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Ted O'Reilly

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  1. Seriously, I don't know what you're referring to. If it's about the pools, butt out. My remarks were a response to sidewinder's musing, not requiring your participation. Or do you just think that sometimes you simply MUST make a remark?
  2. ...still the case. There are 58 outdoor pools around the city, 60 indoor pools...
  3. Moe had a fairly good/ironic grasp of his need to succeed. He used to introduce Swinging Shepherd Blues as "a medley of my hit"...
  4. Well, I don't know how deeply your tongue is in your cheek, but forget the late-60s stuff there, and it's typical of Moe Koffman's ouevre... We in Toronto know him to be a great musician, always on the go -- he wanted an audience, and the success attached. But always a GREAT musician. Moe would do pretty much anything to get some sort of a hit, but damn, the man could PLAY! And BTW, thought you'll never be able to find one, I think, he did Norwegian Wood in a live performance at Expo '67 that our national broadcaster issued on a transcription disc that is pure jazz, sans the now-treacly faddishness. Moe could f-king play!
  5. Bilk + Tracey + Big Brass = more than a pair. More like a full house!
  6. Now, there was a wit. His letters, his (mostly-mock) duel with Jack Benny on the radio... An under-recognized mind.
  7. Today is a drippy, sultry, baked-hot day in my city, and it seems to be much the same across most of the eastern side of North America. So, how does that affect working musicians? Steve Wallace is a veteran Toronto-based jazz bassist, and a great one, and has over the last decade shown that he writes as well about the music as he plays it. Steve has a terrific blog that he doesn't update often enough for my needs (c'mon, Steve!!!: https://wallacebass.com/) but that may be because he's also a contributor to The Wholenote, a music magazine here in Toronto. The summer issue of the usually-monthly mag has one of Steve's slightly off-centre-yet-dead-on musings about life as a working musician in the summer... It has to be universal. Can others add their experiences with the seasons? https://www.thewholenote.com/index.php/newsroom/beatcolumns-sp-2121861476/choral-jazznotes
  8. True, that. But it may also be why nobody's picking up on it: we all have it already!
  9. I've enjoyed the series... The end of Bosch, and a crossover to Ballard, who has appeared a couple of times before, perhaps? Connelly's a good straight-ahead story teller, so I guee I'll stick around. (But we'll be saying goodbye to Bosch's musical taste, unfortunately.)
  10. The Ralph Sutton recordings are really fine, aren't they... I think Sutton's one of the great under-recognized jazz pianists.
  11. Well, that's the question, isn't it? HAS he, or is this some sort of a scam, perpetrated by someone close to him. It would be salutary if Mr. Burrell made an independent public appearance.
  12. I worked at a radio station in the early '60s that dumped old equipment in the basement. Rummaging around one day I saw a wire recorder, and a metal cabinet dedicated to the complete Lang-Worth transcription library, each disc carefully put away, and likely played but once. I should have stolen the whole damn thing...
  13. ...and yet, he's not in a suburban neighbourhood, but in a condominium building, with owner-occupied units. And therein lies some of the problem, and revealing the whole situation...their unit is causing major problems to the owners of a separate unit below them.
  14. That's what I understood. My remark is only referring to the description of the device as 'a disc cutter'.
  15. Nope, that looks like a wire recorder to me. (A loser to tape machines in the world of recording.)
  16. That's key to me, even more than anything about money.
  17. Okay, but isn't all proper journalism "investigative", in some way? Certainly what JazzTimes did isn't journalism, nor is a lot of what I see and read today. It's just repeating press releases and viewpoint-handouts.
  18. Well, JazzTimes just reprinted a possibly-dubious press release. The newspaper reporter went to several sources and asked questions about the situation, got several points of view and presented the information, leading me to conclude that something's fishy here. Unless that's considered 'fake news' nowadays.
  19. JazzTimes item: one person's view (and is it KB?) versus investigative reporting. Having read both the JT and the WaPo items, I'm leaning toward the reporter's story.
  20. And several of the tracks, about half, are in stereo! High Society, of course, as it dates from the stereo LP era, but several from The Strip and Glory Alley benefit from the MGM studios being fitted with multi-track equipment, possibly even recorded on film, rather than disc or tape.
  21. The split-screen and multi images thing started for me at Expo 67 at the Ontario Pavilion, with Christopher Chapman's "A Place To Stand". It's still impressive film making, I think. ...and a note about the music. It's by Dolores Claman, a deft composer of commercial jingles and film music, including the unofficial anthem Hockey Night In Canada. The orchestrations were by my friend Jerry Toth, a great musician and member of the Boss Brass, where he recorded this superb performance: Autumn In New York, arranged for Jerry by Rob McConnell.
  22. I think this was Putte Wickman's last recording... Wonderful playing right to the end if so! Everything's right about this disc...
  23. Sure, mostly we'll be taking Getz/Gilberto off the shelf, but also look for Elis and Tom, Gilberto with the wonderful Elis Regina. Especially Águas de Março.... Here's a lovely live version:
  24. I'm not sure you can blame Riverside itself. They used a for-hire studio, one of the best at the time, Reeves Sound.
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