bluenoter wrote: Shulamith Firestone
Stone Phillips
I. F. Stone

Irving Stone
Irving Abrams
Abdullah Ibrahim

Gentle Giant wrote:
Christopher Lee
Stan Lee
Viv Stanshall

Vivian Vance
Courtney Vance
Courteney Cox

Gentle Giant wrote:James Carr
Jesse James
Jesse Winchester

Jesse Jackson
Javon Jackson
Jackson Browne

bluenoter wrote:
Montgomery Clift
Eleanor Clift
Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Davis
Melba Moore
Melba Joyce

Gentle Giant wrote:Bev Bevan
Beverly D'Angelo
Angelo Dundee

Angelo Sosa
Michelangelo
Michael Anthony

Looks good, Tom. Don't forget Eubie Blake both as composer and performer.

bluenoter wrote:
Anderson Cooper
Ry Cooder
Ty Cobb

Jimmy Cobb
Jimmy Stewart
Stewart Granger

When I had a plot in a community garden, every year I froze some of my full-size tomatoes whole, wrapped in aluminum foil---with the vintage indicated on a taped-on label. http://tinyurl.com/1-smilie (The more humongous the tomato, the better.) All I did first was rinse them off and wipe th...

Jimmy, I hope you're making sauce with some of those gorgeous tomatoes. Hmmmm fresh tomato pizza. I need to make at least one of those before the month is out. :) Last night brought out one of the packages of veal scallops I brought back from my amazing butcher in Boston (Sulmona on Parmenter Street...

bluenoter wrote:
Aisha Kahlil
Khalil Gibran
Constantin Brancusi

Christian Constant
Christian Scott
Christian McBride

such sad news

He made such great music, and so many opportunities for cats.

Such a lovely man, as well. He's probably already leading one of those great Big Bands in the Sky. Can't imagine him resting...

Gentle Giant wrote:
Zelda Fitzgerald
Gerald Scarfe
Roger Waters

Ethel Waters
Ethel Ennis
Ennis Cosby

just a bit late getting here...

Sonny Rollins is certainly one for whom the term "The Great" is totally appropriate. I wish him many more Happy Birthdays.

bluenoter wrote:
Lenny Kaye
Lenny Bruce
Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Willis
Willis (Gatortail) Jackson
Willis Reed

Jimmy, your comments mirror my feelings almost exactly. General anesthesia is always risky -- a fact many Americans seem to not be aware of. Wendy Wasserstein died from the anesthetic a few years back. but yes, Joan was surely one of a kind. Funny, spunky, told it like she saw it. The angels must be...

jtx wrote: Jools Holland
Julie Andrews
Jewel Kilcher

Julie Kavner
Valerie Harper
Mary Tyler Moore

Gentle Giant wrote:
Leontyne Price
Vincent Price
Vincent D'Onofrio

Vincent Gardner
Vincent Van Gogh
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Thanks for sharing that, Ron.

ValerieB wrote:this is very exciting news!

Indeed.

bluenoter wrote: Don Cherry
Vincent Orange
Fiona Apple

Fiona Hamersley
M.C. Hammer (Stanley Burrell)
Kenny Burrell

great story Valerie!

I don't know anyone of my generation who wasn't a fan of Lauren Bacall. She was the exemplification of class.

bluenoter wrote:
Jason Moran
Jason Robards
Lauren Bacall

Lauren Tewes
Gavin McLeod
Ted Lange

jtx wrote: Rubén Blades
Paul Reubens
Pee Wee Reese

Della Reese
Roma Downey
John Dye

bluenoter wrote:
Peter Wolf
Victor "Moulty" Moulton
Conan O'Brien

Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Greene
Freddy Green

Gentle Giant wrote:I was 36 when I first entered Jazz Corner in 1999; I'm 51 now.

I have become the moldy fig I used to rail against.

51 is scarcely a "moldy fig," Steve. What are you going to call yourself when you get to Clint's age?