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Schwartz on NPR re Giuffre, great interview: https://www.npr.org/2008/04/28/90004452/jazz-clarinetist-jimmy-giuffre-a-look-back

I do not believe Maradona was the best soccer player, but 37 years ago he did this:

If I am not mistaken, Giuffre married Juanita around 1961, when he was about 40 years old. There was plenty of time for him to be married to other women before 1961. But if you have evidence that shows I am mistaken, please share with us.

Perhaps we can start our own biographical thread on Giuffre. Here are two sentences from a 1941 Dallas newspaper (“North Texas Symphony Opens Season,” The Dallas Morning News, December, 1, 1941, page 13 [the spelling errors are from the source]): “The high light of a program, otherwise confined to Nineteenth Century music, was Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsodie Pour Clarinett et Orchestra with the clarinet solo admirably performed by James Guiffre of Dallas. Guiffre has been a member of the college staff band, the symphonic band and the college symphony orchestra during his four years at North Texas.”

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/

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