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If you include the BN-LA series from the '70s, you can add Eddie Henderson
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On 2/13/2024 at 12:55 PM, soulpope said:
Chino Y Su Conjunto Melao "Fruto Prohibido" (T.R. Tecords) 1975 .... the band delivers pure energy and lead singer Ray De La Paz wails his way ...
Thanks for this one. I played with Ray De La Paz for a few years with his own band and with Louie Ramirez and I was not familiar with this one. It's killing.
This has been a fun thread to read. When I first moved back to New York, I cut my teeth on the thriving New York salsa scene in the early '90s and got to play with some of the best bands in New York, many of whom I see represented here.
Here is one from Ray De La Paz from the time period when I played in the band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBgBOwwzRN0
If someone can teach me how to post link from you tube so you can play them here, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks
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6 hours ago, bertrand said:
Is there an action plan for the future or is it another Left Bank kinda deal?
None that I know about.
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2 hours ago, monkboughtlunch said:
Has anyone asked Mr. Barkan if Grant Green was recorded at Keystone Korner?
I've seen a couple of lists of recordings from the Keystone Korner. There was no Grant Green on those lists. I can ask when I play there in a couple of weeks.
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2 hours ago, JSngry said:
Who is that these days?
I actually don't know specifically.
Jazz Workshop had/has a staff and I'm sure Sue left specific instructions about the continuation of the Mingus Estate.
The Mingus Big Band is still working as well so I assume it's still pretty much business as usual with a staff that knows what they are doing.
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1 hour ago, JSngry said:
Sue used to "rally" around beating the bootleggers, but a very limited edition on a niche format at a too-high price point kind makes me want to pull out my copies and share the files with the world.
I won't, but this release sort of implicitly cedes victory to the "bootleggers" (I have never paid for any copies of this material btw)
Well, they say it is a release in conjunction with the Mingus Estate so they do have a clearance.
I think in these cases, it is the money grab first (the overpriced vinyl release pays for and justifies the release) and then in future, especially if the vinyl sells out, there will be a digital release.....
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It's Galper. He was in the band for about a year at this point.
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Soundscan is the organization that tracks sales used by Billboard and all chart makers as far as I know.
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On 3/30/2021 at 6:00 AM, sambrasa said:
I used Audacity to record this show in real time. The chatter between those tracks and quality of sound implies this might be a studio recording. The last, untitled, composition might be "Will" by Miroslav Vitous, which appeared later in the 1970's on the Rypdal/Vitous/DeJohnette ECM album.
I spoke to Perla yesterday and asked him about a few of these things.....
He said the Weather Report with Cobham was a rehearsal.
I also asked him about the Jeremy Steig with Jan Hammer, Tommy Bolin and Billy Cobham (the personnel from Cobham's Spectrum album, a favorite of mine so this was a curiosity to me). He said a Bolin fan released this on some sort of Tommy Bolin compilation a few years back.
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Aw. So sad. I met him when I was first starting at a workshop at the Creative Music Studio.
He was soon entrenched in the downtown scene when that meant rock-n-roll gigs.
For him, it was a band called The Waitresses if I remember correctly.
Lost touch with him when I went to music school some 30 years ago but would see his name from time to time.
I just remember him being a really nice guy and talented of course....
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Always interesting to see this sort of feedback.
I can answer the following from what was mentioned above.....
No one in the band heard the introduction of the band so we had no idea a name was omitted in the introductions.
I assume he was also the one who mentioned our travel day. I didn't hear it though and did not mention it myself on stage but yes, it was a long travel day. We did leave Szeged, Hungary at 7:00 am (so yes, I guess we were up at 6:00) and drove around 3 hours to Belgrade, Serbia to fly to London. Getting through customs and such meant we had to go straight to the venue from the airport and right to sound check. We had a full sound check. We never hear how things sound in the house but we could hear each other well on stage. We had some food bought to us so we could quickly eat and do our best to pull clothes out of our luggage and change for the concert.
I don't think anyone was angry but perhaps we had our game faces on. I guess we take this stuff seriously and try to do our best. If Billy Hart was too loud in a concert hall, this to me is more of a balance issue. Billy definitely plays with a wide range of dynamics but he is accompanying the soloists and bringing the energy usually required for doing this. If you can't hear the horns in a big venue, then they needed to be bought up. Billy's drums were mic'ed but once the sound engineers heard the group, those mics should not have been on. They were definitely not needed.
I do remember an audience member calling out something like who is the drummer or give the drummer some and a little, when I announced Biily's name before his drum feature, I did deliberately turn in the direction of the person who had shouted out earlier when I announced Billy's name. This is how things are usually announced and over 16 years, no one has taken issue with this so there is nothing to read into this.
I thought it was a nice night. If anyone was tired, they didn't show it at all as is the norm with these guys. I thought the audience was wonderful and very receptive. To me, this is a special band playing music in a way that is rarely heard these days and I, at the very least, cherish the experience.
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Back when I did some work with Jordi Pujol (around 20 years ago or so now), he played me some of these Philly Joe Jones tapes but if I remember correctly, he did not have the tape with Reece and Gilmore yet but had the other two and it was not enough material to fill a CD. I guess when word got about this other tape, perhaps Pujol tracked it down so he had this full release.
