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Great program, Ken.

The great drummer Roy Haynes is 97. All the best

RIP, Ron. Thanks for the music. Too young.

87 years young today.

This is great.

From Sonny Rollins as told through Benny Green ‘s Facebook page benny Green 6 hrs. "If you are worrying about 'Gee, am I going to make a living playing Jazz?' and 'Wow, how am I going to make it?', then Jazz is not for you, just listen to it. You have to be careful if you're thinking, 'Well gee, am I gonna make enough money to feed my family or to have a nice car and live in a nice house?' - Music doesn't respect that. Music is someplace else, and if you love Music and you feel that you have the talent, then you've got to go there - never mind all this other stuff. If not, then don't do it for a profession, do it when you get home from work, maybe." - Sonny Rollins If you feel so passionate about music that certain recordings speak to you so deeply that you feel an uncontainable sense that this is what you're meant to do, then please seek out those living and accessible individuals who represent the sounds and feelings that speak to you. If you're sincere, there are people who've been given music by their elders and who understand that no one owns it, and that it's to be passed along to those rare and brave individuals with the heart to treat a spiritual gift with honor and humility. There are infinite ways to create, amidst many descriptive or confining worldly genre terminologies. Some of my revered musical heroes detest the word "Jazz" for wholly valid reasons, while some of them call their music just that. Not unlike the reality that some beautiful people are carnivores, some are vegetarian, and some exercise the freedom of choice to change-up - not all good people think, speak, dress or eat exactly the same, but they're nevertheless good people who live on their own authentic terms and who answer to their own heartfelt principles and values. When I simply listen and feel, I know what I love, and no one needs to be corrected by anyone else about what they love, because what a person loves is central to and inextricable from who they are.

600 copies will go fast.

Doc Severinson is 94.

RIP, Ian.

Placed my order on Amazon just now.

RIP.

RIP.

The new documentary “Ronnie’s” tells the story of a venue that reshaped the city’s jazz scene, and the mysterious musician who lent it his name. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/arts/music/ronnies-jazz-club-documentary.html

RIP.

‘I was so close to the sky. It was spiritual’: Sonny Rollins https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/21/i-was-so-close-to-the-sky-it-was-spiritual-sonny-rollins-on-jazz-landmark-the-bridge-at-60?fbclid=IwAR0F55atwo9kq7_84bJS_tg68ClCsfDRR5ws3awPjmEzGDvTu6j-mQTn2y4

Somewhere in my home is the Riverside discography. I want to get volume two of the Verve discography, but every seller is over $200. Too insane for my pocket

thanks

I was just spinning the Frank Wess Moodsville from 1960. I have a few others. Does anyone know how many were in this series from Prestige?

I wish I was old enough to have been at most of these sets. The only ones I’m not familiar with are Caio Scott and Louis Wars. Anyone know more about these two?

A second video. It's all explained in the below link. https://www.jazzwax.com/2021/05/interview-bill-evans-the-dancer.html

I never knew about this before

Would Marilyn Maye be accepted as a jazz artist or more if a cabaret performer? Marilyn is 94 or 95.

It's not photoshopped. At first I thought it was, but there are a number of these posted online. A space saver, but not practical in seriously play. Anyone ever seen one of these in person?