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Ok, let's get things straight on Tete Montoliu's first stay in the United States: Tete travelled to New York for a dinner-dance program of the Spain-United States Chamber of Commerce called "An Evening In Barcelona" to be held on April 1, 1967, together with vocalist Núria Feliu. On April 3 a private party at Willis Connover's apartment was held to present Tete Montoliu to the New York jazz scene. Reportedly, Gil Evans, Dave Brubeck and Bob Thiele were present. Although he arrived with no American commercial commitments, Tete Montoliu was quickly signed by agent Ivan Black for a night club engagement at the Village Gate (Top of the Gate) and for a recording session for Impulse Records. In "Tete. Casi Autobiografía", Miquel Jurado mentions that Montoliu's stay in New York lasted for three months. Tete Montoliu, in an interview published in Quàrtica Jazz #1 (January 1981), refers to two months and a half. The Ivan Black Papers, the New Yorker, the NYTimes ("Cabaret Tonight" section, April 11, 1967) and a brief notice in the Daily News (April 10, 1967) confirm that Montoliu's engagement at the Top of the Gate started on Tuesday, April 11, 1967. The last performance must have taken place on June 10, according to the New Yorker. Certainly, in June 13, Montoliu was not playing at the Top of the Gate, since both the NYTimes (June 13, 1967) and the New Yorker (June 17, 1967 issue) list the Mose Allison Trio and pianist-comedienne Patty Bowen. This is the review in the NYTimes (April 15, 1967) by John S. Wilson: “Montoliu, Spanish Jazz Pianist, Brings His Quiet Stylism to U.S (…) The most noticeable influences to be heard in his playing are the late Art Tatum, who came from Toledo (Ohio), and Bill Evans. Like Mr. Tatum, who was partly blind, Mr. Montoliu has remarkable technical dexterity, which he uses to create long, complex lines that flow over and through each other, weaving patterns that become almost hypnotic. To this he has added a meditative, reflective quality that stems from Mr. Evans. The total effect is a moving mosaic made up of bits and pieces of melody and rhythm that never goes directly forward but gives an impression of steady, billowing propulsion. In the process, Mr. Montoliu deepens the airy cascades of Mr. Tatum’s style and enlivens the Evans-like mulling. Control, polish and quiet understatement color his performances. Each piece is a beautifully finished cameo, but, over a full evening, this eventually builds a sense of restraint. One keeps hoping that Mr. Montoliu will burst out of his neat, compact frameworks and give his virtuosity wider latitude (…).” Artists sharing the bill with Tete at the Top of the Gate during this period included Blossom Dearie (four weeks), Marian McPartland Trio (three weeks) and Mose Allison Trio. Sources: The New Yorker, The Villager, Variety, Billboard, New York Times, New Yorks Amsterdam News, Daily News. The Ivan Black papers at the NY Public Library. Miquel Jurado biography on TM. More to come on the Impulse! recording.

