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Many thanks to all of you. It was an interesting day... we had breakfast this morning at Ladyman's, a wonderful throwback kind of family diner here in downtown Bloomington that's being forced out of business after nearly 50 years by a new landlord. Bought a huge Christmas tree and lugged it home by hand and foot--it's the first tree we've had in this house. Then up to Indianapolis for a great conversation & coffee/sandwich with a couple of board members (Joe, I hope I didn't talk your ear off!). After that we visited my mom's gravesite for the first time since the funeral; the marker finally got delivered about a month ago. Emotionally difficult, to say the least--I had Comden & Green's 1960 cast recording of "Some Other Time" stuck in my head all day after taping a Betty Comden tribute the other night, and that song now triggers a whole host of feelings about mortality and loss. Afterwards we had a great dinner with my dad and my grandmother (still going strong as a ragtime pianist/performer at age 88). Now back in B-town and listening to more J.R. Monterose (man, I'd forgotten what a great record Kenny Dorham's ROUND MIDNIGHT AT CAFE BOHEMIA is) in preparation for a show.

Very grateful, as always, for this board & the friendship, knowledge, and camaraderie--jazz and otherwise--that it offers. Salutes and salutations all around "at the swingin' party down the line."

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Many thanks to all of you. It was an interesting day... we had breakfast this morning at Ladyman's, a wonderful throwback kind of family diner here in downtown Bloomington that's being forced out of business after nearly 50 years by a new landlord. Bought a huge Christmas tree and lugged it home by hand and foot--it's the first tree we've had in this house. Then up to Indianapolis for a great conversation & coffee/sandwich with a couple of board members (Joe, I hope I didn't talk your ear off!). After that we visited my mom's gravesite for the first time since the funeral; the marker finally got delivered about a month ago. Emotionally difficult, to say the least--I had Comden & Green's 1960 cast recording of "Some Other Time" stuck in my head all day after taping a Betty Comden tribute the other night, and that song now triggers a whole host of feelings about mortality and loss. Afterwards we had a great dinner with my dad and my grandmother (still going strong as a ragtime pianist/performer at age 88). Now back in B-town and listening to more J.R. Monterose (man, I'd forgotten what a great record Kenny Dorham's ROUND MIDNIGHT AT CAFE BOHEMIA is) in preparation for a show.

Very grateful, as always, for this board & the friendship, knowledge, and camaraderie--jazz and otherwise--that it offers. Salutes and salutations all around "at the swingin' party down the line."

Sounds like you had a good birthday. Here's to many more!

(And man I love "Some Other Time",I guess because of Bill Evans. It always drives me nuts that they don't sing it in the film version of On the Town-- though as I remember the score does hint at it.)

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(And man I love "Some Other Time",I guess because of Bill Evans. It always drives me nuts that they don't sing it in the film version of On the Town-- though as I remember the score does hint at it.)

They threw out a lot of Bernstein's music--I'm not sure why--and had Richard Edens write some new songs w/Comden & Green. That 1960 recording w/Comden, Green, and a couple of the other original cast members is really nice, though. (And of course SOT is what Bill Evans was improvising off of when he came up with "Peace Piece.")

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