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Farewell Keystone is one of those "live" recordings which kinda makes you wish you had been there. Now playing: Disc 1 of 2

v Also includes the album Vamp Till Ready with Sweets Edison, Jimmy Forrest, Bennie Green, Tommy Flanagan and Tommy Potter

An artist's rendering of stained glass, but as the saying goes, close enough for jazz . . .

Disc 1 of 2

the CD reissue from Malanga Music also includes the album Tambo!

Tom Lehrer has been a favorite of mine ever since I was a youth still in single digits. "Pollution" and "Vatican Rag" were probably the first songs I heard by him. Having been raised Catholic, that latter tune had an air of naughtiness about it which must have appealed to Catholic school boys and girls everywhere at the time. We should also remember his more recent(ish) addition to the holiday music catalog: "I'm Spending Hanukkah in Santa Monica" with such great lines as, "Those eastern winters, I can't endure 'em So every year I pack my gear And head out here for Purim." Happy Birthday, Mr. Lehrer, and thank you for a lot of laughs over the years.

I thought it looked more like LaWanda Page . . .

Recorded at Lincoln Center on Easter Sunday, 1967.

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