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You decide - here's some pix of Christy & Cooper.

Don't think it's Cooper. That guy you're talking about vaguely rembles Serge Chaloff, but his head ain't big enough, and I don't know that Chaloff played bass clarinet. Here's another shot from the same gig - Club Troubador, NYC, ca. 1947, with Georgie Auld standing up (and that's Red Rodney in both pix!) BTW, Club Troubadour was a club opened by Auld, so that's probably his house band, not Kenton's. Don't think that's Kenton @ the piano.

Oh yeah dude, you're in DEEP shit now...

Somebody's gonna have to do some fast talking (and thinking...) before too much longer...

Yeah, it's ALL good, ain't it?

So, you think it's Ponder?

Glad to hear you dug the Scott. Do you have ALL THE WAY too? If not... If the Tangerine date was as good as it could be for its time (and I think it is), the add another 30 or so years life experience and you get ALL THE WAY. Of course, in between there was THE SOURCE (or, if you got the nerve , LOST AND FOUND). A freakin' LIFETIME in 3 CDs... I think my singlemost favorite Horn performance (and there are many indeed) is "Goodbye" from I LOVE YOU, PARIS. She does it as a medley with "New York State Of Mind" (go figure...). But it's SO slow, SO dark, and SO painful right from the git-go, and it's a dark, painful tune anyway. Sinatra's ONLY THE LONELY version is sometimes too heavy for me to handle. But Horn's version... by the time she gets to the final bridge, it's all over for me, and really, it was over about 3 seconds after she began it (oh, those chords she plays to fill in her spaces!). I mean, for anybody else, emotionally climaxing the tune at the level she BEGINS at would be a MAJOR triumph. But THIS lady... She inspires awe, and not that many people do that these days. God bless Shirley Horn.

Yeah, she does so many things at such excrutiatingly (in the good sense) s.....l.......o............w tempos that I'd think that working with another pianist (and bassist, for that matter), would be difficult, no matter how gifted or tuned in the cat(s) is/are. Jimmy Scott can do it, but he's never accompanied himself that I know of, so he's used to it. Shirley's been at her own "command post" for so long that.... Here's to life.

Sorry if these are all overly familiar... "I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop "He is a self-made man &worships his creator." - John Bright "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill "A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway) "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner) "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas "He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others." - Samuel Johnson "He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." - Jack E. Leonard "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." - James Reston (about Richard Nixon) "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." - Charles, Count Talleyrand "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) Good for a few chuckles... Any others?

Oh, like watercolors? Well then, I understand. I'm partial to oils and chalk myself, but not together! (especially in salad dressings and laxatives!)

Don't that ruin yer shoes? (squish...squish...squish...)

Mike, you get your props elsewhere. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...=15entry29508

Suppose that credit is due to Mike Fitzgerald if I have indeed correctly identified the session and the "mystery man". I used his on-line Shaw discography and ruled out BN sessions where I knew what everybody looked like, and then tried to see who might match that face. I'm still not 100% certain that it IS Ponder, so if anybody knows or feels differently, step right up! Great resources you got there Mike!

Dave, check your e-mail.

Very glad to hear ALL of that. Thanks!

Ain't NO-body oozin' no orange, nor anything ELSE into MY milk, dammit!

Somehow, "The Electric Wyler's Acid Test" just doesn't have the same ring to it. But try telling that to the kid with the buzz coming out of his head...

NO POT TO SOIL!!!

Intriguing, no?

The news, posted by Mike Fitgerald, that Shirley Horn MIGHT have been dropped by Verve has me wondering if they might have dropped Abbey Lincoln too. Anybody know? Thanks in advance.

So does anybody have a definitive answer about the status of her Verve contract? If it's indeed over, it's been one helluva run.

There is no "right" amount of sugar AFAIC. Whatever it takes to (at least) balance out the tartness, which seems to vary from flavor to flavor. Dude - check out this site! http://members.tripod.com/~NightGarden/packa.html

Rooster, are you hip to this one?

Glad to hear that!