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  1. Can you tell me where it is in Manhattan,please??
  2. What happened to Sonny Igoe?
  3. It is truly delightful to find someone who meets with pretty universal approval in this bunch of folks on this bulletin board of folks with such disparate tastes. My favorite Maxine Sullivan record is one she did back in LP days along with Bob Wilbur on soprano sax.
  4. JAZZBO- JUST A NOTE ON MCKINLEY. Your recent post on the McKinley bio reminded me of something. If you ever visit the Antietam battlefield you'll finf that the largest monument on the field is about McKinley. Ir's an obelisk with bas relief sculptures showing McKinly in action during the battle. On one sculpture we find a row of union soldiers hunkered down behind a wall taking aim at the enemy. It also shows McKinley, who was a mess sargeant at the time STANDING next to them pouring coffee for them out of a coffee pot.
  5. I thought I was thte only reader of jazzbeat. Anybody else out there----?
  6. Don't forget Georgia Gibbs who just left us this week
  7. A friend of ours is hunting a cd burner. I have a Denon, but I wouldn't recommend it to him as he's a complete registered and accredited Luddite. Do any of you folks know anything about the SONY RCD-W500 recorder. It seems simple enough for him to operate. Comment??? Anybody recommend something else? Thanks.
  8. Two items. Hal McKusick is well known to a friend of mine. I don't know about antiques, but he is an expert horologist. (Down,boy. It means clockmaker/repairer) and he does live on Eastern Long Island. My other contribution is to list Jeri Southern as someone who quit while very popular, not to mention that so did Lee Wiley. Wiley did come back mjuch later in life to a Carnegie Hall concert and a record date, but she was clearly past her prime then.
  9. That scream in level three scared hell out of me/
  10. Suffolk County being pretty close to Queens (except when driving on the Long Island Expressway) it was just beautiful today, the first true day of spring weather.
  11. I was reminded of the bunch from one of Goodman's sextets who were noodling about together in a recording studio when someone threw the record switch. I heard this impromptu jam session on the radio years ago and just found it newly released on a Goodman cd under the title "Waiting for Benny" Features Georgie Auld and Charlie Christian jamming away together. What could be better?
  12. Strange how that works! For alll the world I couldn't remember the name of that lady harpist who played jazz, forgot about it and went about my business. Then about a half hour later, her first name popped into my head. A few minutes later, it all came back. It's as if while you're doing something else, part of your brain goes about opening dusty file drawers until it finds the answer. The lady's name was Daphne Hellman. She had a home near me on Long Island, and her trio was called Hellman's Angels. Thats all I know, and I didn't know I knew that.
  13. There was a lady jazz harpist who had her own trio and unfortunately died recently. Can't remembere her name, but she was the subject of an article by Whitney Balliett, if you wish to look her up. I'm unable to remember whether or not the 50's sauter Finegan band had a harpist, but you might check that out too.
  14. About this topic. Do you remember the scene in the Billie Holiday movie when she was so angry and fristrated at a guy that she began spluttering at him, unable to find the words to express her exasparation, andd finally she screamed "You,-----You------You---- DENTIST'
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