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Tal was one of the nicest, humblest, ego-less guys I ever met. I could've been eating with my plumber.

Buddy went way beyond verbal abuse. A close friend of mine, Joe Dixon, was BR's roommate when they were both on the road with Tommy Dorsey. They had some type of argument about something, and Buddy knocked Joe out with one punch. Max Roach came down to Ornette's debut club appearance in NY in 1959, and after hearing him play, went back stage, and knocked him out with one punch. Then he was waiting at the place where Ornette was staying, and beat the crap out of him again! One member of Jaki Byard's Apollo Stompers was notorious for going psycho when he drank too much.I did a gig with him where he was bugged because this very annoying trumpet player kept laying out on the ensemble parts on this one chart, because he wanted to save his chops for his solo. He kept telling the trumpet player, "Quit laying out!", but the guy kept doing it. Finally he had enough, and picked the guy up, and flung him across the room, right into the wall. I watched the audiences heads follow the trumpet player's trajectory! The same guy who threw the trumpet player was on the road with the Lee Castle Band, and because he didn't own a car, he had to get a ride with a friend of mine, who also has a very short temper. Somewhere on the NE Turnpike, they got into an argument about trumpet playing, and they started socking each other back and forth, as they were stuck in a traffic jam.. Finally, my friend managed to open the door of the car, and literally kicked the guy out of the car, and left him on the Turnpike. Finally, my friend with a short temper got into a fight with Jerry Weiss, the trumpet player from BS&T's original band, right on the stand. My friend kicked the shit out of him, and they had to carry Weiss off the stand. Weiss, a diagnosed schizophrenic, came back to the same gig the next week, and had no recollection of the event! Larry has mentioned that jazz musicians remind him of pro athletes, and I tend to agree with him.

Yeah, I once took Tal Farlow out for breakfast after he came down to hear me play at a club. I still have the bill from the diner somewhere! A lot of those cats from the Dead, the Airplane and the Doors, 60s bands were heavy into Kenny and Wes. I remember reading an interview with Jorma once, and he said he saw Kenny in a club rolling around on the floor when he was playing!

I guess we did do threesomes, if you count the guitar...

We didn't do threesomes...

It didn't go that far, but the guy told us we were morally bankrupt (well, he was half right), and we just laughed in his face!

I thought Kenny only sent that message to me! WTF? I want those outtakes!!

Any film that states that the portal to hell is located in Brooklyn Heights is perfectly fine with me. My GF and I got thrown out of a bar in BH for lewd behavior.

I thought Kenny only sent that message to me!

Ten points for alto boy, and ten points for the demon.

On her vocal? She anticipates it, but it works. On trumpet, she was cool. Here she is on alto doing a Johnny Hodges note bending thing: Some more adventurous stuff:

From Barcelona, Andrea Motis. New to me:

The Power of ******* commands you! The Power of******** commands you! The Power of ****** commands you! Father Merrin? What should I do? Father Merrin?

He was very unhappy about the deterioration of the quality of the content on the public radio station that he used to manage. He was certainly justified about feeling that way, especially because he was very proud of the work he did as station manager there in the 60s. Today, they've turned into a forum for the lunatic snake oil salesman, Gary Null, who preys on the infirm with his 'alternative health' practice. I listened in disbelief as Null once claimed that AIDS was caused by gay guys jerking off too much! Chris devoted most of his website to trace in painstaking detail how various station managers and directors had turned WBAI into the POS it's become today. They once had people like Nat Hentoff, Chris and other knowledgeable people doing jazz shows there, and today don't have any regular jazz shows, and don't even play the music, except on rare occasions.

I mentioned that they checked it out on a jazz guitar forum, and everything was okay. Now why don't you go find Linda Blair and Pazuzou and leave me alone, or I'll call Dimmy.and get your ass exorcized again.

Renee Rosnes and many other musicians donated, so I joined them. Someone on a jazz guitar forum I take part in looked up Katherine Burrell's address, and it's the same as Kenny's. Even if it's a fake, I owe him too much to not donate.

One of his greatest achievements was his reign as Station Manager of WBAI, the Pacifica station in NYC. During his tenure, it was the leading cultural institution in the arts, sciences and politics, and he brought many of the greatest minds of the times to the airwaves of its listening area. RIP, Chris.

All I know is that every time I post in the Misc. Music section, all the recordings I posted of myself playing in a pianist's quartet get bundled with whatever I'm posting, and I can't erase them like I could easily do with text. One member accused me of being a publicity hound because of this. Another member dismissed the same post (on Trane's size) as being 'crass'. I can only assume that he thought I was referring to the size of something other than Trane's height... As much as ORG is a goldmine of misunderstanding, I was recently invited by DISCOG to participate as an expert in a database discussion of jazz pianist Bob Harris, due to posts I made here concerning him. How could you not be fascinated by a pianist who worshiped Ray Charles, went on the road with him for a few years (and probably shot up with him), yet still referred to him as 'that genius n-word"...

I don't think so, because it happens weeks or months after I've made a post on another subject. All my posts get bundled together, for no reason I can think of.

Every time I post something in the 'Miscellaneous Music' category, a bunch of my previous posts get melded into one big post, like the OP posted about. Is there any way to edit out the old posts (which contain links to youtube) and delete them?

He had a huge painting of a dollar bill on his living room wall, it is said...

He was mentioned in the Big Band/Swing episode of Ken Burns' Jazz documentary. I mean, if Ken Burns, Wynton and Stanley Crouch called him Swing, he must be Swing, right?

This should probably go under this topic: https://dailybonnet.com/jazz-festival-accidentally-books-jazz-artist/

There's a strong triggering effect of some words that really turn people off. I was just banned for a week from another music forum, because I wanted to start a discussion about the Firesign Theater. I thought of the funniest thing I could think of for the title of my post, and I came up with "Commie Martyrs High School". The A-hole moderators thought I was trying to start a political thread!