TOP TEN FREE JAZZ UNDERGROUND 1. DAVE BURRELL - Echo (BYG 529.320/Actuel Volume 20) In the fall of 1969 Free Jazz was reaching a kind of nadir/nexus. Within the industry it was controversial. Classic traditionalists (beboppers included) were outraged by men in dashikis and sandals jumping on stage and just BLOWING their guts out creating screaming torrents of action. Most musicians involved with this crying anarchy could get no bookings beyond the New York loft set. The French lovers of the avant-garde embraced this African-American scene wholly. This recording is one of many in a series of LP's with consistent design. BYG released classic Free Jazz documents by Archie Shepp (at his wildest), Clifford Thornton, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Grachan Moncur III, Sunny Murray, Alan Silva, Arthur Jones, Dewey Redman and many others. A lot of these cats are present on this recording where from the first groove it sounds like an acoustic tidal wave exploding into shards of dynamite. If you can locate Alan Silva's "Lunar Surface" LP (BYG 529.312/Actuel Vol. 12) you'll find a world even that much more OUT. 2. MILFORD GRAVES & DON PULLEN - Nommo (S.R.P. LP-290) Milford may be one of the most important players in the Free Jazz underground. He enforces the sense of community as a primary exponent of his freely improvised music. His drumkit is home-made and he rarely performs outside of his neighborhood. When he does perform he plays his kit like no other. Wild, slapping, bashing, tribal freak-outs interplexed with silence, serenity and enlightened meditation. This LP was manufactured by the artists in 1967 and is recorded live at Yale University. The interplay between Milford and Don (piano) is remarkable and very free. There's a second volume which also is as rare as hen's teeth. 3. ARTHUR DOYLE Plus 4 - Alabama Feeling (AK-BA AK-1030) Arthur is a strange cat. Not too many people know where he's from (Alabama is a good guess). He resided in New York City in the 70's and showed up in loftspaces spitting out incredible post-Aylerisms. Mystic music which took on the air of chasing ghosts and spirits through halls of mirrors (!). He hooked up with noise/action guitarist Rudolph Grey who was making the current No-Wave scene and with Beaver Harris (drums) they played gigs in front of unsuspecting art creeps apparently not "hip" enough to dig, let alone document, the history blasting their brains. Arthur did release this lo-fi masterpiece and it's a spiraling cry of freedom and fury. AKBA Records released a number of classic NYC loft-jazz sessions, most notably those of label boss Charles Tyler, a screaming tenor player who also blew with Rudolph in the late 70's/early 80's. Arthur continues to play/teach etc. in Binghamton, N.Y. and recently released in 1993 "More Alabama Feeling" on yours truly's Ecstatic Peace label (available from Forced Exposure/POB 9102/Waltham, MA 02254) 4. SONNY MURRAY - Sonny's Time Now (Jihad 663) Sonny was the drummer considered to be the first to realize and recognize and perform, on drums, pure FREE jazz. He played behind and along with Ayler early on and Cecil Taylor. He constructed groups which always flew and raged with spiritual abandon. He took time as an abstract and turned it into free motion. This recording is super-lo-fi and is awesome. On it play Ayler(tenor) and Don Cherry (trumpet) as well as Leroi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) reading a killer poem called "Black Art". This music is very Ayler but more fractured and odd. Like a lot of these records there is only a front cover with the back of the jacket blank. Whether this was done for economic or artistic reasons is unclear. Jihad was a concern of Leroi Jones and anything released on this label is utterly obscure. The only other title I've seen is one just called "BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL" from the mid-60's which is Leroi and friends sitting on the stoops of Harlem chanting, beating drums and celebrating Leroi's "poems" ("The white man/at best/is..corny!") There was an ad for Jihad in an old issue of Jazz & Pop magazine which announced a Don Ayler (Albert's amazing trumpet-playing bro) LP but I've yet to meet anyone who's actually seen this. "Sonny's Time Now" was reissued a few years ago in Japan (DIW-25002) on CD and LP (with an enclosed 7" of two extra scratchy tracks!) but even that is near impossible to locate. Recorded in 1965. 5. THE RIC COLBECK QUARTET - The Sun Is Coming Up (Fontana 6383 001) Issued in the UK only in 1970. Ric was an interesting white cat who came to the U.S. to blow some free e-motion with NYC loft dwellers. He's most well known for his amazing playing on the great Noah Howard's first ESP-Disk release (ESP 1031). The whole 1000 series of ESP is critical & crucial to anybody wanting to explore this era of Free Jazz featuring recordings by Ayler, Ornette, Sonny Simmons, Sun Ra, Henry Grimes, Steve Lacy, Sunny Murray, Marzette Watts, Patty Waters, et al. I'm not including any of these in this list as they're all available on CD now (from Forced Exposure, address above). The picture of Ric on the Noah Howard LP shows a man with race-car shades and a "cool" haircut playing his horn while a ciggie burns nonchalantly from his relaxed grip. A very hip dude. And very FREE. His only solo recording is this Fontana LP which he recorded while cruising through Europe. He connected with South African drummer Selwyn Lissack (whatever happened to...) and the UK's famous avant-altoist Mike Osborne and bassist J.F. 'Jenny' Clark (student of 20th century compositionists Lucian Berio and Karlheinz Stockhausen) to create this exceptional and complex masterpiece 6. JOHN TCHICAI AND CADENTIA NOVA DANICA - Afrodisiaca (MPS CRM711) Tchicai is a 6'6" Danish/Congolese tenor sax player who, in the early 60's, started blowing minds all across the Netherlands with his radical "music for the future". Archie Shepp encouraged him to come to NYC and join like-minded souls of avant-guardia. Tchicai came over and kicked everybodys ass. Leroi Jones shouted his name and talent loudly as Tchicai hooked up with Shepp and Don Cherry for the New York Contemporary Five and later an even heavier ensemble with Milford Graves and Roswell Rudd called the New York Art Quartet. The NYAQ recorded one of the most crucial sessions for ESP-Disk (esp1004) which had Leroi reciting his infamous BLACK DADA NIHILISMUS (available on CD from Forced Exposure). AFRODISIACA was released in Germany (and in other re-release configurations...supposedly) and is Tchicai gathered with 25 other local-Euro musicians playing a hurricane of a piece by trumpet/composer Hugh Steinmetz. This music gets way way out and has the real ability to take you "there". The echo effect on some of this shit is quite ill in a very analog way. And the way the shit gets that dirty-needled distortion at the end of side one (all 25 cats GOING AT IT!) is beautiful, baby, BEAUTIFUL!! 7. RASHIED ALI and FRANK LOWE - Duo Exchange (Survival SR101) Frank Lowe has been studying and playing a consistently developing tenor sax style for a few decades now. At present he's been swinging through a Lester Young trip which can be heard majestically on his Ecstatic Peace recording (E#19..from Forced Exp.) In the early 70's, however, he was a firebrande who snarled and blew hot lava skronk from loft to loft. He played with Alice Coltrane on some of her more out sessions. Rashied Ali was the free-yet-disciplined drummer whom Coltrane enlisted to play alongside Elvin Jones and Pharaoh Sanders (and Alice) in his last mind-bending, space-maniacal recordings (check out surely the Coltrane/Ali duet CD Interstellar Space). Elvin quit the group cuz Rashied was too hardcore. Those were the fuckin' days. And Rashied had his own club downtown NYC called Ali's Alley! Duo Exchange is Rashied and Frank completely going at it and just burning notes and chords where ever they can find 'em. Totally sick. Survival was Rashied's record label which had cool b&w matte sleeves and some crucial releases mostly with his quartet/quintet and a duo session with violinist LeRoy Jenkins. 