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Jo Jones greeting Art Mardigan at Birdland, 1954
Gus Johnson and Basie band in background
Frank Wess, Ernie Wilkins, Marshall Royal, Frank Foster, Charlie Fowlkes
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Joe Newman, Dick Katz, Teddy Reig, Basie
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Bill at Struggles', Edgewater NJ, 1985
Dan Crow with first computer, TRS-80 Model 1, 1982
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Aileen, Dan and Bill Crow, 1973
Dan and Aileen, 2006
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Phil Woods, Dave Frishberg and Bill Goodwin at the party for Al Cohn and Zoot Sims at East Stroudsburg University, PA Nov 2005
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Aileen, Benny Green, Bill
Aileen Crow and Bill in San Francisco, 2005
Benny Green is a dear friend who Aileen and I have known since he was a baby. His parents, Bert and Lois Green, of Berkeley, CA, were pals of ours when they lived in New York City in the 1950s. I met Bert as a tenor player on the New York jam session scene, and discovered that he was also a fine painter and sculptor.
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This is Bert, in 1974 (d. 2008)
When Bert and Lois moved to California, I was on the road a lot with Gerry Mulligan, and used to visit them whenever I worked in San Francisco, getting to know Benny and his lovely sister Phoebe.
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When I stopped traveling, I didn't get to see the Green family for a while. A few years ago I was surprised and delighted when I picked up a Ray Brown CD and discovered that Benny had turned into a fantastic pianist. I'm always happy whenever our paths cross.
Duffy Jackson is the son of another old friend, bassist Chubby Jackson. I knew Chubby's work from records of the Woody Herman band, and when I was playing in Chicago with Gerry Mulligan, Chubby got in touch with me and invited me over to his TV show. He had a program showing old movies of the Little Rascals, with a set that mimicked scenes in the films, like a fence with knotholes. The Kay company even made Chubby a bass painted like the fence, knotholes and all. Chubby played a five-string bass, but used the fifth string as a high C, instead of the usual low C on five string basses. It gave him more punch in the upper register.
Duffy and Benny Green, Cork Jazz Festival 1996
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