Pete C

I hope I don't get my proofreading license revoked. Fernando Pessoa Houston Person Mayor Peoples

For me it was a 10-lp set on Roulette that had a bunch of stuff from the Roulette and Roost catalogues. It was in the family collection and I discovered it when I was maybe 10 or 11. I remember Bird's Crazeology being one of the tracks that floored me. For a while my brother worked a menial job at Columbia Records and would get Columbia Special Products versions of what I believe were then out of print LPs (we're talking ca. 1967. I remember Miles at the Blackhawk and Mingus Dynasty, which sold me on Mingus. I bought that one specifically for Green Dolphin Street, which I believe Hal Jackson (or was it Frankie Crocker) used to play a lot on WBLS. I wrote a review of it for my Freshman Comp class in '73.

Colossus of Rhodes Cecil Rhodes Cecil Tallor

Yes that was me. I love all four of Handy's Columbia albums. When I met Donald Elfman at a Joel Forrester gig I told him how thankful I was when he released them all on Koch Jazz, which I believe was the first CD release for some if not all of them.

I hope nobody is taking Miles' autobiography as an authoritative source...

I just noticed this today, and it seems like a great deal for offline storage of music files. Amazon is now offering unlimited storage of mp3 and aac files with any paid cloud drive plan, and that includes the $20 a year 20 gig plan. I decided to jump on it and am now uploading the 225 gig of music on my hd. So regardless of the plan, mp3 and aac files don't count toward your storage limit. edit: I guess I've been under a rock. This has been operative since last July.

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