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Cherubini String Quartet No.5 and Schubert String Quartet D.112

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If they said they are the same venue as that one in Barcelona yes it’s them. The jazzmessengers store ships from Barcelona. Happy customer here 👍

I'm in Lisbon and was visiting a huge bookstore when I saw a sign pointing up a flight of stairs saying " Jazz Messengers". Of course I went up and it was a great selection of Lps with a pretty good cd section. I asked if this was the "Jazz Messengers" who shipped overseas and they replied that they ship from their store in Barcelona. Is this the organization many people here buy from? I've been having trouble posting photos (due to ineptitude) but i took some and when I return home I'll attempt to post them.

Gary Bartz: Live @ The Jazz Standard Mae Velha, Vol 2. OYO Recordings OYO1002-2 [US 2005] Painting by Gary Bartz “I've Got The Blues” 85 years old today - happy birthday!

Good one.

Thanks, that sounds plausible. BTW, browsing through the book again, I noticed a photo on the page preceding the page that shows the second photo from the Webster Hall date on your blog: visibly taken at a break during a recording session (the engineer's booth is visible in the background), with two men (musicians, probably) reading their newspapers. Could this have been taken at the same Webster Hall session?

I have a copy. Great book.

Whispering is the source of Groovin High, and is indeed an old grumpy song. So hey...

1988 CD reissue with bonus tracks

By the look of it, I think it could be backstage at a festival and I don't think it was recorded. If that's the case, and I'm right about Calhoun, it'd be a matter of triangulating: Jones, Heath, and Calhoun almost definitely imply having Basie, the MJQ and Erroll Garner in the same place -- Joe Benjamin was more of a free agent (he was with Brubeck for some months in 1958, for instance). A candidate would be Newport '59, where Basie, the MJQ, and Garner played, but I haven't had the time to check whether Benjamin was there at all.

I've seen Joshua Redman perform many times by this point. Sometimes the show was great and sometimes not so great. Not every performer can put on their best performance every time. That's why I still buy tickets to their next show. FWIW, I saw Redman during his last tour, when he had vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa in the band. While the shows were enjoyable, I am not a huge fan of vocals, so I didn't like it nearly as much as other shows Redman put on. I think it should have been listed as the "Gabrielle Cavasa Band". But that doesn't mean I won't see him again.

My inner curmudgeon (I searched images for "grumpy old man")

Wow ... what knowledge! I am impressed! Do you have any idea if this was taken at an occasion that was recorded?

Left to right: Joe Benjamin, I think Eddie Calhoun (Erroll Garner's bassist), Heath, and Count Basie's Eddie Jones.

Thanks a lot, Fernando!! So I was right when I figured that that guy wearing the cap looked treacherously like Tony Scott! (Sahib Shihab and Gigi Gryce also were easy to identify) Offhand I just could not think of a big band session that he led. Though I ought to have known and ought to have searched further ... because I do own the "Complete Tony Scott" album. As for others to identify, I might well contact you via MP (our should I put the photos here for everyone to see and identify?). One that comes to mind right away is the pic (about 20 pages into the book) of four bassists jamming together (studio? backstage?). Percy Heath (second from right) is obvious, but the others? Many thanks again!

I have done a bit of that, with photos that seem to come from one session by Tony Scott at Webster Hall, here: https://jazzontherecord.blogspot.com/2018/07/image-and-sound-webster-hall-1956.html If you're interested in any other face in particular, I'd be glad to help. F

A warm morning again. Woke up early and tended to the dog; we’re settling in for a little listening. First off “Unreleased Art Pepper Volume 6 Blues for the Fisherman” disc 2 of 4 On to something different. . . David Bowie “Heathen” from the latest box set.