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Whether Robert Johnson is the greatest or most important blues singer or guitarist--he was pretty good. In my humble opinion. I like his songwriting too.

Benjamin Franklin was never the President. He was too old by the time that the Presidency was instituted. Ho! Is that oo it iz then? I thought all the pix on your money were Presidents. MG Actually, Alexander Hamilton, on the $10 bill, was never a President either.

Yes, I've known a good few of these. The guy I buy organic nuts and stuff from - who turned me on to New Orleans jazz a few years ago, listens to nothing but that and swing bands; in his shop, which is nice. He has a little untidy pile of CDs and K7s there - perhaps 50-100, I never counted. I have NEVER known anyone like this. And I DON'T need to get out more MG Many of the people I knew at college in the mid to late 1970s were like that. They listened to a lot of Yes, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Frank Zappa, Allman Brothers Band, and other popular rock groups of the time. They had hundreds of rock albums, and about 20--30 jazz albums, and that was the way they liked it. They also had about five reggae albums, ten classical albums, maybe 20 blues albums--they didn't mind dabbling just a little bit in other styles, but the rock music of the time was definitely what they were mostly interested in. They enjoyed the 1970s fusion groups like Mahavishnu Orchestra, Larry Coryell and the Eleventh House, Weather Report, because these fusion groups reminded them of the most instrumentally oriented rock groups. They did not want to venture into any acoustic mainstream jazz--except that they also thought that ECM was "all right to admit liking"--they had a few Keith Jarrett, Ralph Towner, Gary Burton and Chick Corea albums on ECM. A lot of it was cultural and generational with them--the fusion and ECM were "young people's music" in their minds. They could not identify with older mainstream jazz artists, and the avant garde did not interest them. To them, buying a Dexter Gordon album would have been like buying a Dean Martin album, just a hopelessly square, old fogey thing to do. They could not bring themselves to do it. I have made contact with some of them online in recent years, and they seem to have the same musical collections and tastes as they did back then, or else they don't really care anymore about music at all.

Benjamin Franklin was never the President. He was too old by the time that the Presidency was instituted.

According to Robin Kelley's Monk biography, Monk knew Clark was down on his luck and just gave him the tune. It appears on "Monk On Monk", a T.S. Monk album, as "Two Timer", credited to Thelonious Monk.

I will order when you are ready to receive orders.

I wonder if former Florida Senator Bob Graham needs a room.

Are you accepting orders?

I am the Pete C who is the Pete C of Speakeasy, but I'm not sure what you mean. Is JSngry prone to bad puns? I was here some years ago. I appear to be back. What I mean is that you have about 33,000 posts on Jazz Corner Speakeaasy, and contribute a great deal of valuable input to that board, much like JSngry here.

I was thinking more along the lines of Warren G. Harding - plagued by scandal and dying halfway through my term. I'm already working on my first scandal. But then your successor would be Calvin Coolidge--and a person of very few words would never fit in at Organissimo!

Happy Birthday, Chuck! In honor of your time spent in Madison, Wisconsin, here is a genuine Wisconsin-style birthday cake for you:

I know he goes way back with Roy Haynes and Jaki Byard and was brought to Miles by Tony Williams. It would be fun if some recordings surfaced of Sam playing with Charlie Mariano. Are you the Pete C who is the JSngry of Jazz Corner Speakeasy? If so, welcome to this board, and I look forward to your contributions.

I think that I've guessed the artist on one of the last cuts! I really think that it could be Horace Tapscott!!!!!

That sounds really good. I was just thinking that I needed to hurry to listen to Thom's BFT before the month slips away. Thanks for taking on the job, jeffcrom, and a huge tip of the hat to Big Al, who served with great distinction! Big Al could be considered the George Washington of the Blindfold Test. Like George Washington, he could have had the job for life, but stepped away voluntarily at the height of his popularity. Do you want to be known as the John Adams of the Blindfold Test, jeffcrom?