Pete C

Henry Clay Work Henry Clay O'Henry (or, Oh [Ernie] Henry)

Tom Capone (Brazilian music producer) Tom Jobim Jim Beam

Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum La Vern Baker

Claudette Colbert Stephen Colbert Jon Stewart

Moses Black Moses Randy Weston

Did he talk about St. James Infirmary, the club in Greenwich Village he ran with Roswell Rudd in the mid-70s? I remember seeing Roswell, Hod, Sheila Jordan and Enrico Rava there in various combinations, usually with Wilbur Little on bass. I can't remember who would have been the house drummer. This was around the time of Flexible Flyer, but Altschul was more likely gigging with Rivers or Braxton in that period. Roswell's wife at the time, Moselle, was sort of the manager of the club.

Nobby Totah Robby Krieger Bobby Previte

His charts for Dizzy Plays Ellington are fantastic.

I think people in the northwest U.S. might pronounce pod and pawed almost the same. When my friends from Oregon say lawyer I think they're saying liar. I've always said Hod to rhyme with rod, which in Brooklyn also rhymes with hard. But maybe it's pronounced Hahd, to rhyme with the Boston pronunciation of card. I don't know how anybody could have divined any consensus here.

Joe South John East Cornell West

Okie from Muskogie Merle Haggard H. Rider Haggard

Ol Dirty Bastard William the Conqueror fka William the Bastard Love Child (never meant to be)

Tom Bosley David Doyle John Forsythe

Rainer Maria Rilke Heinrich Heine Rita Tushingham

Gaston Acurio Ferran Adria Thomas Keller

The Library of Congress has a bunch of unreleased Heider recordings. I listened to several when I was there ostensibly for other research ca. '95. http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n92-9311/ A friend of mine caught Miles in S.F. when Tony was a minor and he remembers that no alcohol was served during the group's engagement. I can't remember if he said it was the JW or Both/And.

Or your "personal habits."

Karen Valentine Isaac Bashevis Singer Joe Guy

Pat Hingle Jack Ging Rudolph Bing

Edna Purviance Charlie Chaplin Paulette Goddard

Moose Skowron Moose the Mooche Bird

http://petercherches.blogspot.com/2007/06/eavesdropping.html

Tom, I just remembered that I saw the octet once at a free outdoor show in midtown Manhattan--you might have shot some photos of it. Maybe late '70s? I remember Harold Vick and Frank Strozier.

IIRC it was either Hentoff or Ira Gitler who said that, in the late '50s, and the writer later explained that he was referring to his tone, not the quality of playing. Mobley's tone in the '50s was more Lester-leaning than it later became, but it was somewhere between the "brothers" school and the Hawk/Byas/Webster/Rollins tone school. The rhythm section was so damn hot at that point it was probably inevitable that they'd spin off as a working trio.

For years the only Coleman I knew was with Miles, and I was very underwhelmed. Then I saw him some time in the '80s at Fat Tuesdays and he blew me away. He played tenor, soprano, and fabulous alto. How much has he recorded on alto? I saw him several times after and his mileage varied, but at the North Sea Festival in 2000 (w/ John Hicks) I remember a particularly gripping ballad performance, but I forget the tune. I caught him with Michael and Louis Hayes and I think John Weber at Smoke a couple of years after that and I think he stuck to tenor.