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Listening to Danny D'imperio's interview with Phil Woods. Great stuff! Love the music of both.

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I read Dos Passos trilogy back in grad school. It always felt quite cinematic to me, as if Dos Passos took Sergei Eisenstein as a model. Although I have an allergy to most SF, I'll give Okorafor's "Lagoon" a try if you recommend it. Perhaps it's time I went back to The Heart of the Matter - I haven't read it in 40 years, but remember I liked it. The only Dos Passos I read - in the 1960s - was Manhattan Transfer and I don't think I managed to get to the end of it.

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I found Romantic Moderns very readable.

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Agreed. I've always liked that one. Right back to the roots of the blues!

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Alan Barnes with the house trio at Whitefield this afternoon.

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Perhaps more accurately titled "Me and Lennie", autobiographical musings on jazz by a Brit who was part of the New York scene from 1949. Central is Peter's view that jazz reached its improvisational peak in 1945-55, after which there was a decline linked to the commercial promotion of some musicians at the expense of others like him and Lennie. Of particular interest to me was Peter's recollection of his time as a teacher on the jazz course at Leeds College of Music when I knew him and Lennie's appearance at the Harrogate festival when Peter took me to meet Lennie.

In the 70s I taught in an art college in Warrington near Liverpool. The guy who taught jewellery and silversmithing had been a student in art college in Liverpool. He told me he'd been very upset when his girlfriend Cynthia had left him for another student. That student was the then unknown John Lennon.

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