Pete C

That was the year I started going to the Fillmore, but unfortunately didn't get to that one. If I remember correctly you're about the same age as me (I'm 56) and grew up in Brooklyn, maybe even in or close to Midwood?

I've put two and two together (and two threads together) and have come to the conclusion that Someone To Watch Over Me is best when played or sung by gay males.

Where did you find one? I remember when you could buy tone generators to play through your phone if you had a rotary line but needed to deal with menus that expect touch tone.

I do like juicy gossip as much as anyone, so how about a thread on Jazz Musicians with Acid Reflux?

Maybe Caravan's faux-exotica puts it in a similar category with Blues March & Hoe Down, i.e. where the "different" ends up being the "artificial."

Abu Zubayhdah Abou Ben Adhem Leigh Hunt Bill McHenry John McNeil Jim Lehrer

Specific names aside, Chris' response to bisexualism above is puzzling. I suppose a rule of thumb could be: 1. Only has sex with opposite sex - straight (or gay in denial) 2. Only has sex with same sex - gay 3. Has sex with both sexes, enjoys both - bi 4. Has sex with both sexes, only enjoys same sex - gay with an asterisk 5. Has sex with both sexes, only enjoys opposite sex - not sure who this would be--maybe some English public school boys? Also, don't forget "situational" sexuality, like guys who'll have sex with men in prison, but would never consider it on the outside.

Larry Graham Graham Chapman Charlie Chaplin

My favorite vocal version of Someone to Watch Over Me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvTvR4DpWTc

Mrs. Fields Wally Amos Tori Amos

One could easily make a compilation of Sarah Vaughan performances of songs detested on Organissimo. She also did Love Story and Rainy Days and Mondays.

Not even Ben Webster? For me, he owns it.

Your first mistake was not going to a trusted professional with a proven track record, someone like Dionne Warwick(e).

I especially like the Hoagy's Children sets with Bob Dorough, Barbara Lea & Dick Sudhalter.

I was there. No recordings have ever surfaced.

Maybe, but then there's Art Tatum.

I love the Groove Holmes version. Mediocre melody, great changes. Awful lyrics. Two great blowing tunes that aren't good singer's tunes due to lousy lyrics: Out of Nowhere, I'll Remember April.

i don't recall hearing a jazz version..... Coltrane on The Stardust Sessions and Charles McPherson on Today's Man to name two, and I like both. Add my name to the Blues March haters club. In a similar vein of hokey is Oliver Nelson's Hoe Down.

I was at home in Brooklyn when the power went out. I was never happier to be unemployed.

Ravi Coltrane Ravi Shankar Albert Shanker

http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/2011/04/weekend-extra-joe-henderson.html

Wick http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xne7mj_wick-finds-the-whiskey-bottle-from-the-lost-weekend-1945_shortfilms Billy Wilder Louis Prima (the wildest)

Bunch is an excellent late swing pianist. I saw him many times at the now defunct Zinno Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village, often in a trio with Jay Leonhardt & Bucky Pizzarelli. I also saw that trio do a freebie at the Umbria festival. I think the first time I saw bunch was at Bradley's in the late '70s. Junior Mance was also a regular at Zinno (Bruno, the Milanese bartender, called him "Juny-or Mahn-say), and now he performs at Cafe Loup, across the street, where Bruno works since the demise of Zinno. I was planning to see Stan Tracey last time I was in London, in 2009, but Waiting for Godot with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellin let out too late to make it practical. Fire marshals seem to be the enemies of jazz!

Yeah, I know, but there's no point in keeping up the charade. I say do away with nickels too!