When I wake up in the morning I pour the coffee read the paper

My age +1.

(Also, guys? Robert Moog? Still dead, I'm afraid.)

Comments

[M. C-]

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i'm singing hallelujah. hope you're having a good day, and the fishes are well fed.

[Andrew Durkin]

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Happy happy!

[Frank J. Oteri]

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We were definitely aware of and saddened by Moog's passing but for some reason the database entry was never updated and for some equally inane reason I also missed your blogpost about this matter last year. We have a few conscientious readers who send me email reminders about stuff like this and it's extremely helpful. (I usually update errata the same day if I can.) It takes a village (as folks said back in the '90s when this database was first created) to maintain a birthday list of this size, as you might well imagine ;) Happy birthday!

[cbj smith]

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Happy... um... must be your eighteenth birthday? 8-) Keep on writing!

The newmusicbox also had trombonist Al Grey still alive yesterday, eight years after his passing. I sent a note along.

I met Al Grey at an IAJE convention (also late and lamented) a few years before his passing. He was a lot shorter than he sounded on the recordings. There's a live recording of the Basie Band playing April In Paris where is BURYING the entire band, and apparently leading the laid-backness of the phrasing, too. This must have been the only group other than the rock band Chicago where the trombonist led the brass.