8. THE PETER BRÖTZMANN SEXTET/QUARTET - Nipples (Calig - CAL30604) The influence of Free Jazz-era Coltrane, Ayler, Esp-disk, Shepp, etc. on hard drinking, knuckle-biting European white cats is formidable. These guys didn't care so much about plaing "jazz" as just totally ripping their guts out with high-energy, brain-plowing NOISE. Brotzmann (sax, German), Evan Parker (sax, UK), Derek Bailey (guitar, UK), and Han Bennink (drums, Dutch) are a few of the spearheaders of this Free-Euro scene and are caught on this insanely rare early document. The b&w cover has a fold-out accordion post card set of personal images of the musicians glued and paperclipped to its front. Brotzmann went on to help further the critical documentation of the Euro-Free-Jazz scene with FMP (Free Music Productions) Records which still exists to this day. There are over a 100 releases on this label of pure Euro-improv and they all offer remarkable moments. Derek Bailey went on to create his own categorically similar Incus Records in the UK which is also still extant. As is the Han Bennink associated I.C.P. (Instant Composers Pool) Records. The most mind-blasting of these recordings may be MACHINE GUN (FMP 24 CD available from NorthCountry Distr./Cadence Bldg./Redwood, NY 13679) where Brotzmann leads an octet through a smashing clanging wonderland of noise. Improvisation and classic western musics are seriously tended to by a large Euro community and it's all pretty fascinating. Check out the works of Alexander von Schlippenbach, Barry Guy & The London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Misha Mengleberg, Peter Kowald, Andre Jaume, Andrea Centazzo, Lol Coxhill and just about anybody who plays with them. 9. THE MARZETTE WATTS ENSEMBLE - (Savoy MG-12193) Marzette was a serious black art cat who resided in downtown NYC when Free Jazz as a NEW cultural revolution was in full gear. He painted and composed wonderful music where some of the coolest locals could flow their flavor. One of the heaviest ESP-disk recordings is Marzette's MARZETTE AND COMPANY (On CD from Forced Exposure) which has the incredible talents of saxist Byard Lancaster (who released an early indie b&w Free Jazz classic out of Philly called LIVE AT MCALLISTER COLLEGE - find it and send it to me..) and guitarist Sonny Sharrock (check his wild influence on Pharaoh Sanders' TAUHID Impulse CD and his own obscure noise guitar masterpiece BLACK WOMAN on Vortex) and cornetist Clifford Thornton (academic NEW MUSIC/Free Jazz "teacher" who released a few crucial sides such as COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK on Third World and THE PANTHER AND THE LASH on America) and the amazing free vocalist Patty Waters (who recorded two infamous hair-raising platters on ESP-Disc). This recording on Savoy was one of a series produced by Bill Dixon, an early associate of Archie Shepp's, who was an incredible composer in his own right. I've heard tapes of Dixon leading Free-Jazz orchestras into sonic symphonic heavens. Very hardcore. This recording I list because of all its obvious loaded references but it's also quite happening and anything with Marzette, Dixon (especially INTENTS AND PURPOSES on RCA Victor), Byard (careful, there's some clinkers) and Clifford is extremely worthwhile. 10. MARION BROWN - In Sommerhausen (Calig 30 605) BLACK ARTISTS GROUP - In Paris, Aries 1973 (BAG 324 000) FRANK WRIGHT QUARTET - Uhuru Na Umoja (America 30 AM 6104) DR. UMEZU-SEIKATSU KOJYO IINKAI - (SKI NO. 1) CECIL TAYLOR - Indent, part 2 (Unit Core 30555) Five way tie for last? Well, seeing as there's no "beginning" or "end" to this shit I have to list as many items as possible just to reiterate the fact that there was (indeed) a ton o' groovy artifactual evidence to support the reality of the existence of FREE MUSIC. Dig? There's used record stores all over the country (the world!) and they all have the potential to be hiding some of these curios amongst the bins and most peeps just ain't sure of their worth and sometimes you can find 'em really cheap. It's definitely a marketplace of the rarefied so when peeps are "hip" to it expect this shit to be way pricey. Marion Brown was/is an alto player who made an incredible LP with Tony Oxley and Maarten Altena called "Porto Novo" that just twists and burns start to finish. Marion could really get on OUT as well as just play straight up. Shepp dug him and got him to do some great LP's on Impulse. He had a septet at one point that was especially remarkable featuring Beaver Harris (drums), Dave Burrell (piano), Grachan Moncur III (bone), and Alan Shorter (trumpet). Alan being Wayne Shorter's (Miles Davis sideman/classicist) brother. Where Wayne was fairly contemporary (though eclectic as a muh'fuck) Alan was strictly ill and has two obscuro LP's worth hunting down: "Orgasm" (Verve V6 8768) and "Tes Estat" (America AM 6118). "In Sommerhausen" is Marion in late 60's exploratory fashion and is quite freaky with the vocal whoops of Jeanne Lee. There's another LP from this period called "Gesprachsfetzen" (Calig CAL 30601) which really lays down the scorch. The Black Artists Group was an unit not unlike that of The Art Ensemble of Chicago. Except they only recorded this one document and it only came out in France on a label named after the group. This is squeaky, spindly stuff and very OPEN and a good indication of what was happening in the early 70's with members Oliver Lake (later of the infamous World Saxophone Quartet) and Joseph Bowie (Art Ensemble's Lester Bowie's bro, later to start Defunkt). Tenor saxist Frank Wright may be (previous to Charles Gayle's current reign) the heir apparent to both Trane and Ayler. Unfortunately he had a heart attack a few years back while rockin' the bandstand. All his recordings are more than worthwhile especially his BYG outing "One For John" (529.336/Actuel Vol. 36), his two ESP sessions (on CD from Forced Exposure) and his Center-of-the-World series of trio recordings with Alan Silva (bass) and Muhammed Ali (drums - Rashied's brother, not the pugilist) on the French label Sun. This LP "Uhuru.." is nothing short of killer with the great Noah Howard (alto), Bobby Few (pianist of Steve Lacy fame) and Art Taylor (heavy old-school drummer in free mode) going OUT and AT IT in stunning reverie. FREE JAZZ of course made a strong impression on the more existential-sensitive populace of Japan. Some real masters came out of the Japanese scene and were influential to some of the more renowned noise artists of today (Boredoms, Haino Keiji). One such Jap-cat is alt-saxist Dr. Umezu who has mixed it up with NYC loft-dwellers on more than one occasion. On this completely obscure, underground release he unleashed some pretty free shit with the likes of William Parker (bass), Ahmed Abdullah (trumpet), and Rashid Shinan (drums). Parker is possibly one of the most important FREE musicians working in NYC. He's got his own constant writing/performing schedule as well as gigs with anyone from Cecil Taylor to Charles Gayle. He recorded one solo LP in the 70's called "Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace" (Centering Records 1001) which is, as you might've guessed, "good". I suppose we should wind things up with the king of FREE MUSIC then and now: Cecil Taylor. Cecil started experimenting with sound, new concepts of "swing", open rhythms and room dynamics very early on. He furthered his adventure with music-conservatory studies and applied a master's technique to his fleeting, furious, highly-sensitive pianistic ACTIONS. Today he's almost shaman-like in his mystic noise transploits. He hates record business weasels after years of scorn and neglect (club owners had been know to beat him up after gigs claiming he damaged their pianos) and records now for the aforementioned artist's label FMP. In the early 70's he had his own label called Unit Core and released two crucial LP's: the one listed above and one titled "Spring of Two Blue J's" (Unit Core 30551). This is when his group included two critical figures on the FREE scene. Alt-saxist Jimmy Lyons (now deceased) was a consistent improviser and a perfect player alongside Cecil as was veteran drummer Andrew Cyrille who recorded his own solo (and duos with the likes of Milford Graves and Peter Brotzmann) LP's on various small labels (BYG, FMP, Ictus). So..that's it...and that's not it. If you're at all intrigued by this personal primer do yourself a favor and seek some of this shit out and free yr fucking mind and yr ass will surely scream and SHOUT. later...............thurston

