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Date: Thursday, July 31, 1997 8:16:55 AM
From: Evigeland2
Subj: Love your web site
To: PLabjazz
Just a note to let you know I think you have a great web site going here. I'll be returning to explore (and learn) some more.
Eric Vigeland
Boston, MA
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Date: Tuesday, June 17, 1997 9:24:50 AM
From: fmoramar@mail.sdsu.edu (fred moramarco) Subj: Invitation and your writing
To: PLabjazz@aol.com
Pete, your pieces on Frank (the Veteran), Ginzo, Candy Stores arrived as well as the longer remarkable "An Obscure Native American," where you're pushing your writing to places it has not been before. The image of the narrator railing at the sea is very powerful and original, and the image which ends that piece, with the narrator recalling an early memory striking out at his aunt's face and cutting it with a can opener is unforgettable. All I can say is that your writing is stronger than ever&emdash;retirement has been very good to you in this aspect.
"Candy Stores" also brought back a lot of memories. Two others are a part of my consciousness: the small candy store on the corner of Marion and Hopkinson (Minnies?) that specialized in Lemon ices and the candy store on the corner of Bainbridge and Hopkinson where I once got caught stealing a candy bar.
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Date: Wednesday, June 18, 1997 2:19:45 PM From: Vinjazz
Subj: Nostalgia
To: PLabjazz
Peter,
I have just Þnished reading(website) your article "Reþections & Vignettes" and found that we not only have jazz music in common, but our childhood was similar. I was born in 1936 to immigrant Italian parents. I, too, grew up in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn on Harman Street between Central Avenue and Evergreen Avenue .ess than a mile from Chauncey Street. I am guessing by your address, that you probably lived near Buskwick Avenue or Broadway. There are other similarities such as Þnding money on several occasions, giving it back to the respective owners because both were overheard saying that they lost money. My upbringing also included Catholic School at St. Barbara's-Nuns) -on Central Avenue and Menehan Street.
I also recollect the incidents with those out-of -neighborhood bullies the Comanchees, etc. My block was long, with a lot of kids, and you're right there were boundaries. The lower end, the middle, and the upper end. We played Johnny-on-the-Pony; Kick-the-Can; Hide and Seek; Three Steps Over Germany; Ringalevio; Stoop Ball; Stick Ball(one sewer to the next); and many others. We had the same neighborhood weirdos as you did only the names were different. One of our "thrills" was to hitch a ride on Bushwick Avenue and ask the driver to take us to Highland Park. Our neighborhood "itch house" was the Rivoli Theater. I also frequented Loew's Gates, The Bushwick, The Monroe, The Empire, The Madison, The Parthenon and The Ridgewood theaters. As a young teenager, I went to midnight mass at Our Lady of Lourdes on Saturday nights in order to stay out later. As a youngster, I too, experienced a person having an epileptic seizure and just standing there frozen, while someone placed a spoon in his mouth to prevent him from swallowing his tongue.
I attended Bishop Loughlin High for the Þrst year, and then transferred to Bushwick High School on Irving Avenue. I recall that in my Junior year, my Music teacher gave me two tickets to Carnegie Hall (or Town Hall). I went with a classmate and saw….Buck Clayton, Gene Krupa, etc. and as an added attraction…the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, with Chet Baker, Larry Bunker, etc Last, but not least I also contemplated on writing a short book (just for fun) about my childhood experiences and the people surrounding me in my very early years. After reading yours all I'd have to do is change the names . Anyway, I thought you'd get a kick out of the similarities of both our childhoods, and not just the jazz part of it noted in my E-Mail dated 06/16/97.
