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I understand what you're saying. He could be the corniest MFer on the planet on some things. Yet on other things he could penetrate your brain like a laser. I guess he was playing to his audience. I love some of the things he did with Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, yet most of his own albums were corn city. I've never bought any of his records, because I was afraid of that corn infecting my brain. I've always wondered what Buddy Rich said to him on the phone that caused him not to have anything to do with Buddy till he was dying in the hospital, but maybe it had something to do with the cornball quotient.

I dunno. Check KCR- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wkcr+89.9&t=newext&atb=v357-1&ia=web They call it Jazz Alternatives on their schedule, so I don't know if it will only last till the writer's strike ends. Make that "Jazz Profiles"

What Ken said about his multiple marriages.

Since the passing of Phil Schapp, there's been a serious lack of jazz facts obsessiveness on the air. However a new show, "Labeled" seems to be in contention to match PS' relentless concern over jazz minutia, but narrows its focus to Jazz Labels. I don't know how long its been on, but two 30ish sounding guys play some great stuff, meticulously list the tune's title, composer, personnel and date of recording, and then proceed to tear into everything and anything related to the label it was recorded on! This can include the engineers, the head of the label, the studio it was recorded in, the labels the artist has previously recorded on- basically ANYTHING related to Jazz Labels! Because there are two announcers (one of them is a writer on strike), there isn't a micro-second of dead air as they fight for domination of the subject matter, with one of them constantly giving in, and telling the other that he's absolutely correct, and he has covered the subject perfectly. If you're a jazz label fanatic , your ship has come in. The hours are unclear, but they went from about two or three pm to 7:30 last Sunday, and had to be followed by an Eastern Music show, as i f to say another jazz show would upset the balance of the universe!

A perennial best album cover and title ever.

Yeah, he was a real woman's man...

I don't get it.They were young, beautiful white women in gowns on the TV special- what'd they use CGI?😁

I think that was Rick Moranis on the TV version...

Oops, sorry!

No, I don't know if he was married before then.

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/in-memoriam-jimmy-giuffre-1921-2008-jimmy-giuffre-by-aaj-staff

Duncan Henning wrote a good book on George Russell, whose career followed a similar trajectory as Giuffre's. Both wound up teaching in the New England Conservatory of Music, so he'd have enough contacts involved with that stage of Giuffre's musical career. In addition, Giuffre married George Russell's ex-wife, Juanita Odejar who Henning interviewed for the Russell book. Giuffre was married for 42 years, so I don't see how he could have been married four times as someone mentioned. The only work would be the Texas and West Coast part of his career, but there are many West Coast musicians still around.

Unfortunately, that was the case back then; it was the record companies' ideas that dictated who should play with whom. Someone at Verve (maybe Creed Taylor) figured, 'hey they're both hot properties, maybe they'll make some money for us'. If they were really on the ball, they'd get Deodato to do the job, and do it right, like TTK intimated . Look what he did with Stanley Turrentine. Then look what Astrud and Stanley did together; both collaborations pure bliss. What did Astrud have to do with Gil Evans' type of writing? When Frankie Dunlop heard her name, all he could say was, "Ah, the golden showers!" Did Gil have anything to do with that type of stuff? Wait, don't answer that question... I read the Stein bio, and it's buried deep within whatever part of the brain of where that stuff goes, and probably informs what I posted without me even being aware of it. I've read the bios of all the greats; I'm even going to be reading the bio of Richard Twardzic by the end of the month, and that's not an easy goal to accomplish!

Yeah, you'd think a genius like Evans would've known that low brass playing in morbid clusters would not complement Astrud's voice. The only song I like is "Look to the Rainow". Just piano bass drums and sax. Tomorrow is a drag, man.

No, too good for Jandek. Tomorrow is a drag, man.

Yeah, tomorrow is a drag, no doubt about it.

Pretty sad what Getz did to her: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/astrud-gilberto-girl-from-ipanema-b2006879.html She transformed everything she did into her own thing. I never got tired of listening to her, and had to hear her version of a song before I heard anyone else's. Rest in Peace, Astrud...

Turned out to be Barney Kessel backing Leslie Uggams in a great version of "Don't Blame Me". As usual David Meeker's info was impeccable. RIP.

That is the only possible answer I could imagine!

BH was not a jazz guy. I think he needed help with writing the jazz parts in that and other films that required real jazz. I think it was that young British guy that wrote an excellent book on film music, who helped him with Taxi Driver.

Yup, that's Al! He also told us about the time Bill Evans 'borrowed' his best overcoat, and Bill never returned it to him. However, AB told us that once BE came into some money, he had a list of all the people he 'borrowed' things from, and he reimbursed them for it. When he reached AB, AB refused to take el moola. These were 'cool' stories for young jazzers like me and my friend (who's now a well-known bari player), and we felt like we were in with the in crowd...😎

I once went over the house after a gig, of that drummer on the EC album, and on his living room wall was the cover of the EC Trio Live at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival album. He then offered us some pot, and told us how a woman came on to him at a dept. store earlier that day. "You still got it". his friend told him. "You better believe it", he replied...

The Wallington Workshop album is just a re-issue of the Costa Trio at the 1957 Newport Jazz festival.

According to Wikipedia: Though Bill Lee scored his son's first four movies, they had a falling out shortly after the arrest on drug charges. By 1994, the elder Lee said they had not spoken in two years.[8] Bill Lee said their problems started with his son's intolerance of his second marriage. The family feud began in 1976, when Spike Lee's mother Jacquelyn died of cancer and Susan Kaplan moved in with Bill.[1] Spike has been quoted as saying, "my mother wasn't even cold in her grave."[8] Bad feelings intensified with Jungle Fever, Spike Lee's film on interracial romantic relationships, as Kaplan was white.