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He even recorded and gigged with the Bill Evans Trio back in 1967-68. RIP.

Sam Brown was on that album; a dude whose involvement with all types of drugs led to his suicide at the age of 39. RIP.

You're lucky you didn't join. I was in my 40s when one of my students told me that KISS stood for Knights In the Service of Satan. If you had joined their Army, word on the street is, when Army members die, they face an eternity of listening to KISS records as a reward.for their service..LOL!

When I was a HS music teacher, I used to have a day where the students brought in their fave music, to study the way melody, harmony and rhythm were either used or not used in the garbage they listened to. One really talented Black kid who had perfect pitch. brought in some great D'Angelo tracks every week . It was the only good music the students brought in. Very sad that he passed at 51, RIP.

RIP- As a kid I was nuts about the MB's. I saw them live at the Fillmore East for free, because my sister worked there. During intermission, one of my other sister's friend's (who was in the habit of 'servicing' rockers...) told me she had a surprise for me. She led me down the aisle, to the side of the stage, where Graham Edge was waiting. I shook hands with him, and he recoiled in horror, because my hand was so sweaty, and let out an 'Ugh!' All I could think of to say to him was, "Man, I really dig your poetry", and that was it. Later on, my late cousin Chuck, who was a bass player, had a Moody Blues album, and he put it on the basement stereo ( which was in a little room under the stairs- a tradition in suburbia back then) and I was shocked to hear them play not psychedelic rock music like "Ride My See-Saw", but the R&B song "Go Now". Years later I was even more shocked when I played 'The History of Rock and Roll" video for one of my music classes, and in the segment of "The British Invasion", they ended it by playing Bessie Banks' original version of "Go Now". I said to my class, " But this was done by The Moody Blues in the 60's! This is freakin' me out!" The class just looked at me and said, "He be buggin' again."

I still can't find the D.S al Coda is on any of your charts. I see clearly where the Dal Segno sign is (where you go back to to repeat a specific section, but I can't find the D.S al coda is that tells you where you should play up to before you repeat. Good selection of Nick Drake, EW&F,Steely Dan in the Pop section

Just finishing Ray Brown's biography by Jay Sweet. Today, Thomas Pynchon's new novel "Shadow Ticket" was released. It takes place in 1933, thus completing TP's cycle of a novel for every decade of the 20th Century. This one involves the disappearance of a cheese heiress, with a Private Eye hot on the trail. It seems she ran off with a big band clarinetist. to Germany. Was it of her own accord? We'll soon find out...

Thanks for the clarification on my post, Mike!

I love BJ.. He's one of the greatest steel string finger picking guitarists that ever lived. "Interesting does not mean jazz. I;d rather listen to him than any of the so-called 'jazz' guitarists of today. I'm just saying that they wouldn't have been able to play songs like "Reflections", and the one that they modeled after "All Blues" without a jazz rhythm section like Danny Thompson and Terry Cox.

Yeah, without either of those two guys, the jazz part is gone, and all you get are folk songs.

Well, it can't be much worse than Mickey Rooney playing him in "Words and Music (1948). To quote then NY Times movie reviewer, Bosley Crowther (great name for a NY movie reviewer), "t is played with fantastic incompetence by Tom Drake and Mickey Rooney in the principal roles".

RIP

I couldn't believe this when I first read it. My first reaction was HS! The VV Band is a tightly knit circle. He must have wanted to them to keep the BDC a secret.RIP

We were just playing "Little Girl Blue"the other night, and I had to look up at the music to see who wrote such incredible lyrics and great music. Sure enough, it was Rodgers and Hart. Hawke chooses such great roles.