Keep Swingin'
Vin (Vinjazz@aol.com)
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Date: Tuesday, June 17, 1997 10:35:34 PM
From: Drums4us
Subj: site
To: PLabjazz
HI Pete-
I finally checked out your website.Wow!- there is a ton of great stuff there. Very nice. I read through most of it and I have it bookmarked to return to again. I am glad that there are listeners like you out there when I am doing my show.Thanks for calling in to me and introducing yourself
.--- Donny Date: Saturday, August 2, 1997 8:58:58 AM
From: Furm
Subj: Baseball Prodigy
To: PLabjazz
Hi Pete:
I printed out your story and read it last night. Very good! I have just finished listening to an audio tape of short stories by famous American authors. I felt that many of them weren't as good as yours. Some of them seemed so pointless. They got you interested and then just kind of ended.
I put your site into " Favorite Places" so I can get there easily.
Furm
date: Tuesday, September 9, 1997 6:35:33 AM From: mark@standard.co.jp
Subj: Costa
To: plabjazz@aol.com
Always nice to find another Eddie Costa fan!
Just in case you didn't know: "The House Of Blue Lights" was reissued on CD this year (for the second time in the last several years) by MCA Victor in Japan. I believe the master belongs to GRP.
Regards,
Mark R.
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 1997 8:26:56 AM From: jsackmann@sprintmail.com (JEFF SACKMANN) To: PLabjazz@aol.com
Peter,
I have seen you website, and I enjoyed it. Great work! Jeff
&emdash;Jeff Sackmann
jsackmann@sprintmail.com
The Gerry Mulligan Home Page:
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/1724 Jeff Sackmann's Movie World:
http://members.tripod.com/~JeffSackmann
Date: Sunday, December 1997, 1:28:31 AM From: rbour@magma.ca
Subj: Re: Jazz Website
To: PLabjazz@AOL.COM
Thanks Peter,
I'll place a link to your page within 24 hours. It will be in the Contemporary section of The Jazz Fan Attic.
I'm not being critical but I made the same error whwn I started my page in 1995. You should adjust your HTML code to show a title on the viewer's browser bar. At the moment it just displays "index.html" and makes it difficult for anyone who wants to bookmark the site. You can do it simply:
<TITLE>JazzZine</TITLE>
Place the line anywhere after the line defining <HEAD>
Good Luck,
Richard
PS: Love the stuff on Shorty. A much neglected and great musician. Richard Bourcier
Date: Monday, December 1997, 6:29:35 AM
From: Vinjazz
Subj: medical story
To: PLabjazz
Hi Peter,
Just read the A Brush With the Medical story in the Zine. Very funny stuff.
Once again, there are those similarities in our lives……as I, too had the kind of pains you speak of in the story. It was also around the Thanksgiving holiday. The difference was that I had stones in my gall bladder, and eventually had the surgery some months later when the attacks became too painful and more frequent. This happened in 1981. By the way, I also drive a Toyota.
Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Vin
Date: Friday, February 1998, 12:19:32 AM
From: drhh@þash.net
Subj: Thanks
To: PLabjazz@aol.com
Hi Peter-
By the way, I've enjoyed your Web site very much, and especially your very good story, The Prodigy. In my former life I was an avid Yankee fan (until Steinbrenner ruined the team and possibly all of baseball) and, in fact, was offered a contract, when I was 15 years old, with the Newark Bears. I was that rare and foolish breed, a catcher, and was thought to be a good prospect. Of course, I wouldn't have started with the Bears (AAA), but would have been sent to a lower league to "ripen." Luckily. knowing the odds of making the Majors as I do now, I refused the temptation, and went on to continue my education and became a veterinarian. Good Move!!
Regards, Howard
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 7:42:26 PM
From: DonusnowSubj: Re: Website
To: PLabjazz
Thanks "Jazzline" worked great. The site is amazing. I put it as one of my favorite places.
My favorite arranger/composer is Pete Rugulo, his arrangement of "Aritstry.." in the Kenton in Hi Fi is so mournful, kind of moody and less blaring. I love blaring but his arrangement is so great. Pete also wrote or arranged: Artistry in Boogie, Unison Riff, Machito,Collaboration(named because he and SK co composed it). There are many others but I only looked at the "Hi Fi" liner notes.
