My Brother Kareem (The Big Fella)

[Soulstation1]

[Christiern]

Very funny--he used to live in my building. Doormen told me that he hated to part with his dollars--never tipped!

Nice guy, however, and he loves jazz.

[Noj]

"Like Kareem I got the hook up"--The sky hook was the most unstoppable offensive weapon ever.

Anyone remember when his house burned down and he lost his entire collection of music?

[Soulstation1]

for noj

[The Mule]

He does love jazz. One day I was shopping at the Virgin Megastore on the Sunset Strip rummaging through the jazz section and this GIANT HAND reached over me and grabbed a cd.

Somewhat startled, I turned around to see who was standing behind me and found myself looking at someone's stomach (and I'm 6' tall). I looked UP and finally saw that Kareem was standing behind me. He said hello, as did I, and we both continued to browse.

As I recall, he was looking at the Duke Ellington discs...

[RDK]

Oh sure, I've seen Kareem at a few jazz events here in town over the years. He even spoke (and attended all day) the benefit concert for Billy Higgins shortly before he passed away...