It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Wednesday, November 3, 2021

The Telephone Call I Waited More Than Thirty-Five Years For ...

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... ARRIVED THIS WEEK ...

There have been no shortage
of musical references
in the more than six thousand
pages of this blog

But the album cover that
has appeared quite frequently
has a double-autograph
from the only Goddess
who has ever employed me
 
The title is 
Nina Simone Sings Billie Holiday
and it was signed by Nina
in 1983
 

And the caller was
her niece and legal representative
 
We talked for thirty minutes
with Joyce Stroud doing
most of the listening
 
So ecstatic was I
after the call,
my feet did not come back 
to earth until AT LEAST
forty-eight hours 
 after we spoke
 
Something I did not tell
Ms. Stroud had to do with the site
music festival

 
It is often referred to as
"The Black Woodstock"
with the primary difference being
that it was thoroughly organized,
brilliantly executed
—all according to plan—
but no one wallowed 
in the mud
and
none of the performers 
   sang off-key
 
The site of SUMMER OF SOUL
was 
in Harlem
 
My Father had lived
directly across the street
from the park
and my Mother
was a frequent visitor there
before they were married
 
It is NOT inconceivable 
that their first child
—my beloved sister, Lynda—
was conceived there  
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