Don Schully
Hello,
My name is Sean Driscoll and I'm a New York based jazz musician. While visiting your website recently, I saw this address to write to.
My group, which has been performing for three years now, both in Boston and New York City, has released two CDs and last year won Musician Magazine's Best Unsigned Band contest (judges included Pat Metheny and Adrian Belew). We have just released our second CD and are interested in having it reviewed. Would your website be interested in doing a review of it? I would be happy to send you a press kit, CDs or whatever else you may need. Thank you for your time and effort and keep up the good work on your site.
Sincerely,
Sean Driscoll
I love the website even considering i'm only 10. Jazz is I think the best music you can find. I dont know if you have heard of Count Basie he's my favroite muscian. do you have a screenname so I can put you in my buddie list. Thanks for the letter.
Sean Hickman
Tuesday, August 11, 1998 3:08:17 PM From: glocklin@csulb.edu
Subj: Re: The Jazz Zine Update
To: PLabjazz@aol.com
Pete,
I'm extremely impressed by your Jazz Zine website, and proud to have my poems on it, and plan to return to it frequently for my own education. And it's beautifully designed as well as highly informative. One thing: I couldn't Þnd any reference to the book from which the poems were taken. That may just be my own cybernetic ineptness. But I know the publisher would want some kind of credit, if not ordering info. I think all info is on the book, except perhaps price, which I think is 4 bucks but which is the least important thing to mention. Would it perhaps be simplest to add the book or books to your list of jazz books? Although I realize that's asking to be included with pretty fast company. Just a suggestion&emdash;perhaps the biblio-info is already there someplace and I'm just not finding it. Are you familiar with the free concerts of the Henry Mancini Institute on our campus in August since last year. Went to one Saturday night&emdash;Dave Grusin, Bill Watrous, and a large orchestra made up of the students who come to this instutute from all over the world largely to study to be studio musicians, I suspect. Very talented. Going to one this week: Ernie Watts and the Turtle Island Quartet. The American JazzPhilharmonic also performs here free occasionally. All funded by some Musician Union Trust Fund, I believe. And Buddy Collette now heads up a state-funded jazz preservation archive here. I'm hazy on the details, but our College of the Arts would have all the straight skinny. Again, I want to thank you for the beautiful presentation of my poems. Gotta run,
Gerry
Sunday, November 8, 1998
Re: The Jazz Zine
From: SandRico
To: PLabjazz,
so I turned to The Jazz Zine and read some of the poetry and really got off on the one on Bill Evans, that sad Impressionist who Gene Lees had roomed with in New York in the '50's, and who Gene had introduced me to, via records and stories, and who just kills me on the Tony Bennett recordings
Good stuff, Cuz.
Peter,
I just finished reading your Chubby Jackson interview in the Jazz Zine. It was really exciting to read some of Chubby's responses to your questions. He certainly sounds like a wonderful and fulfilled man, who is very proud of his family, as well as his musical accomplishments. He is truly one of the living legends in jazz today.
It is early Sunday morning, and I am now going to enjoy a cup of java and listen to some of his great recordings.....MOLDY FIG STOMP, BLOW ME DOWN (The Jacksonville Seven); ELEVEN SIXTY, BLUE CHAMPAGNE (with Charlie Ventura's Group); etc....
Vin
From: davidÞ@EUnet.no
Oslo,Norway
PLabjazz@aol.com
Hi Peter,
It's always a pleasure to hear from you. Thanks for all your good work. You are really developing your efforts in cyberspace - and that's great news for all of us jazz lovers.
Thanks so much for your kind words concerning my Jazz Scene website. Please forgive me for not writing sooner. I've been totally tied up with the relocation of my new studio here in Oslo. My passionate hobby Jazz has just had to take second place these last months! I think you already know that in addition to the website, I also write a weekly jazz column in a national daily newspaper and broadcast a weekly jazz show (based on new releases and interviews/proÞles) on national radio.
