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Very sad to hear this.

If I shot him, I just make him angry, so instead I let it free. My wall would have been pretty messed up if I did kill it. They are not native to the US. Resharching on line I found out these bug arrived in shipping crates about 15 years ago. Unlike the Asian Long Horn Beetle that are doing damage to the native trees, this incent just eats other bugs and is venomous but harless to humans.

Happy Birthday and many more to come.

I am quietly sitting listening to some music when my 11 year old daughter lets out the loudest scream I have ever heard. I run into the next room and there on the wall is a big ass centipede It took sometime for me to catch this fast bastard. I did release it into my garden. I am not joking when I say it was a big as my longest finger to my wrist.

It is the tax deadline here in the US. I'm curious when other people in different countries have to file their taxes. Has anyone not filed yet here in the US?

I am watching a dvd of the Count Basie orchestra. The date is April 06, 1960 Milan, Italy. No names are given. I don't recognize this one. Anyone here know?

I always do.

I always like the music of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. Jon writes some bad ass lyrics to solo, but how much is left as a singer at 90? I would like to go see this. I first saw Jon Hendricks in 1981. He bought me a beer for being a very excited fan. Jon Hendricks & Annie Ross FEATURING: Jon Hendricks, vocals Annie Ross, vocals Other musicians, TBA Jon Hendricks is not only one of the world's favorite jazz vocalists, but is widely considered to be the "Father of Vocalese", the greatest innovator of the art form. Vocalese is the art of setting lyrics to recorded jazz instrumental standards (such as the big band arrangements of Duke Ellington and Count Basie), then arranging voices to sing the parts of the instruments. Thus is created an entirely new form of the work, one that tells a lyrically interesting story while retaining the integrity of the music. Hendricks is the only person many jazz greats have allowed to lyricize their music, for no one writes hipper, wittier, or more touching words, while extracting from a tune the emotions intended by the composer, more sympathetically than Hendricks. For his work as a lyricist, jazz critic and historian Leonard Feather called him the "Poet Laureate of Jazz" while Time dubbed him the "James Joyce of Jive." Born in 1921 in Newark, Ohio, young Jon and his fourteen siblings were moved many times, following their father's assignments as an A.M.E. pastor, before settling permanently in Toledo. As a teen Jon's first interest was in the drums, but before long he was singing on the radio regularly with another Toledo native, the extraordinary pianist Art Tatum...link

The set was wonderful. Phil twice did need to use his albuterol inhaler, but he played just fine. There was no notice of his COPD. For a man pushing 80 he can still play. Thanks for the report. Was it the current quintet - Lynch/Mays/Gilmore/Goodwin? It was the quintet.

The set was wonderful. Phil twice did need to use his albuterol inhaler, but he played just fine. There was no notice of his COPD. For a man pushing 80 he can still play.

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I got this one too today. You can have the money Christiern. I won't pursue this.

If you can get the chance to catch Phil Woods "Now's the Time." He does have emphysema and how much longer can he blow his horn with that disease? He is at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola in NYC starting Thursday night. I will be there.

My thought too, but her name is not mentioned so far. I am 15 minutes into the video.

Anyone know who this is? This is from 1958. Sorry but it's the best screen shot I could produce.

Wow, real sad news. RIP Billy.

Revisiting this thread. Bobby Hutcherson was scheduled to play Dizzy's Club Coca Cola in NY April 19th through the 24th. Those shows were cancled. I hope he is just resting and no other reasons regarding his health.

Has anyone seen Horace Parlan live? I just watch a Lou Donaldson video that was from a Geneva jazz and Blues Festival sometime in the 80s. Horace Parlan was on piano. His limitation with right hand do to polio can't be detected. A lot of the runs in his soloing were played with his left hand crossing over his right hand. He used the 2 to 3 fingers on his right hand to play the chords. Does anyone know if he contacted polio before playing piano or was it when he was already a musician?

Here are two photos from the George Coleman set at Smoke in NYC. George played extrememly well this past Friday night. I saw in in February 2010 and that time I thought he forgot how to play. I was later told he was sick with bad cold but still played that week. Photos.

Anyoneknow if Ira Coleman is still on the scene playing jazz? I have a Freddie Hubbard recording from the 1980s and he was really swinging the bass. I know he played on Sting's last recording.

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