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There's names listed on the record? :o Geez, I hope nobody was able to use that for their career gain... I WANNA BE ON A QUINCY JONES DATE. HEAR ME, OH LORD----YOU GOOD WOMAN. I'LL WASH PEGGY LIPTONS'S FEET IF INSTRUCTED AND I CAN PAD THE RESUME LATER, JUST AS THE L WOMAN PADS....WELL, LET'S ,UM, NOT GO THERE........... Guys, seriously: if every musician playing uncredited on record dates between 1950 and now (well there IS no recording industry now) complained about not having their props tickets punched there'd be................................................................................................................................................................... a shitload of complaints. Then a shitload of firings and replacings with ass-lickers. So let's get real. Getting paid well and keeping one's mouth shut are wonderful ways to keep something green that pays for things like food and cars and kids education coming in. Are we clear on this? Or should I take a Berlitz course in Lithuanian conjunction and try afresh? PEGGY LIPTON?!? LOL!!

who got arranging credit for Benard Ighner's, "Everything Must Change"?!?

i've had this album since i was a very young girl, which is a very long time ago!! LOL

sincere condolences to Gary and his family. how wonderful that she was a patron of the arts and certainly passed it down.

i believe George is still a very nice person who has been dealing with diabetes, hip problems and some other stuff. i can't play like i used to (at anything these days)!! LOL

why is it that someone always has to interject some negativity into an RIP thread?!? although supremely talented and remaining a friend of John's, i don't think she was especially known to be a very positive personality. nuff sed.

if you're interested in some examples of the things people have said recently about John, check out the website listed above, www.lushlife.com, and look under the heading, "Celebration". most letters were written as impending 100th birthday wishes. he was loved, appreciated, respected and admired by many, including me.

JOHN LEVY, MANAGER TO COUNTLESS JAZZ LUMINARIES, DIES AT AGE 99 John Levy, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and renowned personal manager for many jazz greats, died on January 20th, less than three months shy of his 100th birthday. His wife, Devra Hall Levy said he was sleeping peacefully in her arms at home in Altadena when his heart finally gave out. An induction into the International Jazz Hall of Fame (1997) and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Jazz Society were among the many honors Levy received during his career. His client roster read like a veritable who’s who of jazz and included Cannonball Adderley, Betty Carter, Randy Crawford, Roberta Flack, Herbie Hancock, Shirley Horn, Freddie Hubbard, Ahmad Jamal, Abbey Lincoln, Ramsey Lewis, Herbie Mann, Les McCann, Wes Montgomery, George Shearing, Dakota Staton, Stanley Turrentine, Joe Williams, and Nancy Wilson, who remains a John Levy Enterprises client to this day. John Levy was born in New Orleans on April 11, 1912. When he was a boy, his teacher urged him to get a job in the Post Office so he would have security in life. He didn’t listen. He became known internationally as one of the top jazz managers in the world. As a personal manager who throughout the course of his career managed more than eighty-five artists, Levy made millions of dollars for his clients, who have risen from sometimes-total anonymity to the heights of success. Like many Southern black children of his era, John Levy saw his formal education end before it had barely begun. Yet his astonishing business acumen won the respect of people at every level of the music industry—from the struggling artists to the corporate brass of the recording giants. Even now there are few places in the world where a young person can learn the intricacies of personal management. In Levy’s day there were none. John’s university was the street parades in 1920s New Orleans, and the jazz musicians riding on the floats; it was the Savoy Ballroom in Chicago, and Clarence Black’s house band; and the sound of Duke Ellington and the Glenn Miller bands; and Benny Goodman at the Sherman Hotel and Fletcher Henderson at the Grand Terrace. Though Levy was an accomplished bassist in his own right, it was the business aspect of the music industry to which he dedicated his life. From the time he put aside his bass to handle the business affairs of the George Shearing Quintet in 1951, he learned how to guide raw talent to polished professionalism. Working in the dual roles of both performer and road manager, he gradually grew into a career in personal management, becoming the first African-American personal manager in the jazz field. But his drive pushed him even further, and soon he was promoting concerts and producing records. His years of success in all these areas earned him an impeccable reputation in the entertainment industry, where he was both respected and admired by other managers, booking agents, concert promoters, entertainment lawyers and accountants, record company executives, and last but not least, the artists themselves. He is survived by his wife Devra Hall Levy of Altadena, CA, his son Michael Levy and daughter Pamela McRae both of Youngstown, OH, daughters Samara Levy of San Diego, CA, and Jole Levy of New York, NY, fifteen grandchildren, and a host of great-grandchildren. According to Levy’s wishes, there will be no funeral service. Donations may be made to the “MCG Jazz John Levy Fund” which is earmarked for the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild’s “Jazz Is Life” educational programs nationwide http://www.lushlife.com/

Thank you! yes, that's him, i believe.

definitely not Earl Palmer! drums: Paul Humphries; sax: Clifford ????? (played with Ike & Tina for years); trumpet: Bobby Bryant. saw Terry Gibbs but didn't hear him playing. thought maybe Black pianist was Gildo Mahones but not sure at all.

another bright light that left us way too soon. he used to be my neighbor in the East Village in the '60s.

i wouldn't mind having those genes!! LOL

Serious question: What became of son guitarist Shuggie Otis? He got some play years ago, then the press seemed to drop him like he had a disease. Anyone know his doings? He seemed pretty talented. someone told me that Shuggie is married to Gerald Wilson's daughter.

wishing you a very happy birthday and many more to come!

i never remembered Wes being so cute nor Liza being so skinny!! LOL

i read that she donated everything in and on the house to Habitat for Humanity. they came and carted away tons of stuff to be used in building homes for the poor.

i surely sympathize with Mr. Fass but it seems he made a very big mistake by initially indicating that he wouldn't let his guitar case be examined. when you walk into any government facility and go through security, you are waving a big "red flag" by not cooperating. we already know that most of these guys in these jobs are morons and just looking for trouble. that's a given.

i'm hearing echoes in here but they're good ones! LOL

and i heard and read that there will be a 2013 Jazz Masters Program! sure hope it's true!

"The Dumbing Down of America"!!!

oh, what a fabulous picture and concept. the cure for my "middles-heimer's disease"!!!

So what's the deal with that bonus disc? Is it "Great Encounters" or is it the above? Or is it the above, just titled "Great Encounters" while the original tracks from that album are spread over the other discs (as they were on the individual CD reissues)? Or are there two bonus discs? I'm confused! the separate disc, "Great Encounters" contains "Fried Bananas," "The Moontrane," "Red Top," "Polka Dots and Moonbeams," "Project S" and "Isn't She Lovely".

my box set came with a separate disc entitled "Great Encounters," which included 6 bonus tracks and that great picture of Dexter in that very fancy, European-looking ballroom.

i believe the only thing you guys haven't mentioned from the box set is "Great Encounters". i'm loving my holiday present to myself!

i remember hearing about Frankie Newton from my childhood in Boston.