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Same with me. RIP

Yeah, Jim was acting up again; you know, those East Texas roots and all. But I took care of it.😁

What the heck? I had never done it. He's the one that told me people did that stuff. We were in Elementary School. I'm innocent, I tell you, innocent!!!!🤣🤣🤣

Romanian pianist inspired by Oscar Peterson at the age of eight, yet he's not playing like Oscar here: Stride. He uses Oscar's techniques, but is he using Oscar's lines? Use your ears.

RIP Great work with the Boss Brass.

Oliver Nelson, J.J. Johnson, Benny Golson, Benny Carter, Issac Hayes, Gerald Wilson and Hale smith all did Movies and TV.

Burt wrote it, but that's how VB interpreted it. The guy could play (he never seemed to go beyond Django/Les Paul), but he chose the route of the gimmick/commercial studio player. More power to him.

It's a great tune, and he starts to get into a groove at the end, but I really dislike his stupid f/x , the underwater sound , and the organ guitar. The guy was a total sell-out on his records. I knew some guys that played with him on gigs, and they said he could play, but I can't listen to his records. They used to use that song as the theme song for the Movie of the Week on channel seven way back when.

After hearing the album "Whistle Stop" by VB on You Tube, I don't even want to know that the guy exists. Corny, unmusical arrangements, playing and choice of tunes- If he were playing somewhere, I'd pull a Max Roach/ Ornette Coleman on the guy, and lay him out with one punch, and then like Max, I'd wait for him at his mansion in Westchester, and finish the job. Back then, all they had was vibrato, tremelo, and maybe a wah wah, so he probably combined them. He was an electronics wiz, so he could've invented his own thing.

You'll never hear that on a US channel. DM's best writing; it's kind of a suite.

I've done two of their songs from their first album WCAFS WDISATBJ

You seem to focus on your college music school experiences a great deal, my son. We have a drug that just came out that I'd like you to try that could completely wipe out any negative experiences you had in college music class, or anything else for that matter... Now tell me the name of your pharmacy, and I'll phone your script in, and they'll have it ready for you in no time! As for my never-ending series of jazz dreams, last night I dreamt Rob McConnell was coming over my house, and I was working on writing an arrangement of Moondog's "Bird's Lament"for him. He seemed to be okay with it, even though he was a valve trombone player, and I was writing it out for sax! This will affect me in real life by probably becoming my 57th arrangement I've written for big band during the pandemic. The leader of one of the big bands I play with just got a 60K P/T gig teaching in a college that has a state-of-the-art recording studio, and has said that they're dying to have us record in it. So be prepared to hear my endless Gene Puerling rip-offs on some type of medium.

I didn't know it was that bad. The game literally ended at that point. As a lifetime Giants fan, watching those Eagles fans made me want to puke. There was a great independent movie made about this subject called "Big Fan". If we want to follow the scenario in that film, we have no other recourse than to kidnap "Philadelphia Phil", AKA felser! 😁

I've never seen a game with a QB that can't throw the ball!

RIP

"There is an art to sequencing an album". "The last time I heard that remark, a famous jazz trumpet player was sequencing the order of songs in a CD I made in 2004. When he got done with it, even I didn't want to listen to it! LOL!

Although he came off as a creep in some regards, and least he admitted it. He was always hip to jazz and he influenced the band doing Eight Miles High by bringing cassettes of Impressions and Ravi Shankar on the touring bus. He got credit along with McGuinn and Clark for writing it. Trane's "India" was said to be a big influence on it. His last stuff sounded like Steely Dan, so he was still growing musically towards the end. Guys like him, Arthur Lee, Bryan Maclean, and The Doors were very talented, and more well-rounded musically than a lot of other rockers back then.

I like the way his Wikipedia entry ends; after listing everyone he played with from The Association to Zappa, they say something like, "Oh yeah, he also played on over NINE HUNDRED FILM SCORES. He's playing in a band with Eric Dolphy at this age?????????