I'm going to check out the Chubby Jackson piece and will try and offer some feedback (unless my family pull me away from my Macintosh!).
Have a wonderful holiday, and a peaceful, successful and Jazzy new year!
Best,
David
http://nettvik.no/jazzscene/
JazzLvr103fyo
PLabjazz
An online friend of mine, JaiJai Jackson sent me your link … all I can say is WOW! What a great site you have! I "collect" jazz sites, but none hold a candle to this one~
Also, Jai mentioned that you might be interested in a young jazzer (Ben Kincaid) … please check out this internet magazine article if you get a chance:
Viewzone Mag - The Jazz Kid (inside is a link to Ben's website and other stuff, if you are interested).
Thanks for keeping jazz alive!
Linn Kincaid (Ben's dad)
Jazzaustin.cohen@worldnet.att.netaustin.cohen@worldnet.att.netPLabjazz@aol.comJdqDFrom: austin.cohen@worldnet.att.net (Frederick S. Cohen) To:
PLabjazz@aol.com
Dear Peter,
I just got through touring the Jazz Zine. It looks fabulous, a great website. I do hope that you are Þnding ways to make it profitable for yourself...if that's what you want not necessarily the goal but a nice dividend.. I will, of course, continue to check it out regularly. I might even want to contribute, if that's OK.
I printed out your Bud piece that mentions Don Shirley. I met Don last year when a customer suggested that I call him. He invited me to his apartment at Carnegie Hall, an amazing space with ceilings so high you almost had to look through the clouds to see the chandelier. He is a charming fellow who has followed an unusual path in music. He does not like to refer to himself as a jazz pianist, though one of my fondest memories was attending Bill Evans' memorial service, as peculiar as that may sound. One of the speakers mentioned that Bill had found Don's version of a Chopin prelude to be one of the most beautiful performances he had ever heard. Don was at the memorial service, went to the piano and played the Chopin prelude. It was inspirational!
Anyway, I sent Don a copy of your Bud peice. He called me today, laughing so loud I thought he would choke. He said that he could not remember the incident ever happening and that if it had happened, there is no way he would have forgotten. He went on to discuss both Billie Holiday and Bud, probably because of the common drug problems. So there you have it. I make no judgement, though I find it amusing that your recollection is so vivid and his insistence on its fictitiousness is so strong. Talk to you soon,
Fred
Re: The Jazz Zine Update
newmanr@pilot.msu.eduNewmanr@pilot.msu.edu
Hi Peter,
I just got back in town and am on email for the Þrst time in a week. My id is asleep and I decided to coast over to the Jazz Zine and check out our interview. Thanks again so much. I had a ball answering your very thoughtful provacative questions. In truth, this is one of the things I miss about living in LA…….exchange about music and jazz on a pretty deep level. Luckily, my husband is a wealth of inspiration, but it is a joy to exchange with other like minded people. Many thanks and the best to you. Hope to meet you in person some day. Do you know Tom Garvin?
Best,
Sunny
Hello!
I'm Beverly Alliss of Wyoming. I'm 18 and heading to Central Wyoming College in the fall to study computers and music, specifcally jazz! I've been involved with my high school's jazz/swing/gospel choirs, the Hamilton Street choirs, for all of my high school years, and I'll be singing with a jazz band and a big band in college. I've recently begun to truly listen and learn to love jazz.
Thanks very much for the great interview with Sunny Wilkinson. I first came in contact with her when I attended the Yellowstone Vocal Jazz Camp in Cody, Wyoming two summers ago. I absolutely fell in love with her style and stage personality at the first performance. In preperation for college this fall, I went again. I was glad to hear and see Sunny again. She's a great help, a teacher really, at the camp, working on pedagogy with us. She's really just an outstanding person, and I'm glad to have met her. I have a signed copy of her second CD, and I'm really looking forward to the release of her next, Highwire. I really admire her, from a performer's -and- a listener's point of view!
