And The Gramercy Five. A few years back, I bought the complete Gramercy Five recordings... what a great bunch of stuff. I grew up on Summit Ridge Drive. Not the street, which is in Chicago, but on the recording. One of the Chicago radio stations used that recording as their theme song, and it is permanently (and enjoyably) burned into my brain.

Other members of the Gramercy Five at one time or another were Barney Kessel, Roy Eldridge and most distinctively, Johnny Guarnieri on harpsichord. I believe that my idol Tal Farlow also played with the Gramercy Five, although he apparently didn't record with them.

He was a good old rounder, but he's dead and gone.

Jerry