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Your submission at Articles for creation: Ray Alexander (musician) (October 8)
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MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:47, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Ray Alexander (musician) has been accepted
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 * I had to delete that article since it was largely copy-pasted from [www.rayonvibes.com here] in violation of copyright. Huon (talk) 01:14, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Bill Evans?
Hi Therealex, one more question about Ray Alexander (musician). Do you happen to know if the "Bill Evans" mentioned in the article is Bill Evans or Bill Evans (saxophonist)? The Rough Guide to Jazz isn't clear on that point. Howicus (Did I mess up?) 18:20, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi Howicus,

It was Bill Evans, the pianist. In fact, Dad met Bill on a gig when Bill first came to New York. Bill needed work, and Dad hooked him up with a "club date" leader - in New York, a club date is a wedding, bar-mitzvah, that sort of thing. Dad saw him soon after and asked how it went. Bill said "Ray, thanks for the gig. But I came to New York to play jazz, and that's all I'm going to do.  Maybe I'll starve, but I'm going to focus on jazz."

He didn't starve...