johnblitweiler

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.

Jimmy Jam Norman Granz Grant Stewart

Captain John Handy Lieutenant James Reese Europe Winthrop Sergeant

Idrees Sulieman Suleyman the Magnificent Shelly Manne

Banana-Nose Zeke Bonura Ski-Nose Bob Hope Elroy Face

Denardo

Only 37? How do you know all those old songs?

Roscoe Mitchell Joseph Jarman Evan Parker

You need more birthdays.

Kate Hammet-Vaughan Cecile McLorin Salvant Lil Hardin Armstrong

Keefe Jackson A Jackson in Your House Colonel House

Cecil McBee B,B, King Butterfly McQueen

"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

Constantine Justinian Theodora

Huntz Hall Hall Overton Orval Overall

Bruce Wayne Mad Anthony Wayne Mad King Ludwig II

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.

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

Betty Veronica Blondie

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?

Eric, thank you for the links. Tantalizing stories. It's really too bad your father didn't write or dictate his memoirs.

Aura Lee Lorelei Laura

I'm going to my first White Sox game of the year later this week.