I thought after posting the small bit of animation from yesterday, you all might want to hear the real song and see Mr. James play it on guitar.
click to hear mp3 samples
Toshiko
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Toshiko Akiyoshi - Amazing Toshiko Akiyoshi, 1954 Cover art by David Stone
Martin
1 day ago
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He was sort of a peculiar talent. To me, he sounded even more eccentric when they got him on the piano. From what I've read about him, he was pretty curmudgeonly too. I remember reading, and I might have this wrong because it's been a while but the bit went something like this: Some guy ''studying'' Skip-probably an a**hole using him to get famous- relays how he was when he knew him and he said a car went by honking and had a ''just married'' sign on the back and Skip snapped ''Wonder if they'll be honking like that when they get divorced.'', lol. I always thought that was funny.
Well I hope they stayed married, and I wonder if they are still married and if they honked if they did get divorced.
That would probably have made a good blues song too.
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