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Did you know that John has another profession? When I first met him, in the early sixties, he was working as a chef at the Copenhagen restaurant in NYC. I don't think he has cooked in many years (except perhaps on his alto)!

Deus62, you are not practicing what you preach!

Ratliff is a shameless Marsalis supporter, not a critic. I agree with Mike re keeping the idiot at AAJ, but think his infantile swooning over all things J@LC may backfire and not be as beneficial to those people as Mike suggests.

No details except that the cause was pneumonia.

There were about 15 people at my polling station when I got there at 6:05 AM. When I left, ten minutes later, the line extended onto the sidewalk.

I find a Macintosh manual to be far more believable than the older bible.

Surely, it is faster--no?

...and many more to come!

Seven.

Here's wishing you a belated.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAREN! I had made something more original in PhotoShop, but the size limitation for images seems to have been cut.

This is an amazing sign in my neighborhood (actually on upper Broadway)--finally got around to taking the photo... Sorry, but the new big "O" has different size limitations. Can this be fixed, Jim?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIEL A! I had made something more original in PhotoShop, but the size limitation for images seems to have been cut.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROWNIE! I had made something more original in PhotoShop, but the size limitation for images seems to have been cut.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS! I had made something more original in PhotoShop, but the size limitation for images seems to have been cut.

Welcome, Chaney--good to have you aboard. Chris A

I think it is a very bad idea to omit an index on a book of this kind. Yale gave me an index, but I had a very hard time creating it, because they were stingy with the pages! It's better than nothing, but I don't understand that kind of economizing.

Good to see you here, Jesse.

Thanks, Mike, but this would have to be after 1972, when I joined Stereo Review.

I looked for the review on my archive hard disk, but only found one Handy piece (the wrong one). This means having to go through a couple of decades of the magazine! As I am already doing this, little by very little, it will eventually pop up. The easier way would be to find the correspondence with Kofsky--it's around, somewhere in an un-filed pile! Anyway, sorry that I can't recall his name.

It was truly ridiculous. In a review that appeared in Stereo Review, I noted that I had not previously heard of the bass player on a John Handy trio (may have been a quartet) release. Kofsky wrote a letter to my editor demanding that I be fired because not knowing that bassist proved how ignorant I was when it came to jazz. I was not fired (I left after 28 years as contributing editor), so Kofsky started bombarding the magazine with outrageous post cards in which he referred to me as "vermin." Mind you, the bassist was a local SF player who had not previously recorded, so I think my "ignorance" was understandable. ANyway, it finally got so bad that I wrote a letter to the dean of the school where Kofsky taught, and I included copies of his hate mail. In the letter, I suggested that someone of Kofsky's mentality might not be the kind of person one would want to see teaching young people. They must have spoken to Kofsky, perhaps even fired him, for I now began receiving death threats in the mail from him. He also wrote to various other publications that my Bessie Smith biography was pure fiction. Later, he would use that same book to substantiate a vicious attack on John Hammond! When I discovered that, on the internet, I dropped him a letter, but he was already dead.

I didn't know Crouch read the Trib. The only person who threatened my life for something I wrote was Frank Kofsky--a real nut case.

You may be right about Lois picking fights. I was a long-time defender/supporter of JC, but this celebrity as kissing totally turns me off. Did you see Lois' name-dropping post? I think it says a lot.

If you read Crouch's (so far) single post (duplicated in another thread by Lois Gilbert) you will note that she (Lois) talked him into hopping aboard, and she did so by e-mailing him what he terms "sour letters." It appears that she sent Crouch some of the many posts that criticize him and Wynton. If that is so, I have to wonder about the ethics of a BBS owner using posts to stir up controversy in this manner. The resident Wynton troll was singled out by Crouch as the only one who has what he calls "the facts," and Lois (with whom I am in congenial off-board touch) is blatantly licking both their asses. What do my fellow Organissimos think? BTW, the more one sees what is going on at JC, the more one comes to appreciate the peach-colored big "O."

I have heard Woody Allen play and while he is no Johnny Dodds or Omer Simeon, he can hold his own. He never claimed to be doing anything more than having fun, so I think it is unfair to hold him to a high standard and, because he does not meet it, put him down.

Bruce is a true friend of jazz, a person for whom I have had the greatest respect since meeting him over thirty years ago. One meets a great number of phonies in this business, but Bruce is not one of them.