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— Chicago, Illinois
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“The Devil’s Wife” — Ladell playing Alligator Alley, the day after Hurricane Katrina made a direct hit on Fort Lauderdale. The show (the entire club) was running on a generator, recovering from the storm, not knowing it would grow into the monster it became as it crossed an overheated Gulf of Mexico, and made its strike on New Orleans, on that horrifically Stormy Monday.
Back To Mississippi — French documentary following Ladell as he travels down the Mississippi River, from his home in Chicago, to the Crossroads, New Orleans, and into the Delta, where the Blues was born.
Take the “L” Train
Linda Zacks
Ani DiFranco
“I Am King”
Ladell McLin
London, Moscow, and Paris
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Great Night In Harlem
Wendy Oxenhorn
Apollo Theater
Ladell McLin
Band of Gypsys (2022)
Billy Cox
Swiss Chris (John Legend, Burnt Sugar)
“Yeah, you’re Enormous”
Three Loud Women
Friendly Usher
Kathy and Connie (down front)
Mayor David Dinkins
Quincy Jones
Bill Cosby
Chevy Chase
Simone (Nina’s Daughter)
Billy Bang (Frank Lowe)
World Galaxy (1971) Alice Coltrane
Black Beings (1973) Frank Lowe
Sweet Space (1979) Billy Bang
Branford Marsalis
After Show
Magic Johnson’s Theater
Stanley Jordan w/Jazz Singer
Yankees vs. Red Sox
Three Nights In Manhattan
Rachel Z
Jane Getter
Alan Harris
Jamie Cullum
Blood Ulmer w/ Vernon Reid
Seats In Back (Dolphin Stadium)
Marlins vs. Cubs with Steve Pynes. Watching the sun set over the Everglades, in the last two seats in the largest crowd to ever attend a baseball game. 66,000 Joe Robbie Stadium. We were under the jumbotron atop the east side. Time Delay I think he just hit that out. Game-winning grand slam. Flat, running the bases as seen from so high.
Seats In Back (Apollo Theater)
Great Night in Harlem. Kathy and Connie (mom), UPFRONT with Quincy Jones, Bill Cosby, David Dinkins, Branford Marsalis, Wendy Oxenhorn, and Chevy (fucking) Chase.
Going To New York
(Three Days and Nights in Manhattan)
Garbage Strike
Taxi Strike
Rachel Z
w/ Jane Getter in the Village
SNL bass
wait staff watching playoff game uon a small television under the bar.
Allan Harris
Run DMC
That looks like the woman from the food channel.
Sarah Moulton
She and husband owned the meat-packing district (9th Street) building Daughter curating a Run DMC exhibit. All Genres, All Run DMC. Paintings, Photography, Collage, Sculpture
Cheisel John
Friend Melody
Drizzling rain … (luckily) found a cap taking us to Pat and Allan’s apartment in Harlem, on the river, looking across toward New Jersey.
Dick Stockton
Leslie Visser
A Couple In Love
Aspen Jazz Board On their way to Havana, looking for Cuban acts/musicians to play their festival.
Prosciutto-wrapped Asparagus
Small library, sitting area just inside the front door
guitar on stand
“You’re going to play something for us, right?”
Cross That River (Living Room Serenade)
Jamie Cullum — Downtown for pictures. 911 Firehouse and Yankee fans.
First trip to America, aware of 911, the Yankees, and the Algonquin
The Algonquin Hotel
Round Table
Grapefruit and White Cranberry Martinis ($20)
Late to the show
NOT the Waldorf Astoria’s Oak Room
NOT the room where Grandmaster Flash was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. The first Hip-Hop Dj to receive the honor.
NOT on “The Message.”
Wrong Oak Room
Nobody (ies) to the Paparazzi …
Like something out of a Nora Ephron romantic comedy … we were rushed through the working kitchen to a door that opened into the back of the (right) Oak Room. Both opposing walls of the distinctly long and narrow room, were lined with connecting tables. We were seated quickly, immediately left of the stage, next to the bass, who stood just behind Cullum, the young “Sinatra in Sneakers” new star, who was sitting at the shiny, lacquer-black, Steinway piano that dominated the small stage, a two-foot riser of the patterned carpeted floor.
My mother (Connie) notices the gay couple sitting directly across from us is the two guys she met on the plane she rode up from Orlando. She met Kathy and me at the Astoria Hotel, where we had checked in the day before. Not the Waldorf, but the other Astoria, the one on 62nd Street, where the sidewalk out front was an inelegant mix of uncollected garbage and tables of assorted fashion accessories for sale. Ties, belts, scarves, and a variety of cheap baubles and trinkets. “ALL ITEMS $2,” as marked on the straight-off-the-ship cardboard boxes the overstock was packed into.
Magic Johnson After Show
B3 SUPERMODEL
PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER (ON THE TOWN)
STANLEY JORDAN
w/ Singer
LaFre Sci (Sandra Bernhard)
Harriet Tubman
Jeremiah Hosea (Gloria Gaynor, Blood Ulmer)
Swiss Chris (John Legend)
“Stormy Monday” playing on a generator in the small, old-strip mall, bar being run on a diesel generator out back in the alley.
Last L Train Stop before Linda
Before Linda Zacks, first stop after the crossing to Brooklyn
Mississippi River
Return
Chicago to New Orleans
The Delta
Crossroads
w/ French Film Crew (Chicago to New Orleans)
Back to New York
@ The Bitter End (NYC)
w/ David Pastorius
Take The “L” Train
Ladell McLin (w/ Nea)
SoHo Storage Unit
“L” Train to Brooklyn
Linda Zacks (First stop across the river)
NYC SKYLINE
Ladell’s Paris Excursion
w/Ledell (Not Nea)
Valerie
Shirelle
Brunch with Rachel
“Nice Italian Girl”
and hand-painted chocolates…
FLIGHT OVER YANKEE STADIUM … PILOT’S PLAYOFF ANNOUNCEMENT.
“Self-Evident”
Ani DiFranco
9-11 —
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