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Eric Dolphy (Prestige) The Dixie Hummingbirds (Vintage photo) Charles Earland (Milestone) Marian McPartland and Janice Robinson (Photographer unknown) Gil Evans (RCA) The Brecker Brothers (Andy Freeberg)

It is but a small leap from Johnny Griffin to Lockjaw, so that where we begin today's Sunday Batch... Eddie "Lockjaw Davis (RCA Victor) Buddy DeFranco and Terry Gibbs (Phil Bray) Billy Cobham (Atlantic) Michel Camilo (Michael Halsband) John Coltrane (Chuck Stewart) Stanley Jordan (Beverly Parker)

We interrupt this thread to celebrate a birthday... ...and here is my own first Mac's 25th birthday photo...

The original Macintosh, the start of Apple's computer revolution, a little 124k machine that changed things around... I have remained faithful since 1984 and never regretted it. Here's a shot I just took of my first Mac, it has a low serial number and rests comfortably on a top shelf in my computorium. ....and it still works!

Why should he? Please explain your seeming hostility towards this new poster who, IMHO, has made a perfectly normal request.

Just came across your last post, SS. "Hey Chris, any other memories of Lem you could share? Did you get a chance to see him play often at the time? Hard to imagine he was a full time policeman at the beginning of his recording career. That's a lot of after work practicing! Speaking of vibraphonists Chris, wondered if you knew Freddie McCoy.... He seems to be someone who completely disappeared." Lem was still a policeman when I met him and, as I recall, he had been paying locally for some time. I only heard him in person on 3 or 4 occasions. As I recall, I met him because he called me several times when I was on the air at WHAT. He wanted me to meet his grandfather, so that's how he first came to my apartment. I think that's how it went down—it was a half century ago! No, I never met Freddie McCoy.

I read the AAJ posts and there is a lot of imagination there. Here is the NY Times item from the January 14, 1961 issue. It confirms what I heard at the time, Lem was playing Russian Roulette, which is something he was known to do and thought to have mastered. No nephew. Besides, from what I knew of Lem, personally, he loved kids too much to have even thought of having a gun around them.

Clifford Jordan 1992 (Frank Lindner) Buddy Guy (PBS) Marian McPartland and Dorothy Donegan (NPR) Johnny Hodges (Chuck Stewart) Lou Levy (Ray Avery) Johnny Griffin (Jules Allen)

Today we start off with a two-fisted piano player... Hank Jones (Cheung Ching Ming) Teddy Edwards (H. Morehead) Frank Morgan (Jules Allen) Jimmy Smith - 1993 (William Claxton) Joe Farrell (Warner Bros.) Dave Friesen and John Stowall (Photographer unknown)

David Frishberg (Fantasy) Walter Beasley - 1987 (Polydor) Susannah McCorkle (Stereo Review) Kenny Burrell (Contemporary) Joe Beck (Polydor) Fela Anikulapo Kuti - 1987 (Polygram)

Miriam Makeba (Polydor) Herbie Mann (Atlantic) J. J. Johnson (Island) James Moody (Robbie-Ann Hare) Gil Evans (Mitchell Seidel) Gil Scott-Heron (Arista)

Thanks Chuck and SJ—both corrections have been made. L Subramaniam (Milestone) Leo Smith (ECM) Herb Ellis (Justice Records) Ira Sullivan (Galaxy) Pharoah Sanders (Arista) Rodney Franklin (Novus)

Steve Coleman, Dave Holland, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, and Kevin Eubanks - 1990 (Richard Laird) Wilton Felder (Par) Paul Motian (ECM) Stanley Clarke and Maynard Ferguson (Columbia) Lee Morgan (Blue Note) Kenny Burrell (Prestige)

Cannonball Adderley (Landmark) Jackie McLean, Donald Byrd, Francis Wolff and Alfred Lion (Blue Note) Helen Merrill (Photographer unknown) Branford Marsalis (Robert Cohen) Alfred and Ruth Lion, 1985 (Blue Note) Ruth Brown (William Harris)

Donald Byrd (Phil Bray) Francis Wold, Alfred Lion and Horace Silver (Blue Note) James Moody (Novus) Chet Baker (Novus) Chet Baker (Larry Shustak) Arthur Blythe (Nancy Levine)

Alfred and Ruth Lion with Teddy Reig in 1955 (Blue Note) Andrew Cyrille (Cheung Ching Ming) George Benson (Reprise) Frances W. Preston of BMI, Bob Brookmeyer, Manny Albam and Burt Korall (BMI) Dizzy Gillespie (Frank Micelotta) Helen Merrill and Gil Evans (Emarcy)

Mose Allison (Carol Friedman) James Moody (Photographer unknown) L Shankar (ECM) Nat King Cole (Capitol) McCoy Tyne and Jackie McLean (Carol Friedman - 1985) Albert Ayler (Chuck Stewart)

Guess it's time to throw a few more glossies on the O'barbee... Ruth Brown (Frank Lindner) McCoy Tyner, David Murray, Fred Hopkins and Elvin Jones (Hashimoto) Rose Murphy - "The Chee-Chee-Girl" (Bruno of Hollywood) Sting with Branford Marsalis and his son, Reese (Columbia) David S. Ware (Cheung Ching Ming) Mulgrew Miller (Phil Bray)

Apropos largely unpublicized stragedies in the jazz world, Mickey Roker, who not long ago lost his wife, has now also lost a son. Very sad.

The Hackensack "studio" was actually Rudy's home. Then he built a real studio at Englewood Cliffs. I produced a few sessions there, but never really liked the sound that much. Rudy engineered tons of albums by major players and I think some people thus lost ome of their AO (aural objectivity). Like Blue Note, the label, Rudy's rep has been elevated beyond aural evidence, IMHO.

Today is Martin Luther King Day, so have a happy one. Here's what the park looks like right now...

Mel Lewis (Photographer unknown) Von Freeman (Ann Nessa) Art Farmer (David Gahr) Jon Faddis (Hans Neleman) George Wein (David Katzenstein) Earl Hines w. unknown guests at Stereo Review party in his honor (C. Zumwalt)

"You talking to me?" Dexter seems to ask RichardAvedon Jimmy Griffin (Jules Allen) Philly Joe Jones, Ron Carter and Red Garland (Galaxy) Mose Allison (Simon Turtle) The Four Tops (Motown) Joe Henderson (William Claxton)

Thanks, Marcello. Teddy had grown considerably (in all directions) by 1960, when I met him. MG, your request is duly noted and I will look for photos of producers, but I don't think I have many. In the meantime... Art Farmer and Benny Golson (The Jazztet) (Frank Lindner) Maynard Ferguson - May 1961 (Roulette) Big Bill Morgan (Mark Smalling) Bucky Pizzarelli and Bud Freeman - 1976 (Flying Dutchman) Mark Murphy (Ron De Armond) Morgan Freeman in his Electric Company days (Warner Brothers)

As I recall, Teddy Reig was somewhat corpulent—probably the biggest record producer I ever met.