
johnblitweiler
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Congratulations! Does he play in a big band or small bands?
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I detected a recurring Art Pepper influence in Morgan and I believe they were once in the same jail at the same time.
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Quicksilver Messenger Service Robert Service Robert Herrick
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Thanks, Jim. You remind me of Roscoe Mitchell's poems about "one pitch-black night" and "it's only for kicks cracks and flacks." I'd love to see both of them again.
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Jimmy Jam Norman Granz Grant Stewart
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Captain John Handy Lieutenant James Reese Europe Winthrop Sergeant
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Idrees Sulieman Suleyman the Magnificent Shelly Manne
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Banana-Nose Zeke Bonura Ski-Nose Bob Hope Elroy Face
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Denardo
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM ALFREDSON!
johnblitweiler replied to randissimo's topic in organissimo - The Band Discussion
Only 37? How do you know all those old songs? -
Roscoe Mitchell Joseph Jarman Evan Parker
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Happy Birthday Chuck Nessa!
johnblitweiler replied to Free For All's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
You need more birthdays. -
Kate Hammet-Vaughan Cecile McLorin Salvant Lil Hardin Armstrong
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Keefe Jackson A Jackson in Your House Colonel House
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Cecil McBee B,B, King Butterfly McQueen
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Your opinions on various jazz books old and recent please
johnblitweiler replied to Big Beat Steve's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
"Jazz In Search Of Itself" by Larry Kart is available on Kindle (Amazon) and Nook (Barnes & Noble) - see http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=larry%20kart%20jazz%20in%20search and also see http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/larry-kart-jazz-in-search-of-itself?store=allproducts&keyword=larry+kart+jazz+in+search+of+itself I haven't seen this information yet, so here it is. Kart's book is a wonderful, clear-eyed view of how and what jazz communicates and why the music can be so very moving. Nowadays no other writers get to the heart of the music so unerringly. How does one start a new thread on organissimo.org? The resumed availability of "Jazz In Search Of Itself" really belongs in its own thread. -
Red, Whitey, and Blue Mitchell Percy, Jimmy, and Albert Heath Lonesome Sundown
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Constantine Justinian Theodora
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Huntz Hall Hall Overton Orval Overall
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Bruce Wayne Mad Anthony Wayne Mad King Ludwig II
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Hal said he and Thorne used to urge Joe Daley to play more "out." While I liked the Daley Trio's free-improv experiments the one time I heard them (Down Beat jazz fest 1965; Clyde Flowers replaced Russell Thorne), I liked Daley's bop tenor playing even moe a fedw years later.
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FWIW, Teachout gets big award from Right-leaning outfit
johnblitweiler replied to Larry Kart's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
Wow, he got a lot of loot - did any other crit collect as much in one award? And is it too late for me to become a right-wing indignant scold? -
Mercy Dee Booker T La belle dame sans merci
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Betty Veronica Blondie
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Larry is so right about this. Jazz histories that give short shrift to pre-Armstrong styles, as though real jazz never existed before his maturity, are so very wrong. The early period of the art form is grand to hear and yielded some of the most beautiful music of the 20th century. (Which includes some of the bluest.) In some ways, "Texas Moaner" (see posts #24 and #26) is the "bluest" jazz recording I know. Also, in case anyone thinks that jazz in 1924 still was in some primitive state of being, I'd say that it doesn't get much more sophisticated, in any meaningful sense, than this. Herman Chittison Trio Johnny Moore's 3 Blazers Has anyone mentioned the Art Tatum Trio yet?