Thanks as well for a great, easy to navigate, and easy to find jazz resource on the web. I'm about as beginner as you can get with jazz, so I'm glad for good places to learn about the style. Thank you!
Very sincerely,
Beverly J. Alliss
"Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul!" &emdash;DH Lawrence
~ Eternal Dreams ~
http://eternal.dreamhost.com/
Attn: Peter! 7/26/99
Thanks so much for taking the time to really listen to and review my CD. I appreciate it very much; the constructive criticism in it means a great deal. The label is putting together an in-store display which will include the review in its entirety for Tower Records here in Chicago.
Once more, thanks!!!!
Leahcim
anatholi.bulkin@swipnet
Thanks! by the way I have to say that you're site is
great! Keep it up the GREAT work!!!
Peace
Anatholi
NEW PROGRESSIVE JAZZ GUITAR
Peter,
I was just visiting the Zine, and wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed "Jazz Club Stories." I didn't get thru all of them, but it sure was nice to read the ones I did, and you can bet...I'll be back! They really made me feel like I was there experiencing those times with you...(like Emil!!) Thanks for doing such a great job w/ The Jazz Zine. -
-Lew Chapman trombonist in Sublimity, OR
Re: The Jazz Zine
marlonsi@bellatlantic.net
PLabjazz@aol.com
Thanks very very much for listening to my music and write such a serious review, as soon as my second cd is out I will mailed to you,.
......please stay in touch..marlon
To Peter La Barbera,
Dear Sir,
I enjoy your website, which I found by accident when I was looking for references to Don Shirley. Your story of him playing in the Hickory House and jumping of the bench to correct a situation at the door is funny!
A ardent fan of Don Shirley, I was just looking for other fans. Finding you was a pleasant surprise! You like good music more than precise categorization, which is probably why you were listening to Don Shirley in the first place.
I am trying to let all potentially interested parties know that many of Don Shirley's records have just been re-released on the Collectibles label. Contact me if you'd like to know more.
He is also getting ready to record in March.
Best regards,
Michael Kappeyne
mck1@netscape.net
Re: High Wirenewmanr@pilot.msu.edu 1
1/25/00
Dear Peter,
I am so appreciative of your support of my work. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I just found the High Wire review. I have no idea how long it has been up. I have been on the road, and at IAJE, and out of cyber space. …so, i just found it today. Thank you…wonderful words and so right on. I absolutely agree with you about "Like Someone In Love" It was the adrenilin of the moment, never really supposed to be THAT fast. But how do you re-record a whole dang big band
All the best to you
Sunny Wilkinson
Re: CD Reviewlian@torsos.comlian@torsos.comPLabjazz@aol.com -AFrom: lian@torsos.com (Fuzelicious Morsels) To: PLabjazz@aol.com
Sunday, February 6, 2000
Dear Mr. LaBarbera,
Thank you for your kind review and your patience in listening to the music! We really appreciate your words because you are obviously a great aÞcionado of jazz. You really 'got' the music and we thank you for that!
thanks again for your support! keep up the great work! regards
Lian and David
February 10, 2000
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the great review and The Artists Deserving Wider Recognition. It is very refreshing to read a review where it is so obvious that the writer has really listened. I also appreciate your vote of conÞdence with the Wider Recognition recommendation (my Þrst by the way) I'll also put up a link for your site.
Thanks again,
Bruce Arnold
Wednesday, April 19, 2000
moran@fas.harvard.edu
I loved the review of the Katie Viqueira CD 'The Other Side'. Who wrote it? I live in Boston and just discovered Viquiera and her band in the local scene here this past year. It has been one of the high experiences of my life seeing them perform live, and I try never to miss a show. And yes, the CD is marvelous, in all the ways that were picked up on by the reviewer. And I was glad to see her name on the list of 'Artists Deserving Wider Recognition'. I truly think she is a major discovery, andt hat she and the band are creating something very original and very beautiful. Lucky me, I get to hear them this Thursday night.
