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https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=robert+kennedy&p=1&item=T:56401

It's obviously Junior and Blue, but the drummer is not Louis Hayes. Who is it, then?

There's a well-known story about Rickles and a date running into Sinatra at an eatery. Rickles pulled Sinatra aside, and begged him to say hello so Rickles's date would be impressed. When Sinatra complied, Rickles yelled 'what's wrong with you? Can't you see I'm with people?' (Sinatra reportedly broke up over that one)...

I don't have the answer, but it's interesting that opera was mentioned. In a book of interviews with Lee Konitz, FWIW (and it may not be much) he described Hawkin's sound as 'operatic'...

It's doing weird things. Takes forever to load, for one. Then it leaves out part of the text and links of the post being quoted. Is this just me?

I heard that one. Shecky is alive and well, and still hilarious... Shecky does the best accents this side of the late Charlie Callas... (The quote function is not working properly)... Check this out, too (same guy, Kliph Nesterhoff): http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2011/06/interview-with-shecky-greene-part-one.html

I agree. I didn't see the point of his 'expressionism'.He seems to have misread Coltrane. But back in the day, boy...

Watch this. It's deep:

I couldn't get past 5 pages. It was all show-biz gossip about who shtupped who in 1954. Who cares? I like the music myself... I heard that one. Shecky is alive and well, and still hilarious:

This is the correct cover for Jimmy Raney, Sonny Clark: Together, BTW: https://www.google.com/search?q=jimmy+raney+sonny+clark+together&biw=1280&bih=702&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDtpbHgeTMAhUMcz4KHfLnCt4Q_AUIBygC#imgrc=Q2wPvLdGY3aZ4M%3A I hope he got some nice under-the-table green from Campbell's...

I'm honored that you would go to such lengths . BTW, I just noticed that every soup is different. A bit slow on the uptake... This is the correct cover for Jimmy Raney, Sonny Clark: Together, BTW: https://www.google.com/search?q=jimmy+raney+sonny+clark+together&biw=1280&bih=702&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDtpbHgeTMAhUMcz4KHfLnCt4Q_AUIBygC#imgrc=Q2wPvLdGY3aZ4M%3A

It's a 'stupidphone'. What do you expect for $30? I'm honored that you would go to such lengths . BTW, I just noticed that every soup is different. A bit slow on the uptake...

yup...

he was adaptable as an accompanist, too. he recorded nicely with jimmy raney, and adapted to his much gentler approach to swinging. i feel one real crucible for accompaniment is one's work with singers, especially getting down to brass tacks in a duo setting. there's nowhere to hide there, and you can hear a superior accompanist set up tempos and renditions with intros, anticipate, answer when the singer stops, 'hear around the corner', and bring the singer out generally. i never heard sonny clark with a singer. that would be interesting as hell...

to get back to the music: the cd arrived yesterday. i'm listening now, and i love it! great tunes and burnin' playing by everyone, especially my man tommy t. his ideas are da bomb. he really was one of the top jazz trumpeters of that period...

Don't know Connecticut too well. Where is that near?

Someone told me about a cheaper way: you only extract the files you need, then save them in other media. I haven't tried it yet. The old laptop is in storage. One day...

I PM'd you...

Maybe I can come to sunny Texas and try yours ...

Me, too...

I fixed it. I am sorry about the multi-posts. I know they are tedious to look at and a drag. I don't have wifi in my building, and refuse to give $ to 'the man for service'---ergo the cell phone postings after the 'berry closes and I can't use my laptop. I have no idea why this happens when I write from the cell phone. I always fix it later, though. Sorry again, and thanks for bearing with me...

Amazing what you can get online: https://sfy.ru/?script=producers Here is Dick Shawn singing Love Power in the 1968 movie:

a vivid memory i have of tommy is of the street band he was in that george braith ran in the '80s. (they were in a scene in the movie moscow on the hudson. tommy told me 'a guy came up to us with $100, and said 'wanna be in a movie?, i said---gestures grabbing the money'). i heard them one afternoon. tommy was sitting on a stool with his head down, wearing a leather vest and nothing under it. he was playing so much shit---4ths and other intervals and ideas in a totally personal way. he was a near-genius, i always thought, and it was very clearly the case that day...

i'm glad you guys aren't mad at me for 'telling tales out of school'. i feel guilty making any negative comments about friends---especially deceased ones who aren't around to defend themselves. but this was the tommy turrentine i knew: a brilliant but messed-up guy who was capable of being like a lovable child at times. he used to tease people he liked, saying 'you ugly'. one time at the jct a little kid turned the tables on him, saying 'YOU ugly!'. so there were good times with him, too, for sure. he was a true friend, too, who always told the truth, even if it hurt. i have a lot more tommy t. stories in a book i almost finished about the nyc jazz scene in the '80s. unfortunately, said book is in the bowels of a computer with a crashed hard drive---and, foolishly, i didn't back up the data...

i hope my comments didn't come off as too harsh. i truly loved tommy. he was in my corner all the way, too---he and c. sharpe. it just frustrates me to see a great talent go down like that.