I'm intruiged with this singer some may know from the (cult)album she made with Tom Talbert (Wednesday's Child, Atlantic, 1956). As pleasing as the album is (my opinion), I'm most of all curious about her songwriting skills. On the album with Talbert she sings two of her own songs; "Love isn't everything" (Jeanne Lee sang it again on her debutlp) and "I Like Snow". A couple of weeks ago I was looking at some items on ebay. One of them, George Wallington Trio + Eddie Costa Trio Workshop (Verve), took my attention especially 'cause one of the numbers was credited to Patty McGovern... I can't recall the title of the number, but I'm sure it wasn't one of the two I mentioned above. Can someone help me with the title? Anyone familiar with other songs of her? And most important what became of her? Thank you. j.

It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the pianist/composer, and my friend, Burton Greene died today in his home of Amsterdam at the age of 84. Burton's piano approach ranged from the influences of Horace Silver, Monk and Lennie Tristano to Indian music, Klezmer, and Bartók (he is of Romanian Jewish descent), creating a melodic, meditative, and rhythmically rich stew from which freedom could emerge. Burton recorded prolifically as a leader beginning in 1966 for ESP-Disk', followed by albums on BYG, Columbia (!), Horo, Hat Hut, Circle, Cat Jazz, Button Nose, CIMP/Cadence, NoBusiness, Drimala, Tzadik, and other imprints. Notable appearances include those with Marion Brown, Albert Ayler, Patty Waters, Perry Robinson, Sam Rivers, Byard Lancaster, Alan Silva, Roy Campbell Jr., and Gong, though his work as a soloist and interpreter is also vast. Despite less recognition than he and his fans might have hoped, he toured Europe and the US into 2019, a true soldier of the road. I got to know Burton in 2004 through interviewing him for the New York City Jazz Record (at that time called All About Jazz New York) and we became good friends -- I was lucky to experience his many stories and ideas through conversations over the phone, email, and in person (he inaugurated our apartment in Brooklyn as the "home for wayward jazz musicians" after staying with us in 2012) and we had hoped to do a festival including his US trio in 2020 until COVID put the kibosh on it. I'll forever cherish the friendship and memories as well as the many hours of great music. Rest in Power, Burton.

It's a pretty serious hit job. I always wondered whether something personal lay behind it. It's not like Greene was the most high profile white free jazz artist. Until I read that Nate Chinen piece, I actually had no idea that Burton Greene was on that Patty Waters album. It's an album I have lived with all my adult life, since before I even got into jazz. The brittle sounds of the strummed insides of the piano have really stuck with me through the decades.

Yes, thanks. I have a Canon PowerShot SX730 that's a pocket camera with an insane 40x optical zoom. So even though I was sitting pretty far away from the stage, I got some good shots. Here's one of Patty:

Sad to hear. I saw him backing Patty Waters in 2018, along with Burton Greene and Barry Altschul. I believe he was self-taught. RIP.