Wednesday, April 19, 2000
Dear Peter,
We are really glad to see that you have enjoyed listening to the CD. It is really encouraging for us as independent artists and producers to receive this kind of a feedback. We would also like to congratulate you for your excellent web page. We did like it a lot.
Truly yours,
Ezequiel Reficco
Katie Viqueira
Monday, June 5, 2000
Kenya2222
Plabjazz
Checked out your website, its really fantastic!!! very good writing on Tito Puente, you are my kind of person.
Thanks for producing such a great site for jazz fans! I visit often, and as a drummer, was touched by the interview with Cathy Rich, concerning Buddy Rich. I'm also a regular visitor to the Buddy Rich-related sites shown at the end of that interview.
Mike James
Email: drummer@alaska.com
Re: Joe Maini 8/31/00
Pete -
I just read your recollection of Joe Maini in LA. He was a friend of mine, and a little more. I used to hang out at Shelly's Mann-hole and the Purple Onion in the early 60s, I was very young, and hooked up with Emile LaChambre then - he used to repair woodwinds at Gaines & Stein in the musicians union on Vine and sit in occasionally with whoever was playing at Shelly's. Your riff on Joe was hilarious. I haven't really ever talked to anyone about that time in my life... Joe was at our house the day before he lost the game...
Robin
Pete-
I came across an album by Guy Fasciani, the Cork & Bib's "house"pianist in the 60's, and decided to do a search for the club- which brought me to your site. Thoroughly enjoyed your tale of rushing down Post Avenue to the train station.
I was probably there that night as well - never missed Cannonball.
Nice work,
Bob Dierker
Bele Bele en la Habana reviewA.Colling@iaea.org,Dear Peter,
I was quite impressed by the way how you commented on Chucho Valdes Bele Bele en la Habana. I guess you must have really heard and seen a lot of excellent music to rank this album 4 stars ….
Your review represents a good balance of emotion and expertise and isn't' that exactly what good music is made of ? I got completely emotional when I heard this album the first time and my impression is that it even gets better every time I hear it. As if it would be a living being,something you love and that you see growing with you ? I think it is interesting to see how different perceptions, associations and metaphors the music of an album can provoke in different people. Keep Swinging !
Hasta siempre
Axel
P.S. Hope you enjoy my review !
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It's been a Long, Long Time!apecorino@austintx.net plabjazz@aol.com
From: apecorino@austintx.net (Anna Pecorino) Time: Mon, 18-Jun-2001 03:32:15 GMT IP: 65.163.17.114
Its been awhile since I checked in on the Zine, and I must say, it has a great new look and some super sites! I won't stay away for very long this time. Thanks for the time, effort and love that goes in to making this one of the best!
Subj: Re: PABLO ABLANEDO OCTET From Down There Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:21:17 PM Eastern Standard Time From: Pablo Ablanedo <pabloablanedo@rocketmail.com> To: PLabjazz@aol.com
Hola,
Thanks
so much for reviewing my cd. It will help for the promotion of the octet's
music.I love the review is very kind and warm. It shows that the music was
listened with a lot of attention. Thanks again. The jazz music needs sites like
yours. I am sure the company will include it in their new p
age
http://www.bluemoon.es
Best wishes,
Pablo.
Hello Peter
You doll. I just got back from LA and
arrived to your great review.
I can't thank you enough. You do so much to
help promote artists and we are grateful.
Thanks for all you do. I hope you are enjoying
the disc.
The LA tour was great...and my hit at the
Bakery couldn't have been better.
Much love to you!!!
All the best,
Sunny Wilkinson
___________________
Sunny Wilkinson
Asst. Professor of Jazz Studies
317 Music Practice Building
Michigan State University
check out my new website at:
sunnywilkinson.com
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