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RIP, to one of the greats, whose charts I've had the pleasure of playing many times.

We definitely perceive music in a different way than when we were kids. I'd just listen to music as a kid over and over for hours every day. and can't imagine doing that as I age. When you were a kid, you were trying to bathe yourself in it, because it was doing something to you that was an essential part of who you were. Time just didn't exist when you were in that state. But it's different now.

Very sad to hear. He played on so many records that it seems like I hear about a new one every day. His TV show had some great people on it. I still have a video tape of him and Phil Woods playing Willow Weep For Me on it. He certainly got a lot of use out of the pentatonic scale. My friend Lenny Sciniscgalli worked with him a lot in the NY studios, and loved him, so he probably was aware of him on a deeper level than I was on. RIP

More profound than Tomorrow is a drag? I think not, good sir!

It's hard to beat Paul Horn, I fold.

Surely, the greatest moment in spoken word jazz, if not cinematic history:

I read his biography; the man was a saint.

Thanks to everyone that posted Attila in Germany suggestions. He was way under recorded in the States

Too bad that loud, annoying voice has to recite Heine over Attila's playing. Are there any other albums Attlia made in Germany without spoken word drowning him out?

I don't know if he would like being known for what I was talking about in my post. That's why I didn't mention his name.

I played with one bass player back in the 70s, his only jazz credit is a band Teramusa Hino formed called Everything is Everything, who only released one album,"Just a Flash in the Cosmic Plan", and he was an excellent, underrated, obscure player, but that's about every bass player in NYC. I chose JC, because he was a player in the pit of a theater in NY I used to play in, and he used to get so polluted from the cloud of weed he'd do before every show, that one night he broke two bass strings during one show(!) We were playing something called TSOP, all Philly Disco music, and he was playing heavy funk fills all over the place, and the first time it happened I thought, "wow, that's never happened before," but the second time it happened, I thought "demonic weed".

Very sad to hear. He was a part of the Chico Hamilton Quintet for years, and that was his playing in one of the greatest films ever made, "The Sweet Smell of Success" in all the club scenes. He was a sideman on many jazz albums, and, brought jazz guitar to many clubs on the West Coast with his Guitar Nights. RIP, John.

And then he gets fired for writing something good.

Yeah, there were a bunch of guys that I'd watch terrible movies for, just to hear the score. I think they're all dead by now, I don't even bother to look for the composer credits anymore. I just assume it's going to be a bunch of synth crap.

If I saw Goldenberg's name on the music credit for anything, a TV Movie, Movie theater movie, I'd watch the flick no matter how bad.

I just tried to search for that Joe Dixon cassette tape and interview that I mentioned last time, and the search engine doesn't seem to work. I tried to register with the university, but that doesn't seem to work either. Do I have to register with them before I can do a search?

There never would have been a Moody Blues without Pinder. He did most of their arrangements, he added the mellotron to their sound, without which, they would have been just an ordinary rock band. He was also the only remaining member of the original Moody Blues, who played mainly R&B covers He and Hayward decided to play only original material. My fave song of his was "Dawn Is a Feeling" from the first album. He was essentially their leader, and responsible for getting Hayward in the band. He added some jazz elements to the group. RIP, Mr. Pinder.

I'm glad that they got help from all those cardboard androids up there on stage with them. Amazin' what you can do with technology, even back then. At least someone cared enough to expose people to music like that, and it stayed with Georghe and Steve, even if I could understand young people being baffled by what was going on. They got some publicity on WRVR in NY, and Michael Bourne of BGO even named his show after them, though I don't know if he played their music. The last interview with Puerling pretty much predicted what was going to happen to music.

I was reading "Unfinished Business" The Life and Times of Danny Gatton, and I just found out that Jorma and Jack Cassidy both came from Washington DC, and Jack used to play jazz with Danny and his pianist Dick Heintze aboard some steamboat gig they had sailing across the Potomac in a band they formed called The Soul Mates in 1966. They got a kick out of the black tape that Jack used to put on his sunglasses(!). Jack also used to play with a band they played in called the Offbeats in 1962. After the gig in 1966, Jack and Jorma decided to take off for the West Coast, and Jack wanted Danny and Dick to go with them, but they felt they decided they were too young to leave DC, and six months later they found out that jack and Jorma played on a hit record called "Somebody To Love"!

There are three more scenes posted on YT. If Cannon didn't pass that year, he had a great career in TV acting waiting for him...

A friend sent me this today. It;s so out there I thought it would be on here somewhere, but a search didn't turn up anything:

He also mentioned in an interview that despite all his jazz activity, he still listened to and dug The Jefferson Airplane.

I was kind of puzzled by him, because as a kid, I first knew of him as a Rock DJ on WABC-FM. When he switched to jazz, I was a little confused; same with Jonathan Schwartz. Ed Beach and Max Cole were jazz to me; what were these rock DJs doing getting involved with jazz? As a young cadet in the Jazz Police, I was suspicious. Then, his name was on all these incredible reissues I was buying. He was cleared of all charges. RIP.

I gotta stop dropping acid; I thought I just saw a bunch of unshaven eight year-olds wearing shades and smoking cigarettes while drinking from martini glasses and singing some Serge Gainsbourg song!

How do you think he stays a multi-millionaire? No, this guy just married rich.