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I got another old one today too.

Merry Xmas to all So Free, do you have a aluminum Xmas tree down there?

I still dig those London House sides, Live at the Stafford Festival and that jam with Dizzy: "Ali and Frazier" Here he is in Rochester - 1975

Thsi is for you, Chewy. From my collection:

Not my thing Cliff. Let me see if I still have it in my vinyl racks....Nope! It went to that great LP trade in the sky.

I used to have this one back in the day. It was horrible! Well look here, I found this on YouTube. Judge for yourself... Tyrone Washington - Roots

Graham would at times, rent out the Fillmores to other promoters. Maybe this one?: Art Blakey - Fillmore East, NYC (March 9, 1969) [db 3/20/69 pp.14, 52]

These are from the Fillmore East: 12 April 1968 Butterfield Blues Band, Charles Lloyd, Tom Rush 01 June 1968 Moby Grape, Fugs, Gary Burton Quartet 02 June 1968 Bill Cosby, Janice Nian, Frankie Dunlop & Maletta, Jazz Pantomime 08 November 1968 Steppenwolf, Buddy Rich, Children Of God 04 December 1968 Duke Ellington, New York R 'N R Ensemble 17 January 1969 Buddy Rich, Grass Roots, Spirit. 29 May 1969 Led Zeppelin, Woody Herman & His Orchestra, Delaney & Bonnie 09 January 1970 Ike & Tina Turner, Mongo Santamaria, Fats Domino 06 March 1970 Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Steve Miller Blues Band, Miles Davis 17 June 1970 Laura Nyro, Miles Davis Quintet 01 April 1971 Santana, Tower Of Power, Rahsaan Roland Kirk & Vibration Society Buddy Rich: Fillmore West : 26 July 1968 Charles Lloyd, Herd, James Cotton 05 August 1968 Ornette Coleman,Chambers Brothers, Charlatans, Queen Lily Soap 14 November 1968 Ten Years After, Country Weather, Sun Ra 04 May 1969 Mongo Santamaria, Cold Blood, Elvin Bishop 17 June 1969 Who, Woody Herman, A.B. Skhy 04 September 1969 Santana, Sea Train, Yusef Lateef 12 March 1970 Ten Years After, Buddy Rich, Sea Train, Kimberley 16 April 1970 John Mayall, Larry Coryell, Argent 27 August 1970 John Mayall, Elvin Bishop, Herbie Hancock, 15 October 1970 Leon Russell, Miles Davis, Sea Train 06 May 1971 Miles Davis, Elvin Bishop, Mandrill

In Bill Graham's autobiography, Bill Graham Presents, there are nice sections where he describes Buddy Rich and Rahsaan playing at the Fillmore West. In general, the book is very good until he reaches the point when he closed the Fillmores.

The Christmas Concert Tommy Smith Quartet Tommy Smith - tenor saxophone Gareth Williams - piano Orlando Le Fleming - bass Sebastiaan De Krom - drums

I wish I could find that picture of Bird on a glof course I saw once. There's a story of him golfing at a course when he was here in Rochester when he played once. I'm sure Rochester bordom drove him to it. Many years ago Chuck Wayne asked me to take him to a driving rage when he was bored out of his mind here for a three week gig with Joe Puma. Puma just stayed in his room and smoked and drank. Chuck was a complete golf nut. Every year there is a golf fund raiser here, for The Commission Project here, along with concerts and workshops. Jay Leonhart, is one of the musicians that always hits the links. I know Branford Marsalis is a golfer too. I believe that Ray Brown died after a round of golf and Flip Philipps was a golfer too.

Up for Edmar, that bad M/F:

Edmar is a phenomenon, and he swings too! Joe is happy to play with him and see what happens. I think he's bringing the marimba also. It should be wild.

Slide Hampton & Sam Jones

Here's one of Slide from 1978: That's Jimmy Heath & Sam Jones on the left. Ben Riley behind Slide.

Erin Davis, left, Cheryl Davis, center, children of the late jazz musician Miles Davis and his first wife Frances Davis pose for a photo during a ceremony on Sept. 28, 2006, inducting Miles posthumously into Hollywood's RockWalk in Los Angeles.

Thanks. Here's another with him and Ernie Wilkins.

Looks like Cicely Tyson: Betty Mabry http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/%A5Artist%20G...avis-1975-1.jpg

In the Basement:

For the curious, it seems that Miles bought the place on W. 77th in 1959 and moved in there the next year after renovations were made.

Great photos, but I think they are later than 1955. Was Miles living on W. 77th in '55? The photos clearly show a paper backdrop, like one in a photographer's studio.

The guy still sells magazines! Thanks!

Happy Birthday Jim!

Clark knows how to have a good time!

Russ Freeman 1950s > Tommy Flanagan's career... ya'll wanna thank Art Pepper or Chet for that, okay, but facts is facts. (& this one incontrovertible: just try!) I'll do that, Clem. I'm a WIDE open kind of guy. In a music appreciation sense, that is.