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Five more... Brad Meldau (Warner Bros.) Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, and Geri Allen in Toronto (Jan-Henri Thijs) Eddi Palmieri (Joel Meyerowitz) Oscar Peterson and Itzhak Perlman (Catanzaro & Mahdessian) Duke Ellington (DonHunstein)

I'll start this Tuesday Batch with two photos of long-time friends... Carmen De Lavallade (Geoffrey Holder gave me the photo many years ago, I don't have the photographer's name) Toshiko and Lew Tabackin (Can't identify the photographer) Donald Byrd (Blue Note) Enrico Rava, Roswell Rudd, Aldo Romano, and J. F. Jenny-Clark (ECM) Ted Hawkins (Michael Hoover) Bobby Broom, Dave Jackson,Kenny Burrell, Kenny Washington, and Rodney Jones - 1988 (Carol Friedman)

Five more ... Ruby Braff and Roger Kellaway (Jack Bradley) Spike Lee, Donald Harrison and Terence Blanchard at School Daze session (Columbia) Miles Davis (Columbia) Tiger Okoshi, Gary Burton, Roy Haynes and Steve Swallow (ECM) Vernon Reid, Buster Williams, Lenny White, and Geri Allen (Jimmy Katz)

Interesting, Valerie. There were quite a few musicians in the hood back then. This Midnight Batch starts off with three photos from one of my own sessions and moves on with a shot from the celebrated Riverside Evans sessions, for which I was present. George Coleman - December 8, 1961 (Charles Nadell) Junior Mance - December 8, 1961 (Charles Nadell) George Coleman and Howard McGhee - December 8, 1961 (Charles Nadell) Orrin Keepnews, Scott LaFaro, Bill Evans and Paul Motian at Village Vanguard - June 1961 (Riverside) Ron Carter (William Claxton) Wayne Shorter (Kate Garner) Ramsey Lewis (unknown photographer) Russell Malone, 1998 (Jeffrey Henson Scales) Duke Ellington at Columbia (Don Hunstein) Jimmy Scott (Dennis Keeley) Note: That is a stool leg on Carter's photo.

I occasionally dream that I am not dreaming. Pf course I eventually discover that I was dreaming, but that is not always a disappointment. Years ago, when I quit smoking, I used to dream that I hadn't. I have kept it under my hat, as it were, but I also once—many years ago, and this is for real—inexplicably dreamed that I was going to have sex with Bella Abzug! I guess "inexplicable" is not an adequate word here. I have also (and I hear it is not uncommon) dreamed that I was frozen in my bed, in my bedroom, desperately trying to make any movement that would wake me up.

Thanks, Valerie. As for Max and Abbey, that was one block down from me. Same building as Charles Tolliver. I think Max's son or grandson lives there now.

More sporadic glimpses of my window view. These from this cold January Monday morning.. ...and here a a few more PR photos... Joe Henderson (Jimmy Katz) Miles Davis (Don Hunstein) Sun Ra — aka Herman Blount (Thomas Hunter) Stan Getz (Lou Levy) Leroy Jones (James R. Minchin III)

Thanks, Quincy. I'll dig up some more of that old stuff. Just don't know whether to leave this thread dedicated to photos and go back to the other for the other stuff. Any suggestions? Here's the Sunday Midnight Batch... Carla Bley (Takashi Kato) J. J. Johnson (Jimmy Katz) Jimmy Cobb (Fable Records) Tony Williams (Francis Wolff) Tommy Flanagan (Jimmy Katz) Jimmy Rushing and Dave Brubeck (Vernon L. Smith) Sonny Rollins (Milestone) Jimmy Smith (Verve) Kathleen Battle w. Grover Washington, Jr., Ira Coleman, Romero Lubambo, Steven Berrios, and Cyrus Chestnut (Jimmy Katz)

Now I really have to get back to work, but here's a few more... Stanley Turrentine (Fantasy) Kenny Burrell and Grover Washington, Jr. (Gary Heery) Frank Sinatra (unknown origin) Art Porter (Glen Wexler) Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin (Columbia) Joanne Brackeen (Collis Davis) Johnny Dankworth, Cleo Laine, Mercer Ellington, and producer Steve Vining (Nick Sangiamo) Jimmy Smith (Mercury) Randy Weston (Cheung Ching Ming)

Thanks, Aggie, I understand your concern, but I looked into it and was told that—as RC points out—doing this via an outside storage site makes it conscionable, so to speak. As for the personal aspect, I thought my fellow O members might have grown tired of my self-indulgence. I will, however, continue (in moderation) to pop in the occasional personal item. In the meantime, I sense that some members enjoy looking at these PR photos. I should say that, among the ones I am skipping right now are a lot of artists who were but flashes in the pan of an indiscriminate record industry. Perhaps I'll do something with that, later on. As we were... Fats Waller's personal manager, Ed Kirkeby at a 1943 WNEW tribute (WNEW) Irene Reid (Glades) Paramount bandleader/pianist Junie C. Cobb and his mid-century vocalist, Annabelle Calhoun (personal collection) Carlos Santana (Columbia Records) Bill Russell leans on Phil Spector (A&M) Jack DeJohnette and Lester Bowie (Richard Laird) Nicholas Payton, Roy Hargrove and Wynton Marsalis at a Payton session in NYC (Jimmy Katz) Donald Byrd (Landmark)

