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Charlie Byrd: Hollywood Byrd. Columbia CS-9452 [US 1967]

Like alot of sites - as soon as someone moves things - everything gets moved Here is what and how I found it again https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Down-Beat_copy(1).htm So...as today is March 15th (depends when you read this 🙂 ) https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/DownBeat/60s/62/Downbeat-1962-03-15.pdf Here is March 15th from 1962 and - oh boy this threw me when I read it on page 15 "THE ROAD CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM The jazz world was saddened by the sudden death of bassist Doug Watkins, killed in an automobile accident near Holbrook, Ariz., in the early morning hours of Feb. 5. Arizona Highway Patrolman Kenneth G. Hagin told Down Beat that Watkins, driving his own car, crossed the highway and rammed head on into an oncoming pickup truck. The bassist apparently had fallen asleep at the wheel. The-driver of the truck, Hagin said, was uninjured. Also unharmed were Watkins’ passengers—trumpeter Bill Hardman, 29; tenorist Roland Alexander, 26; and Fred Green, 28. The party was enroute to San Francisco where Watkins, Hardman, and Alexander were to join the new Philly Joe Jones group at the Jazz Workshop. Jones and pianist Elmo Hope had flown to San Francisco from New York. Watkins, a native of the jazz-rich Detroit area, was among a wave of young jazzmen from that city (including his cousin bassist Paul Chambers) who caused a flurry of excitement when they descended en masse on New York City in the mid-1950s. Prior to leaving Detroit, Watkins toured with the James Moody Band and worked with pianist Barry Harris. Coming to New York City in August, 1954, he played with trumpeter Kenny Dorham and worked briefly at Minton’s".... Thats my Sunday evening filled back with sadness

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Great to have you back, Allen!

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LaDonna Smith & Davey Williams - 1983

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There's a young pianist in NYC named Esteban Castro, young, just out of Julliard. I will state this directly: Esteban is one of the greatest jazz pianists who ever lived, and I mean ever, and I say this unequivocally, after a lifetime of listening to everything from 1920 to the present. I am trying to think of how to describe his playing - it is historically comprehensive, but never in a self conscious way. He just sits at the piano with casual ease and turns out phrase after phrase of brilliant, compelling, artistically meaningful music. In term of musical attitude he has some resemblance to Jaki Byard, but that is primarily in the ingenious way in which he incorporates his incredibly varied, but always personal, ideas of playing. He is astounding. We recorded together not too long ago, and I basically knew what he can do, but he still surprised me - bits and pieces of Tristano, an amazing Fats-Waller-into-stride passage that just blew me away, and a deep understanding of Bud Powell. He can read, he can play inside/outside/upside down, harmonically speaking. He even did an uncanny summoning of Monk on one piece that was not Monkish in the usual sense, but instead a personalization of Monk's way of fusing melody and harmony. Another thing I love about his playing is that it is non-ideological: no systems, no repetitive patterns, no blues cliches. He is the real thing. I will post some more of his stuff eventually, but here's a clip from a few years back which gives a sense of his incredible reach and sense of line:

This is a great set indeed. If you have the Mosaic Decca All Stars box, that doesn't do it justice at all, even though all of the studio tracks are there. You need the 3-disc set with the original ordering and the narration.

Next up: Yep. Me too. 🙂

Now, I am listening Jaco Pastorius big band: Twins II...... Now, I am listening Jaco Pastorius big band: Twins II......

Visibly this site has changed. Sadly not for the better. We've had discussions here on this forum in Feb./March 2023 of that Worldradiohistory site and of the Down Beats accessible online there. I then started to download the PDF files of each mag one by one for the years of most interest to me. As did others, it seems. But one forumist provided a method and link of how to "bulk download" these files in batches of several years at a time in one go. So I then downloaded ALL the Down Beats up to the end of 1969 by this method in almost no time at all. There also was a note that Down Beat objected to these being accessible online, so maybe this is why they changed the site again.

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2024 Daou sauvignon blanc - tonight

Yes, worldradiostory.com is a free website that archives tons of TV, radio & music magazines, but the DownBeat issues aren't easy to find because there are no links in the DownBeat page (?) and the search lead to incorrect links, but they are there.

Cayetano, How did you find this article? Is there a website one can find these? 1970 is probably PD. Bertrand.

it likely was around that time, yes.