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Sad news, one of the few originals I got to see, in 1998. As has been said upthread, he was very popular in the UK. I know he played here as recently as 2022, at a middle-aged festival near where I live.
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Wow, never knew he was "Buster Poindexter", whom I remember from that Disney film song LP in 1989. I'd only recently realised he had a cameo in "Oz", a show I watched religiously over 20 years ago.
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That's probably enough "Carnival"
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I have been re-reading my stash of Kurt Vonnegut novels which I last read as a young man. I've found that I've preferred his 1980s output (Deadeye Dick, Galapagos, Bluebeard and Hocus Pocus) to his earlier work. I can't really explain why, except to say the later novels just seem a bit more substantial maybe.
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If you sort his inventory from lowest first, I counted 17 copies of Earl Klugh's "Finger Painting" and 11 copies of Stanley Jordan's "Magic Touch" in the first 100 listings. Anyway, I think those $1000+ listings are some pricing glitch, deliberate or otherwise.. There's no way he doesn't know the market prices of Japanese Blue Notes
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Jazz musicians in TV commercials. Can you recall any?
Royal Oak replied to Hardbopjazz's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Here in the UK we had Sacha Distel hawking Mandate after shave. I had no idea until a few years ago that Sacha Distel had jazz credentials. To 10 year me he was a funny Frenchman. "Is orat, she's ma waf" was a common refrain in school for a while. Andrew Preview hawking hi-fi. Again, I was ignorant of Previn at the time; he was a somewhat mannered man whom Morecambe and Wise took the piss out of on British TV. -
Haha, I also return to it from time to time, including yesterday. It's quite a ride - I think it was discussed on here at the time - 2018 I think?
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Pretty sure there is one there. Think of it as a "Where's Wally?" (or Waldo, depending on where you live) type of challenge
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That's sad news, Benny was a big part of my early jazz listening 30 years ago, via the Moanin' and Groovin' with Golson albums in particular.
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I see that Gap have come up with a Monk T-shirt. Alas, @Rabshakeh, it appears to be a US only release. https://southcentremall.com/shop/product/thelonious-monk-graphic-t-shirt-gap-362fa0
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I bought a copy of Kaleidoscope a couple of weeks back, and inside was a nicely-preserved copy of the programme for the tour you mention. I took a pic but it's about 5Mb too large for me to upload here, unfortunately.
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@Rabshakeh - you could buy this at Abercrombie & Fitch last year
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Rinku Singh famously hit 30 off the last 5 balls to win an IPL match last year: And the infamous last over of the T20 World Cup final in 2016, when West Indies needed 19 off the final over:
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Things Written On Used LPs You've Picked Up
Royal Oak replied to Teasing the Korean's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Indeed. My other thought was that it could have been a little-known genre of music coming out of Bristol and Bath -
Things Written On Used LPs You've Picked Up
Royal Oak replied to Teasing the Korean's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
I bought some records recently, and on the inner sleeve of a Harry Beckett LP is written the date and "LP in good shape but music clever avon garde?"