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Beethoven Piano Trio No.1 and No.5

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Oh no! That's too young I was listening to his excellent work on that Charlie Byrd record just last night.

Still more Stanley Cowell. This time as a sideman. Charles Tolliver - Mosaic Select 20 Disc 1 - originally released as Live at Slugs', Vols. 1 & 2 on Strata-East

What a player!

More Stanley Cowell:

Sad news, he was phenomenal, especially his many recordings for Concord.

Took me forever, but I finally found it on VHS. VHS!!!!

True. Maybe Frank had some spontaneous RVG moments with his reel-to-reel? 😁 I think some of the Showboat recordings have been on the bootleg market for a while, but I don't know if those are Tiberi recordings or not. I'd be down with that. I'm guessing we'll see vinyl, however. ================= An aside: When I see the name "Frank Tiberi," I don't think of Coltrane recordings at all. Instead, I think of Tiberi's transcribed tenor solo on Chick Corea's "La Fiesta" from Woody Herman's Giant Steps album. My high school jazz band (this was eons ago) played that chart (the actual Herman chart), and Tiberi's solo was written out as an option for the tenor player to use as a solo. My director said, "Yeah, you should learn that solo." I did, and it was weird for a 16 year-old. I didn't understand what I was doing at all, and had no idea how Tiberi was handling the changes. 😅 Here's the track. Tiberi's solo begins at 2:08. Listening to it now, I only remembered the first four bars. (Our band did not play the tune this fast.) It's a good chart though!

RIP to one of the faithful keepers of the flame.

Chick Corea & Origin “A Week at the Blue Note” 6 cd box set, disc 2

R.I.P. That comes as quite a surprise. Ken played tenor (and some alto), but mostly clarinet. He will be remembered for the clarinet. His approach was conservative, but he produced a lot of enjoyable music. I particularly enjoy It's a Lonesome Old Town.

Sure! He will be up there with his admired Pee Wee Russell, with whom he shared that way of playing and improvising without safety net (in Whitney Balliett's words) over quite traditional/mainstream material.

Ken was terrific. R.I.P.

When The Cookers played at Church of Sound here in London a few years back we got to the venue (...a church) quite early and found Billy walking around taking it in. I wish I'd said hello and told him how much I love his music but I don't like to bother musicians.

Wow... at least he went out playing. Saw him a few times and I think the last was as part of an Allen Lowe concert in Brooklyn at IBeam (with Ursula Oppens).

Emmet Cohen has posted on Facebook that Ken suffered a heart attack a few hours after leaving the stage after a performance on the last night of The Jazz Cruise. If you have a Facebook account, Emmet has posted a short video of one Ken's clarinet solos last night. Ken was doing what he loved to the end. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DSRHs5HxY/

R.I.P.

Most of this one: I think I was at this one... I've seen Yoko at Scullers many times so I've forgotten a few of them. I'm pretty sure that some of the music I saw is on this CD but i have been told that there were tape issues on the night I went, so maybe not.

Disgusting and sad. Gentle hat tip to Phillip Glass