Pete C

Chronologically, the book falls between I Am Curious, Yellow and The Happy Hooker.

Jack Bruce Ginger Baker Eric Clapton

Marge Schott John Rocker Al Campanis

Rollo May George F. Will Immanuel Kant

Larance Marable Alan Broadbent Bent Axen

If I had to pick two of the above (excluding Mosaic), they'd be Free for All & Ugetsu.

Wilbur Little Wilbur Ware Wilber Morris

Mrs. Wiggs of Cabbage Patch Ruggles of Red Gap Carl Ruggles

Cookie Lavagetto Edd Kookie Byrnes Sean Puffy Combs Simultaneous Lavagettos! Or is it Lavagetti? Philip Larkin Kingsley Amis Michael Frayn (all wrote jazz reviews for Brit newspapers)

Andrew Marvell Stan Lee Stan Levy

There are few women I'd less rather dine with than Madonna. Six dead women: Jeanne Lee, Mary Lou Williams, Eileen Farrell, Miriam Makeba, Jacqueline du Pre, Ruth Brown Six living women: Sylvie Courvoisier, Ann Peebles, Carla Bley, Helen Merrill, Joyce Moreno, Leny Andrade (the last 2 lived in NY for a while and speak English well).

Steve Swallow Gary Peacock Bird

I saw him do it at Carnegie Hall in 1975 with Brendel. The NY Times reviewer wrote: "Now that Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Alfred Brendel have performed "Die Winterreise" here, which they did at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday night, other singers and pianists may be hesitant about undertaking interpretations of the Schubert song cycle in New York for years to come." Another one I didn't know was still alive until he died.

ScarJo Scarface John Scarne

I wouldn't mind practicing my Portuguese with Daniela Mercury.

And which outcome would you prefer? Maybe when he likes the food he lets out one of his ecstatic Ahhhhhs. I'd only invite Gary Peacock if Elvis Costello agreed to come.

I wouldn't want to have dinner with Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock because I'm afraid they'd try to recruit me for their cults.

Never mind the Bolick... Johnny Rotten Sid Vicious Nancy Spungen

I don't know if this is the appropriate place to post this, but I was reminded of something a dear friend wrote shortly before her death from lung cancer. She lived very close to WTC. http://infowars.net/articles/august2007/170807cancer.htm

What I want to know is: which poster on this thread is really Scott Dolan...

Melle was great, and he was certainly an early "avant gardist." I also love his Prestige dates. Has anybody heard his "electronic jazz" album from the '60s, Tome VI? He mostly worked as a film composer, quite successfully, after he quit jazz. Check this out: http://www.jazzwax.com/2010/08/denny-melle-on-husband-gil.html

Mike Lipskin and a few others...

The Andrews Sisters Twisted Sister Hank Ballard

The Smurfs The Schtroumphs A couple of strumpets

Yeah, I remember that studio was pretty close to my apartment. I could use the foot suggestions. But what's the food situation at the festival? Any decent vendors? It's hard to tear myself away from the music for a sit-down restaurant. In Chicago at least the early curfew allows for late dinners out.