Ted O'Reilly

...and now he has passed: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/obituaries/sol-yaged-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

Sometimes you just want to swing...

Sez here it was in Florida, but that might have been a winter address... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Brokensha (White Jack, vs. Black Jack! )

Canada honoured Oscar Peterson with a stamp on his 80th birthday, August 15 2005...

Solo piano, apparently taped onto a cassette, they would have us believe...amazingly good sound.

I suggest the artists did it themselves. I've often seen the same in photos of larger ensembles, especially when the signature isn't near their own image. And, yes, it does look like a Paris club to me, too.

Interesting: Blakey signed as "batterie". Was this his usual, or is the picture from someone in France?

Some many months ago Kirk MacDonald asked me to write the notes for this one, so I heard it more than a few times, hot out of the studio as it were. I took it off the shelf today and heard some new things. Thank goodness for creative players!

Thanks, Peter... Charlie's one of those really good, under-recognized local journeymen/sideman. Knows every tune, plays in any key. Here's a lovely new release...

A popular group in 1950s Toronto...

Good stuff, this...

'Tis. It's amazing, the number of times I've seen this sort of mistake: James Stewart as Glenn Miller, Steve Allen as Benny Goodman, Diana Ross as Billie Holiday... It's almost as frequent as flipped photos of "left-handed trumpets".

This one: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/world/europe/royal-baby-sussex.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

From The Guardian.......a reputable news outlet: The TV historian Prof Kate Williams speculated that the choice of Archie may have been inspired by figures such as the South African intellectual and anthropologist Archie Mafeje, the R&B singer Archie Bell or the saxophonist Archie Shepp. Will the next offspring be named Jughead, or Sun Ra???

Yes! ....and they're fine. I think Pres was a great clarinetist...

So, NOT complete. Drat. I'll have to keep working.

Jazzbo, does this include airchecks with Pres on clarinet (he's one of my faves!) as I have put together for myself all his studio work...

Why would you do that? For just one thing, most of his recordings are American-made... (Okay, he COULD therefore be Canadian, but..... )

Got a yen for clarinet this morning, for some reason. This guy can really play it... Eddie Daniels wasn't enough...so I went down for double with Ken Peplowski and the under-known great clarinetist Putte Wickman.

I'll have to rouse myself early on Friday, in order to breach Toronto's rush hour to see a documentary at 10 am... https://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=90018~6052eab3-8904-4c72-8914-433e6b8b62f1&ep=1 While it's called "Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool" the descriptions lead me to believe it'll have nothing to do with THAT material, but Miles is Miles...

That 1973 "Live In Canada" Chinoiserie comes from a souvenir LP issued for the 1987 Ellington Society convention.

That'd be a first, if it was ours only. I'm old enough to remember (late 1940s) when bubble gum was not available in Canada and we crossed the border to Niagara Falls NY to bring back a package to wow kids on the schoolyard. To think I've lived long enough to have a wine exclusive to Ontario is gobsmacking!

A very agreeable everyday plonk for under $8 Canadian (6 bucks US?)

It would have to be really nice: it's Ed Hall! Only four tracks, so that's an 45 rpm EP, I'd guess?