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Does anybody have more accurate recording dates for these recordings? THE KING COLE TRIO Nat Cole (p, vo), Oscar Moore (g, vo), Wesley Prince (sb, vo). Standard Transcription, Los Angeles, c. October, 1938. 1-01. Mutiny In The Nursery 1-02. F. D. R. Jones 1-03. The Sheik Oh Araby 1-04. The Blue Danube 1-05. Button Button 1-06. Jingle Bells 1-07. Swannee River 1-08. With Plenty Of Money And You Standard Transcription, Los Angeles, October, 1938. 1-09. Don't Blame Me 1-10. Lullaby In Rhythm 1-11. Dark Rapture 1-12. By The River St. Marie Standard Transcription, Los Angeles, November, 1938. 1-13. The Wiggly Walk 1-14. Fela Hop 1-15. Chopsticks 1-16. Patty Cake, Patty Cake (Baker Man) 1-17. Blue Skies 1-18. Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away) 1-19. Three Blind Mice 1-20. Caravan KING COLE SWINGSTERS Nat Cole (p, vo), Oscar Moore (g, vo), Wesley Prince (sb, vo), Bonnie Lake, Juanelda Carter (vo). Davis & Schwegler Transcription, Radio Recorder's Studios, Los Angeles, November, 1938. 1-21. There's No Anesthetic For Love 1-22. Dixie Jamboree 1-23. Ta-De-Ah 1-24. Reffin' At The Bar-B-Q 1-25. Harlem Swing - vBL 1-26. I Lost Control Of Myself - vBL 2-01. The Land Of Make Believe - vBL 2-02. That "Please Be Mineable" Feling 2-03. Dancing In The Street - vJC 2-04. You're So Different - vJC 2-05. I Wouldn't Have Known It - vJC 2-06. Let's Get Happy THE KING COLE TRIO Nat Cole (p, vo), Oscar Moore (g, vo), Wesley Prince (sb, vo). Standard Transcription, Los Angeles, February, 1939. 2-07. Undecided 2-08. 'Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That Cha Do It) 2-09. Do You Want To Jump, Children ? 2-10. Riffin' In F Minor 2-11. Ol'Man Mose Ain't Dead 2-12. Blue Lou 2-13. Honey 2-14. Russin Lullaby Standard Transcription, Los Angeles, April, 1939. 2-15. Georgie Porgie 2-16. The Limp 2-17. Snug As A Bug In A Rug 2-18. Liebestraum 2-19. Fidgety Joe 2-20. Two Against One 2-21. Some Like It Hot 2-22. I Like To Riff Standard Transcription, Los Angeles, April, 1939. 2-23. Crazy Rhythm 2-24. Moongrow 2-25. Don't Let That Moon Get Away 2-26. My Blue Heaven 3-01. I Was Doing All Right 3-02. I Can't Get Started 3-03. Old Man Moon 3-04. Carry Me Back To Old Virginny Standard Transcription, Los Angeles, May, 1939. 3-05. Moon Song (That Wasn't Meant For Me) 3-06. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home 3-07. Sweet Lorraine 3-08. Rosetta Standard Transcription, Los Angeles, May, 1939. 3-09. Thrompin' 3-10. You're My Life 3-11. Hoy Soy 3-12. Black Spider Stomp Standard Transcription, Los Angeles, June, 1939. 3-13. Take 'Em 3-14. Scategoria 3-15. Rhythm Serenade 3-16. Rib Town Shuffle The Dreamers: Undefined black male quartet or quintet. Standard Transcription, Los Angeles, August, 1939. 3-17. Music'll Chase Your Blues Away - vTD 3-18. I'll Gather Up My Memories 3-19. A Fool's Affair 3-20. Jump, Jack, Jump 3-21. I Knew A Time 3-22. Mine You'll Alaways Be 3-23. Doin' The Bow Bow 3-24. Lilla Mae - vTD Standard Transcription, Los Angeles, May, 1940. 4-01. Slew Foot Joe 4-02. 1, 2, 3, 4 4-03. Crazy 'Bout Rhythm 4-04. Off The Beam 4-05. King Cole Blues 4-06. Jivin' With The Notes Standard Transcription, Los Angeles, November, 1940. 4-07. Early Morning Blues 4-08. Bedtime 4-09. Honey Hush 4-10. French Toast 4-11. Vine Street Jump 4-12. B Flat 4-13. You Send Me 4-14. Love Is My Alibi 4-15. Pogo Stick Bounce 4-16. Gone With The Draft Standard Transcription, Los Angeles, February, 1941. 4-17. Jumpin' With The Mop 4-18. Jam Jam 4-19. Lest's Try Again 4-20. Scotchin' With The Soda 4-21. Fudge Wudgge 4-22. Smokey Joe 4-23. Windy City Boogie Woogie 4-24. Gone With The Draft 4-25. This Side Up 4-26. Ode To A Wild Clam

A buddy sent me this link to a 1964 Jax Beer jingle featuring Patty Waters of ESP fame. Check it out! http://stasick.org/pattywaters.mp3 I actually think that I remember hearing this on the air regularly in 1964. We were living in Shreveport, La then, and the airwaves were pretty full of Jax beer commercials. The first play of this file "sounded familiar", I can tell you that! PATTY WATERS!!!!!

Here's a recent Night Lights show about Hugh Hefner and Playboy Magazine's relationship to jazz, including commentary from Patty Farmer, author of Playboy Swings: How Hugh Hefner And Playboy Changed The Face Of Music. Also check out the clip from Hefner's late-1950s TV show that features Nat King Cole and Lenny Bruce chatting side-by-side with Hef & friends: Swingers: Hugh Hefner, Playboy Magazine, And Jazz

I was just watching the DVD of Woods with Quincy's Big Band in Switzerland and Belgium. Woods is incredible on his two features, "Gypsy" and "The Midnight Sun Will Never Set". Julius Watkins plays some great out solos on his features, and Quentin Jackson does some great things with the plunger on his features. Also great rhythm section of Joe Harris and Buddy Catlett, but I don't know what Patty Brown and Les Spann were doing there.Also great solos by Budd Johnson, Clark Terry, Jimmy Cleveland, Jerome Richardson, Sahib Shihab, Benny Bailey, and Ake Persson. Great band!

Also on the Patty Duke show if childhood memory serves me correctly.

Thanks. I can report now that my sister-in-law is on my shit list. And her sister isn't exactly happy either even if she won't use that terminology. Bob said to Patty that his temperature was 100.7. She heard "107" and remarkably, did not exclaim "A hundred and seven????!!!!" which would have cut this "crisis" off right at the start when Bob would have said "NO, One hundred POINT seven." Then my wife wouldn't have spent Friday feeling terrified about her brother's condition. Unbelievable. He's got a minor cold for all we know. I guess we'll have confirmation when he feels better, hopefully, in a few days.

My wife got a call from her sister today. Sister lives with their Mom and her sister in Jupiter Florida. Their brother lives nearby in Palm Beach Gardens. Seems that yesterday Bob ran into their mother at the local Sam's Club, gave her a hug and helped her load up. Today he had a temperature of 107. And apparently that didn't earn him a bed at the hospital. So in addition to being worried about their brother, now they have to worry about Mom and Aunt Lyn who are 78-80 years old. And Patty is morbidly obese so if she gets it from Bob thru Mom, who knows ...

