Benny Carter, r.i.p.

[dondlion]

HE WAS 95. I never got to meet him. My friend Brad had breakfast with him about two years ago. Brad said he was no longer especially interested in his own old music.

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[feloniusmonk]

Add Compay Segundo to my list, guess he died just a few days ago.

Also 95... weird.

There's a complitation of poems by Lester Young out there somewhere, don't remember the name of it, but they had it at my school's library.

[dondlion]

I never heard of this Lester Young poetry volume!

I had heard about Compay Segundo. I once saw Omara Portamundo and Barbarito Torres at UCLA. That was great. All of Cuban LA was there yelling, ¡Eso!

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[feloniusmonk]

Excellent. Unfortunately, my interest in both Cuban music and older jazz hadn't really emerged until just little over a year ago, so I never had the opportunity to see either Carter or Segundo.

Cuba is on my list of places to go before it turns even more to shit.

[dondlion]

Cuba will bounce back when Castro dies. I try to see everyone I can.