I'm Your Baby Tonight

Remembering Whitney Houston... her amazing voice could make just about anything sound spectacular, hard to believe there were only 2 songs of hers I would pump in the club... The David Morales RMX of "Love Saves The Day" & Yvonne Turner RMX of "I'm Your Baby Tonight"... I do play them a lot, but wish there were more.

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Compared To What

My mother being a Jazz singer & father Chet Baker's manager certainly put Jazz very prominent in my musical upbringing. As a kid, I respected Jazz, but especially the traditional jazz my parents were into... was for me an acquired taste. My father's next venture "The Ninth Circle" started out as a bar/steak house, & I had a lot of odd jobs there as a kid. Like every other bar in NY at that time, they had a jukebox, & like every other bar was pre stuffed with the current top 40 pop music... with little variation, as you would suspect, it was pretty tiered.

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Larry Patterson

Today I was thinking about DJ Larry Patterson... someone you really don't hear about very often, but a truly exceptional DJ & wonderful person. The picture below has been circulating for years as just a garage dance floor moment, but actually a very special picture for me. This was taken on one of the rare occasions I DJ'd at Paradise Garage, when I was playing "We Got The Funk" & Larry Patterson & David Todd ran to the dance floor, Larry Patterson in the red T-shirt, David in brown. Having these two dance to my music was almost as important to me as playing at the Garage itself.

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