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The last time I saw Lacy play was when he did the Beat Suite at Iridium, with George Lewis. It was bittersweet--everybody played great, but I had learned from a friend of Steve's, before it was announced officially, that Steve had been diagnosed with cancer earlier that week. You could see the sadness and concern on Irene's face the whole time. The ironic thing is that he and Avenel had been planning to record a duo album in NY, because Steve had been afraid he'd never get the chance again because Jean-Jacques had cancer before Steve was diagnosed. The recording date got canceled, but there is a duo concert floating around in the trading/torrenting world. The last time I saw Lacy was in the audience at a Ran Blake solo concert at Cobi Narita's place (Cobi is a remarkable, eternally young woman).

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She looks like Little Lulu in that picture. Horace Juvenal The Delicate Delinquent

It was due to hypertension, it turned out. But he did what looked like a very comical flip backward, and everybody started laughing assuming it was a joke, like Sonny was floored by Wynton, but Sonny didn't get up, then Masuo (I think) went over to Sonny and started talking, and Sonny didn't respond, and Masuo motioned to the band to stop, and an ambulance was called, and the show was rescheduled.

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Sounds like it. Did you make it to the extended gigs Mingus and Blakey had at the Top of the Gate in '74 and '75. This was somewhat later, but were you at the Rollins concert where he collapsed on stage, while Wynton was soloing?

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I either saw it when it first came out, at The Whitney Museum, or maybe a couple of years later at MoMA. It was definitely a screening at a museum, but I think I was older than 15, so it would have been after 1971. IIRC, I'd call the style of the film stylized documentary montage. Definitely a documentary, and that line of Brock Peters' that ends the original Miles album is from the film. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B00E2DF163EE63ABC4D53DFB767838A669EDE Further research shows that it was screened in London in 2005, but with DeJohnette leading a band to provide a live soundtrack: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/jun/01/jazz

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Cheikh Lo will be touring the U.S. in April. http://www.songkick.com/artists/278871-cheikh-lo

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I only recently became aware of the live in Geneva disc, which was only released in the last couple of years. Fabulous playing, a day after Lausanne. I'd say that those two nights in Switzerland are possibly the best Bud on record after 1951 (I think his best playing in late '61 & early '62 was stronger and more dynamic than the 1953 broadcasts and Massey Hall). I agree with Allen on A Portrait of Thelonious as the best late studio date, at the same high level as the two Swiss dates, and much better sound.

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I have a bunch of AccuJazz channels as presets on my TuneIn account, but I guess I set them before July, because I've just discovered they added an AACM channel in July. If I used such words, I'd say awesome.

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I think Aretha's version is much better than Warwick(e)'s. Warwick has done respectable versions of Brazilian music, including a duet with Chico Buarque.

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