I always heard it pronounced Boo- di- meer, but I don't know if that was the correct pronunciation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Budimir

A friend of mine went to MSM with Chris Dedrick. They were both jazz trumpet players, but they also played in classical ensembles. Chris was always missing rehearsals, because he said he had to rehearse with a "Folk Group" he was forming. Guess who the 'folk group' turned out to be? The whole Dedrick family were heavyweights in the music business, starting with Art Kendrick, who started one of the biggest HS music publishing companies in the world Kendor Music, and both he and Lyle 'Rusty' Dedrick wrote countless jazz ensemble arrangements used in every HS in the world. Chris Dedrick hated the commercial nature of the NYC music business so much that he went to live in Canada. I played a band showcase where his brother was playing in one of the other bands. When I mentioned Chris to him, he got very upset, and said that CD split the family apart by joining some Canadian cult that he called "Evil" and the family didn't want to have anything to do with him. CD became a successful Canadian film composer, and still released FD albums under a Canadian label. One of the last albums he made before he died was with singer Lori Cullen where they performed music written by Judee Sill and others, and arranged by CD. It was called Buttercup Bugle.

Judee Sill's three albums are full of that type of stuff, and her friends from N. Hollywood also made albums like that, Lynn Blessing, Tommy Peltier, the late Bill Plummer, Russ Giguiere from The Association. Chris Dedrick joined some Canadian cult, and wrote a lot of stuff for them. Bryan MacLean from LOVE wrote a lot of Born Again stuff after he kicked heroin. John Simon wrote some stuff for that underground movie about some commune that "My Name is Jack and I live in the back of the Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys and Girls came from. The list goes on and on...

The drummer Phil Faieta passed away at the age of 89 recently. I did a lot of big band gigs with this swinging drummer, who played in Barbara Carroll's Trio, and recorded on this Johnny Frigo's album: https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/johnny-frigo/i-love-john-frigohe-swings

I was reading her "Accidental Autobiography", and didn't expect anything about jazz to come up in it, but she gets to her early 20s, and she talks about going into Minton's (approx.1958) and seeing this Black horn player playing there. She had just left The Jehovah's Witnesses, and decided this was the guy she was going to lose her virginity to, so she buys him a drink, and next thing you know they're living together (while he remains married) for three years. He had fooled around with actresses such as Ava Gardner. She never identifies him by name, but she said he had a trumpet player in his group, so he;s probably a sax player (or maybe trombone player?). He introduces her to Ben Webster, Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra(?) at the clubs he's playing at, one of which is the Village Vanguard. He appears to be a famous player, because he's always going on tour or playing at clubs like the Vanguard. She said he had a strong disdain for heroin, so he never got involved with that drug. His wife lived in Chicago, but he lived at the Hotel Arthur, right across the street from Birdland. Then he moved to an apt. on Grace Ave. in the Bronx. He was 32 years old when they met, and he had two sons. He attempted suicide, because his wife was cheating on him, so BGH went to visit him in Boone Grove Indiana where his mother lived. He decided to go back to his wife Janine, and BGH didn't see him again until they got back together 33 years later, the early 90s, when he was 64. He had given up playing, doing a few day gigs such as managing a jazz club, then working as a house inspector, but getting back with her made him want to play again, and he did a gig at Fat Tuesdays, but they split up again, and she doesn't mention him again. He recorded some records as a leader, which she threw away. That's all I got. Does anyone know who he was? BGH never revealed his identity.

All I remember is doing an exhaustive search on Hoffenberg, and coming up with a long piece he wrote on his music writings, where he talked about going out to one of The Band's houses, where the floor was covered with dog crap, and then going into a confessional thing where he talked about what a piece of crap he was, and saying that he killed a great jazz musician by leaving some methadone behind in a bag he was carrying that carried some of his clothes and personal stuff.