For some delicious anecdotage from former Down Beat anchor Jack Tracy, now eighty-two, be sure to visit Steven Cerra’s JAZZ PROFILES - - http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2009/04/jack-tracy.html — where Tracy, who was there, shares first-hand tales of Bill Harris’s boxer shorts, Dorothy Donegan’s napkin, Duke Ellington’s wise, generous con, Artie Shaw’s bad behavior, Oscar Peterson, Sidney Catlett, as [...]

Courtesy of “SFRaeAnn,” here’s just under five minutes of pure relaxed pleasure: Clint Baker and his Cafe Borrone All-Stars, recordeon on April 3 at Menlo Park, California, with Robert Young, C-meloody sax;��� Leon Oakley, cornet;��� Jim Klippert, trombone; Jason Vanderford,��� guitar;��� Monte...