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Yes, it was Gerrard Street and I think that was the year it opened. I don't recall the licensing arrangements. 🍺

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My late friend Paul Woodrow was a great enthusiast for Feldman piano. When he visited me he hammered out Victor's intro to "Azul Serape" on my battered upright, with Victor's voicings right to the last note!

Only on vibes, which is a pity as I love his piano work. But then, at the age of 19 I didn't know anything about this. Victor hadn't yet recorded with Cannonball and in those days there was a long gap between the issuing of discs in the U.S. and their appearance here.

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I'm currently working my way through Zachary Leader's two-volume Life of Saul Bellow and pausing to reread each novel as the biography deals with it. Re your question about Humboldt, there's so much in those 475 pages, you could design a background course of study encompassing everything from the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner to the city of Chicago, not forgetting of course Bellow's marital and legal woes! Fascinating stuff!

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Yes, indeed! Saw Victor on a triumphant Christmas visit to Ronnie Scott's in 1959, just after he'd joined Cannonball Adderley.

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