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hi i just got the later rca victor pressing which uses his real name but why was jackie having to use a different name on the Vik issue? does anyone know about this aspect of his bio

Who knows? The record label didn't want him mistaken for a White chick?

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Benda on the front cover, Bender, on the back cover personnel listings and liner notes.

Nat Hentoff's liners call it a nom-de-circumstance.

Damn neolojisms.

Posted

Benda on the front cover, Bender, on the back cover personnel listings and liner notes.

Nat Hentoff's liners call it a nom-de-circumstance.

Damn neolojisms.

Ah, okay, I just have the CD which lists him as Jackie McLean.

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Benda on the front cover, Bender, on the back cover personnel listings and liner notes.

Nat Hentoff's liners call it a nom-de-circumstance.

Damn neolojisms.

Ah, okay, I just have the CD which lists him as Jackie McLean.

I picked up the Vik LP years (decades, actually...damn!) ago in Albuquerque, for some absurdly low price. Kinda took me aback, because I was completely unaware of the album then, and thought that Vik was more a or less a "budget" label, the RCA equivalent of Epic. So I figured that Ferris Benda/Bender was just some one-off junkie who passed through the Messengers for a day or two. Got home, put the record on, and WHOA, HEY, I know who THAT is!

Quite the :g :g :g :g :g moment, that was!

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It's an excellent record.

I have a Steve Lacy on VIK Italy, Disposability... though it may have been a budget LP when it came out in 1965, it sure isn't one now!

One of the half-dozen Lacy albums I would take to a desert island.

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Actually, Jackie made the date because it was Ferris Benda's day off.

I don't know whether to salute you or damn you.

I had wondered how long it would take for someone to make the joke.

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