My god, does singing get any more honest than this? A collection of material from Waters' own personal collection, this set includes a 1964 Jax Beer jingle (w/Joe Newman!), a 1963 demo session for Columbia (produced by Tom Wilson, whose between-take chatter is priceless, a 1960 cut recirded in San Diego (when Waters was still singing, quite well, too, in a "traditional" "torch song" style, and, the real news, pieces recorded in 1970, 1971, 1972, and 1979, years which Waters was allegedly "lost" a la Henry Grimes. The material is a collection of standards and originals. The latter are very, VERY personal in their lyrics. Some might even call them obsessive. They focus on lonlieness and love for somebody who's not there any more (possibly Clifford Jarvis?), and they are at once compelling and disturbing, although Waters' delivery is very, VERY low-key. There's also a long solo piano piece that is simply beautiful. Nothing at all "difficult" about it, but the timing and the sensitivity of the playing makes it difficult not to get pulled in/wrapped up in it. Highlight of the disc for me is a version of "For All We Know" from 1979 - just a vocal-piano duet (all the vocal numbers save for the Jax thing, are piano (either Waters herself or somebody else) and vocal only). This song has a pretty intense lyric anyway, but Waters sings it with a mixture of resignation, sadness, loss, and quiet (VERY quiet) desperation that is the definitive reading of it, at least that I've heard. There's none of the groundbreaking extended vocal techniques of the ESP albums, btw. This is just a collection of songs by a woman who sounds like she's been there and back, and if she hasn't yet begin to find all the piecesto put back together yet, she definitely knows what it'll be like when she does. IF she does (and reports are that she has, thank God). Certainly not for everybody in these less-than-vocalist-friendly parts, but those inclined to get into singers and songs that are totally devoid of artifice and cut straight to the bone of what's going on inside are advised to check it out. It's frighteningly intimate and vulnerable, at times maybe even "unhealthily" so, but I can handle that. BTW - There's a nude photo from 1970 inside the booklet. But it's not nearly as naked as the singing.

Thanks again to Patty Fong for hosting "Straight, No Chaser" this week. You can hear Patty every Saturday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. (Pacific time) on "Musica de la Raza." Here is the music Patty played on November 7: Jovino Santos Nieto -- "Nana" -- Roda Carioca Rio Circle Orquesta Aragon -- "Sin Clave y Bongo No Hay Son" -- Cuba Esencial Ray Barreto -- "Sola Te Dejare" -- Acid & Head Sounds Cal Tjader -- "Solar Heat" -- Solar Heat Sounds Cortijo y Su Maguina del Tiempo -- "Carnaval" -- Nu Yorica Culture Clash New Swing Sextet -- "The Monster" -- Monkey See Monkey Do Larry Harlow with Junior Gonzalez -- "La Cartera" -- Larry Harlow Greatest Hits Tito Puente [pictured] -- "El Rey de Timbal" -- Best of Tito Puente Alex Wilson -- "A Guarachar" -- Nu School, Beginner's Guide to Latin Music Eddie Palmieri -- "Habriendo el Dominante" -- Nuyorican Soul Charlie Palmieri -- "Pacheco's Descarga" -- Old School, Beginner's Guide to Latin Music Orquestra Fantstica -- "Latin Blues" -- The Sweeter Side of Latin Soul, Vol. 1 Sex Appeal -- "La Llorona" -- Dance Meltdown, Beginner's Guide to Latin Music Tito Puente / Milton Cardona / Jerry Medina -- "Itutu Ache" -- Masterpiece / Obra Maestra Los Van Van -- "Dale Dos" -- Bail Exitos Celia Cruz -- "Pa' La Paloma" -- El Merengue Johnny Conga -- "Cold Duck Time" -- Oye Willie Bobo -- "Trinidad" -- Boogaloo Powwow John Santos -- "Shadow" -- Africa Joe Cuba -- "Cuba's Madness" -- The Sound of New York Chico O'Farrill Orquesta -- "Manteca 4" -- Mambo, Introduction to Afro-Cuban Jazz Noraida y Los More -- "La Barbara" -- Rough Guide to Salsa Divas Elspeth Savani and Latin Quartet -- "Pajaro Encerrado" -- Flights of Mind Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra -- "Moon Over Cuba" -- Que Viva Harlem Hear it in the archive at www.kbcs.fm, any time until November 21.

You may start with “Live in London “ a double CD with a great band In concert. On YouTube there are a lots of clips of this album. I love his later albums more then his earlier but I have a sweet spot for old wise rock poets over young anger ones, a true rock poet improve ageing. I prefer today’s Patty Smith for instance. Another one I file among apostles and forgot to mention.

Upcoming Smalls broadcasts. Monday 8/31 ARI HOENIG QUARTET 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm Ari Hoenig / Drums Tivon Pennicott / Tenor Sax Gabriel Chakarji / Piano Matt Penman / Bass SPONSORED BY @EXUBERANCE, PHILADELPHIA Tuesday 9/1 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm JOE MAGNARELLI Qnt Joe Magnarelli / Trumpet Nick Hempton / Alto Sax Anthony Wonsey / Piano Andy Watson / Drums Neal Miner / Bass SPONSORED BY TONY AND PATTY LEDONNE Wednesday 9/2 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm DAVE KIKOSKI QUARTET Dave Kikoski / Piano Joel Frahm / Tenor Sax Johnathan Blake / Drums Boris Kozlov / Bass SPONSORED BY FREDERICO COSTA Thursday 9/3 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm OMER AVITAL SEPTET Omer Avital / Bass Edo Gur / Trumpet Yonatan Guedj / Alto Sax Jonathan Peled / Trombone Davis Whitfield / Piano Itay Morchi / Drums Friday 9/4 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm KENNY WERNER TRIO Kenny Werner / Piano Ari Hoenig / Drums Johannes Weidenmuller / Bass SPONSORED BY JASON WECHSLER Saturday 9/5 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm MELISSA ALDANA QUARTET Melissa Aldana / Tenor Sax Charles Altura / Guitar Pablo Menares / Bass Kush Abadey / Drums SPONSORED BY BOBBY AND KANDY SULLIVAN Sunday 9/6 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm JON ROCHE SEXTET Jon Roche / Bass Joe Magnarelli / Trumpet Stefano Doglioni / Clarinet John Merrill / Guitar Michael Kanan / Piano Clifford Barbaro / Drums SPONSORED BY ROBERT BLOOM This is Smalls, not the Vanguard