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On 10/15/2023 at 8:21 AM, Mark Stryker said:
Lewis Porter gives us a previously unreleased "Three Little Words" from the Sonny Meets Hawk session. Incredible stuff, especially from Hawkins, who comes at Sonny on the younger man's turf. Point made.
"Nobody has heard before" is quite a stretch. It is in the Avakian collection at the Lincoln Center Library and before that, besides being amongst Avakian's tapes, I believe it is also in the vaults at Sony studios after being in RCA studios for years. Now you can know go to the Library and sample anything from the Avakian collection yourself. There is quite a bit of great finds there and not just by Sonny Rollins.
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8 hours ago, Dan Gould said:
So it sounds like there are two different archives you are accessing?
It's one archive, the W. Eugene Smith archive. I've searched their data base and they have all the shows.
I initially discovered the show (I had never heard about it before)), while going through the tapes of a musician's estate. Unfortunately, at this point, I can't discuss the identity of the musician.
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I have only heard the audio of a couple of the shows while going through an archive I, unfortunately, can not discuss.
However, I discovered that the W. Eugene Smith (the Jazz Loft guy) made audio recordings of these shows off his TV.
I'm going through the list of tapes in his archive now as we speak looking for listings for the shows and have found the 5th show, which is the Al Cohn and Zoot Sims Quintet.
I know the Sonny Rollins is in this archive as well....
I'm not sure if you can listen or what their protocols are but I'm going to look into it.
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Anyone familiar with this show from 1963 or so?
Five episodes total apparently. One hour TV show with live music and lengthy discussions describing what's happening for the lay person.
I have heard episodes with Thelonious Monk (with Charlie Rouse), Sonny Rollins (with Paul Bley and Billy Higgins) and Horace Silver (with Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook).
I've heard pieces of a 4th episode with Art Farmer.
I don't know who the 5th artist was.
These are great. Great playing, interesting conversations.
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On 8/2/2023 at 8:37 AM, Pim said:
This afternoons playlist before going out for a walk with my two boys.
This Cookers album is so freakin good. I hate the fact that I had to miss these guys in Rotterdam. They were about to perform there and then there was COVID. I never got the chance to see them
@david weissif you ever got the chance please visit us in Holland! Belgium or the western part of German would be fine as well. I’d take a long ride to see you guys perform.
Hi Pim, Glad you are enjoying the record. If I remember correctly, I think covid cancelled us in Rotterdam in 2020. I guess they owe us a gig. We have a few dates in Europe this coming November but nothing yet in your neck of the woods. Hopefully next year.....
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On 8/3/2023 at 1:47 AM, Gheorghe said:
Sorry I never saw "The Cookers". Must be a gas to see them.
My best memory of Billy Harper is is composition "Pieceful Heart". What rhythm, what time is that ? Must be hard to play.....
The tune you are thinking of is The Call of the Wild and Peaceful Heart. The Cookers perform this tune pretty regularly and it opens a lot of our shows....
The tune is in 9 but it is not a typical 9 which is usually sub-divided into 3-3-3. In this case it is subdivided more like 4-5 or as someone in the band said 4-1-4. I would go with 4-5.
Though perhaps a little rough around the edges, here is a pretty decent live performance of it....
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On 7/15/2023 at 5:27 PM, JSngry said:
Tonally, maybe Junior led the way. Phrasing, maybe the other way around.
You would to have been there in real time, though. I wasn't!
The story I've always heard is Joe got some stuff early on, some go as far as saying Joe was rooming with Junior for a while when he first got to NY. The consensus though is Junior first, then Joe. The greats always take everything from everyone and go from there. There is no argument that Joe ran with it in a way that few can touch. What I hear are the similarities in tone (though what I heard later on was the Junior had a bigger sound) but I also hear a lot of the trills Joe did later coming from Junior though they are sped up quite a bit, Joe developed so much facility on the instrument. I got to play with Junior quite often when I first got to New York because I was hanging with Bill Hardman all the time and he bought me to all their gigs and let me sit in. When Junior caught fire though, it was unbelievable..... I remember a night at a dive bar in Brooklyn called Flamingo I think. We were playing Moments Notice and Junior went off. The place went nuts and Junior was just standing there taking it all in. Finally he started clapping too and said yeah, that was pretty good....
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On 12/7/2022 at 10:53 AM, Dan Gould said:
Realizing there is no respect for the artist's estate or legal interests by this company, and remembering that I had once interacted with Greg Silver about another Horace Silver boot, I've dug up that email and sent a new message to Greg.
Unfortunately Gregory passed away last year I'm told.
What time period is your bootleg from?
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Thought I did that but it didn't work for me (perhaps because I was replying to something?). Anyways, I got it now. Thanks Hutchfan. Wish it was for a more noble cause...
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3 hours ago, JSngry said:
Yes, I'm aware. I said a cover of a cover. I wish I knew how to embed videos here though....
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7 hours ago, JSngry said:
How about that!
Sorry, I don't know how to embed the video.
Some say they are the future of Jazz but they are doing a cover of a cover and the pianist is reading the chart.....
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On 2/7/2023 at 1:40 PM, JSngry said:
There's now three recorded versions of "Endangered Species" (that I know of), none of them like the other.
It's not exactly a blowing tune...
West Coast Jazz with Herbie Nichols?
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I agree with Chuck. Perhaps the promo/advance copies were CDRs. If you were in touch with Ben or his representative, perhaps this needed to be made clear before you list it in this way on disgos.