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A great NY band of the '80s that overlaps with Skeleton Crew was George Cartwright's Curlew, which seemed to take influences of the more jazz-oriented Canterbury bands, Prime Time, and No Wave. I went to London in '09 for Ornette's Meltdown Festival, and besides getting to see Robert Wyatt sing a couple of songs with the Liberation Music Orchestra, I got to meet him in the Lobby of the theatre the night before, when Ornette performed with Frisell as a special guest. I told Wyatt that the chance to see him perform was one of the reasons I flew from NY. It was a great week--the BFI had a program of films by and with the eccentric writer B.S. Johnson, and I saw Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in Waiting for Godot.

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Not only are the ribs great at Bryant's, so are the fries. I also had a great steak at the Plaza III when I was there, about 10 or so years ago.

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I wish someone would release A Bag of Gold on CD. I wore out the grooves on the lp I had in the '70s, which I believe I bought as a cutout at Sam Goody's bargain outlet (IIRC, across the street from the main store where Harry Lim worked).

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That session was quite a train wreck.

New York was in the 60s on Wednesday. Fort Lauderdale was clear and in the 70s on Thursday. Mexico City was in the upper 60s yesterday afternoon and is clear and crisp this morning, shaping up to be a beautiful day.

So, did Mingus find him through one of his other Detroit connections?

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I love Joe Carroll. I saw him ca. 1976 on a jazz "cruise" on the Hudson. He was singing with Howard McGhee. I think Red Rodney and Charles McPherson might have also been on the bill. Very nice guy--I mentioned I had an Italian bootleg of a Dizzy L.A. Shrine concert where Joe was amazing.

He'd be the first to admit that. I think he said that being in Hamp's band with Clifford Brown and Art Farmer made him decide he'd better apply his talent and energies elsewhere... Regardless of any "moral failings," his own big band recordings of the late '50s and early '60s and his charts for Basie are stellar.

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Anybody whose only copy of their legitimate business data is on a single cloud service is a pretty lousy businessperson.

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