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But i like to play da songs, and the songs have changes. Should I just forget about playing and just learn to dance? I could do The Jerk pretty good when I was a wittle boy.

I just finished Johnny Dankworth's autobio, "Jazz in Revolution" (1998), and came across JD's explanation for why Jazz isn't and will never be popular: ......."jazz is a music for the minority. It can only be truly understood and evaluated by people gifted with 'chordal ears'- IOW, those lucky folk who can listen to the improvisational skills of a soloist and still hear the underlying chord structure. So jazz music can only by luck become popular in the wider sense.,and can rarely enjoy the financial security and mass acclaim which goes with that phenomenon. Thus most jazz musicians remain skilled, dedicated and poor, and even a jazz world-star name like Dizzy Gillespie's was and still is for that matter-unfamiliar to most people in the country of his birth." He used Diz as an example, because he was working with him at the time, and was a very close friend of his. This explains a lot.

RIP.

He even recorded and gigged with the Bill Evans Trio back in 1967-68. RIP.

Sam Brown was on that album; a dude whose involvement with all types of drugs led to his suicide at the age of 39. RIP.

You're lucky you didn't join. I was in my 40s when one of my students told me that KISS stood for Knights In the Service of Satan. If you had joined their Army, word on the street is, when Army members die, they face an eternity of listening to KISS records as a reward.for their service..LOL!

When I was a HS music teacher, I used to have a day where the students brought in their fave music, to study the way melody, harmony and rhythm were either used or not used in the garbage they listened to. One really talented Black kid who had perfect pitch. brought in some great D'Angelo tracks every week . It was the only good music the students brought in. Very sad that he passed at 51, RIP.

RIP- As a kid I was nuts about the MB's. I saw them live at the Fillmore East for free, because my sister worked there. During intermission, one of my other sister's friend's (who was in the habit of 'servicing' rockers...) told me she had a surprise for me. She led me down the aisle, to the side of the stage, where Graham Edge was waiting. I shook hands with him, and he recoiled in horror, because my hand was so sweaty, and let out an 'Ugh!' All I could think of to say to him was, "Man, I really dig your poetry", and that was it. Later on, my late cousin Chuck, who was a bass player, had a Moody Blues album, and he put it on the basement stereo ( which was in a little room under the stairs- a tradition in suburbia back then) and I was shocked to hear them play not psychedelic rock music like "Ride My See-Saw", but the R&B song "Go Now". Years later I was even more shocked when I played 'The History of Rock and Roll" video for one of my music classes, and in the segment of "The British Invasion", they ended it by playing Bessie Banks' original version of "Go Now". I said to my class, " But this was done by The Moody Blues in the 60's! This is freakin' me out!" The class just looked at me and said, "He be buggin' again."

I still can't find the D.S al Coda is on any of your charts. I see clearly where the Dal Segno sign is (where you go back to to repeat a specific section, but I can't find the D.S al coda is that tells you where you should play up to before you repeat. Good selection of Nick Drake, EW&F,Steely Dan in the Pop section

Just finishing Ray Brown's biography by Jay Sweet. Today, Thomas Pynchon's new novel "Shadow Ticket" was released. It takes place in 1933, thus completing TP's cycle of a novel for every decade of the 20th Century. This one involves the disappearance of a cheese heiress, with a Private Eye hot on the trail. It seems she ran off with a big band clarinetist. to Germany. Was it of her own accord? We'll soon find out...

Thanks for the clarification on my post, Mike!

I love BJ.. He's one of the greatest steel string finger picking guitarists that ever lived. "Interesting does not mean jazz. I;d rather listen to him than any of the so-called 'jazz' guitarists of today. I'm just saying that they wouldn't have been able to play songs like "Reflections", and the one that they modeled after "All Blues" without a jazz rhythm section like Danny Thompson and Terry Cox.

Yeah, without either of those two guys, the jazz part is gone, and all you get are folk songs.

Well, it can't be much worse than Mickey Rooney playing him in "Words and Music (1948). To quote then NY Times movie reviewer, Bosley Crowther (great name for a NY movie reviewer), "t is played with fantastic incompetence by Tom Drake and Mickey Rooney in the principal roles".

RIP