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How do I lose them? I check in here often enough not to need that...

Honestly, I like the early organ stuff best---with Don Patterson et. al. He was also just insane good as a teen...

Wow. Irreplaceable people are leaving us, one by one. That is sad. However, he did enjoy a long and storied career. Even before becoming a Blue Note regular his work on Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch knocked me out. RIP and so long, Bobby Hutcherson. Well done...

i It keeps getting better! Here's the score to Ezzthetic: https://www.ejazzlines.com/mc_files/2/ezzthetic_jlp-8020.pdf And All About Rosie: http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/work/32182

This is wonderful: has an interview with Russell, and performances of Concerto for Billy the Kid and Stratusphunk. Starring Art Farmer, Bill Evans, Jimmy Cleveland, Barry Galbraith, etc.

I've been a fan for many years. Toninho Horta is a unique guitarist. Also a singer/songwriter/arranger. World-class talent IMO. Here's an early recording as leader:

This looks like a pretty good article on Brasilian music in general: http://www.rootsworld.com/brazil/brazil-roots-body.html

String arrangements by her then-husband, Casar Mariano... Jazz musicians play Brasilian music with an American accent (understandably), just as Brasilian musicians in most cases play jazz with an accent... joshuakennedy said: I can't believe AllMusic gave it a 4/10 (quote function doesn't work). Screw them. What do they know? I wonder who writes that stuff, anyway...

String arrangements by her then-husband, Casar Mariano... Jazz musicians play Brasilian music with an American accent (understandably), just as Brasilian musicians in most cases play jazz with an accent. If you haven't seen this, it's a clip of Tom Jobim teaching Gerry Mulligan (on clarinet) how to correctly phrase One Note Samba. From and old CBS show called Eyewitness...

String arrangements by her then-husband, Cesar Camargo Mariano...

It's a classic. Also: https://www.amazon.com/Slide-Plays-Jobim-Hampton/dp/B000G16UQ6

https://www.discogs.com/Cannonball-Adderley-And-The-Bossa-Rio-Sextet-With-Sergio-Mendes-Cannonball-Adderley-And-The-Bossa-Ri/release/1342865 https://www.discogs.com/Cannonball-Adderley-And-The-Bossa-Rio-Sextet-With-Sergio-Mendes-Cannonball-Adderley-And-The-Bossa-Ri/release/1342865 http://www.allmusic.com/album/elis-tom-mw0000654645

http://www.chrisandersonjazz.com/ I have a feeling this was created by Chris's longtime friend, archivist, and sometimes caretaker Al Sutton. It has a nice essay on Chris by Al, liner notes by Barry Harris, and quite a few tracks you can play...

I just left James Chirillo a few hours ago. He did a nice job on Something Personal. I like Houston's work. Very direct and honest. I used to see him with Etta Jones. Hell of a team...

Bullets Over Broadway. A somewhat entertaining little bauble...

Jazz fans would. If it was well-made others might, too, if word spread...

Myself, I'd be more interested in a film focussing on the music rather than his domestic problems and demise...

Thank you all for the links. I will listen shortly and intently...

Bump. I just rediscovered this, a day after hearing Bird Flight for the first time in ages---and wanting to strangle Phil all over again . I used to really like Phil personally. He put me on the air with some real gentlemen of jazz during a KCR fundraiser at the West End when I was a wee lad, and was the MC on some shows I was on live from the West End. I witnessed him standing over the body of George Kelly at the funeral home, close to tears. No way to fake that stuff, and I wouldn't dream of questioning his sincerity or dedication to jazz. But his ego did eventually get the better of him: The last time I saw Phil was at the now-closed gift shop at JALC---which he was manning. The first words out of his mouth (no 'hello, Joel) were 'Ask me something. Anything'. So I asked him about Nat Leslie, composer of Radio Rhythm for Fletcher Henderson, about whom little seems to be known. He didn't tell me anything, really. Since I was moving out of the country I volunteered to donate some old Down Beat magazines so they could sell them. He asked for a cell phone # where I could be reached, and said he would call that afternoon. Never did. OK, fair enough, I suppose. I think Schaap is a multi-layered guy---like a lot of interesting people. Part droning, know-it-all egomaniac, part overly-solicitous worshipper of his jazz heroes. He has done tons of archival work, speed correction of recordings---on and on. I think in the final analysis that, as much of a pain that he can be jazz is fortunate to have him...

The later stuff was also quite interesting. I'll try to post some...

I always thought his writing pretty original and dazzling. Here is Concerto for Billy the Kid, featuring Bill Evans and a short solo by Art Farmer:

For real?

Sorry to hear...

Is Bob Weinstock still alive?

It just ended. Wow, gruesome stuff, with a horrible soundtrack to match...