Fly Girl

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Came across this item on the net, an old friend from my youthful days. Jimmy McGary was a fine local tenor player around Cincinnati, a fixture about the Cincinnati jazz scene for decades and a mentor to me personally in those years. He was a warm person and a fine musician.



Same composition (Solar) done by the Pat Metheny group with Herbie Hancock-



And while we're at it, the original recording by Miles Davis in 1953. The sax solo on this is truly gripping, Dave Schildkraut. He was a Charlie Parker stand-in who never got any recognition.

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Nothing special, just a foot tapper from two long gone icons of the tenor saxophone, Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt. This is jazz, fun jazz.

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Nicely made documentary on Pat Martino who is arguably the greatest living jazz guitarist on the planet. Martino was a child prodigy who came up in 1950s Philadelphia, a prime location for learning jazz at the time. As fate would have it, along with his wonderful musical gifts came a congenital brain tumor that went undetected for most of his adult life. When the tumor finally increased to a point where its effects were too large to ignore, he sought medical help and underwent surgery to remove the massive tumor along with significant portions of his brain. Those portions included ones responsible for memory and most of his musical ability. Through great struggle, within a decade he recovered most of his brain functions including his tremendous musical skill, and as such it represents remarkable story about medical knowledge, personality development, jazz music, and a person's will to recover. I first heard Pat in the early 1980s on a record with Don Patterson (These Are Soulful Days) and I loved his fluid, impeccably accurate and mellifluous solos on the guitar. To this day he remains one of my favorite players in all jazz, and in my opinion he is the greatest of jazz guitarists.

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Giant steps, giant steps.

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Think Big
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Does not the windmill turn slowly
and the air flow on past
and the sun rise daily in the east
and the Earth spin massively in space?

Clear and dark is the night when sentient beings feel the others presence
that great connection between beings is felt
in a cosmos infinite and reverberating, stupendous in size
innumerably vast and yet still growing.

You wanted to go there, no.
You must live peacefully here
and the secret is the universe is in your mind-
no need to go anywhere!

Peace among all things
Love among all things
Space and time
like a reverberating string
Soothing, magical and endless they are.

Give up your ego
your pettiness
your greediness
your hate.

You're not special, not one bit.
And think big!
Nothing is yours but this great Love
May all things connect in love.

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Nice vocal version of the classic song.