Milestones

Number 2 is Coltrane's "Liberia." I imagine it's pretty recent, and can be found on one of the many Coltrane tribute albums--or can be viewed as jazz standard (as it should). I was thinking it's a bit like Kenny Garrett, but certainly not Kenny on his own Trane tribute. Good stuff. You can't beat Coltrane himself, but I nearly always enjoy others playing his music. Number 3...this tune sounds very familiar. Rather good tune, nice performance. That does sound quite a bit like Lovano--most of the time, but not always. I don't think it's him. It seems to me that many tenor saxophonists have adopted elements of his style.

Not sure whether any of them were truly good singers in the traditional sense--maybe Levon, though he sounded like he was 75 when he was in his 30s. But it worked for The Band. Robbie is at his best on his first solo album, especially the primarily talked "Somewhere Down the Crazy River." Garth's contributions to The Band were enormous.

R.I.P. I enjoyed From Another Perspective. I had always meant to pick up a few more of his records. He liked his Monk! There are four Monk tunes on the record with Pepper Adams.

R.I.P. What a great player. Roy was an absolute legend, and I did get see him live--he must have been pushing 90 and his playing could pass for 25! A man to be mentioned in the same breath with Max, Art, and Elvin. I loved his collaborations with the late great Chick Corea.

R.I.P. What a long life and career! Now listening to Lush Life--not at all the usual thing for Lou, and quite good. Also one of the many fine BN albums that oddly sat in the can for over a decade.

I was not too aware of her, but I've heard a few things--primarily on BandCamp. It is certainly stuff worth hearing. And it certainly seems that she was under-recorded. R.I.P., Claire.

And retired for quite some time, so it really is the passing of an era.

I thought about this famous photo after the death of Benny Golson. So I have a simple question: Other than Sonny Rollins, is there anyone in the photo who is still alive?

I would like to hear some more stuff from when he was using Arthur Blythe and David Murray, especially the former.

I liked Benny's playing. He could be tasteful and bluesy, and it seemed like he never wasted a note.

I have really enjoyed Benny Golson and his music, and I was fortunate to see him live very later-career. I won't say it was a renaissance period...I mean did he ever have a down period as player, composer, arranger, band leader? I turned several people on to his "Gypsy Jingle Jangle." They loved it. For many of them, jazz was the last thing they would listen to. R.I.P., Benny.

You are quite the authority. I have studied The Twilight Zone extensively, but my knowledge on the music scores is nothing compared to yours. As in so many others areas, the music on the show was high quality.

And more recently Oliver Lake, as well as Arthur Blythe on a Rodney Jones record. Lake's organ quartet prominently features trumpeter Freddie Hendrix.

"The Encounter" from the 5th season and very near the end. It deals with racism as Takei plays a Japanese-American encountering a WW2 vet. It's about our tendency to automatically hate. Takei and Neville Brand are the sole actors in this episode.

Two more: Vera Miles (95) Carol Burnett (91)