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I heard this band at Birdland, when I was 11, my father a jazz guy, "Hello, Bert"..PeWee Marquette ushered us to the first table by the bandstand...I'd heard Coltrane, of course, but never in person, never saw Elvin...never forgot any of that for a minute, and that was 1961 or so! Monk was at the...

@DrMarmaladeWhoFace it's okay, go for it right now!

oh, now look! Toquinho? Not to be impolite, but I want more, more, give me all! All my life i've loved this music, still finding more to love! ...need a singing lady pandeiro player?

Anybody know when this was and who's the band?

@INTHEJUNGLE123 What? Would they sing this? And if they were starving, wouldn't it be difficult to maintain an army? Wouldn't they have already eaten one another? I don't get your point....

@niepro I'm playing, all my life, now a great-grandmother, finding more of the music of my heart, now making the Nothernmost Known Brazilian Band...the berimbau's going to be difficult, me old and crippled, but I'll get it...so Joao teaches us that we can keep playing what we love, better always!

"Thanks for remembering"

@MrGringo78 Hold on just a second, my friend! I'm still playing Brazilian music, better every time, I'm 62, been hearing this music all my life! Joao teaches us that we can keep playing the music we love, and it gets deeper and better every time! So now go make music like this! Once you get into ...

@KMO325 Not that I've ever heard all my life..

Amp the bass!