Random Music Thoughts

Nickyboy said:
Her daughter lived in the house next to us when we moved to RI. We had window boxes with herbs and flower in them. I was leaning out the window after Brown's graduation and here comes a group of people up the sidewalk. A beautiful woman with flowing hair waved at me and said "Hey, baby! What you growing?" I told her dwarf basil, thyme, and some marigolds. Her response was "It looks beautiful!!! Have a great day!!"
I realized 5 minutes later that Diana Ross was chit-chatting with me while she and her daughter and friends were walking back to her condo.
Another brush with fame!
(let me tell you about Patti LaBelle some time ((my girlfriend)) at my first job out of college).
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That’s a story I’d love to hear.
 
Ojai Sam said:
That’s a story I’d love to hear.
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I got a job working as a doorman at the Philadelphia Art Alliance during the year after college. A hoity-toity place that held private art shows, but also had a very small restaurant (10 tables at the most) that was run by the Philadelphia Restaurant School. So people would come for the shows/cocktail parties and then stay for dinner. As the door man, I also would offer to take the fur coats of patrons and keep them in my private closet behind my desk for safe keeping while they were there. One evening, Patti LaBelle came for a show and had on a full length fur. I held the door for her and her entourage and offered to hold her coat. She was very nice, gave me a big smile and said she would love that and turned around so I could take the coat off of her. "And what's your name?" I told her Nick, and she said "thank you, Nick for being so nice." At the end of the evening, she came back to leave, I got her coat and helped her put it on. "Thank you, Nick, it was wonderful to meet you!". I was surprised she remembered my name.
A few months later, she came back for another show. I opened and held the door for her, she looked at me and said "Nick! You are still here!". I couldn't believe she remembered me. Again, I took her coat and put it in my closet. She had a late dinner, and at about 10:30 one of the staff from the restaurant came out and said "Ms. LaBelle would like to see you in the restaurant". OK, then. The front door was locked because it was after hours, so I went back. She asked one of her people to bring an extra chair and then invited me to sit down and have dessert with her and her crew, which I gladly did. She asked me about what I do (no, I am not a professional door man). She seemed genuinely interested in hearing about my schooling and said that with a background in architectural history, I was sure to find a job in Philly soon. She was right. One month later I did.
One of the most genuinely warm, famous people I have met.
 
I may have mentioned that my next-door neighbor passed away due to cancer several months ago. John was the husband of Maria, both of Italian vintage. When we first moved in 20 years ago, they were taking care of two of their grandsons, who were in their late teens.

John is the one who recoined the phrase of there being two types of music, they being Bop and Post-Bop. I kind of wondered where Swing came in, or early Rock and Roll, but never took him up on that front. Ah, you think... this is why this is in the Random Music Thoughts.

Well, yes. Of course. Earlier this week, Maria, his widow, knocked on our door to ask whether I would want any of his CDs. The children and grandchildren had already picked whatever they had wanted, she said. She gave me two small boxes, each containing about 20 CDs. That's somewhat close to 40 for the math-impaired.

I ended up asking for them all, save for the one entitled Photos 2006. Among these were certain ones I have posted recently in the August WAYLT?: Fats Navarro, Bird & Diz, Eddie (Cleanhead) Vinson. There is also Clifford Brown, (even more) Charlie Parker, Satchmo, Bud Powell, Woody Herman, Chet Baker, Art Pepper, John Coltrane, and Pat Martino.

Today, she brought over three box sets: Count Basie (4 CDs), Wardell Gray (4CDs), and Jazz Masters, Volume 4 (5 CDs).

I am but a pig in slop right now.
 
axolotl said:
I may have mentioned that my next-door neighbor passed away due to cancer several months ago. John was the husband of Maria, both of Italian vintage. When we first moved in 20 years ago, they were taking care of two of their grandsons, who were in their late teens.

John is the one who recoined the phrase of there being two types of music, they being Bop and Post-Bop. I kind of wondered where Swing came in, or early Rock and Roll, but never took him up on that front. Ah, you think... this is why this is in the Random Music Thoughts.

Well, yes. Of course. Earlier this week, Maria, his widow, knocked on our door to ask whether I would want any of his CDs. The children and grandchildren had already picked whatever they had wanted, she said. She gave me two small boxes, each containing about 20 CDs. That's somewhat close to 40 for the math-impaired.

I ended up asking for them all, save for the one entitled Photos 2006. Among these were certain ones I have posted recently in the August WAYLT?: Fats Navarro, Bird & Diz, Eddie (Cleanhead) Vinson. There is also Clifford Brown, (even more) Charlie Parker, Satchmo, Bud Powell, Woody Herman, Chet Baker, Art Pepper, John Coltrane, and Pat Martino.

Today, she brought over three box sets: Count Basie (4 CDs), Wardell Gray (4CDs), and Jazz Masters, Volume 4 (5 CDs).

I am but a pig in slop right now.
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Wow, John really knew his jazz. :thumbsup:

My neighbor tried to give me a box full of Neil Diamond LP's when he and his wife moved back to Cleveland. I passed. :meh:
 
So the Woodstock sets has various announcements that fascinate me - were the people who needed their friends to meet them by the stage to get their car keys or meds successful in getting those people to meet them. We'll never know

But between Mountain and The Grateful Dead there's an announcement by Joshua White about a light show.
What's that all about? Thanks internet! Interesting article about White and Bill Graham's Fillmore East and the liquid light shows.

behindthescenes.nyhistory.org

The Joshua Light Show and the Rock & Roll Revolution: A Q&A with Lightmaster Joshua White | New-York Historical Society

New-York Historical’s exhibition Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution takes a deep dive into the life and times of one of the most influential concert promoters in rock history and the man behind such acts as the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Santana
behindthescenes.nyhistory.org behindthescenes.nyhistory.org

Joshua Light Show Founder on Fillmore East, Janis Joplin - Rolling Stone
 

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