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well, the trouble started with that gig in in the desert - the sun beat down and that horn turned into a tuna melt - Bird had to borrow a cactus to play on -

and I find Moe Levy fascinating - I met him once when I was working for a record store (he was a silent partner) and he growled at me "hi kid" - unfortunately that was the sole exchange that I had with him - feel free to quote me, however -

my only suggestion would be to interview Bill Triglia, who was house pianist for a time at Birdland and who, because he neither drank nor abused any substance, has one of the most accurate memories of anyone I have met from that era -

and he was Jewish -

thanks Sheldon - he mentions sitting in with Haig at a club on the East Side called Gregory's, which is where I met Haig - who was working with Jamil Nasser on bass, and at first Chuck Wayne and than Al Gaffa on guitar - he remembers the West End gig only vaguely, though I recall being absolutley amazed at Broom's playing. I think Jimmy Wormworth was on drums - and that's correct, Bright Moments, there's no reason Broom would remember me, as Haig was the guy I hung out with, and the West End was the first and only time I met Broom (I had spent a lot of time at Gregory's but at that time had just started to work a 9-5). Thanks for checking it out -

if you find out, let me know -

the offer will be good for as long as I have a supply, and so far there's plenty left -

thanks -

thank you - but I will not be happy until Son-of Weizen buys one -

does anyone know where she is now, or where she lives?

actually, I am going to include Aric in my will -

and let's not have any gratuitious bumping -

I don't know, Dan - they might be you, and this mght just be a diversionary tatic -

Hawk was very much effected by the changes in the early 1960s - witness, of course, his collaborations with Sonny Rollins (Paul Bley has very funny stories about Sonny, at that session, trying to lose Hawkins, who asked Bley to cue him in) - also, check out Hawk's playing on the Freedom Now/Max Roach sessions, also on the Abbey Lincoln Candid date, in which he does some outside playing - definitely a force to be reckoned with - I've posted this before, but Barry Harris told me that, one night while he was working with Hawkins, Hawkins took a chorus on All The Things You Are that made Barry realize, he said, that he'd spent too much time idolizing Bud and Bird, because here was someone who had survived and kept on going forward -

doing your own floors? I tried that once...

Monk Plays Oscar Peterson -

Son of Weizen sings Phil Ochs -

let us not forget Allen Sherman's: "Westchester Hadassah, you're bringin' me down..."

favorite titles: "201 Minutes: A Space Idiocy" "Voyage to See What's on the Bottom"

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if you're in touch with Broom, would you ask him if he recalls a gig he did MANY years ago at the West End Cafe in NYC with Al Haig - (probably around 1978 or 1979) - I remember Haig telling me I had to hear this young kid he was bringing on the job with him and man, it was quite impressive -

how about "solo piano - music minus one"

it is possible - that's how Dave Tough died - from falling on a sidewalk, though he was blind drunk -

coming from the New Orleans police I would take this with a giant grain of sand - they probably want to just close the case - it sounds VERY fishy to me -

doing your own electrical work, huh? Yeah, I tried that once -