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Ivan Black : https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/27/archives/ivan-black-75-a-publicity-agent-former-newsman-and-author.html

Thank you! Never heard of Ivan Black, nor of Patty Bowen being a comedienne as well as a pianist, but there's always something new to learn!

Any idea who would have been managing him, to get him that booking? And where did he go after that? Was his plan to stay, or was this just a visit?

Philco Radio Hall Of Fame 12/26/1943. A ravishing Helen Forrest performance, topped only by a really crisp comedy bit by Fred Allen and Lauritz Melchior. Giants once walked this earth.

Ah, ok. Thank you.

Philco Radio Hall Of Fame from 12/12/1943. Spotlighting the original cast of the then-new Carmen Jones, but also some standup by Frank Fay, more comedy from Red Skelton/Harriet Hilliard, Ginny Sims singing "Speak Low", orchestra conducted by Paul Whiteman, MC-ed by Deems Taylor, and more propaganda for Philco, Variety magazine, and the war effort than seems humanly possible, especially some tear-jerker thing about a love letter on microfilm. But there it all is, all that's missing is Lee Greenwood. "The Philco Corporation - makers today of electronic battle equipment for the fighting forces of the united nations. Makers tomorrow of equipment for GOOD living, in a world United by victory." Firesign had nothing on these guys!

Mister Magic William Penn Arthur Teller

Was this booked as a Tete Montoliu date at the Gate? Anybody got some kind of archive prowess to check that out?

Luther and Fact - The Inescapable Darkness Of Darkness About as militant a meditation as anything I've heard. Luther is one pissed off dude, but Fact keeps cool about all of it, and in the end...you wonder why some people look at you like they want to kill you but still radiate a greater tranquility, hey, this is the record to figure that thing out

NP: some wildass video of the ,Max Roach pianoless quintet with the Turrentine brothers doing "Bemsha Swing"!!!! Ok, now a video of Music Inc. playing "Lynnsome". Sweet!

What are Amex points?

When they first started putting out the records, they identified as Californian. As time went on, not do much.

Now watching a really nice concert of Ravi and Anoushka Shankar with group, supposedly done just a few months prior to Ravi's passing. Indian drumming of the type heard here is just sooooi delightful!

Their music never got to me, but still, a very interesting story!

Arranger/"arranger"...maybe uncredited "assistant producer", since Lion kinda had eyes to turn the company at least partially over to him?

I'd be ok with finding just the bass and drum parts, if it came to that.

Davis/Elvin, somebody find the ashes and reconstitute them, please.

Mr. Bubble John Bubbles Taps Miller

Tone Loc Tone Jansa Tone Def Leppard

Que lastima!!!!

Here he was with Maynard:

The name in there that always intrigued me was Frank Vicari. I knew him from Maynard's and Woody's mid-late 60s bands, Really solid bebop player, and and then off he goes into this whole other thing. Studio work, but also a taste for the off-beat-ish pop stuff as well, including Tom Waits. Must have been a bit of a free spirit, or else one of those guys who just followed the good weed wherever that led. I don't know, just thinking out loud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Vicari

I used to ignore elevator and other canned music until it suddenly dawned on me that there were real people playing those charts is a studio somewhere, and what did THAT look like?