by TP Lowe » Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:37 pm
The first time I met Phil he was playing bass with the Glenn Miller Orchestra in Columbia, Kentucky. I guess I was 15 (that would be 34 years ago, thank you!). I probably gigged with him 100 times after that and spent many pleasant hours (days?) talking jazz and life over the years. I'll always miss Phil, when running into a solo he liked, or an arrangement he enjoyed playing, when he would say "Arrrrrr, yeah, I remember that cut was recorded on a Sunday afternoon in 1964, and Miles was just coming off a gig in Denmark, and he was hung over and played the gig with a headache, so he couldn't get into the groove with that D mixolydian thing happening. Yeah, man, what a record ..." Best advice Phil ever gave me: I was talking with him on my cell on the way home from one in a series of atrocious days at my office in 1997, and Phil said, "man, you just need to have your f***-you fund together and you won't have to deal with that s*** any longer." He was right, and I didn't for much longer!
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TP Lowe on Sat May 09, 2009 8:09 am, edited 1 time in total.