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What a sad thread to wake up to in the morning. RIP David.

The Simpsons 24th season has a slew of guest stars already prepared for upcoming episodes, but today the show has added jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins to the cast for a guest appearance. The man is a legend, having played with the late, great Thelonious Monk, among other, and who has several compositions that have become jazz standards. With Lisa’s interest in music—and specifically the saxaphone—you’d think this guest addition couldn’t go better for the character. Unfortunately, with a nod to Tupac’s performance at Coachella this year, that does not seem to be the case. Rollins is set to play himself in The Simpsons, however, he will play a very unreal version of himself. TV Line is reporting the man will appear as a hologram in an episode called “Whiskey Business.” Seeing the hologram as an unfair gimmick, Lisa will take to the cause, fighting the record label that produced such ridiculousness. If this were real life, Dr. Dre would probably not be amused to have to deal with Lisa’s passionate letter-writing campaign. Instead, it’s an episode of The Simpsons, and Dr. Dre seems to be out on this one, although I can’t wait to see what a Jazz man can do in hologram form. We’ll have a while to wait, however, to see Rollins in his guest stint. The episode won’t premiere until sometime this spring. I guess we'll have to sit around and hope that the proposed Elvis hologram will pop up to tide us over in the interim.

Thanks Tom, I found a copy of this book on Amazon and ordered it today.

Today I was listening to a number of Duke Ellington CDs. I noticed Irving Mills has several writing credits on a number Ellington tunes. I highly doubt Mills had a hand in writing these pieces; after all he was Duke's manager and publisher. Is this just another case, similar to a band leader putting his name on a tune someone in the band wrote, or something else? With Ellington such a major force in the music business, why did he allow it? He could have gone to almost any other publisher, or even started his own publishing company. Anyone have some insight to this?

#1 does sound like Pharaoh Sanders on tenor. The rest of the band I have no clue.

I am over 12 tb of music on hard drives. Most music is stored as either WAV or Flac.

Anyone here ever hear Dexter Gordon playing Ornettte Coleman's "Blues Connotation"? I would never imagine Dexter playing an Ornette Coleman tune, but he did and he does a damn good job at it. It's from a radio broadcast I recently came upon. Any other covers that you wouldn't expect to hear played by an artists?

I watched both sets and was not impressed. But I've never been a fan of Wynton's jazz playing.

http://jalc.org/multimedia/webcasts/live-from-doha?reset=1

The first CD player went on sale. I believe my first CD player was in 1985. First two CDs I bought were, Tears for Fears' "Songs from the Big Chair" and Lambert Hendericks and Ross "Sing Along with Basie." article

RIP Eddie.

I did see the Pharaoh Sanders Quartet last night at Dizzy's. It was a great show. Even got to sit next to Wynton Marsalis who kept murmuring whenever he liked a phrase in one of the musicians' solos.

A lot of his recording had reverb over his voice. He didn't need reverb; sort of the Auto Tune of the 60s and 70s.

Andy Williams on the Simpsons. I could only find it in Spanish clip

Yes he had a voice. An extremely good one.

Although not my style of singing, he did have a great voice. RIP Andy. article

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86. Trane Lives!!!!

I think it is Ed Cherry on guitar. The rest I don't know. Any guesses?

Wow, I miss that thread.

How many jazz artists have the same name? I'm not including father son names. Bill Evans - piano Bill Evans - Sax Joe Turner- piano Big Joe Turner - vocals

Yes, you guessed who. Your turn.

Another clue. He died shortly after passing out at concert of one of his works. Funny.

One of his most famous pieces of music has the work blue in the title. Last letter of last name is N.

Nope. Born in New York. E is the last letter of first name.