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My guess is that James Harrod already has a lot of details about Jimmy Giuffre. You can find archives of newspapers and magazines online that are helpful. As you know, there are many details about Giuffre spread across many decades, many bands, many musicians, many wives (Giuffre got married 4 times? 5 times?)...

Astrud Gilberto, whose dreamy interpretation of The Girl from Ipanema became the most popular version of the song, has died aged 83. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/06/astrud-gilberto-bossa-nova-singer-of-the-girl-from-ipanema-dies-aged-83

The solution was to put Keith Jarrett's The Koln Concert on the turntable because, as others have pointed out for years, "the chicks dig it".

LIgeti's Mysteries of the Macabre with Barbara Hannigan

I am listening to Susanna Hoffs:

Here he is on "Stratus":

John McLaughlin at the recent tribute to Jeff Beck, doing a Mahavishnu song - McLaughlin at age 81...

By the way, if you never saw the Duke Ellington quarter, here it is: https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-medal-programs/dc-and-us-territories/district-of-columbia

If you would like to see the "candidate designs" for the Celia Cruz quarter (part of the 2024 American Women Quarters Program), here they are: https://www.usmint.gov/news/ccac-meetings/2024-american-women-quarters-program-celia-cruz

Cell phone rings interrupted the Philadelphia Orchestra’s music Saturday night, compelling music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin to stop the concert. Twice... https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/classical/yannick-nezet-seguin-ryan-speedo-green-kimmel-center-20230507.html

Here is what is probably another example of the sexist society and female band members: While she was a member of the Noble Sissle orchestra, Lena Horne toured with the orchestra together with her mother. There is a photo of the orchestra that shows Lena Horne in the front row and her mother in the fourth row - the mother was presumably only Lena Horne's bodyguard. You can see the photo in the American Masters documentary of Lena Horne, at 7'59" of this video:

Paco de Lucia, at least 40 years ago. First half he was alone on stage; the second half he performed with his band (but no singer).

I would bet the US Civil War also left a significant number of people traumatized.

Regarding the sexist society and Melba Liston: She suffered the perils of being the only woman in travelling big bands. "Rapes and everything. I've been going through that stuff for all my life. `Yeah, well, you know, it's a broad and she's by herself.' I'd just go to the doctor and tell him, and that was that. But the older I got, the less it happened. I don't know how old I was," she laughed, "but it stopped all together." https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-melba-liston-1089881.html

The BackSpin Records store in Austin had a bin on the floor for free records. There you could find LPs such as the first LP of Olivia Newton-John (may she rest in peace). The store closed more than 10 years ago.

From the mid-1960s into the early '80s, nearly every Sunday from 5 p.m. onward, the Famous Ballroom was reserved for concerts put on by Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society. These were major shows. They brought in Duke Ellington and John Coltrane… https://www.npr.org/2023/04/21/1171374217/unearthing-legendary-baltimore-jazz-performances

What Oliver Nelson did for the Columbo TV show might sound a bit familiar:

Someone sold fake vinyl to a fan of the Clash... https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/05/man-who-made-12m-from-fake-vinyl-records-caught-out-by-clash-fan

David Ornette Cherry died in the early hours of November 21, 2022 after performing at the Barbican Concert Hall at the London Jazz Festival, giving the performance of his life, surrounded on stage by his family and renowned Chicago Ethnic Ensemble in a tribute to David’s father, trumpeter and world/jazz composer, Don Cherry.... https://www.orartswatch.org/mr-music-remembering-david-ornette-cherry/

Maybe the piece was written by ChatGPT, If you have not heard of ChatGPT, it is a new AI chatbot that, in a few seconds, can write a paper on any topic for students. More info here: https://thewalrus.ca/chatgpt-writing/

I watched this cartoon when I was very young. Back then, I had never heard of Shorty Rogers - but there he is in the credits, "Music Shorty Rogers":

Shorter and Milton Nascimento:

If anyone would like to read Hazel Scott's testimony before the Committee of Un-American Activities (U.S. House of Representatives), from back in 1950, here it is: https://www.hazelscott.com/1950hearing

Here's Hazel Scott and Lena Horne: