johnblitweiler

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Hot streaks count. The best team in history lost the world series to the Hitless Wonders, five games to three.

I agree with everyone here.

Usually Fred Anderson improvised on his own songs before, say, the 1990s - he had good musicians like Bill Brimfield, Douglas Ewart, George Lewis to play them with him in the 1970s. By the end of the last century he typically improvised entire concerts. I believe the reason the AACM kicked him out once or twice was because he played themes by non-AACM composers in AACM concerts.

Mr. Bean George H.W. Bush George R.R. Martin

Roderick Random Roddy McDowell Black Jack McDowell

Now that's a Jazz singer!

The start of the season for the White Sox is hilarious. They were shut out again today. 4 games so far, 4 runs scored, 4 losses, and our fielders have been dropping balls and our pitchers have been hitting batters and giving up runs like the greatest of philanthropists. If the AL Central is a bloodbath, here's who's bleeding.

Louis Armstrong was surely avant garde in New Orleans before he came to Chicago.

My experience is limited, but I used to really enjoy 2 of her LPs of Chopin pieces.

Ted Nash Julian Dash Johnny Cash

Josephine Baker My Girl Josephine My Girl

Thorn Smith Craig Nettles Gavin Bryars

Speedy Gonzales Zippy Whizzer White

no snow here for over a week. Redwing blackbirds singing up choruses. Life is turning good again.

Uli, thanks for that link. Those are valuable interviews and Josh Abrams is a good interviewer.

Mars Williams has become one of the best saxophonists around, but I doubt he was ever in the AACM.

I hadn't seen this one till now! gregmo That must be an oldie. I remember that particular Night Pastor because he preached at a friend's funeral 40-some years ago.

It's probably just an urban legend, but my impression was that Scientology was more or less started as a bet between Hubbard and Heinlein that Hubbard could actually start a religion based vaguely on the lines of what is portrayed in Stranger in a Strange Land. Obviously the engram stuff got added later. I heard it was a bet between Hubbard and Harland Ellison, but I don't remember details. Scientology was founded in 1952. Stranger In a Strange Land was published in 1961. Harlan Ellison turned 18 in 1952 and was a student at Ohio State University, in his home state Ohio.

The main thing here is, Wendell Phillips was the first black high school in Chicago and DuSable (opened in the 1930s) was the second. Dyett's success as a teacher is to some extent a result of this city's segregation. Under the allegedly reformed Chicago Public Schools, what remains of DuSable High School is 200 or 300 students in the old building. 1 or 2 or maybe more other high schools are also at the old building. I believe Walter Dyett Elementary School, in Washington Park, was not opened until after Dyett's death. Mayor Rahm Emanuel's current school board closed Dyett School last year.

Fred Hopkins and Mwata Bowden were Dyett students during his last years at DuSable. John Young and Freddie Below were Dyett students and Redd Foxx performed in some of Dyett's shows at DuSable. How about a list of famous students of that famous high school teacher in Los Angeles who taught C. Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Anthony Ortega, Don Cherry, Billy Higgins and so on?

At Wendell Phillips Capt. Dyett assisted the bandmaster Major N. Clark Smith. DuSable is where Dyett himself became a bandmaster.

Dee Dee Dinah C.C. Rider Ro Ro Robinson

Roller Girl Rollo Rollie Bundock

Lots of Contemporary album covers added exclamation points to their titles. It seems to go with their phallic symbol fetish in their cover photos.