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RIP. I fell in love with the top 'Brodie Girl', Pamela Franklin when they took us on a field trip in JHS to see the movie.

RIP. to another one of the all-time great composer/tenor players.

RIP, JD. An old friend of mine just wrote me on FB to tell me that JD was dating Judee Sill, and he inspired her to write the song "Jesus Was a Crossmaker", which she read on Wiki. I told her: "Yeah, most people think that was a religious song, but actually it's about the time that JS and JD were in a romantic relationship. They both went to Linda Ronstadt's birthday party, and JS caught JD and LR in a 'compromising sexual situation' and JS said she had to write that song about it or commit suicide. Basically, she's talking about JD being crucified, either by her or someone else. Well, I guess her dream finally came true today."

Thanks!.

Last night, I finally got my derangement of "Taxi Driver" for big band performed. I had tried on a few occasions to get it played, but somehow, all of the horn parts mysteriously disappeared. The only parts left were the rhythm parts- bass, drum and piano parts, so I was too lazy to go to the trouble of going to my derangement of it on Musescore, printing the horn parts on paper my brother 'borrowed' for me from the school he teaches at, and worst of all, taping the pieces of paper together with 'expensive' scotch tape, which I paid 33 cents for at a 99 Cent store. After putting all the parts on the music stands of the players stands during the break, I waited for the leader to announce that they were going to play it, fully aware that he might choose to either forget it, or choose to play more audience-friendly music, but he announced, "Now we're gonna play something our guitar player wrote", and I marched up to the front of the bandstand to conduct my derangement. I went over the tempo changes I added for the sax soli, and even told the story about the missing horn parts (hoping that one of the players might be shamed into making a public confession of the theft), but then was interrupted by the leader's pleasant command; "Will ya count the fuckin' thing off already", followed by an explosive round of laughter from the audience, band and myself, and proceeded to count off "one- two 'three- four". Even though the band was sight reading it, they played the schlitz out of it, and I humbly acknowledged the audience's applause, while collecting the horn parts to make sure that someone didn't rip them off again.

In unison Graciela and Hall had a timbre that was out of this world. Alone, I never went crazy over either. "Like a Lover" was another great one.

He had some strong opinions on white female singers. he was always complaining about how out of tune Madonna sounded, and claimed to have inside knowledge of all the 'casting couches' she 'slept' on to get to the top. But where does that leave the "#Me, Too" movement?

So sad to hear. The amount of his knowledge of the music was staggering. RIP

Yeah, this guy was off the wall. We were playing a one day cruise on the west side of Manhattan, and I told him I didn't like his use of a maj6th chord on the bridge of September Song. He said, "Oh, you didn't like that change, huh, let's see how you like this.." And he knee-dropped my poor little Roland Cube amp so it rolled over, right to the edge of the deck of the boat. Then,when I yelled at him for almost sending my defenseless Cube into the Hudson River, he said, "Come on, I'll send you overboard, too!" My amp seemed alright, so I just let it go. He looked like Charles Manson, so he used to get picked up by the cops for just looking dangerous. He was voted by his high school as "Most Likely To Become a Serial Killer" I saw his obit online a number of years back. He died when he was only 36.

No, I've been playing that song since I heard the SM version over 30 years ago, so I just used my own stuff. One thing I did copy was Lani Hall's beautiful subtle changing of the melody on the words "One must be right for me". I gave it to the alto. I remember working with this keyboard player who called Lani Hall "the whitest singer that ever lived". If that nuance she added is 'white', then he can shove it. That was the main reason I chose that song. I'm assuming that you don't have Netflix, and didn't see that movie I was talking about "They Shot The Piano Player". It's like the thing was made for you.

I just wrote a BB chart on their version of that, using SD's "Black Cow as my groove.

Great closing paragraph! Have you seen that Netflix film, "They Shot The Piano Player" yet? It involves a Brazilian "Samba Jazz" pianist, Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976. He only put out one album as a leader, when he was only 22, but went on to play on many important Jazz Samba/Bossa Nova records as a sideman. I posted on it in the Miscellaneous Music section amonth ago. RIP, Sergio. You brought the world some great music that people are too stupid to appreciate now.

I'll try.

I can't believe this.

This guy belongs to a jazz guitar online forum I sometimes visit He get funky wit Bobby Watson here: He posted some Polish sax player's group once that was one of the best things I ever heard, but I forget the name of the group

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11242654/?ref_=hm_rvi_tt_i_1 This is new on Netflix. An animated fictional docudrama about the 'Disappearance' of a Brazilian Samba Jazz pianist named Francisco Tenorio Jr. in Buenos Aires in 1976. The story is about a fictional writer for the New Yorker, who is assigned to write an article in 2010 about the history of the Bossa Nova, and stumbles on a Brazilian samba-jazz pianist in his listening research, who only made one album under his own name, but played piano on many classic samba/bossa nova sessions. The writer, voiced by Jeff Goldblum digs the pianist, but is upset to find that the pianist stopped recording completely in 1976, and there is nothing on the pianist after 1976. So then the film becomes a mystery about what happened to the real life pianist Francisco Tenorio Jr. in 1976. The writer goes to Brazil for his research, and through a friend, gets in touch with all the major Bossa Nova musicians and vocalists still around in 2010, such as Nasciamento, etc.. and inquires about Tenorio. He even talks with Bud Shank, as part of his research on early bossa nova, and Ella Fitzgerald is also shown singing with the missing pianist in an early scene. Bill Evans even appears playing "Yesterday I Heard the Rain" in a Brazilian jazz club, and hangs out with Tenorio afterwards. By this time, the writer's editor convinces him to write a book about Tenorio, and the rest of the film centers on the mystery of his disappearance. here's something from his first album, msde when he was only 23:

A guy I know got in contact with the estate of the bass player that recorded that album, and he said his father recorded a bunch of gigs that this great quartet recorded, and plans to release all of them! I can honestly say that this has been the first jazz guitar recording that brought a big smile to my face throughout its entirety. This was the man that Bird would listen closely to every night JS would be his accompanying act at Birdland, instead of going out and scoring.

LOL! No, it was nobody but his idol, Bill Evans, of course. Probably had no place to live for a while. My friend was witness to the legendary 'one hand" performances at the VV, when one of his hands was completely unusable, and just hung there like a dead piece of meat on the keyboard, ready to be pressed down to play one pedal note by his good hand. My friend said he still sounded great.

A piano player friend of mine wears his "Everybody Digs Bill Evans" shirt every time I see him. He studied with Sanford Gold and there was some guy sleeping on his couch. Guess who it was?

They also did a song for the party scene in "Midnight Cowboy" that the nudist pianist composed. Kinda Charles Lloyd-ish

I met Jack Wilkins once, and he claimed that he played in that band!.

Sonofabitch! That's him. Don't mention his name; he might do a search and kill me or something.

No, that's alright. A well known jazz pianist I used to be in a band with played in a rock band in the 60s that had an album cover with the whole band nekkid on the cover. Later on he became a college professor at a well known music school. I wonder if any of his students ever saw it?

Yeah, I cracked up when I read that on Wiki! As far as the Sam Most four CD set was concerned, Most's playing is great on the other albums included in the set, the arrangements by Bob Dorough and Teddy Charles aren't as good as the ones by Woellmer. Jimmy Raney has a good solo on one tune on the record he's on, and Davey Schildkraut has some nice solos on one of the other records.

AGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need Help!!!!!!!!! Charles Albertine seemed to be the equivalent of Bob Graettinger to Stan Kenton! I liked that alto sax stuff towards the end.