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Time to listen to some James P. john-SON.

Can I assume his first name is pronounced SEE-mone. Guys, I don't know where you get this sort of information from. i-VA-nov is not impossible theoretically, but would be a very unusual last name in Russia. John gets it straight from the source.

I always say NAB-a-tov, but I'll bet it's properly pronounced na-BA-tov.

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Is that another one of your out of the blue conjectures, or do you have evidence? When I saw Ornette's wacky interview I'm sure he was just being Ornette, not putting on the interviewer.

Chico Buarque rarely performs, especially since he became a novelist too, and I don't remember him ever coming to NYC since I was aware of him. But I was lucky to catch him in London, at the Albert Hall in 1999. He was part of a big benefit show for Brazilian street kids that featured Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Chico, Gal Costa, Elza Soares and Virginia Rodrigues, along with 2 London-based samba groups and Georgie Fame! And the night before I saw John Hurt do Krapp's Last Tape. Amazingly, this Telegraph review of the concert doesn't even mention Chico: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4718941/Sultry-and-satisfying.html

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Not to mention the early '50s. http://obscureblackhistory.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/brown-blondes-of-show-business/

I think that's the best choice. Some beautiful songs. I've been a voracious listener of Brazilian music for 30 years, and am studying Portuguese in preparation for a November trip to Brazil. In the last 8 years I've been getting a lot into the post-Ben funk from some of the Trama Records artists, and artists in the same circle, like Wilson Simoninha, Max de Castro, Paula Lima, Toni Garrido. And Seu Jorge is probably one of the hottest guys in Brazil and internationally these days. I also love Maria Rita's albums--she's doing a Mother's Day free concert in Rio of her mother's (Elis Regina) repertoire. I think a lot of the Brazilian funk artists as well as singers like Joyce show up at the Jazz Cafe in London from time to time. Anybody in the UK should know about this year's Back2Black festival: http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=13328

I'd say there are two essential Chico Buarque albums to start with, though there are many more good ones. Construcao, which is one of his most adventurous, and Meus Caros Amigos, which has a number of his best known songs, great melodies (but unfortunately is hard to find). Also check out the Lumiar songbooks for lots of great singers doing his material. I'm not as big on Lobo, so no suggestions, though Chico & he did several projects together. Well, just realized that I was responding to a 4-year-old query. Has Alaide Costa been mentioned? I put her in the same class as Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, Amalia Rodrigues & Cesaria Evora, if you know what I mean...

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Are you using that studio near Park Slope or Gowanus that a lot of jazz people use?

I don't know if there's still a program like this, but the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs used to have an arts apprenticeship program that would get work study money for college students to work with arts nonprofits as well as artists who have received public funding. Five hours of interview or not, this wasn't a magazine profile. I once saw a live interview of Ornette Coleman at an AAJE (is that what it was called?) conference. It was like watching two beings from different planets trying to communicate.

Dean Bowman's going to show up twice?

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Well, the article is a tie-in to a concert series honoring him, and the thrust of the article is his legacy, so it seems perfectly natural that he'd write about those other pianists. And he quotes those other pianists talking about Cecil, so I don't understand what the problem is. Though the fact that he has female assistants lighting his cigarettes and bringing him champagne makes me lose a bit of respect for him, and I do find his extra-pianistic performance antics rather silly and annoying.

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I love Little Milton. I was planning to go down to see him at the Wilmington, DE blues festival in 2005 and he died 2 days before he was scheduled to appear.

Yeah, well don't trip on the Buddha Cobblestones or you might find yourself in the Cinco de Mayo Clinic.

Besides the likely Goon Show and Beyond the Fringe influences, I think B&R were big influences on Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie.