Hardbopjazz Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 Who can tell me more about this bass player? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Upright Bill Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 Start here Leroy Vinnegar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 Leroy V. could WALK! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 He's from Indianapolis! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Rat Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 He adds just the needed dose of earthiness to many a West Coast recording. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couw Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 I am playing his Jazz's Great Walker (VeeJay) at this very moment. The opening track "doing that thing (double stopping)" is absolutely lovely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted April 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 I believe he also played with the Doors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 Love Leroy Vinnegar's contribution to 'I've Got The World on a String' on the Serge Chaloff 'Blue Serge' Capitol date. That session must have really been an incredible one! Vinnegar also contributed mightily to dozens of other great albums... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesbed Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 Leroy plays on the Carmell Jones Select. He plays on the Brass Bag session. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 He did countless West Coast studio dates, jazz and non-jazz. His big sound is featured on many Contemporary sessions (most available as OJC, inluding two as a leader). His sound was the biggest!!! Only Jimmy Bond had a comparably big sound in California. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 Love Leroy Vinnegar's contribution to 'I've Got The World on a String' on the Serge Chaloff 'Blue Serge' Capitol date. That session must have really been an incredible one! Vinnegar also contributed mightily to dozens of other great albums... YEAH! I love that album - the whole group sounds SOOOO good! Vinnegar is up there with the great ones of that era (Chambers, Watkins etc). Wonder what the Coltrane band would have sounded had he been able to get Vinnegar (I don't remember where I read about that, but I do remember I did ) ubu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 These are the covers of his dates as a leader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 Wonder what the Coltrane band would have sounded had he been able to get Vinnegar (I don't remember where I read about that, but I do remember I did ) I wonder, too !!! The Coltrane books I have do not mention Vinegar. Seems to me it would have been a lot less adventurous. For me, Reggie Workman was the man, rather than the (great) Jimmy Garrison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave James Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 Leroy was a huge presence on the Portland Oregon jazz scene for the last few years of his life. He was in poor health, on oxygen almost all the time, but still manged to play around town with great regularity. Needless to say, he had a huge influence on the local jazz community. I saw him several times and, as the saying goes, he never missed a beat. Just a monster player...solid as a rock. I read somewhere (maybe in his obituary) that he'd been involved in something like 800 recordings. I know that seems like a lot, but for whatever reason, that number sticks in my mind. Seeing him and Jessica Williams together was a real treat, let me tell you. And, as has been mentioned previously, he was the bass player on one of my all-time favorites, Chaloff's "Blue Serge." It doesn't get any better than that. Up over and out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Late Posted December 26, 2022 Report Share Posted December 26, 2022 Leroy Walks Again Good album for the post-holiday comedown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted December 26, 2022 Report Share Posted December 26, 2022 9 hours ago, Late said: Leroy Walks Again Good album for the post-holiday comedown. It's always good to make a walk 😎 .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Late Posted December 26, 2022 Report Share Posted December 26, 2022 9 hours ago, soulpope said: It's always good to make a walk 😎 .... Good for one's health! 👍 This edition of the album is apparently its first stereo issue—"in association with" Contemporary Records, who released the album in mono. I always forget it's Gerald Wilson on trumpet on this record. 🤭 18 hours ago, Late said: Leroy Walks Again Original Australian cover. I've often wondered why different markets decide to alter the original cover art (or use different artwork altogether). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted December 27, 2022 Report Share Posted December 27, 2022 Especially after eating a lot when you’re as tight as a fiddle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted December 27, 2022 Report Share Posted December 27, 2022 It´s strange how little we knew about him here in Viena. When I started there was not much being talked about him. The first time I read his name was in an interview Miles Davis gave where he said about Ornette Coleman: "Everything was ok when he played with Don Cherrly, Billy Higgins and LEROY VINNEGAR". I thought "wait a minute......, who is Leroy Vinnegar". We had so many OC stuff with Cherry and Higgins, but it was Charlie Haden on bass or Scott LaFaro or David Izenzon. Later I saw that their must have been an earlier disc of OC where Vinnegar played bass. So, was he OC´s man before OC really became famous ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted December 28, 2022 Report Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) 16 hours ago, Gheorghe said: So, was he OC´s man before OC really became famous ? If so, there are no recordings. On the two Contemporary LPs it was Don Payne, Red Mitchell, or Percy Heath. Maybe Vinnegar was on a gig that Miles heard live in California, or he mixed him up with another bass player. Higgins and Vinnegar were teamed on so many sessions ..... Edited December 28, 2022 by mikeweil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted December 28, 2022 Report Share Posted December 28, 2022 6 hours ago, mikeweil said: If so, there are no recordings. On the two Contemporary LPs it was Don Payne, Red Mitchell, or Percy Heath. Maybe Vinnegar was on a gig that Miles heard live in California, or he mixed him up with another bass player. Higgins and Vinnegar were teamed on so many sessions ..... Oh I see. Yes .... now as you said it, the pre - Haden bassist on record was Red Mitchell. Percy Heath, I think is on a Don Cherry - John Coltrane LP that has some Ornette Coleman compositions on it (maybe "The Blessing"). So what Miles Davis said really could have been from a live gig he heard, since he must have been in California in the fifties if Art Pepper recorded there with Miles´ Rhythm Section, and this maybe was in L.A. and yeah, maybe Miles had heard them. He was hip enough to dig some of this then "new music" , later he dissed Ornette mostly for his trying to play the trumpet, and called him "a selfish guy" .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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