Pete C

I just got one that said "meet hot atheists in Brooklyn."

He's loads of fun. Except for that one little hit of his during the British invasion, Americans don't really know him. I saw him with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings (2 great keyboardist/vocalists: Fame & Gary Brooker), and I saw him at a Brazilian extravaganza in London--he apparently had performed or recorded with some of the MPB superstars at the concert. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q0wade1K0o

I remember Fred enjoyed a cocktail of Ripple & Champagne, a Champipple.

I'll hold out for the Bushmills Lucky Charms edition.

Sexiness, subdued swing, pleasant timbre, respect for lyrics, a warm kinda cool. I love her, and she got better with age. I saw her several times in the '80s and she was fabulous. I highly recommend this later recording:

Interestingly, while Bley's earliest trios don't sound that much like later Bley, I did hear this connection on that track with Jarrett, so I guess the basis of the Bley sound was in there somewhere back in '54. I'm guessing that Jarrett was listening to the early '60s Bley trios as a young player rather than anything pre-Giuffre.

As opposed to self-styling Adornians?

Do you have the Basie Jazz Icons DVD that she appears on?

I think he's just slowed down. He had a hip replacement recently and I've heard that helped him a lot. Frank Kimbrough would know--he has a thread on another board...

I'm listening to Bley's s/t 1954 Emarcy album. It struck me while listening to "There Will Never Be Another You" that Bley's attack and phrasing here is very much reminiscent of some of Jarrett's standards trio approach...

You did the right thing. Second thoughts about that kind of move are the norm--it's very disruptive to be pulled up from the familiar routine, and scary, but ultimately he'll benefit from closer care and a more social environment. That kind of confusion about where one is living is also very common, as I'm dealing with just this with my mother. She's 88, and was doing great until about a year ago, when she broke her hip. Before that she was independent and even still drove. Then she had another fall and a pelvic fracture, and concurrently went into a major cognitive decline, which now can only be called dementia (but I think the onset was too sudden, without build-up, to be Alzheimer's). I had tried to convince her to move to an assisted living facility (while she still had more of her wits about her), and she liked one and was ready to go, then made a complete about face. Now she's at home, with round the clock aides, doing very little. She also doesn't believe she's in her own condo--she thinks "they" took her to a nice place with closets full of nice clothes that fit her! I feel that she would have done much better in an environment with trained staff, memory workshops, and a community of other residents. It's tough for me, and I'm not even close with my mother, so I know how tough it must be for you. So don't beat up on yourself. Just listen to some Leon Thomas instead.

A very Frankfurt-school sentiment.

It was so long ago, and I read a lot of stuff, much out of print, so I can't remember. He was certainly a Tory. I've read The Good Soldier 3 or 4 times over the years.

I was talking about the one-eyed guy. There was a big to do on Jazz Corner by somebody who posts here sometimes who refused to accept the concept of "Jewish atheist," when I brought it up, though it's a venerable tradition.

The Famous Flames James Brown James Browne Jim, there's a great clip on Youtube of Hendrix with the Isleys, where he already sounds pretty much like his Experience(d) self.

The lofts and musician-run labels of the '70s constitutes a golden age, IMO, contrary to the dominant Marsalis-Burns narrative.

Are you sure it wasn't Peter Falk he was talking about? Here it is: http://between-dreams.deviantart.com/journal/When-We-ll-Worship-Jesus-by-Amiri-Baraka-241368881 As a jewish atheist, I don't really understand why an adherent of one of the Abrahamic sects would kvetch about Jesus. I mean, can't you just replace Jesus with Mohammed in the poem? "we'll worship jesus when mao do," -- Is Baraka still a Maoist or pro-Mao?

I'm a big fan of Ford Madox Ford, and in one of his memoirs I found a blatantly anti-semitic remark. I mentioned to a friend I was disappointed and he said, "Yeah, but if you stopped reading all the anti-semites you'd be missing a lot of great literature."

At least three.

Curtis Knight Lonnie Youngblood Jimi Hendrix

Bingo Bud Abbott Lou Costello

Well, you wandered around and finally found somebody who... I'll raise you Al Hibbler, who I generally don't like, except the date with Rahsaan that's so surreal it's brilliant. I'm not so hot on Earl Coleman's recordings with the original boppers (though it's a great voice), but those albums he did for Xanadu in the '70s are excellent.

I trust that assessment comes as the result of a thorough and extensive reading of the published writings of all those in question. Especially if somebody goes searching for that name on a jazz board!

Rhetorical question: would a right-wing rant, employing similar rhetorical devices, rhythms and structure (I use the word loosely), be similarly welcomed?

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