I recently received a comment on one of my posts from last summer entitled “Sonny Stitt – “How Many Keys on the Saxophone?” from a well informed gentleman by the name of Leo Cluesmann. In my post, I detailed the experience of my encounter in 1980 with the jazz legend, saxophonist Sonny Stitt, believing, correctly as I found out, that many people who are still around had their own Stitt stories. It is obvious, using Mr. Cluesmann’s comment as an example, that even more than thirty years after his death, Stitt still elicits some strong emotions from folks. I’ll include … Read More
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From the mid 1970’s until the early ’80’s I lived in Munich, Germany. Aside from being a beautiful, culturally oriented city lying at the foothills of the Alps, Munich hosted (somewhat unceremoniously, it seems in retrospect) one of Europe’s premier jazz venues at the time, known as the “Domicile” The “Domicile” was on par with Ronnie Scott’s in London, the Montmartre in Copenhagen, and several other major European clubs. It was part of “the circuit”, so one got to see all the major jazz legends who came over from the States (plus some of the top European musicians), on a … Read More
Miles Don’t Play Dat! I’d been thinking about doing this post for about a month now, since I happened upon this YouTube vid. It’s an interview with Miles Davis by TV producer Bill Boggs from ca. 1990, for what I’m guessing was a local Philadelphia daytime talk show. The reason I had reservations about posting it is because as a new blogger trying to gain some cred, I thought this might verge on silliness. Well, after giving it some thought, I remembered that “I.B. Silly” just so happens to be one of my multiple personalities, and in the words of … Read More