sheldonm Posted September 15, 2007 Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 Thanks for that work Mike - very interesting indeed! I see there was no link to the Jimmy Coe/Paul Weeden album "Now I know dreams do come true" except the Coe discography on the Red Saunders site. Anyone know how to obtain this album? MG I just sat next to Jimmy's widow yesterday at the funeral of another great Indy sax great, Russell Webster. I'll do a little digging around for you. Mark~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted September 15, 2007 Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 MG has traded me some for a copy of the Jimmy Coe / Paul Weeden in the meantime .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted September 15, 2007 Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 MG has traded me some for a copy of the Jimmy Coe / Paul Weeden in the meantime .... Mike, sent you a pm. Mark~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted September 15, 2007 Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontooneous Posted September 16, 2007 Report Share Posted September 16, 2007 Mel's in Kansas City next Saturday. Can't wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted September 16, 2007 Report Share Posted September 16, 2007 ...saw him last night and then went out to my car to find the passenger side window bashed out.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted September 16, 2007 Report Share Posted September 16, 2007 That sucks, Mark. Should we be concerned about the Jazz Kitchen? Or is this an isolated incident? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted September 16, 2007 Report Share Posted September 16, 2007 That sucks, Mark. Should we be concerned about the Jazz Kitchen? Or is this an isolated incident? No, the Jazz Kitchen is in a nice neighborhood, surrounded my restuarants, coffee shops and such....this was at a alternative music/art festival in a bad neighborhood. I was one of several cars that got broken into. As someone once told me, nothing good happens after midnight m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkertown Posted September 16, 2007 Report Share Posted September 16, 2007 Sorry to hear that Mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 Sorry to hear that Mark. Thanks! I just picked up my car from the glass place....just like it never happened although I'm $203.00 poorer! m~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Sorry to hear that too, Mark. 23rd and Illinois still rough, I guess... back around 1990 my girlfriend was living at 21st and Talbott, and I lived at 14th and Alabama... both much safer now than then. I hardly even recognize 14th and Alabama when I drive that block these days, but several people got murdered within 1-2 blocks while I was living there. Saw Mel with David Young this past Sunday afternoon at Tutto Bene and it was a very good gig--David Young still has so much weight in his tone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Sorry to hear that too, Mark. 23rd and Illinois still rough, I guess... back around 1990 my girlfriend was living at 21st and Talbott, and I lived at 14th and Alabama... both much safer now than then. I hardly even recognize 14th and Alabama when I drive that block these days, but several people got murdered within 1-2 blocks while I was living there. Saw Mel with David Young this past Sunday afternoon at Tutto Bene and it was a very good gig--David Young still has so much weight in his tone. Yeah, I love David....I'm trying to get Owl Records here in Indy to record him. I talked with trumpeter Clifford Rattliff a bit on Friday and Saturday nights....he played your Bloomington show with Mel and David as well. David played a wonderful tune at Russell Webster's funeral last week....beautiful!!! I thought about coming down for it but after the window thing and getting in bed about 3:45 or so....I was in a mood . m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 (edited) I got to meet Clifford for the first time on Sunday--very cool guy... had a great chat with him and David Williams (Indiana Avenue archivist who seems to have just about every LP and 45 ever put down by a Naptown artist) Keep me posted on the Owl business, sheldonm. Would love to spin anything that David Y. might wax for them (or anybody else, for that matter). Edited September 19, 2007 by ghost of miles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 Here's a shot of Clifford playing with Wycliffe Gordon the night before you saw him with Mel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomsMobley Posted February 27, 2013 Report Share Posted February 27, 2013 (edited) sorry to report that Melvin Rhyne is on the way out-- imminently and eternally, alas-- according to Killer Ray Appleton, who's live on the WKCR Musician Show tonight. Hopefully someone is recording this so Ghost of Miles can pick up rare Indiana lore... Mel Rhyne will be missed! Edited February 27, 2013 by MomsMobley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 Sorry to hear this .... I hope to find the time to type his disco into BRIAN and put it online sometime this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertrand Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 His ex-wife Paula Hampton reported on Facebook that he has passed away. Bertrand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Melvin Rhyne is one of those musicians that I kept waiting & waiting to see in the Boston area. I guess I'll have to keep his memory alive with his CDs. Great stuff, particularly the Tenor Triangle dates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Sad news. All the Criss Cross recordings should be heard and I'll always be partial to Organ-izing with Gene Harris, Blue Mitchell and Johnny Griffin. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 I've got to say that the more I listen to those Criss Cross Jazz albums, the less I'm enthralled by them. It's as if Gerry is saying to Mel, 'well, this is what we do here, so fit in, would you? I've got Peter Bernstein and Eric Alexander coming in, as usual...' And they must have done enough business for Mel to have been invited back year in, year out, so OK, no one would turn that money down. But it's neo-hardbop, not the truth. There IS a truth in hardbop organ, but it's Earland's ferocity, not Rhyne's somewhat (to me) academic approach. Which is not to say I think those albums are bad - more like slightly wrong-headed. At the same time, I've been more and more drawn to his sessions with Wes. Mind you, I always thought they were the acme of Wes' work. But the more I listen, I feel the two of them were so empathic together, no other organist and guitarist approached what they sounded like as a team. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertoart Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 I've got to say that the more I listen to those Criss Cross Jazz albums, the less I'm enthralled by them. It's as if Gerry is saying to Mel, 'well, this is what we do here, so fit in, would you? I've got Peter Bernstein and Eric Alexander coming in, as usual...' And they must have done enough business for Mel to have been invited back year in, year out, so OK, no one would turn that money down. But it's neo-hardbop, not the truth. There IS a truth in hardbop organ, but it's Earland's ferocity, not Rhyne's somewhat (to me) academic approach. Which is not to say I think those albums are bad - more like slightly wrong-headed. At the same time, I've been more and more drawn to his sessions with Wes. Mind you, I always thought they were the acme of Wes' work. But the more I listen, I feel the two of them were so empathic together, no other organist and guitarist approached what they sounded like as a team. MG Yes to that about Wes and Mel Rhyne. It's a very personal collaboration. You feel like they were like a big brother and a younger brother collaborating (and I don't mean that in a patronising way), but rather like family. The 'sound' on the first Riverside session is also dense and spacious, and I don't think Wes's guitar tone was ever captured better, at least until the less intimate 'arranged' recordings. You can really listen deeply, like a fly on the wall with that one. The Boss Guitar session is not recorded as intimately, but is still wonderful for the Wes/Mel double team and tunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Agreed. I'm a great fan of the Wes/Rhyne dates. Their rendering of "Round Midnight" is sublime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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