Caravan

Rather surprisingly, I found Wilson's better. Despite high expectations (or maybe because of them), Koloda's book is kind of a disaster, considering that it is supposed to be the result of years of work and research. I almost didn't find a single page without factual errors or ridiculous interpretations. It's good though that he spoke with Donald while he was still with us.

Some fine Sam Dockery solo piano (and talking) here: https://freshairarchive.org/guests/sam-dockery Always had a weak spot for Sam Dockery ever since I first heard him in the early 1960s.

Sam Dockery 1999. Love it.

Saw the Quartet, August 1, 1965 at the Comblain-la-Tour festival in Belgium.

"Don Warren" = Don Moore (of 1963 New York Contemporary Five fame) and "Howard McGray" = Howard McRae (who also played in the 1962 Dixon-Shepp Quartet on Savoy.

There was another concert at jazzclub Persepolis in Utrecht, May 6. I was there too. Don't know if it was recorded.

king ubu: Musis Sacrum is NOT the same as the Akademie voor Beeldende Kunst. The concert was at the aula of the Akademie. I was there.

Newman's was a disc recorder, not a wire recorder. He used large discs and recorded at 33 rpm (machines had that option). That's why his recordings were longer than the usual 3.5 min of the time.

Jimmy Heath Big Band, Philadelphia 1948, with Heath conducting, Bird soloing and Coltrane in the reed section.

Sunny Murray Earl Freeman Don (Rafael) Garrett Art Taylor Frank Wright Bobby Few

Oscar Pettiford

I played a lot of chess with (bassist) Victor Kaihatu and with (trombonist) Radu Malfatti.

Don Byas recorded with the Platters while the latter were in Paris in 1957. Indeed, just a gig, no big deal.

No

There is more: https://youtu.be/n0yT6Igk32s https://youtu.be/XlXNrouuLlI

Shatz wrote: "....Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “This Nearly Was Mine” on his 1960 album The World of Cecil Taylor—one of the last standards he would ever perform...." In 1962 (Copenhagen and Stockholm) he was still playing What's New? and Flamingo, the latter of Earl Bostic (but not written by) renown.

The personnel listed in that cd is wrong. It is Art Farmer, Eddie Bert, Teo Macero (ts), Monk, Mingus, Willie Jones (dr), recorded Oct 6, 1955. It also contains a little "interview" with Monk, in which he "explains" the tunes played. More about this session can be found here, where Teo Macero recalls some hilarious moments of that day. Note that Macero names Dannie Richmond as the drummer, but it really is Willie Jones, who was working with Monk at the time (in as far as Monk was working at all during that period).

I have been informed that "Leo planned his decease himself, he had been ill for several years. It all went in accordance with the rules (law) and accompanied by doctors". Little Leo was a good friend of mine. May he have found the peace he had been longing for so long.

I suspect the culprits are European. In fact, as soon as I heard the drummer, I thought "Europe". The garnerish pianist that comes after it is - towards the end - identified as Danish, with German bass and drums.

Are you guys referring to the "unidentified live performance" that comes right after the Bob LaPlante interview? That's not Byas, but - guess what - unidentified performers.

No, Sonny Rollins also.

Don't know the answer to that, but Paul van Wageningen and Rob van Wageningen are (were?) not related.

I heard Ayler in 1964 and 1966.

To be released November 6: "Don Byas meets the Jacobs brothers, featuring John Engels - Groovin' High - Live in Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1964." Pim Jacobs - piano, Ruud Jacobs - bass, John Engels - drums. NJA 1603 (NJA = Nederlands Jazz Archief). Order here http://www.jazzarchief.nl/ (Byas CD not yet listed). Liner notes by yours truly.

I was fortunate to be there that night - Comblain-la-Tour, August 1, 1965.