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But I only go out at night since the pandemic.

I remember the story about Pres being asked what he thought of some musician playing some fast, technical solo, and then asking the player, ""Yes Lady, but can you sing me a song?" I always liked that one.

I'm glad someone's saying it. Thanks for posting it!

Oh, I see; I must have wandered into some type of Bizzaro World Organissimo,

I'm reading "Mr.PC: The Life and Music of Paul Chambers", and I can remember arguing with some posters here that Bill Evans was an important part of "Kind of Blue"and various posters saying he had barely anything to do with the album. I reach the section of the Kind of Blue sessions and I read a passage saying that Miles Davis "planned the music around the piano playing of Bill Evans", taken from the book by A.Kahn, "The Making of Miles Davis' Masterpiece" London Granta Books. I mention that fact to a friend of mine today, including the discussion here on Bill Evans' role in KOB, and he just mumbles, "sounds like a bunch of racists" in regards to the discussion here...

Since your screen name is Face of the Bass, I've been reading "Mr.PC": The Life and Music of Paul Chambers" by Rob Palmer. It deals heavily with every note that PC played for Blue Note. I'm not kidding, this guy analyzes every aspect of the Blue Note albums PC played on, even his walking bass lines! In 1958, PC played on 53 now classic jazz albums, and in addition was working what must have been over 300 gigs in clubs, concerts working with Miles, Coltrane, Hal McKusick, Chet Baker, Wynton Kelley, Red Garland, Philly Joe Jones, Jimmy Cobb, Cannonball, Phineas Newborn, Wilbur Hardin, Bill Evans, Bobby Jaspar, Eddie Costa, Kenny Burrell, etc...he was even doing a gig on Christmas Eve. And he was only 22 years old!

Happy 99th, Roy!

A heart attack at 58.

Sorry to hear this, RIP..

Whoops! Thanks!

Enter his name on you tube.

According to this video on his You Tube channel the great jazz guitarist Clint Strong won't be able to play the guitar again due to a stroke that he suffered in the middle of 2023. Very sad news.

RIP, I liked the timbre of SL's voice a lot.

Only 63? What a terrible thing. He was an Indiana cat who was friends with Jim Herrington of SD, which was how he got with Fagen. RIP.

I guess I fall into the "better with horns" camp. Last Sunday as we drove in to Brooklyn for what's left of the family's annual dinner out together, we listened to Sid Gribbets' Sunday special on Stitt on KCR. I kept thinking, "Who the heck is that pianist playing with him? He shaw nuff be sounding good. I was amazed to find out that OP was the pianist on almost all of the quartet cuts Sid played. I said to myself, "Well I'll be darned!" We had a very nice, peaceful dinner together, until I made the mistake of asking my sister (an R&B fanatic for 60 years, and ex-Jimmy Garrison student) what she thought of hip-hop. Just for asking that question, I was met with a torrent of four-letter words that I can't mention here. and we rushed out of the restaurant, and made our separate ways home.

He didn't seem to understand English too well back then. I was just reading the Mark Murphy bio by Peter Jones, and he was so desperate for publicity for his album, that he appeared on The Dating Game back in the 60s. I doubt that he told them he was gay, but he was the winner! LOL! All he cared about was showing the audience a copy of his latest album. His date was the actress Susan Strasberg. They won a 'dream date' to Greece. He said she was only four feet tall! I looked for it on You Tube, but I couldn't find it.

Yeah, the few times they showed it!

Yeah, like they wouldn't show the bedroom on the Dick Van Dyke Show. Bedrooms and toilets didn't exist for some people. TTK mentioned it. I always thought it was More Science HS. They were so great. I clicked on your Mash-a-Clown link. I'm gonna have to listen to your radio show. Canada seems like it might be the last sane place in the world!!!

I remember when it first came out, they were all upset about the character Mongo's name, because they said it was making fun of mongoloid people. i wonder how Mongo Santamaria felt? Now they're doing this? I once got banned for a week from a music forum for jokingly using the name Commie Martyrs High School" from the Firesign Theater Porgie Tirebiter album. I tried to tell the Moderator that it was from a comedy album, and not some political statement, but the jerk wouldn't listen to me! Now even public radio isn't going to play any Firesign Theater albums on the air? That stuff got me through high school! I was just reading a book on Donald Fagen, and he was being interviewed in some magazine about some radio station refusing to play the song "Janie Runaway" as the focus track for their Two Against Nature album promotion. The interviewer rightly asked him if it was due to decency or family values concern, but Fagen answered it was because the song had a sax solo, and the station had a policy of only playing songs with guitar solos! LOL! This was in 2000, and Fagen said they didn't care about seedy lyrics at that time, in fact they loved it. The moral climate of the country was such that you could talk about screwing your grandmother, and they wouldn't mind it, as long as it had a guitar solo in it. So I think we can say that the moral/political climate of the country has radically changed since then.

That's what it seems like.

Yeah, I cut and pasted it from my email notification. I also cancelled my subscription to their channel.

They've all been deleted. Basically they were as complimentary as is humanly possible, and then mentioning how it was much superior to the one I paid $40 for and drove into another state for. I guess i should know better than to compliment anything. It's bound to be dissected, and some ulterior repercussion extracted from it.

Yeah, but they were perfectly happy with ejumacated responses like, "Duh, that's some really swingin' stuff there I tells ya!" etc... I keep forgetting I'm on the interwebz, where no one understands what anyone sez...

LOL! Here's the post they made: WDR BIG BAND "Does this really belong here? It would be desirable if there were many more different ways of engaging with PW's music. But your objection that one German band and only one American band is dedicated to PW's music doesn't change the situation and gives a negative flavor." Do you understand what the MFs are trying to say?

The WDR big band recently released a concert they had performed in 2022 under the Phil Woods Legacy title on You Tube that had some meticulous readings of PW's big band arr's that put to shame the US PW Memorial concert held in PA, a year or so after PW performed. Apparently PW revised a lot of his charts, and they somehow got copies of the revisions and performed them very well with stylistic solos that showed they had some knowledge of PW's style. So I wrote a highly complimentary post mentioning the above,along with the statement that there had been too few tributes to PW, and their's was certainly the finest I was aware of, etc... I didn't think much of it until I got an email yesterday from You Tube saying that WDR had responded to my effusive review. I figured they were thanking me for my positive review, but the first words were "I wonder if a review like this belongs here due to its negative flavor. The statement that only a German band and a US band were the only tributes to PW gives a misleading representation of the response to the PW Legacy." I started writing a response apologizing for giving them such a positive review on their concert, and that I'd be glad to delete my praise of their concert, and added the fact that Wynton Marsalis had publicly put down PW over a mic on a jazz cruise that his daughter had attended, and was forced to retract his statement over said mic when he came back from his break. I also added the fact that Oliver Nelson had received several death threats from his big band when he decided to feature PW on lead alto and give him the majority of alto solos in their concerts. I then deleted the first post I made, and all of a sudden, someone erased the entire two posts that both I and they had made on the subject! WTF, WDR?!