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If you're thinking Dizzy Gillespie, I really think he was quoting the Joe Cuba/Jimmy Sabater song "El Pito"...

Josef Dzhugashvili ? (sorry: in-joke for Weizen and Red Menace)

Joe Cuba & Jimmy Sabater?

All of the above-mentioned, plus "Nutty"

Me too, me too! Saw them play live twice in NY, once on a bill with Black Flag, I believe... speaking of Henry Rollins...

Tee-hee!

I believe it was an answer to a question about why one would practice on a bridge...

Pepper Adams?

Billy Higgins!

Max Roach?

There's a profile of Abbey Lincoln on AAJ with some interesting quotes (here's the link: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=537) and a profile on NPR with interview clips: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=537

Chris -- that booklet is amazing -- thank you so much for posting!

For me it's the Archies -- indelible imprinting from endless car radio play during high school years...

One sugar, please!

Hope you have a great day !!!

I, too, growing up in Wisconsin, always thought my dad was saying "fair-to-middlin' "... but now that you mention it, he WAS stationed in San Antonio in 1945-47!!!

Thank you DoubleM!!! At least one person thought so!!!

Tell the truth, Deus -- three chords, at least!

Hope the party has lasted through the weekend! Happy birthday, SJ !

Jaya is beautiful, and looks so happy... Plus you provide all the Linnean names for the plants!

As did I! Considering how much time I spend on this board, and how many people here I have grown to think of as my friends, it was really nice to step out of the virtual and into the real contact! I'm glad you both had a good trip, and really happy that you're feeling somewhat better, Alison. Now, someday Christiern and I, separated by the enromous distance of ~80 blocks, may chance to meet!!! You can say that again -- today, in fact!!!

Forgive my ignorance, but what does this phrase mean? They have a lot of thunder? They've had thunder the whole time? They've had "the whole ball of wax": thunder, lightning, snow, wind, cold, sleet, hail, frogs, locusts... ?

It's one thing to say Max Roach beat Abbey Lincoln, which people here have said and to say that it is inexcusable, which people here have said and to articulate the difference between respect for his artistry versus "hagiography" of his entire life and every act in it, which people here have done. It's another to extrapolate a one-size-fits-all, admitting-of-no-exceptions, presented-as-airtight-case, single-psychological-path explanation of a "pathologic cascade" that culminates in domestic violence, insist that it applies peculiarly and distinctively to the world of jazz -- and then to equate lack of interest in discussing that grand theory with "sweeping domestic violence under the rug."

Now that's using your head !!??!!