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That would be me. Enjoy it.

The gig was real nice. Kenny played his ass off.

I went to see Kenny Barron at the Jazz Standard. Kenny loves the sauce. He drank 3 brandies before the show in a bar around the block. The brandy was in large a glass, the kind that looks like a fish bowl. Well, it didn't affect his playing. I stood next to him at the bar and just said hello and that I was going to his gig tonight. He smiled and rasied the glass, then down it went.

Man landed on the moon. Who here remembers that day? I remember watching it on TV, and right away I was wondering why there weren't any stars. I was 6 at that time.

Anyone know of a good web site to look up artists? I have 3 paintings by an early 20th Century artists that I am trying to learn more about. These painting were once owned by my gradparants. My grandparents were from Germany. They must have brought the paintings with them when they came to America. The artist name is H. Schmid. I've done searching and came up with a Hans Schmid. Born 1906 in Switzerland. Nothing else have I come across on him.

Happy Birthday Henry(Hank). Thanks for all the music. Wow, 77! If only he lived to 77. Tragic loss to jazz.

Mr. Shank was going to play the Iridium Jazz Club in July. The shows are no longer listed on the web site. Anyone know why the were canceled?

I will be okay. The laid off 20% of the work force. The CEO's bonus wasn't as good as it was last year. They needed to get some money to up his bonus. It was just 103 million this year. Last year 140 million. More corporate greed. The way America works these days.

The thing is, it isn't 19 years with the same company. I will begin the hunt.

I have been working 19 years since finishing college. I have never been without a job, not even for a day. Today I was told my position wasn't needed anyore. I feel so sick. I have a family a homeWhat do I do?

I stumbled across a CD in my collection by Chico Hamilton . He has Buddy Collette playing on it. I really started to dig his sound. Any other suggestions of recordings by him or with him?

Hapy Birthday Mr. Green. Gone too early.

I have to admit I’ve bought a few compilations CD only because there were 1 or 2 tracks I couldn’t find anywhere else. Kevin, you've sold me on the importance of compilations for jazz labels. It helps to pay the bills. I can't fault them for that. It must be my naivete, thinking everybody else buys jazz like myself and those here. Those number must be about 3 to 5 % of the music sales in the states, and maybe a bit higher in Europe. Hardly enough to run a record label.

We had a very short discussion on this 3 years ago. value

I agree that it sells for the first time GG listener, and yes compilations do help companies, in this case Blue Note, to release something else that will not sell as well, but there are I believe 5 compilations out there now, with very much the same tracks on them. I read somewhere else that there is a session called "Acid Green" recorded at the start of the 1970's that might see the light of day at sometime. I believe it would sell too. I wonder how well "Live at Club Mozambique" did in sales? Not my favorite GG album, but a nice funk record no less.

GRANT GREEN THE FINEST IN JAZZ It's the same tracks on at least 3 other issues. Why don't they just release "Shardes of Green" or "Visions"? 1 Miss Ann's Tempo 2 Cease the Bombing 3 Ease Back 4 Cantaloupe Woman 5 California Green 6 Down Here on the Ground

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Got off of the junk? Did he? I know he didn't stop smoking, which gave his lung problems.

I know in the late 80 and 90's he crossed over to smooth jazz, but does he play straight ahead jazz again? He will be inconcert this summer around where I live and I was thinking of seeing him he is off the smooth path.

Wow, another one. RIP

AMG doesn't have any bio on him when you pull up his entry.

I was listening to a Teddy Edwards record this evening and I started to really dig the pianists playing on the record. I realized I don’t know much about him. I do have him on a Sonny Stitt record, "Kaleidoscope" and 2 Gene Ammons records "Boss Tenors" and "Red Top". Are there any other records with John Houston that is worth checking out?

I thought I had everything of Horace Silver and found out about this. He also did a number of appearances on the Joe Franklin show. It was an overnight talk show in NYC from the 1970s. I believe it was on from around 1 AM to 5 AM. The show was broadcasted on WWOR Channel 9. I know he was on for over 40 years. I will have to track these down. I did fine someone since I posted that has the Morgan/Silver. I will wait and hope he’ll make me at least an audio copy of that show. It is 33 minutes long. I’m not sure how much of that are them.

There was a TV program in the US on PBS called "SOUL". On Jan 26, 1972, this episode had Lee Morgan and Horace Silver. I would assume performing separately, but still, I would to see this. Slowly these old TV shows, Like Jazz 625 have made their way to DVD. I am only hoping this too is out there. I looked, but I didn't find anything.

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