fasstrack Posted January 11, 2012 Report Posted January 11, 2012 I'm very surprised his passing was not mentioned here. Unless I missed it, in which case, sorry. I thought he was brilliant. Spoke to him on the phone and met him. He helped me with my dream of getting a lifetime achievement award from ASCAP for Bill Finegan (one of his heroes---who he called every day after Bill's wife died). If anyone ever gets to the Museum of Television in NY or LA (it's called something else in NY now) in the collection there's a 1968 show of jazz performers made after RFK was killed. Called A Contemporary Memorial, artists include---among many others---Duke Ellington, Bill Evans with symphony orchestra, the Horace Silver Quintet, and the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra---which featured Brook playing on and conducting his arrangement of St. Louis Blues. Pretty great stuff. Quote
Jim R Posted January 12, 2012 Report Posted January 12, 2012 I'm very surprised his passing was not mentioned here. Seriously? The way we get strafed around here with RIP threads about people you never heard of, you think nobody's going to mention Brookmeyer's passing? Quote
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