Next at the Village Vanguard: BEN MONDER LIVE STREAM AT 9PM EDT SEPTEMBER 1 - SOLO SERIES PREMIERE Ben Monder - Guitar $10 TICKETS Upcoming Smalls broadcasts. Monday 8/31 ARI HOENIG QUARTET 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm Ari Hoenig / Drums Tivon Pennicott / Tenor Sax Gabriel Chakarji / Piano Matt Penman / Bass SPONSORED BY @EXUBERANCE, PHILADELPHIA Tuesday 9/1 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm JOE MAGNARELLI Qnt Joe Magnarelli / Trumpet Nick Hempton / Alto Sax Anthony Wonsey / Piano Andy Watson / Drums Neal Miner / Bass SPONSORED BY TONY AND PATTY LEDONNE Wednesday 9/2 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm DAVE KIKOSKI QUARTET Dave Kikoski / Piano Joel Frahm / Tenor Sax Johnathan Blake / Drums Boris Kozlov / Bass SPONSORED BY FREDERICO COSTA Thursday 9/3 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm OMER AVITAL SEPTET Omer Avital / Bass Edo Gur / Trumpet Yonatan Guedj / Alto Sax Jonathan Peled / Trombone Davis Whitfield / Piano Itay Morchi / Drums Friday 9/4 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm KENNY WERNER TRIO Kenny Werner / Piano Ari Hoenig / Drums Johannes Weidenmuller / Bass SPONSORED BY JASON WECHSLER Saturday 9/5 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm MELISSA ALDANA QUARTET Melissa Aldana / Tenor Sax Charles Altura / Guitar Pablo Menares / Bass Kush Abadey / Drums SPONSORED BY BOBBY AND KANDY SULLIVAN Sunday 9/6 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm JON ROCHE SEXTET Jon Roche / Bass Joe Magnarelli / Trumpet Stefano Doglioni / Clarinet John Merrill / Guitar Michael Kanan / Piano Clifford Barbaro / Drums SPONSORED BY ROBERT BLOOM

For those of you who get Tommy's Jazz Offer emails, are there any on the list of "Best Voices Time Forgot" that you'd recommend? FSRV_101 Wanda Stafford & Patricia Scot In Love for the Very First Time + Once Around the Clock FSRV_102 Marcy Lutes & Patty McGovern Debut + Wednesday's Child FSRV_103 Dori Howard & Janet Brace Dori Howard Sings + Special Delivery FSRV_104 Thelma Gracen & Milli vernon Thelma Gracen + Introducing Milli Vernon FSRV_105 Peggy King & Pam Garner Lazy Afternoon + Sings Ballads For Broken Hearts FSRV_106 Beverly Kelly & Dolores Hawkins Beverly Kelly Sings + Dolores FSRV_107 Jane Harvey & Anne Richards Leave it to Jane! + Born to be Blue FSRV_108 India Adams & Easy Williams Comfort Me With Apples + Easy Does It! FSRV_109 Norene Tate & Mae Barnes Tenderly + Mae Barnes FSRV_110 Jennie Smith & Diana Trask Love Among the Young + Diana Trask FSRV_111 Martha Hayes & Ilene Woods A Hayes Named Martha + It’s Late FSRV_112 Gloria Smyth & Helyne Stewart Like Soul! + Love Moods FSRV_113 Honi Gordon & Sue Childs Honi Gordon Sings + Introducing Sue Childs FSRV_114 Pat Thomas & Barbara Long Jazz Patters + Soul FSRV_115 Juanita Cruse & Jeri Jorden Juanita! + Easy Living FSRV_116 Marlene & Pat O'Day With Every Breath I Take + When Your Lover Has Gone FSRV_117 Corky Shayne & Georgia Carr In the Mood for a Song? + Songs by a Moody Miss FSRV_118 Janet Blair & Claudia Thompson Flame Out! + Goodbye to Love FSRV_119 Crystal Joy & Althea Gibson The Fabulous Crystal Joy + Althea Gibson Sings FSRV_120 Rose Hardaway & Ada Lee It’s Time for Rose Hardaway + Ada Lee Comes On! FSRV_121 Cathi Hayes & Lu Ann Simms It's All Right with Me + At Separate Tables FSRV_122 Renée Raff & Pat Dahl Among the Stars + We Dig Pat Dahl FSRV_123 Carole Simpson & Connie Haines Singin' and Swingin' + A Tribute to Helen Morgan FSRV_124 Shelley Moore & Ann Williams For the First Time... + First Time Out FSRV_125 Lynn Taylor & Marjorie Lee I See Your Face Before Me + Remembering FSRV_201 Frank D'Rone Frank D'Rone Sings + After the Ball FSRV_202 Rocky Cole & Deno Kannes Smooth & Rocky + The Kid from Salt Lake City FSRV_203 Marty Bell & Don Heller The Voice of Marty Bell + Blame It on My Youth FSRV_204 Dick Williams & Larry Hovis Love is Nothin' But Blues + My Heart Belongs to Only You

Thanks to Patty Fong for hosting "Straight, No Chaser" this week and filling the airwaves with potent Latin-flavored jazz. You can hear Patty's regular show, "Musica de la Raza," every Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. on KBCS. Here are the selections Patty played on June 27: Tito Puente -- "Caravan" -- Cafe Latino Ray Barretto -- "Bomba-Riquen" -- Concord Picante 25th Anniversary Disc Collection Esperanza Spalding -- "Mompouana" -- Junjo Paquito D'Rivera & Arturo Sandoval -- "Friday Morning" -- Latin Jazz Anat Cohen -- "Veinte Anos" -- Place and Time Candido -- "Jingo" -- Santeros, Marielitos & Nueve Roquinos Latin Music Charlie Palmieri -- "The Taxi Driver" -- Electroduro Edna Vasquez -- "I Love You" -- Sola Soy Carlos Patato Valdes -- "Equinox" -- Carlos "Patato" Valdes Chucho Valdes -- "Con Pocococo" -- Latin Jazz Johnny Conga -- "Chablue" -- Oye Ruben Gonzalez -- "Isora Club" -- Chanchullo Cal Tjader -- "Solar Heat" -- Solar Heat Sounds Gonzalo Rubalcaba -- "The Blessing" -- The Blessing Arturo Sandoval -- "Stella By Starlight" -- My Passion for the Piano Omar Sosa -- "Ternura" -- Mulatos Phil Cochrane & The Artistic Heritage Ensemble -- The Malcolm X Memorial--A Tribute in Music Wynton Marsalis -- "Supercapitalism" -- From the Plantation to the Penitentiary Rahsaan Roland Kirk -- "A Tribute to John Coltrane -- Lush Life, Afro Blue, Bessie's Blues" -- Volunteered Slavery Next Monday, July 4, Brett Watanabe will be the guest host on "Straight, No Chaser." I expect to be back on July 11.

