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Track 4: "Until the Real Thing Comes Along"

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I'm not sure what years you're you're talking about, Gheorghe, but yes, there was a following for jazz which is quite unimaginable nowadays. Not for nothing are the years c.1957-62 known as the "jazz boom". And, of course, without a quasi-mass following for the music, we would never have had all those albums pouring from Blue Note, Riverside, Prestige, Contemporary, etc. which I guess explains the paucity of jazz recording nowadays. (People last week were at pains to find an album in the name of talented altoist Patrick Bartley.) I haven't forgotten, though, that diminishing returns for musicians in the age of streaming are also causing live performances to loom larger than recordings nowadays, meaning that today's jazz is more likely to be got from YouTube than discs. But, to return to the Golden Age,😀 now playing:

"Purloined" as a euphemism for "stolen" is still quite acceptable for me, though I doubt if the younger generation are familiar with it.

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Ah yes, Mole and Ed Dipple. A mutual friend, emailing this week from Milan where he now lives, writes: "Next year will be the 30th anniversary of Ed's premature demise."

Yes, bassist Bernie Griggs was a Boston regular.

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