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There should be a link by tomorrow. Houston Person’s Quartet at the Jazz Standard tonight. Both sets were great.

Me too.

Kenny Barron Quartet at the Village Vanguard.

Blue Note and Topps have teamed up and created the Blue Note trading cards. The link below you can see what they look like. Anyone have these? http://www.bluenotereview.com/?fbclid=IwAR3ow1kl-nslXq3_7QC6tKVmW6xHPJDcUmXqbwIQj5VCfoc-D6N_Yb3nFuY

She was a funny actress.

RIP. I loved Hair.

Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday.

RIP, Nancy. Thanks for the beautiful music. Time to put on some of your music.

You're not alone. "Why do you need to have 12 take of Charlie Parker playing Star Eyes?" I think music needs to be own by collectors. Large corporations only push what they feel will make money. The rest in put in faults. This reminds me of the last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the Ark is put in storage in some warehouse. For me, I've personally created a cloud to store all my music. My only vice in this world is I collect jazz and blues music, and a lot of it. Why so much? Because it may not be around next year. I watch the YouYube video. He mentioned about films and outlets like Netflix pushing what is recent. Around this time last year there were a number of Abbott and Costello films on Netflix. Today none. There is a category called vintage films on Netflix. 6 films pre-1970. Wow. Music is the same. Then there's a question then arises for collectors. What will become of your collection when you are gone?

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Happy Birthday.

My time machine is almost ready to go again. What city is this advertisement from in 1968?

Sonny Rollins on Fox News. "If it wasn't for music, life would be shit." (Monk)/. That's gospel to my ears.

I have more respect for Wayne now, not that I didn't before, after reading this article. It mentions he had a 14 year old developmentally disabled daughter who died in 1986, and his wife, who was killed in 1996 in a TWA plane crash. Two big losses like that would have broke me emotionally. I'm sure he channeled those losses into his music. You have to have an outlet to vent your sorrow. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/wayne-shorter-at-80-catching-his-second-wind/2013/09/19/1b42e312-1f0d-11e3-8459-657e0c72fec8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9391dad3abb3

I didn't know Wayne Shorter is in a wheelchair. We all get old. I have to remember he is in his 80's. "Wayne Shorter on being recognized in a most deserving way at the Kennedy Center Honors this weekend."

Just Sonny and Benny are lest from that day, but the music of those that left remain. I wonder were they placed in any particular order? Golson and Farmer are standing next to each other. Both founders of the Jazztet. Marian McPartland with Mary Lou Williams. McPartland use to mention on her Piano Jazz radio program she was friends with Mary Lou. Both Monk and Rollins wore light colored suits. They wanted to stand out, feeling everyone else would wear dark suits. There was a film back in the 1980’s or 1990’s about this day. I have to find a copy and watch it again.

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Here is the link. It must have been amazing to have been there with all these greats https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6423123/A-great-day-Harlem-frame-iconic-1958-shoot-jazz-artists-published-time.html?fbclid=IwAR0ULzqduU7ciG3hf5SMEBOsCNXWDBF9vEF529-CiwvgxtIPEEHC-hia9iY

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Mike LeDonne’s Groove Quartet at Smoke.

I have the two Mingus ones and I enjoy those. Now I forgot about the Mel Lewis and Thad Jones records.