Here's Another Batch ... Johnny Griffin (Galaxy) Teri Thornton (Kwaku Alston) Shorty Rogers (Bluebird) Kenny Wheeler (ECM) Nicholas Payton and Doc Cheatham (Leonard Herman) Pharoah Sanders (Evidence Music) Mark Whitfield (James Minchin) John Thomas, Rozelle Claxton and Lawrence Dixon 1961* (Steve Schapiro) *Frpm my own Riverside sessions in Chicago

papsrus: "... or at least go talk to a pharmacist about an over-the-counter remedy." And, realizing that you were able to do so, welcome your voice back and leave the pharmacy with a broad smile on your talking face.

The Midnight (NY time) Batch Charlie Rouse (Tom Copi) Lucky Peterson (Carol Friedman) Illinois Jacquet (Atlantic Jazz) Luther Vandross (Matthew Rolston] Grover Washington, Jr. (Ken Franckling) Hilton Ruiz (Novus)

Curtis? I thought that was Kid Ory!!! NOT! Here's Bud... Bud Powell (Herman Leonard)

If it's any consolation—and it probably isn't—Nat Hentoff also lost his Voice. Or was it the other way around? Seriously, voices have a habit of returning. I just hope you don't find yourself in a library when it does.

Well, BM, you know that I don't need much in the way of encouragement. John Coltrane and Lee Morgan (Francis Wolff) Woody Shaw and son (Columbia) Marcus Roberts (Novus) Horace Silver (Rocky Schenck) Stanley Jordan (Anthony Barboza) Kazumi Watanabi (Gramavision)

I should really be interpreting and translating some 200 year old tax ledgers from St. Croix, but let me first drop a few more PR glossies on you.. I'll start with Rodney Jones, a Mac user who used to live in my building. Rodney Jones - 1999 (Clay Patrick McBride) Nana Vasconcelos (Antilles Records) Max Roach (Columbia) Eric Reed (Tar) Teri Thornton (Kwaku Alston) Am I overdoing it with these photos? I have so many, it seems a shame not to share them.

It's Saturday night and I ain't got no money... so I thought I'd squeeze this perhaps not so odd trio in here... Beat Generation renaissance man William S. Burroughs flanked by Rono Tse and Michael Franti (The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy). (Nelson Lyon) The photo is from 1993 when Tse and Franti worked with Burroughs (then 73) on an album entitled Spare Ass Annie and other Tales.

Photos of the Day 8 Sonny Rollins (Milestone) Manny Albam, Bob Brookmeyer, Jim McNeely and Roger Kellaway (Robbin Ahrold - BMI) Hank Jones (Galaxy) Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman, Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell (ECM) More mañana

Well, in that case...

What I heard is what I heard, and the player's name had nothing to do with how I heard it. It never ceases to amaze me how the honest opinions of others so often get rationalized by those who disagree with them. I listen to C-Span's call-in program, Washington Journal, every morning. They have Republican, Independent and Democratic lines. In recent times, many who call in on the Rep line criticize the Bush regime and there is always at least one person who accuses them of being a Democrat "pretending" to be a Republican. I have often been critical of Wynton's performances and you'd be surprised (well, perhaps not) to hear how many times that is labeled as "jealousy" (I want his LC job) or somthing else, equally ludicrous. Why can't people just acknowledge the fact that Wynton might not actually be playing well? The "Cherokee" clip is not by any stretch of the musical imagination a "great" solo—it simply isn't. Chops? Sure, he has chops, but some players have both chops and imagination, and good taste. These players are known to actually play great solos when the moon is right and the ambiance conducive. I have hear Wynton play good solos, but never a great one, and, somehow, one expects more from the cat's meow.

Thank you, Aggie, I have made the correction and—just for that—here are... Five more B. B. King (James J. Kriegsmann) Roy Hargrove, Stephen Scott, Christian McBride (Jimmy Katz) Stevie Wonder (Black Bull) Charlie Haden Quartet West* (Dennis Keel) Joe Venuti at a 1977 Sonet session in NYC (Raymond Ross) * Standing: Ernie Watts and Alan Broadbent. Seated: Haden and Larance Marable.

This thread picks up where the original I came across... ends. Thank you, Valerie B., for the suggestion. In the meantime, here's a transitional Interlude... More PR Glossies Amina Claudine Myers (Novus) Rahsaan Roland Kirk (Warner/Reprise) Standing (r to l) Wallace Roney, Antoine Roney, Ravi Coltrane, Kenny Drew, Jr., Charnett Moffett, Kenny Garrett. Cody Moffett is seated at the piano. (Frank Micelotta) Jaki Byard (Tom Copi)

An exhibitionistic technical exercise. Where is the music?

...and when I woke up this morning, here's the view of Central Park and Fifth Avenue that started my day.