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The Hot Fives: Not so hot. Kind of Blue: Kind of boring Favorite Jazz Charlatans

Mosaic does it again-The Complete Ray Anthony

Baritone saxophonists who sing.

The Luddite Corner.

Doc Cheatham/Nicholas Payton. How Deep Is the Ocean.

In that 2nd photo she looks like the cat that swallowed the canary. I think there is more to this story than is revealed here.

I'd argue that any musician who leaves behind a distinctive body of recorded work that later generations of musicians continue to relate to and draw inspiration from deserves to be branded a jazz genius. By this measure Django Reinhardt and Louis Armstrong are the most influential of early jazz masters, with Bix in the mix as well.

The real question is not how many geniuses, but rather how many giants.

I made up a recipe for an herb bread the other day. It came out great. Herb Bread 2 cups bread flour 1 cup whole wheat flour 1 tsp dried oregano 1 tsp dried rosemary 1/2 tsp celery seed 1 tsp black pepper 2 tbs olive oil 2 tbs brown sugar 1 tsp salt 2 tsp yeast At least 1 1/4 cups water, probably more. Add oil and all dry ingredients to bread machine mixing bowl. Add cup of water and begin the dough cycle. Continue to slowly add water until dough reaches proper consistency. After 20 to 30 minutes of kneading let rise for an hour, knead again for 5 minutes. Empty dough onto buttered cookie sheet, butter your hands, and shape dough into 3 or 4 small loaves. Let rise until loaves double in size. Bake at 415 for 25 minutes.

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Billy Byers Billy Goats Gruff Bixieland

Sebastian Dangerfield Ginger Baker Red Adair Alcide "Yellow" Nunez Kelly Cherry The Rainbow Coalition

Man O' War George W. Bush Bill Kristol

Larry Kart A Man Called Horse Pony Poindexter

Blind Willie McTell Doc Watson Tony Rice Iris Dement Maria Callas Peter Rowan Norman Blake Judy Collins Leadbelly I'm forgetting another dozen.

From his NYT obit: He ran his apartment, on Seventh Street in the East Village, as a bohemian salon, attracting a loose collective that included the ethnomusicologist Harry Smith, the photographer Robert Frank and the jazz musician Thelonious Monk, who would drop by for meals between sets at the Five Spot. Bob Dylan paid the occasional visit. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/arts/21z...?ref=obituaries

Don't even mention those two in the same sentence. My introduction to Kinkade is a bad memory. About 15 year ago I was hospitalized with pneumonia and when I was well enough to stay awake for more than a 5 minute stretch I noticed these Kinkade prints on the walls. I had my wife take them down and turn them facing the wall. I had never heard of Kinkade but he made me nauseous. Gnagy's work doesn't resemble Kinkade's. In the exaple you posted they both use the "S" shaped road, but that's a venerable artistic convention having nothing to do with style. Gnagy, btw, looks like a pretty hip guy for a 1950s tv personality.

This may be so, but by 1964 Beiderbecke had turned republican and was supporting Goldwater. In fact his youngest daughter was a Goldwater Girl who, after law school, clerked for William Renquist.

Only a bit OT but I'm pushing this thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=50753

This is Marion Harris. In 1934 she made a record of "Singing the Blues", singing her own lyrics, using as the melody the Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke solos from their record of 1927. As far as I know this makes her inventor of "vocalese", an invention I've never heard credited to anyone but Eddie Jefferson. Her performance can be found on "Bix Restored, Volume 5".

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Anne Brown, a penetratingly pure soprano who literally put the Bess in “Porgy and Bess” by inspiring George Gershwin to expand the character’s part in a folk opera that was originally to be called “Porgy,” died Friday in Oslo. She was 96. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/theater/...?ref=obituaries

Pee Ree Russell and George Wettling were also painters. Wettling took lessons from Stuart Davis; Davis received drum lessons in return.

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