Pete C

I saw an excellent young guitarist recently, Mike Moreno, playing in a band led by drummer Rodney Green and featuring Ravi Coltrane. Joe Morris isn't really "new," but he's an often compelling, original voice.

I for one am glad that Jack does not feel as mikeweil does. I think Bruce is one of the truly great voices of rock. Carla Bley & Michael Mantler used that voice in interesting ways too.

I always find that intelligence gets much better results than intellectualism.

Of course Oscar Peterson for Granz in the '50s. An Hank was Oscar's predecessor with Granz.

Mal Waldron & Art Taylor were very busy at Prestige in the '50s.

I think the Four Freshman are a ball. I even saw the current version a couple of years ago.

Those young guys in his current quartet are really wonderful too.

It rhymes with Parrot.

William Parker introduced him as Gray-shun when Moncur was part of a Parker ensemble a year or two ago.

He's going to be performing with the Art Ensemble in NY.

Have you ever tried to say street names in New Orleans using proper French pronunciation and gotten blank stares from locals?

Neither. I'm pretty sure that. spelling notwithstanding, it is pronounced Kwinn-uh-SHAY, Monsieur Storaire.

Yes, it rhymes with Linus. James Williams named his concert production organization Finas Sounds in honor of the proper pronunciation of his mentor's name.

I don't think 30-second sound clips that one can find on Amazon, etc. is any sign of an iminent pay site. If they did become a pay site I'd hope they'd pay their reviewers.

Seems a reasonable guess.

Have you ever been to the Monterey festival? There's a guy named Pat DuVal who's there every year selling KILLER ribs.

If anybody else did play their compositions--Grachan Moncur III & Henry Threadgill. Booker Little too. How come nobody ever does those Moncur tunes?

An aside--Mingus did an interesting arrangement of B&S for the Hampton band in the 40's that exists as an aircheck. The same chart also appears in Epitaph, and I think the Town Hall concert. I don't remember offhand whether the reharmonization of the piano solo is related to that version.

I always wondered about Barre Phillips until I heard him pronounce it: Bar, plain and simple.

Yeah, John Hebert is definetly an up-and-comer. I first saw him in several gigs with Kenny Wheeler & Andrew Rathburn, then with Hill. I think all may have been last year, and I hadn't heard of him before then. I wonder if Colley going off to work with Hancock led Hill to find Hebert.

Tom Rainey is amazingly active in NY. There are times I've seen him with three different groups in a week in NY. There are a cluster of venues that "downtown" types play regularly--now that Kintting Factory is dead as a jazz venue, the spots are Tonic, Cornelia Street Cafe, 55 Bar, Barbes, and the Sunday night series at CBGB's lounge. The bass player's name is John Hebert. I just saw him on Sunday at CBGB's in a quartet with Sam Bardfield, Michael Attias & George Schuller. I've also seen Hebert with Kenny Wheeler on several occasions.

Plus, there are no commercial releases of Bluiett's short tenure with the quintet.

I read somewhere, I think in the liner notes to a Miles album, that in 1965 Herbie took a quartet to the Left Bank in Baltimore that was the Miles rhythm section plus Sam Rivers. I wonder if the tapes exist, as so many from the Left Bank do.

New Yorkers can catch Don Friedman with a trio on April 5 at the Blue Note. Cover is only $10.

The fact that the Blue Note sucks might be part of the answer. The prices are astronomical, the food is as bad as it gets, and they pack patrons in like sardines. On top of that it's a relatively large club. I can assure you Silver would sell out the Vanguard easily for a 2-week run. Next time Silver plays the Blue Note the cover is $35. Add to that a minimum, tax & tip, and you're talking at least $50, more likely $60, for maybe 75 minutes of music. I can't do that too often.