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Wow! Pop music sublimity.

Yes, that's an excellent DVD. Whoah! Sounds like I'll have to check this out.

The lady has long haunted my heart. A truly marvelous, wonderfully musical singer. R.I.P., Jo.

Hear hear!

Rest in Peace, Mr. Griffin. I saw him a few times at the Regattabar in Cambridge during the '90s with that Michael Weiss and Kenny Washington group. Hearing him play Monk's "Coming on the Hudson" in person sticks with me to this day as one of the finest musical experiences I have ever had.

The Josh Hosler site gave me a different result for my birthday: "Travelin' Man" - Ricky Nelson

US: "Running Scared" - Roy Orbison UK: "Surrender" - Elvis Presley AUS: "A Scottish Soldier" - Andy Stewart

I picture McCain marching around to John Philip Sousa LPs, then maybe some Jackie Gleason for those intimate times.

If he was pandering to every demographic don't you think there'd be some country artists on the list instead of EWF? Johnny Cash, for instance, would have been a safe and believable choice. And, as others have mentioned, isn't jazz a turn-off for the vast majority? Another interesting omission: no Chicago blues.

Link Thanks. Nice little article, especially the interviews with Konitz and Zwerin.

As for what's next, I'm hoping that the Christian Science Monitor gives props to Jimmie Lunceford.

Link?

A little Milldred goes a long way, as far as I'm concerned. But those Hep Norvo CDs sound Cherce!

A perplexing thread...

Hendricks is, by far, the best of a bad lot. And Annie Ross will deservedly go down in history (in tandem with Wardell Gray) for "Twisted."

I think I like Gann better than Cage. It humbles me to recall that I've interacted with both of them in the course of my life. With Cage circa 1982 when he gave a lecture at my college and with Gann last year when I interviewed him regarding a concert of Conlon Nancarrow's music at the Gardner Museum in Boston.

Always figured it was what Wolf sang to Red, inspired by Tex Avery's binocular-eyed animated wolf...

And, yes, Holden really blew it. Leo Watson rules!

I dig Robert Palmer. I really don't dig vocalese. One of the deadest ends in all of jazz history, as far as I'm concerned.

I'm a fan.

"...You sure are lookin' good..."

Here's to one of the mainstays of the Boston (Cambridge) jazz scene!

Too much!

Scary!