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  • Birthday 08/10/1963

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  1. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/books/review/notebooks-of-sonny-rollins.html?fbclid=IwAR0UO3n4ukr1HeeyloH2OYz9sX4hdjFSdCL_NPvZkGZCGbdPpXTlbsTSUDk_aem_AQ_dwiYCMCiJM3Te_hrLKGsze893Wx77MCS_oGByPmBhnV4P4r_D2qBBpDgzpNVhWgQ
  2. Gang -- I can't tell you how proud I am that the documentary I have coproduced and written, "The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit," will make its debut at the Freep Film Festival with screenings on April 13-14. This has been a true collaboration by co-producers Daniel Loewenthal (who has done a masterful job directing and editing), Roberta Friedman, and myself, and we are honored and humbled for Detroit audiences to be the first to see what is a landmark -- the first feature-length documentary to explore Detroit's remarkable jazz history. We have embedded the story of the city's innovative and influential musicians within the compelling economic, social, and cultural history of the city and its resilient African American community. More later on our plans for world domination. In the meantime, Nate Chinen has written a nice piece that captures the flavor of the film and gives the backstory of what began four years ago this month. There's also a clip so you can get a taste of what we've done. https://www.wrti.org/wrti-spotlight/2024-03-13/watch-a-clip-from-the-best-of-the-best-jazz-from-detroit?fbclid=IwAR3tnvCNYLcOAyTGrPXog19L4HlOJNxnWhuuACtSbUXtrKPNGBJWprCUUOI
  3. Yes, he is. Good catch. I just looked him up when I added Sheila Jordan to the list and I thought I saw that George had died, but, luckily, I was wrong.
  4. Update: I have learned that the the 1963 Japanese performance I need was also issued once on DVD. Anybody got this one? https://www.amazon.com/Cannonball-Adderley-Angeles-Tokyo-Lugano/dp/B001IQDAZM
  5. Gang — Does anyone have a copy of the 1963 Japanese television studio performance by the Canonnball Adderley Sextet on laserdisc? Some of it is on YouTube, but I’m trying to track down a clean copy of the footage. Thanks.
  6. A unique personality. I met him a couple times but didn't really know him. Didn't say a lot unless you were close to him. Don loved him. https://www.npr.org/2017/10/22/559036553/i-m-old-as-dirt-but-i-can-still-sing-sweet-pea-atkinson-on-get-what-you-deserve
  7. The record is fantastic, and I'm not just saying that because I wrote the liner notes. Charles is still in great form at 84.
  8. Folks are of course free to rant any at time about labels issuing rejected materials contrary to artists' wishes -- I have mounted that soapbox myself. And folks are free to shake their fists at any and all manifestations of the vinyl boom -- though despite qualms about price gouging, I do not share your disdain and remain decidedly pro-vinyl, pro-Tone Poet, pro-analog (but not anti-CD). However, I would urge commentators to keep their eyes on the ball as it relates to this particular thread. The most welcome aspects of the news I posted about Wayne is that he has expressly approved of the material Blue Note is going to issue. That's a win all around. I do not know what material is being considered, but someone in a position to know tells me that the rejected 1970 date with Tyner, Vitous, Mouzon, etc. is not, at least, the first one slated for release. Hard to believe there's anything in the deep vaults we don't already know about. I suspect what is on the docket are live tapes of the quartet with Perez, Patitucci, and Blade and/or some of the orchestral or chamber music projects in the last decades of Wayne's life. Coda: I will say that I would LOVE to hear the three rejected performances from the aborted Speak No Evil session with Billy Higgins, but if Wayne doesn't want that released, then it shouldn't be released.
  9. “I will say that you haven't heard the last of Wayne Shorter, let me put it that way. Wayne knew he wasn't going to be around much longer, and he earmarked a lot of stuff to be released.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebaltin/2024/02/25/sunday-conversation-don-was-on-85-years-of-blue-note-and-the-dead/?sh=6c9e3e725398
  10. This is a good question. I assume Yusef was more than a willing participant in the conception and execution of the overdubbed tracks given all the other records he and Dorn were making at the time. However, those tracks are still a drag to me, because the only documentation we have of this group -- Yusef's finest working band -- in its pure form are the quartet-only tracks on 10 Years Hence. So, this new set is REALLY welcome. An interesting coda, however, is that there are still 29 (!) unissued tracks from the two nights recorded at the Keystone Korner from which the material was drawn for 10 Years Hence.
  11. Are you aware that you've posted this on what would have been Wardell's 103rd birthday?
  12. Coda: The pianist in the band, Emmanuel (Manuel) Riggins is a Detroiter and drummer Karriem Riggins' father. Green, as most of you probably know, was living in Detroit in the '70s.
  13. Hutcherson and Hancock also cross paths on: Lee Morgan's The Procrastinator (1967) Hutcherson's Components (1965), The single trac "Memory" on Tony Williams' LIfetime (1964) The duet track "Maiden Voyage" on Jazz at the Opera House (1982) There are two concert videos that I know of that circulate on YouTube with both players in the group -- one from Japan in 1987, the other other from Antibes in 2003. I think there are a couple of stray duet tracks on the two Round Midnight records on Columbia and Blue Note but my memory is hazy here.
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