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He plays it when it's called for, like this one:

I know Bob and he's a very nice man. Although he doesn't look it, he's 78 this year. He wouldn't mind at all. You might want to see this Bob Cranshaw's Bass

Happy Birthday, Tom!!

I have that Weather Report disc, that I bought back in the day. I'm sure that's a great deal. I actually listened to it a couple of month ago, but what can I say, my tastes have changed!

I only saw him once, probably about the same time. Lloyd Glenn was playing piano. It was a great experience to sit in front of him in a small club ( he sat in a chair and walked with a cane) and get a real feeling of his sound.

This one is a lot of fun:

I saw the band a couple of weeks ago and the house was pretty well sold out. The band is fine, especially Jeremy and Danny Grissett, who are wonderful, although Gerald Cleaver is not my kind of drummer. Tell us what you think if you hear them, Mike.

By the way, she ran The Jazz Bakery in L.A.

Happy Birthday, Paul!!

Tom, that's actually what ignited my most recent Neil Young kick. I taped an Afterglow recently that will air in a month or so and used two tracks off the new Locke; one of them was "Birds." I gave the CD to our weekday afternoon jazz DJ and he played that track too, just the other day. Any other jazz/popular-song-artist covers of Neil? There's Cassandra Wilson's "Harvest Moon," but I can't think of any others off the top of my head. Actually David, Joe Locke also did "Don't Let it Bring You Down" On his "Storytelling" cd. Mark Ledford sings on that one, along with Tain, Paul Bollenback, Henry Hey, Tim Garland and Eric Revis.

You might be interested to know that on Joe Locke's new cd 'For The Love Of You", his does Neil Young's "Birds". Kenny Washington sings. You can hear a small sample here: For The Love of You

I'm happy to say that I provided some photos from Studio Rivbea for the booklet. I just got this over the weekend and haven't listened to the music, but it's a excellent presentation! 1st Class all the way.

It sure looks like him.

June, 1977

One of my photos from the Vanguard:

Happy Birthday, Jon!

I saw him first with Mercer Ellington and then Dizzy. I thought he has a son that was a drummer. He used to give a little salute after he soloed. I found it annoying. Abdul Al-Khabyyr, Al-Hajj Sayyd

I"ve never seen that cover either, or this one:

I dig Marcus. He develops and advances every day. I actually don't like Kenny Garretts tendency to milk his solos for audience response. Marcus is a thinker.

I believe it's been acknowledged that Jack's first gig was at Duffy's Backstage in Rochester. Maybe that's why a remember a rehearsal during the day when I had to clean up the place. During that run (which was at least a week, maybe two), I started working at Duffy's as a busboy and bar back after school and on the weekends. I can't say I remember much about the music, but Miles himself did cause a stir! I was 13 at the time.

According to Losin: "the Quintet played a week (December 9-14) at the Black Bottom Club in Montreal, where Stanley Cowell was added on acoustic piano. These were Tony Williams's last live gigs with the Quintet. He remained with Davis through the February 18 In a Silent Way session. Although he was originally slated to accompany the Quintet on a Japanese tour in January 1969, the tour was canceled due to trouble with Japanese immigration officials. Jack De Johnette replaced Williams for good in late February 1969." Is there a recording of the Club Baron gig?

I just finished reading your article Ken, then I see this. Another one of the good guys gone. I used to visit the Jazz and Blues Centre quite often when I was younger and making road trips to Toronto. A wonderful advocate for the music and great guy he was.

Get this one. It freakin' great!

When there are just two sets a night, each set is 75 minutes. On the weekends when there are three sets, each set is 60 minutes. She still acted like a shit, though.

When Geoffrey Keezer was playing there with his trio a few years ago,( a fantastic set of music, by the way), Lorraine said something like "I don't like what you're playing! Why don't you play 'Body and Soul' !!" It was more nasty that I could write it here. She went on to disparage each member of the band, including their dress and whatnot. Keezer said "Let me get this straight; you don't like my music and you don't like my band. Why am I even here?" During the '70's, when I was there quite often, I never saw her there. Not once.