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Good link. Thanks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Five_Spot

http://keepswinging.blogspot.nl/2009/11/med-flory-in-1950s-go-west-young-med.html

My copy is epub. I'm hoping to read some good stories. Maybe learn something and laugh.

I've just started reading it. It reads like a novel.

http://www.jazzarchive.eu/netherlands01.php http://www.jazzarchief.nl/ A place to start.

Their affair was a forbidden one. They were both 'classy'. Thanks for posting.

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Can't listen to him. Tried...a little. RIP

Nope. Good ol' Google. Her father, Milton Ager, was a successful Tin Pan Alley composer whose tunes included ''Ain't She Sweet'' and ''Happy Days Are Here Again,'' http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19951029&id=UNFPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qwcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3722,6500682

Sure, why not :-) Not interested in the Manilow version.

Yes, thank you, Page. I have to agree with you two it is very likely. What I find impressive is he started music study at 5 and by high school graduation seemed to have mastered all the woodwinds! Right out of high school he was playing oboe with the Radio City Music Hall pit band. I assume that was a good steady gig. and of course he was a terrific arranger.

A very quirky chart using simple section voicing, often unison. Clever rhythms, lots of 'space'. Perhaps it was N. Riddle. He wrote for the band in the early 60s.

I'll just jump in here and say that Art Pepper was a superb saxophone player. Listen to his 40s-60s recordings and try to find examples of bad time, phrasing, intonation, tone, taste, articulation, section blending. What else is there to criticize about his sax playing? Probably was a good reader too. Art Pepper was a first rate jazz musician & saxophonist.

Arvell Shaw has always been one of my favorite bass players. Thanks Tyree: What a master can do with melody & hart.

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Valid points.

I was in a town in Belgium and the hotel was in or near an Orthodox Jewish community. Dreadlocks & black hats everywhere :-) My mother was sick and I thought I'd go to a synagogue and say a prayer. I asked a likely fellow where to go. He was suspicious but walked with me to a simple storefront building that did not advertise what it was. While we walked he asked me if I had children and why not. When I went in people looked at me suspiciously but left me alone. I tried to pray (new for me) and then left after the rabbi stopped talking (in a language I do not understand). I had not been in a synagogue since I was a child. You asked. Others have asked why I do not have children too. Apparently not one of my talents.

I've had a similar experience, fasstrack.

"I'm sure that historically there was a Jewish community" Argument has always been central to the Jewish culture. Jews do not think alike. Community mostly means they lived close to each other.

Yes, Steve, I agree. I've known MM since 1973 and used to play with and listen to him enough to have heard him in many situations. He is an exceptional musician, person, and a good composer/arranger. I actually play on the first Available Jelly album :-)

Interesting topic. How broad will we consider 'jazz' to be? I guess Brubeck belongs in the club. Louis made some money. Perhaps his estate is still collecting. Ellington?

Michael Moore (Amsterdam, NL) plays VERY good bass clarinet & regular clarinet.

I had hoped someone would mention Harry in this silly (IMO) thread. Harry is a great artist on the bass clarinet. Nobody will play the bass clarinet "like" Eric Dolphy. or flute or alto saxophone. How will we define 'like' anyway?

Worthwhile thread. Thank you, Mr. Train.

Any reference escapes me. Should he yell 'Four' or 'For'? OK, Fore. The Colonel Bogey March is based on the descending minor third which the original Colonel Bogey whistled instead of yelling Fore around 1914.