Pete C

Chritopher Columbus Arthur Dove Walter Pidgeon Cecily Pigeon Gwendolyn Pigeon Gwendolyn Brooks

Twardzik has the "legendary" mystique, and he is great, but I prefer Freeman, who is truly underrated.

The Prince Lasha material from Berkeley and Monterey is fantastic. I have LP rips I found online. This stuff should get a decent CD treatment.

I met Donald Elfman at a Joel Forrester show and told him how indebted I was to him for putting out the Handy Columbias when he was at Koch. The CD I have of In the Vernacular sounds poorly mastered. I wonder if the flaws are in the original source.

I was charged $29.45 after pre-ordering originally at about $36. The current price Amazon is showing is $30.55. What's with all the pre-release price fluctuations?

The Amazon price is down to about $30.

Arthur Haley George Hailey Hayley Mills Bill Haley The Comets The Solar Arkestra Moon Unit Zappa Judge Crater Judge Reinhold

Della Street Mark Lane Parker Posey Posy Simmons Red Garland Orlando Bloom Virginia Woolf Michael J. Fox Henny Youngman

The Tamil Tigers Tammy Wynette Wynonie Harris

I remember that Braxton played one of the jam sessions around that time (maybe same year), at Carnegie. My friends and I were sitting next to an older, very patrician looking couple. "What do you think of that Anthony Braxton?" the woman asked us. I thought it odd that somebody who looked 'old and straight' would single out Braxton. "He's great," I said, "but this is an unusual setting for him." The woman beamed a big smile and said, "He's our son-in-law!"

Felix Krull Thomas Mann Helen Reddy (she is womann)

Cozy Cole Edward Coke Blaise Cendrars Modesty Blaise Blaze Starr Brenda Starr

Gus Johnson Gorgeous Gussie The Gorgon Nikolai Gogol Eugene Hutz (of the band Gogol Bordello) Jabba the Hut

Just came in the mail yesterday. Haven't watched/listened yet.

Sony bought Mainstream because it released the first Big Brother and the Holding Company album, and Columbia wanted to add it to their Janis properties. They pretty much ignored the catalog except for repackaging some Sarah Vaughan & Carmen McRae albums (both were at their peak during those years). It appears that some titles have been released through the Japanese P-Vine label. I love Charles McPherson's Today's Man, with great Ernie Wilkins charts. IIRC, Mainstream had a "Time Series" for rereleases of Time material.

Darla Hood Miss Crabtree Maynard G. Krebs

Melons in NY generally suck. Except at farmers markets very little produce is local. Everything comes from different places depending on time of year.

Cinderella F Scott Fitzgerald Sarah Vaughan Mo Vaughn Ralph Vaughn Williams Vaughn Meader (JFK: Would you like some Mayo? Chiang-Kai Shek: Please, not to mention that name. ... Fidel: I want a chicken sandwich with a live chicken.) John Byner David Frye Rich Little

I've been rendered chopped liver. Joe Louis Joe Louis Walker Hugo Boss

Little Willie (Leaps) Marmaduke Quasimodo (What makes you think I'm listening to KWCR?) Embraceable YOU Gene Simmons (of Kiss) Jean Simmons I assume you meant WKCR, and Bird Flight.

I've sat at the table next to Monty Alexander three times at two different midtown Manhattan Japanese restaurants. The first time I wasn't sure it was him until I heard his accent, then I spoke to him.

Genghis Khan His lovely wife Sylvia B. Kliban

Eugene Goosens Gandy Goose Mahatma Gandhi (rhymes with Napoleon Brandy)

Martin Short Shelley Long Madame Blavatsky (she was a medium)

Dee Dee Sharp Mr. (Mashed) Potato Head Louis Armstrong