In fact his picture is going up on my wall right next to Hugo Chavez' and that director of that Bush snuff film.

Ahem. When did Colbert appear on the Charlie Rose show? Rose's own site makes no mention of a Colbert appearance, and you can search for every guest who has ever appeared. If we can't trust you to correctly remember a simple incident like someone appearing on a talk show, why should we trust your memory of larger trends? Who the fuck is asking you to trust me? I'm not your goddamn spiritual advisor. I'm giving my opinion feel free to ignore it. The alleged Rose appearance was mentioned early in the thread.

With all due respect, whether you like him or not, you don't know what you're talking about. Well I guess that settles it.

Yeah it took all of a few extra days for Colbert to become the a media darling, what terribly oppressive conditions..... Meanwhile he been the subject of fawning profiles on 60 minutes and fawning interviews with Charlie Rose et al. I happen to like him and think he was the best thing on the Daily Show, but let's be serious, Bush bashing is a cottage industry... and the basher will never want for media attention.

Don Imus did something similar to Clinton at one of the Gridiron Dinners, but of course he was universally criticized for lowering the dignity of the proceedings. Now We know that Imus is an annoying schmuck and Colbert has talent but somehow I don't think that's why Colbert has escaped criticism for his performance. Colbert knew he'd be the toast of the media world after going after Bush, so it's really not much of a profile in courage. Now if he'd had gotten up and praised Bush, then the shit would hit the fan!

Until Yannow or Clem post on Colbert, I really don't know what to think about him.

According to the website where I found the picture, the man on the left is unidentified.