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this is an amazing site---catch it if you can. ------------- I have looked into the Metropolis site several times and I am glad to have more photos of the Manne – Higgins duet. I wasn’t there but I worked with Shelly at Fox studios the next morning, a Monday I remember. Your discussion of his death occurring so soon after that Sunday suddenly brought back a flood of memories. On that Monday we worked on a TV score and, during a long piece on which neither of us played, we sat in the coffee room and talked. As we got up to go back to work, Shelly said: “You know that quartet recording we made (?)…. I just listened to it again and it really holds up!” We went back into the studio with our arms around each other and I was deeply moved by his remark. A few years earlier, when Cal Tjader died in the Phillipines – on a trip which I had asked Cal if I could skip – Shelly phoned early one morning with the news of Cal’s death, saying that he didn’t want me to hear the news on the radio. I can’t remember who phoned with news of Shelly’s death. I thought of his gesture in calling me and I phoned a number of NY friends (Konitz, Marsh, Knepper and others) with the news of his death. Shelly was not only one of history’s greatest drummers; all who knew him placed him in the very special category of, Great Man! I had many, many special musical and personal moments with him, and thinking of Shelly and Flip, I am always grateful to have been there. You opened a memory gate! Regards, Gary Foster ---------------------------------------------------------------- url="http://metropolis.free-jazz.net/mark-weber-billy-higgins-a-shelly-manne-duet-september-23-1984-watts-towers/reviews/7919/"]LINK "“Memory is something we all wonder about — as time goes by, what one remembers or wants to remember may be different from what really happened.” –Toshiko Akiyoshi she is speaking about her composition “Memory” and goes on to say how she tried to “capture that feeling of distance from reality, to crystalize that abstraction in a certain way…..” Memory is a faulty mechanism. Whenever I think of the 1984 Day of the Drum Festival at Watts Towers I swear that I remember three trap drummers on stage playing together — Billy Higgins – Philly Joe Jones – Shelly Manne. I have even told people that I saw these 3 play together that day. But, photos don’t lie. And none of my negatives from that event show anything but Shelly & Billy playing duets. And the program says only Shelly & Billy played together that day and that Philly Joe played duets with Tootie Heath earlier in the day but I don’t remember that at all."

I ENJOYED BOTH SETS TUESDAY NIGHT--I CANNOT REMEMBER WHEN I HAVE SO ENJOYED, BEEN SO MEZMERIZED BY A LIVE CONCERT. TUESDAY NIGHT, I WROTE THE FOLLOWING ON SPIKER'S FACEBOOK PAGE. "Aloc Lynch--- what an extraordinary evening of music and fellowship!!! you were individually and collectively channeling bird's love and spirit. that was hair raising music!!!!!!!!!! thank you." jesse, peter washington, phil harper davis is a heavyweight in more ways than weight.

John Madden was impressed with Washington Redskins QB Robert Griffin III in his first week of NFL action: "He reminded me of a Tim Tebow that can pass."

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LINK this means that high salaried race car drivers may have to find another hustle. "Just as Google’s self-driving Prius goes for distance, recently passing 300,000 miles, Stanford’s self-driving Audi TTS instead has the need for speed. The Audi, known as Shelley, sped around the Thunderhill Raceway track north of Sacramento topping 120 miles per hour on straightaways. The less than two and a half minutes it took to complete the 3-mile course is comparable to times achieved by professional drivers."

There is a third Steve Davis, a drummer who has played and recorded often with Lyne Arriale HOW ABOUT JESSE DAVIS'S? JESSE, THE SELDOM HEARD SPLENDID BEBOP ALTO SAXIST, IS BLOWING AT SMALL'S IN A VERY FEW MINUTES. JESSE DAVIS THE GUITARIST, AS I RECALL, WAS IN CONWAY TWITTY'S FINE FINE BAND FOR QUITE SOME TIME.

link small's has free streaming tonight 7PM-2AM. 630-830pm spike-solo piano 9-12pm Jesse Davis - Alto Sax Josh Evans - Trumpet Spike Wilner - Piano Peter Washington - Bass Billy Drummond - Drums midnight --3am Stacy Dillard - Tenor Sax Josh Evans - Trumpet Theo Hill - Piano Ameen Saleem - Bass Frank Lacy - Trombone Kush Abadey - Drums

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some sundays one notices grey in everything.grey sunday

People tend to forget how talented and athletic he was. He did stunt work in Ghost Busters 1 and he doubled for the Michelin man.

i do pay for the nyt, although i can easily read it without subscribing.

now is the time (LIVE 1980) LINK

newspaper paywalls, at this time, are pretty easy to hurdle. the only one i can't get through is, perhaps the best of all, the financial times. has anyone had any success converting the financial times to the free times???

HOW MANY FOND FORGOTTEN MEMORIES HAVE WE REAWAKENED, WITH SUCH MUSIC, AND SUCH GRAND EXCITEMENT :rolleyes: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LINK "Airplane - which features classic one liners such as 'I am serious and don't call me Shirley' - came out top in research conducted by a panel of members of movie subscription service Lovefilm. They calculated the precise number of 'laughs a minute' for the top 10 comedies chosen by Lovefilm members. The panel recorded the total number of times each film generated a laugh, before dividing it by the films' total length in minutes to calculate the precise 'laugh a minute' rating for each movie."

THE TRAGEDY OF JIM MCMAHON

NORTH COAST CONTINUES SPONORSHIP OF MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL Support Jazz with us at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Sept. 21–23, 2012! North Coast Brewing will be the Official Beer of the Monterey Jazz Festival through 2014. Now in our seventh year of partnership with the Monterey Jazz Festival, we are the longest continuous financial supporter of the Festival. A strong supporter of Jazz education, we have also been a longtime contributor to the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, making donations for every case of Brother Thelonious Belgian Style Abbey Ale sold.

With an appeals panel overturning their bounty program suspensions, Jonathan Vilma, Scott Fujita, Anthony Hargrove & Will Smith have been reinstated by the NFL for this weekend's games.

thank you for the link--i found this very special gem on that page. getz-gilberto

another interesting question would be discussing jam session themes for, say, jazz, jazz piano, or bluegrass.............. when i tune into smalls late night jam sessions, there is an embarrasingly small number of jam session standards. a very few come to mind. i'll remember april, the way you look tonight, all or nothing at all, autumn leaves, if i loved you, percy faith's invitation. if i hear these tired 'standards' one more time............

george williams lead singer for the tymes big band leader-arranger for the jackie gleason mood music series who wrote arrangements for many, including lunceford, ray anthony, bob astor, benny goodman, woody herman, gene krupa, boyd raeburn, count basie, and barbra streisand.