Brad Goode sagte über Halliday:
Lin Halliday. Okay. He was a guy who … He was a very sweet-natured person, a very gentle person. Also kind of a timid person. Got messed up in drugs during the 1950s, 1960s. Had tremendous talent and just screwed up every opportunity. He’s kind of famous or infamous in the annals of jazz history for being THAT guy, but to the people who knew him in Chicago he was a very dear friend. He’s even like a musical idol to a lot of artists.
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He was the musical director. He was on the TV show. He was a conductor. He was very successful in Nashville. Things fell apart. Something happened; he tried to commit suicide by shooting himself and he didn’t kill himself. Instead, he ended up with a bullet lodged in his brain messing him up, messing with his personality and his functioning for the rest of his life. (he lived quite a long time after that…)
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I met him through Ira Sullivan. He really looked up to Ira. Ira introduced the two of us and we started playing together in jam sessions. When I got to the point where I was being asked to have my own band in some clubs, I put a band together with the best experienced musicians in Chicago that played the style of music I was trying to play. I wanted Lin to be in that band, and he WAS the best tenor player for that band, but his ability to function…
Das komplette Interview mit Brad Goode, das Danny Meyer geführt und auf seine Seite gestellt hat, ist grossartig, redbeans hatte es erwähnt, mittlerweile habe ich es zu Ende gelesen und es gibt wenig so treffende Kommentare und Analysen zu Eddie Harris und Von Freeman wie die von Brad Goode. Zudem gibt es eine Menge an Stories und Episoden über Jodie Christian, Red Rodney, Barrett Deems, Chris Potter und einige andere. (Was wohl mit den Rosie Clooney Teilen geschehen ist? Hat Georg – un caffè con Chicago? – Einspruch erhoben?)
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