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because he doesn't pimp his own work, here's a GREAT mix of vintage (and non-cliched) R&B by Rod Stasick: https://www.mixcloud.com/rostasi/random-radio-075-rockit88/?utm_campaign=notification_new_upload&utm_medium=email&utm_source=notification&utm_content=html Chubby Newsom - Toodle Luddle Baby Beverly Ann Gibson - Wait and See Pigmeat Markham - Your Wire's Been Tapped L.C. McKinley - Nit Wit Bee Bee Queen - Queen Bee Oscar McLollie & Jeanette Baker - Hey Girl, Hey Boy Rockin' Roy Thomas - Manslaughter Jimmy Milner & His Blue Ribbon Band - Nobles Shuffle Baby Dee - He Ain't Mine No More Rosetta Perry - Farewell Blues Jimmy Lewis - Let's Get Together Joe Lutcher - No Name Boogie Four Tees - Funky Duck The Crawford Brothers - I Ain't Guilty Hank Ballard - Broadway Al King - It's Getting Late Jackie Kelso & His Orchestra - Blue Moon Jack McVea - Wine-O Mamie Bradley & Group with Andy Gibson's Orch. - The Patty Cake Sam Meyers - You Don't Have to Go Booker T. Washington - St. Louis Boogie J.L. Smith - If It's Too Late Little Mummy - Where You at Jack Aaron Neville - Wrong Number Al Savage & Joe Morris Orchestra - Be Seein' You in My Dreams Finey Mo - Shake That Thing Betty James - I'm a Little Mixed Up Anita Tucker - Ring-Aling-Aling (Let the Wedding Bells Ring) Carmen Davis with Ernie Freeman's Combo - No, No Baby June Bateman - Come on Little Boy Marylin Scott (Mary Deloatch) - Rumors of War Gene & Gary - Baby Without You Bea Booker - Comfort in My Heart Ford Nelson Quintet - Little Annie Melvin Smith - I'm Out of My Mind Bobby Long & His Satelites - Mojo Workout Albert Washington - Ramble Louis Payne Orchestra - That's Allright with Me Fats Witherspoon - Hook Line and Sinker Carl Matthews - Big Man Willie King (Billy Gayles) with the Ike Turner Orchestra - Big Leg Woman Wailin' Bill Dell - You Gotta Be Loose Nellie Lutcher - Hurry on Down Irvin "Big Boy" Groves - I Got a New Car Eva Foster - You'll Never Know Louis Jordan - Jack, You're Dead Bernie Hardison - Love Me Baby Larry Davis - Whole World Down on You Bobbie James - Baby I'm Tired Charles Sheffield - It's Your Voodoo Working Tampa Red & Georgia Tom - Dead Cat on the Line Kip Anderson - I Wanna Be the Only One Arthur K Adams - I Need You Julia Lee - Snatch and Grab It Piney Brown - Talkin' About You Lord Tennyson - The Dance Marie Adams with Chuck Dillon Orch. - Ain't Car Crazy Marie Adams & Junior Ryder with Johnny Otis Orch. - Boom Diddy WA WA Barbara Lynn - Oh Baby Carmen Taylor - Teen-Age Ball Lemmy Johnson - Eatin' and Sleepin' Blues Jimmy Preston & Burnetta Evans - Oh Babe Elmo Nixon - Forgive Me Baby Richard Lewis & His Orchestra - Richard's Bounce Sam Price - The Dirty Dozens Team Mates - Crazy Baby Hop Wilson - Chicken Stuff Johnny Copeland & His Soul Agents - Ghetto Child Johnny Griffin and the Joe Morris Orchestra - Chuck-A-Boogie Danny "Run Joe" Taylor - You Look Bad Pee Wee Barnum - Rockin' Rhythm King Coleman - Alley Rat Eddie Kirk - Hog Killin' Time Floyd Tumbam Orchestra - Bashful and Blue Eunice Davis - Get Your Enjoys Bobby Robinson - Pour the Corn Drivers - Mr. Astronaut Johnny Moore's Three Blazers with Lee Barnes - Blues for What I Never Had Big Joe Turner - I Love My Baby Freddie Clark - Beggin' Papa Blues Dave Bartholomew - Good Jax Boogie Katie Webster & Ashton Conroy - Baby Baby Charlie Singleton Orchestra - Earthquake Fletcher Smith - Brand New Neighborhood The Three Riffs - Hard Ridin' Mama Morris Lane - Bobby's Boogie Lowell Fulson - Baby Won't You Jump with Me Tarheel Slim - Wildcat Tamer

Ron Thorne, man of the world, Jazz drummer and all around great guy died a few hours ago after a decade-long battle with COPD. Ron was 76. My condolences to his wife Patty, who was by his side to the end. I met Ron on the Jazz Corner and considered him one of my on-line friends. It's weird that we never meet some of these "friends" but still feel the loss as if they lived down the street. Ron's son Justin posted this on FB: Justin Thorne After a lengthy, nearly 11-year battle with COPD, my father Ron Thorne has left us today, in his sleep in the early hours of his 76th birthday. Very happy to have been by his side for the final 6 days, and to surround him with as much of his favorite music as circumstances allowed. For a patient who was ruled out of surviving countless times, he outdid every prognosis they made, and always did everything on his terms.