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Continuing with more Cecil / Leos

Chuck Berry represents the start of the change ... the convo is early rock n roll and to me that is saxophone. Pretty sure rock n roll started before 1955 and Maybellene.

Sad news. RIP

Same here, and on both counts. RIP.

Chuck Berry and saxophone?

Sorry to hear of his passing. "Bouncin' With Bartok" was a great book. R. I. P.

“Frank Foster/George Wallington” Blue Note cd reissuing two Blue Note 10" LPs. 300×264 8.48 KB Both are very good sessions.

Envy you a bit, saw that concert advertised on insta this morning... Hope the album by the band appears soon!

R.I.P.

I'm thinking Organissimo may also be the *only* jazz discussion forum active in 2003 that's still around today. And twenty-three years feels like a century in digital-technology time. When this board launched there was no social media, no streaming, no YouTube, etc, and smartphones had yet to be introduced. (Remember when Blackberry was all the rage?)

Sad indeed.

Tonight: Alexandra Grimal « Rewild », with Susana Santos Silva, Fred Frith, Marc Ducret and Gerry Hemingway

Sorry to hear this as well. His Miles Davis bio was the first one I ever read, and I was especially grateful for his book on Dick Twardzik. Appreciation also to Mark Miller, who has done stellar jazz history work himself, for posting the news.

The consideration of specific tracks is certainly a good place to start. To me "Rock n Roll" signifies the time when a saxophone was the dominant solo instrument. I don't mean that guitar wasn't equally at home but if you are talking early rock n roll tunes its got to be a tenor sax in there. When guitar not only became predominant, but overbearing and frankly, sometimes musically masturbatory, that's when it became "rock".

He certainly did some work. RIP

Yep

Sad news.

Sorry to hear of his passing. R.I.P.