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You guys got me thinking about concerts from back in the day...

Here's some of the acts I caught:

Rolling Stones...twice...1969 and 1972. Ike & Tina Turner. Janis Joplin. B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Procol Harum. Sabbath, Springtsteen (twice), Boz Scaggs, J. Geils, Allman Brothers, Delaney & Bonnie, Poco, Leon Russell, Beach Boys, Zappa, Pink Floyd, Hot Tuna, Steve Miller Band, Canned Heat...


...and a lot of jazz greats that a lot of you guys probably aren't all that familiar with like Charles Mingus, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Kenny Dorham, etc etc.

A lot of its pretty hazy...not necessarily based on how long ago it was...LOL.
 
Richard338 said:
I still have the trumpet I got at age 9 along with a Tommy Dorsey LP.
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My late friend Phil Schaap used to play the trumpet while we were drinking gin and listening to Thelonious Monk and other jazz records in his parents' Hollis Hills home when we were both in our late teens. (I can't drink gin to this day.)

Phil played football for a while at Columbia but became famous for archival jazz research and running the West End jazz club up in that section of Harlem. He won a few Grammys along the way.

He introduced me to some great jazz players and acts when we were youngsters, most of them now long gone. He never did become much of a trumpet player, but we sure loved Miles.

Dick Schaap, the sports reporter was his uncle or cousin, I forget.
 
I still have somewhere between 500 and 1000 cds of old jazz and blues classics over the years. Great stuff nandok nandok

(I gave away my turntable and my record collection when I left FL for NC.)

Oh yeah, I forgot to add I saw Chick Corea and Return to Forever (with Flora Purim and Stanley Clarke) back in the day as well.

Miles Mingus Monk Coltrane...the hard bop years are by far my favorite.

Was just listening to this beautiful piece of music...

 
yoko said:
I tried to learn the saxophone in grade school ..... I figured when I was old enough I'd get into cigars too.... Clinton pulled chick's


Lol
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I was taking alto sax lessons while I was working in LE in NYC back in the early 80's. Until one day a passerby was walking past my building, (I had a third floor apartment), and yelled out "Put a sock in it!". That was when I realized that I'd never play "Blue Rondo a la Turk" like Paul Desmond...and settled for life as a fed.

True story.
 
Blues said:
Oh yeah, I forgot to add I saw Chick Corea and Return to Forever (with Flora Purim and Stanley Clarke) back in the day as well.

Miles Mingus Monk Coltrane...the hard bop years are by far my favorite.

Was just listening to this beautiful piece of music...

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Mmmm so sweet, that Miles trumpet ❤️ I soooo love the late 60's Miles band with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Ron Carter: Sorcerer, ESP, Nefertiti, etc.
Wow, you saw Return to Forever, awesome!
Weather Report - all, with Miroslav, with Jaco, all fantastic, Larry Coryell - Spaces...some of my favorite fusion. I really love Miles' "In a Silent Way" album

Blues said:
"Blue Rondo a la Turk" like Paul Desmond
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Love that Dave Brubeck Quartet (Quintet?) Take Five album!
 
Blues said:
My late friend Phil Schaap used to play the trumpet while we were drinking gin and listening to Thelonious Monk and other jazz records in his parents' Hollis Hills home when we were both in our late teens. (I can't drink gin to this day.)

Phil played football for a while at Columbia but became famous for archival jazz research and running the West End jazz club up in that section of Harlem. He won a few Grammys along the way.

He introduced me to some great jazz players and acts when we were youngsters, most of them now long gone. He never did become much of a trumpet player, but we sure loved Miles.

Dick Schaap, the sports reporter was his uncle or cousin, I forget.
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Phil was a human Jazz encyclopedia.
 
Big DJ said:
Phil was a human Jazz encyclopedia.
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And about as nice a guy as you'd ever meet.

I hadn't spoken to him in some years and I decided out of the blue to call him at the station and was put through to him without identifying myself. I said one word, "applesauce", and he immediately yelled out "Elliott!"...

It was from a funny ("you had to be there" type) story from back when we were in our late teens or early twenties.

Gone too soon.
 
I don't get there often but I had a date at a restaurant there.

So, here's a distant view from the beach at the south end of Alameda island taken w/my sh*tty phone cam at max 8x.

I'm biased and say what you will about it but IMO there isn't a more photogenic city anywhere else in the world than San Francisco .

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