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Don Thompson  |
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 Wednesday, 30 July 2008 20:42 Host: cache-ntc-ab04.proxy.aol.com
At the beginning of this year, for some reason, I started listening to Clifford Brown, and when you showed up on some of the Roach cuts--I remembered! Rollins! That's what I need! I haven't listened to anyone else since, and it'll be awhile before I'm done. I pick up a CD or two every month.
I clearly remember seeing you play in a club in Bakersfield, California, around '57, when I was in high school. That seems impossible, but it must have been at the time of "Way Out West". I've looked through old boxes of mementos hoping to find the autographed napkin, but nope.
Right now, you're a major influence on my poetry. It would be hard to say just how that works, but I listen to you every day before writing, and I'm always asking myself, "Now how do you get that effect in words?"
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