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Thanks for sharing. I only have LinkedIn but don’t really use it. Sometimes YouTube of course. Thats it. Tend to stay far away from al those other platforms. Part from those awful algorithms and other dubious unethical elements I really don’t feel de need to expose my life to others. Except the jazz part but that’s where I have Organissimo for

Eddie and Joe go head to head here in 1969 with Thad and Mel in Europe. "Tow Away Zone." (Clip says 1970 but it's from a year earlier.) Coda: I heard Daniels give Eddie give a fantastic performance of the Nielsen Clarinet Concerto with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1997 -- not a good-for-a-jazz guy performance but great-for-anyone performance. If memory series, he also played an arrangement of Gershwin's "Three Preludes" preceded by an improvised cadenza and offered a brief "Chelsea Bridge" as an encore. I don't remember who arranged the Gershwing and Strayhorn for clarinet and orchestra.

Buddy Guy, Ain't Done with the Blues

Not familiar, but will check it! Is it all instrumental? I'm really looking for certain types of lyrics with this thread, but thanks for the suggestion, regardless.

What happened was that he decided he wanted to make money. He made a lot of it playing clarinet and pumping out smooth jazz for GRP. Who can blame any of these smooth jazz guys for riding a gravy train? If he had stuck playing "Joe Henderson", I highly doubt he'd be as rich as he is today.

Great article. Awareness of malicious design is the first step to realizing one is consuming the mental equivalent of junk food.

A tad long, but interesting to me and maybe others. Might even stimulate a conversation. https://www.thefp.com/p/social-media-shortens-your-life-heres-how-to-get-time-back?r=px8hr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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I see this cover and I want to play it! J & K* “Stone Bone” A&M/CTI Red RSD LP *J J Johnson and Kai Winding

Miles Davis “The Complete Jack Johnson Session” disc 1 It’s been a long time since I have last spun this interesting box set.

SFJazz Collective “Inaugural Season Live 2004” 3 cd set, disc 1 320×320 12.9 KB

CD 2

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***** Week 10 results BC 41....Hamilton 38 Lots of fun. I counted nine lead changes. Both Whyte and Legghio missed their first field goals of the season. https://www.cfl.ca/2025/08/07/recap-bc-41-hamilton-38/ https://www.cfl.ca/2025/08/07/lions-take-down-ticats-in-overtime-after-back-and-forth-affair-on-thursday/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/sean-whyte-s-overtime-field-goal-earns-bc-lions-victory-over-hamilton-ticats-1.2343917 https://3downnation.com/2025/08/08/b-c-lions-redeemed-in-rematch-knock-off-ticats-in-overtime-thriller-12-other-thoughts/ https://www.cfl.ca/2025/08/07/3-stats-that-defined-bcs-week-10-win-over-hamilton/ ***** Week 10 preview https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/cfl-week-10-edmonton-elks-1-6-at-montreal-alouettes-5-3-game-preview-injury-report-and-predictions/ ***** CFL Awards defensive candidates https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/cfl-defensive-player-of-the-year-candidates/

My first Eddie Daniels record was Dave Pike's The Doors of Perception.

Just finished "Softly, With Feeling", a bio of Joe Wilder. He was really a great person, forced to feel the brunt of racism, like Clark Terry, without letting it get to him. No matter where he went, the Marines, the classical music world, Broadway, on the road in the South with big bands, he was treated like crap, but was able to transcend it, by virtue of his superiority as a person. It's not surprising he wound up with other great black musicians, like George Duvivier, Milt Hinton and Hank Jones. His hard work during his early classical training enabled him to sight read anything, and he was able to get lead trumpet work in both commercial work and jazz work, and eventually learned enough about improvisation on his own, to excel in that realm, also. Rather than relying on high note chops, he was noted for the beautiful sound he got out of the horn in the middle and lower ranges, and his creativity as a soloist. It's no wonder that he wound up playing for Tom Talbert, who able to discern other great players who played the same way, like Aaron Sachs. A great deal was made how unknown he was, which surprised me, because my father had bought albums like The Pretty Sound of Joe Wilder, and the Bix, Duke and Fats album of Talbert that he was featured on, so they were always lying around the house when I was a kid. I didn't realize that he never led his own small group in a club until he was in his 60s, even working with younger players who realized how great he was like Michael Weiss, besides his old buddies Hank Jones and Milt Hinton. He was even featured on a Steely Dan cut, so he was obviously big in the studios, so outside of his small group jazz playing, he was quite prominent in the studio orchestras, like Johnny Smith, another musician that he worked with on "Annotation of the Muses" by Johnny Richards, during his 'Third Stream" phase. The author Edward Berger, seemed to be unaware of the tremendous difficulty of making a living in the jazz field, and that musicians had to play other types of music (Wilder even wound up playing 'club dates' for a while) to get by. The worst culprit in Wilder's case seemed to be the classical field, which refused to allow any Black musicians to play in their orchestras, until quotas had to be imposed. If you were someone like Joe Wilder you didn't stand a chance of getting an orchestral job. Much of the book deals with legislation that enabled Black musicians to find work in Broadway orchestras and Symphony orchestras, Finally Ben Steinberg started The New World Symphony Orchestra, which allowed minorities to play in it, and Wilder was a charter member. However,Wilder left after he was disgusted at the political in-fighting that forced Steinberg out of his position as conductor. He eventually found work in the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. He also went into teaching at Julliard and Hamilton College in his 80s. He was still alive and active after surviving cancer when the book was written, in 2014, the year of his death at 92.

That stuff with Sam Rivers…. He’s so damn good on it. RIP

Yeah, he was a pisser!