bertrand

Thank you for joining in! I really enjoy your father's recordings!

You mean you get to hear him pushed off the stage?

Fitting for such a long, wonderful career!

Such an awful story. He was much loved in the bay area.

One of the great unsung composers of jazz, and a trumpet player with a very original approach. Definitely one of my heroes.

AB retired a long time ago. Katja is moving back to Germany. I assume her job will be open soon.

Dan may well be on the committee but I am sure he cannot say so. That does not guarantee he will know. I doubt Wayne Shorter knows how he became a Jazz Master exactly, just that someone nominated him.

Well, I have never seen it described as such so I am just speculating. I never tried to ask. The current administrator is a friend of mine but she will not answer ANY questions about her job. I guess someone who is not friends with the administrator could write and make a claim that they have the right to know who is on the committee under a variation of the FIA. If someone chooses to do so, please do report back! I sure would like to know how things actually went down when the committee at the time decided to award it to the ENTIRE Marsalis clan. Only the Cassandra Wilson decision dwarfed this one in stupidity. One could have reasonably suspected that politics were involved, and in the USA politics are usually of a green hue, if you get my drift. PS: I would like to ask the committee why my Joe Chambers nomination has been ignored for EIGHT years now and counting. Someone suggested it was because he was grumpy. If that was the criteria, then how the fuck did Keith Jarrett get it?

Yes, they take submissions from the public. But they don't want campaigns, so 50 of us on the board cannot all nominate him. Just one of us. Whether someone with pull like Mark has more chance than a nobody like me I am not sure, but I would not be surprised. There is a mystery committee which I suspect includes several previous honorees, such as HH. I could be wrong.

It looks like Blue Lament was not on the vinyl version, but that is the only bonus track as far as I can tell.

These are all very interesting questions and I wish someone had really talked to him years ago about his life and career. There is an interview on YouTube which has its merits but is pretty shallow. He was already having memory lapses.

One was recorded by the Messengers around the same time (Blue Ching). Blue Lament was recorded by Don Sickler years later. The other four are orphaned.

Mark, have you nominated him?

The 1959 Blakey came out because Zev Feldman wanted it released and talked Don Was into it. Cuscuna's previous assessment seems to have been ignored, or maybe he changed his mind? If Zev pushes the KD date it might have a chance. But does he care about this one?

I am curious about the set list.

That February 1950 Jam session with Clifford Brown and Hasaan (William Langford) must have been interesting.

There are out-takes from the film at the Schomberg Library. Not cataloged yet so there is still a possibility. I was looking for film of Booker Little...

Katey came down to the DC/Baltimore area this week-end and we brainstormed. I will post some questions occasionally here. 1. Have any Duke Pearson compositions been sampled? I assume so, but specific examples would be great. 2. I know of no video footage of Duke, but there used to be no footage of Hank either... Duke's nephew thought he saw footage from the 1960 Newport gig with the Jazztet on YouTube a while back. Has anyone else ever come across it? Duke never went to Europe but maybe the Brazilian trip with Nancy Wilson could yield some footage? I am thinking of the Ray Charles video with Tina Brooks. The big band did do a 30-minute video for Connecticut Public TV but they could not find it. Bertrand.

A musician friend asked about this pianist who only recorded from 1952 to 1962. What do we know about him? He was born in NOLA in 1928, and was based in LA. Some recordings are: 1) Harold Land: In New York. 2) Harold Land: Take Aim. 3) Sonny Stitt: Hard Swing. 4) Jimmy Woods: Awakening. Also dates with Bird, Wardell Gray, Teddy Edwards and Shorty Rogers.

Are there titles by other artists in the UHQCD series or just Elvin?

In what way were these 'lost'?

Might still be worth doing the 'Ask a Librarian' thing. I am always wary when I am told something is 'lost'.

The disclaimer below says that the info is from the David Meeker book. They don't necessarily have a copy. Rooster told me that the story is that the tapes were wiped. Further research is needed.

It was supposed to say Jazz Goes To College in the title. How do I fix that?

It is in his book. He played too out for Horace.