![]() ![]() I’m a thrill seeker.”) But that hedonistic attitude didn’t stop Stone from quietly subsidizing at least one musician-owned record label. (Stone in ’91: “I’m looking to get knocked out. But in truth they were less interested in supporting the musicians than just hearing good music. At a memorial service for Stone in 2003, there was lots of talk of how he/they ‘supported the musicians’ by coming out. ![]() They were connoisseurs in the best sense. The late ’70s, when the downtown scene was just getting off the ground? If there were four people in the audience at a John Zorn or Eugene Chadbourne show, they’d’ve been half of them. They were out hearing music more nights of the week than they stayed home in far Brooklyn, and they were easy to spot, being 20 years older than almost anyone else in the room. Anyone who frequented (mostly outward bound) jazz gigs in New York in the 1980s or ’90s saw plenty of Steph and her husband whose given name was Irving but you had better address only as Stone. The passing of Stephanie Stone at 93, on April 10, marked the end of a particular era in the annals of jazz fandom: the Stones era. ![]() 2) Recollections of Irving Stone as told to Kevin Whitehead (first published in slightly different form in the liner notes to Tzadik 6711-2, Irving Stone Memorial Concert)ģ) A note about Hank Mobley and Billy Higgins written by Irving Stone ![]()
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