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JAZZ ETC. has been in business since 1973, and we are beginning a new venture with the creation of jazzetc.net. Our intent is to maintain a full fledged website devoted to jazz and blues music. This will include reviews, commentary and a Q&A segment.

If this is your first encounter with JAZZ ETC., welcome aboard. If you are one of our long standing customers, we hope you will appreciate this new endeavor. Either way, your comments are welcome. Best wishes, Bob Porter

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SWEET MAN

For much of the 1980s, I was a Governor of the New York NARAS chapter. One of the fringe benefits of such a position was the opportunity to hang out with and make friends with fellow Govs, in this case musicians such as Pepper Adams, Mel Lewis, Helen Merrill, Gerry Mulligan and Dick Katz. George Simon and Dan Morgenstern were also involved so there was a lot of jazz knowledge on our panel.

JERRY

JERRY
(These remarks were given, in somewhat edited form, by Bob at a Memorial Service for Jerry Wexler in New York, October 30, 2009.)

CRUISING

Blues Cruise

Linda and I spent the best vacation of our lives on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruisefrom January 24-31. We sailed from Fort Lauderdale aboard Holland America's MS Eurodam with stops at Samana, Dominican Republic; Tortola and Dominica."

Newly discovered Jimmy Blanton photos: Does anyone have any information on these photos?

Jazz Photos

In September 2007 Fred Reif sent me these photos. He had obtained them from the original photographer (now deceased) with the note that they were taken at the Michigan State Fair, probably in 1941.

I threw this out to some jazz scholars who wrestled with the problem:

Stitt Plays Bird: New Japanese release

Modern Jazz

Stitt is a member of the New England Jazz Hall of Fame but his entry there, though surely deserved, is probably due to the accident of