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MUSIC - I love playing jazz !! Singing classic jazz standards, playing piano, saxophone. Swing, jump blues, modern jazz, burlesque, vaudeville, carnival, circus, caberet, magic, piano bar, Las Vegas history, jazz history, travel, urban bicycling, good choreography, bad performance art, crazy bohemian music.
I'd like to meet:
Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Bonnie and Clyde.
Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Ronnie Pierce.
Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk.
Fat Waller, Duke Ellington, the Cotton Club Dancers.
Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus.
Harry Houdini, Max Malini, PT Barnum.
Veronica Lake, Lana Turner, Ingrid Bergman
Josephine Baker, Anne Margeret, Peggy Lee ...
Music:
Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Lester Young,Duke Ellington, Billie Strayhorn, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, George GerschwinArt Tatum, Oscar Peterson,Teddy Wilson, Nat King Cole, Errol Garner, Fats Waller, Big Joe Turner,Frankie Lane, Mel Torme, Chet Baker, Fred Astaire, Louis Jordan,
Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Sam Butera, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin,
Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett,Ella Fitzgerald, Ertha Kitt, Nina Simone, Peggy Lee
Dinah Washington, Willie Mae Thornton, Koko Taylor,
Willie Dixon, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Hank Williams
Senior, The Mighty Sparrow, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Ray
Charles.
Movies:
The City of Lost Children, Brazil, Casablanca, Night of the Hunter,
A Touch of Evil, The Man in the White Suit, Down By Law
Heroes:
HEROES I ACTUALLY KNOW: Ronnie Pierce, Sonny King, and Irv
Klueger. Living proof that the life of the musician is the greatest life in
the world. They demonstrate what an honor it is to live the life of a
musician, and each has contributed greatly to the beauty of this world.
HEROES IN CONCERT: Betty Carter and the great Laura Perry (aka
Nevada Lieutenant Governor Lorraine Hunt) showed me how the
human voice, braced with experience, coupled with emotional truth,
can entrance, enchant, and elevate an audience with song.
LEGENDARY HEROES: In a transcendent moment, Ike Eisenhower
appointed Louis Armstrong as an official ambassador of the United
States. Louis traveled every corner of the world, sharing the best of
America, jazz music. Not only did Satchmo represent the highest
degree of musical achievement, but he clearly spoke to human
universiality simply by being himself. Mark my words, Louis
Armstrong will personalize the concept of sainthood to future
generations. Duke Ellington is also a hero; not only for his musical excellence beyond catagory, but also for assuming the arduous duty to keep his
ultra high caliber orchestra before the public for a great many years. Billie
Holiday showed the world how the human voice, through phrasing and
truth in emotion, could express jazz as well as any horn. And Charlie
Parker proved, through the musical expression of the jazz saxophone,
that heaven may be a practical possibility.
