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The demons of those who judge the demons of others are the more fearsome demons.

If you had the glasses his comment would jump out of the screen at you.

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Yeah, the only decent word of the lot is "the"!

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Congratulations. It must be great to be you. Your name isn't Bill Bennett by any chance?

Bill Evans didn't have a druggie's haircut until rather late... I guess some people want to define "bad behavior" and then imprison people for whatever it is. I didn't think that was the purpose of the criminal justice system. Next thing you know "inauthentic" musicians will be getting mandatory sentences.

I remember getting jazz recommendations from Harry Lim at Sam Goody's.

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Yeah, but I'd prefer to vote for a progressive who will vote in my interests but seems personally "inauthentic" over an authentic wingnut.

Artistic "principles" are not static.

Changing the inherent racism in drug sentencing laws would also reduce the prison population. Consider the following: Indeed, and one dimension of the problem is the different treatment of drugs that are used by lower economic classes vs. the preferred drugs of the well off.

Great news. I wish I could have convinced my mother to move into an assisted living facility; I suspect it might have helped to slow down her precipitous mental decline. Now she's at home with round the clock babysitters, sleeping a lot and being confused when she's awake.

Ah yes, I owned that years ago, inspired by Balliet's book (American Singers). The only time I remember seeing Larkins was with Helen Humes at Barney Josephson's The Cookery, in 1975. I wonder if there are any recordings from that period of just the two of them; I don't have the Columbia album any more, but I have a CD with a New Years Eve Performance at Windows on the World (also featuring Eddie Jefferson). And maybe something with Mildred Bailey? I'll have to dig further.

Well, I agree with Allen 100% regarding Lou Donaldson. However, I find the whole question of authenticity in black music (and that category includes white players playing black music), along with its assumptions about class, is a slippery slope full of questionable assumptions that I had thought were put to rest ages ago. I also think that third parties judging the "authenticity" of other artists is just plain bad form. I'm not talking about aesthetic judgments, I'm talking about something that almost takes on a dimension of moral reprobation.

Uh oh, the "authenticity" bugaboo rears its head...

I know and love his duets with Ruby Braff, Ella, and Larry Adler. Has he recorded duets with other artists?

Sorry, that doesn't warrant an answer.

That quoted copy about the McPhee album sounds like Dusty Groove. Yes? Some amazing African music on tap.

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Getting rid of draconian drug laws would cut the numbers considerably.

Nothing Herbie ever did is as bad as that.

A great singer's accompanist. I believe I saw him with Rebecca Parris. And Shirley Horn chose him to play when she no longer could.

I'm a big fan of Soft Machine (2-5) and related stuff, but I'd say it's in a different corner. George Cartwright's Curlew was a great band that mixed Prime Time harmolodics, Canterbury influences and No Wave. And while I was fishing around on Youtube I found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSeiR5ByFk&feature=related