Words of wisdom...time will tell...we need to listen when it speaks.  Happyist of holidays. 

We are all saddened by the passing of Michael Brecker and now Alice Coltrane

NJS

 

Hey Joseph,

 

Thanx for the comment. Listening is the most important thing I feel. All the best with your music. I don't get on this page as often as I would like so I apologize for the delay in responding. This internet thing can get overwhelming at times but it is "all good"

 

Peace,

Bobby

 

Dear Handsome Father of Lafiya,

You do it everytime, don't you? You seem to ignite when you take that deep breath and wet your lips...I still see you at Birdland when you were apart of a group of us that had to do with CHARLIE PARKER DAY; a lot of magical people were there; George Coleman, Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, his wife, and then, out of nowhere you began to COOK and my world weary bebop ears harkened and you were the epitome of a Great Master. You continued quest for inidviduality and creativity is your God given gift and you SHARE. I know, I know how you demand from yourself and those you play with...I know you are MUSIC and YOU MUST BE SATISFIED, I feel it as the music spseaks of matters that are more than you just getting up there and entertaining us, oh no, I feel your enthusiasm...You are not drama or the edge, oh no, you play with passion and emotion as well as logic and intellect. Your music makes me feel good emotiionally and physically because YOU ARE A BOMB! You have an inner clock, radar, kriptonite, call it what you like, that allows me to feel you automatically have guidelines which are very hip and jive, with a savy strut that concerns balance between all elements, such as loud to soft and at times you "HOWL", improvise from fast to slow and then HONK my heart to shreds with your fundamental principles that twirl and grow inside that magnificent musical mind of yours...but it is the tension and release as you stay loose and flexible to move back and forth, up and down into the SECRETS of the extremes - never so rigid that you aren't aware of the woman that is your saxophone, never breaking or making rules beause YOU ARE the epitome of a NOW JAZZ MAN Connected TO THEM...YOU LEARNED FROM THE GREAT MASTERS and PLAY TODAY AS HARD AS YOU CAN, AS IF THER WEER NO TOMORROW

LADY HAIG (That's Stan Getz's Daughter with me in picture!

www.ladyhaig.com

Author of Death of a Bebop Wife by Grange Lady Haig Rutan