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First time I went to the Monterey Jazz Festival I saw Patty Waters (as well as another favorite of mine, Bobbe Norris). Patty's sound was so brutally honest and vulnerable, I was on the edge of my seat. I had known the ESP recordings, but this was more profound. I also noticed how much she got from Ethel Waters, and when I spoke with her she confirmed this. A few years later I got to see her reunited with Burton Greene at the Vision Festival. I saw a Hendricks & Ross reunion at the Blue Note in 1999. The pianist, David (whose last name I can't remember), had been a classmate of mine in an abnormal psych class at Brooklyn College ca. 1974, but that was the only time I saw him gigging, and haven't heard of him since.

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Unless you're an accordion hater, you've got to have some Gus Viseur. Here's a blog post about him from Durium: http://keepswinging.blogspot.com/2008/12/gus-viseur-accordion-player-1915-1974.html

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Bley has been known to "vocalize," but not as egregiously.

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She needs a medical alert device and plan. My mother has one, and before she had full time aides she was rescued at least three times after falls--the company gets the notification and they send out local emergency services. There are a number of providers. I think my mother might have this one: http://www1.lifestation.com/

Charles Lloyd, "Pre-Dawn," on the "soundtrack" album. It's a live solo sax performance that is Ayler-influenced and anticipates David Murray. It's a discrete track, but it segues directly into Forest Flower, so I suspect it was really intended as a long intro of sorts.

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.