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Howard Stern Howard Johnson Howard The Duck

Lips Page Wingy Manone Jimmy "The Schnozzola" Durante

OK....I checked. The Sparrow story is not in Eddie Condon's book. I'll have to look further on that - I know it was anthologized in somthing I read and probably have. The main character of "The Sound" is named RED.

Mike Hammer Ruben Blades James Woods

Buddy Petit Rich Little Cliff Smalls

Yeah...I think the main character is named Sparrow in both cases, although they are two unrelated works. There was another Bird novelization that I can't remember the title of where the character was named "Eagle".

I think it could have been included in "Eddie Condon's Treasury Of Jazz" book, which is an anthology and shouldn't be too hard to find at ebay or Powell's books.

Apropos Ross Russell - there was a novel by him written years before "Bird Lives". It was called "The Sound". The main character of the book was "Red"" and the book was a novelization of Bird's career. Russell's writing worked better as a novelist that a biographer - the book was entertaining.

March, Peggy Walker, Jimmy Stomp Evans

Technique and actual sound meld and that is what makes a bassist identifialble. Bassists are very vulnerable to modern recording techniques and a recording engineer can often obscure a bassists sound.

Peter Gunn Cannonball Adderley "Pistol" Allen

I heard that Charlie Shavers fell off the stage at The Metropole.

Sarah Vaughn Vaughn Meader Meade Lux Lewis

Dick Carey Dave Carey Jack Carey

James Arness Amanda blake Millburn Stone

Minerva Pious Joe Bushkin Bud freeman

Bob Ford Pat Garrett Jack McCall

Bill Dogget Stanley Cowell Joe Pesci

Rudy Van Gelder Martin Van Buren Van Morrison ← Bus Moten Truck Parham James Carr

Terrific ! Any word on what scheduled for the next release ?

Captain Cook Jimmy Stewart Minnie Driver

Red Barber Bob Porter Jerry Butler

Turrentine's "Live At Minton's"

I cannot possibly imagine that they will sleep on this, unless Uptown has no budget whatsoever for reviewer copies. ← Ignoring this release would reflect VERY badly on the jazz mags. It would relegate them to fanzine status - which they may be.

During the week I try to be in bed at 11:00 PM and I'm up around 5:30 AM. On weekends I'm lucky if I sleep an extra two hours - even if I've done a gig the night before. I've gotten acclimated to rising early. BTW,My hours are a complete turn around from when I was a full time musician. I now get up most mornings earlier than I used to go to bed !