Michael Fitzgerald

East Wind has a nice catalog of stuff - http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Labels/eastwind.htm I'll be looking forward to this. Mike

YES!!!! Saw this in November 2003 - a beautiful film with a great soundtrack. It really does the job right. I am just thrilled to death to know that David Berger was able to overcome some of the obstacles he spoke about at the time - boy, film rights are a bitch! Pray that we may even see a DVD in the future. Mike

Please - there are no temper issues here. And come on, work says it's OK to read and post on organissimo??!???! (But not to follow links in organissimo postings?) Mike

Since I *already* mentioned the discography and the website earlier in this very thread, only those who aren't careful readers aren't aware of it at this point. I don't expect everyone to know about it ahead of time - that's why I made the first post. My feeling is that it's lazy, pointless, and unproductive to say, "Uh, I think such and such happened at such and such a time" - when in 5 seconds you can say "The first recording of the post-1960s Jazztet happened in 1982." If after everyone has that baseline knowledge, someone wants to deal with a follow-up question, great: "I know the first reunion recording was in 1982. Did the group get together before then (without recording)?" Time or wherewithal? It's a website that anyone reading this site can immediately view. It's free. There are no logins or cookies. The effort is absolutely minimal - but yes, you do have to bother to click and read. However, it takes less time to look up the correct information than it does to reply with a vague or incorrect comment. And no, it's not obsessive - it's either right or wrong. Why spend the time being wrong when in seconds you can be right? The Internet is a vast and wonderful tool - more information is available to more people than ever in history. USE it! Next, you want nit-picky? Go around and tell everyone that the "family reunion" isn't a reunion because the original people went and got dead. Tell the new babies and brides and grooms to go home. No, I didn't think you wanted nit-picky. Mike

Why do I bother to document all this stuff if folks won't use the readily-available free resources? Just look at the discography on my website for all details of Jazztet reunions that have been preserved on tape - and if Michael Weiss knows of any documentation of his tour with the group, I'd love to know. If I'm not mistaken, this was the group that played at the Jazz Cafe in London on July 7, 1995. Mike

Mingus - Feb. 13, 1957 Roach 3/4 - March 18-21, 1957 But there are plenty of predecessors, Rollins Valse Hot - March 22, 1956; Monk Carolina Moon - May 30, 1952; Waller Jitterbug Waltz - March 16, 1942; Benny Carter Waltzing The Blues - June 20, 1936, etc. Mike

Yeah, a band named "Eloe Omoe"? For the general population that's more obscure that Count Basic and Thelonious Monster, let alone T. J. Kirk. Mike

The "no" was for David's post, not yours, written simultaneous to mine. Mike

Ugh - yet another thing that promotes quantity over quality. We've got at least one poster who has over 600 posts in just over 2 weeks and still hasn't said anything worth reading. Talking to hear one's own voice shouldn't be rewarded. I would support an award for "least prolific and most profound". Mike

No, The Jazztet & John Lewis - JL arranged and conducted, but did not play. Issued on Argo, part of the recent Mosaic set. For detailed discography of The Jazztet (and Orchestra U.S.A. for that matter), see my website. Mike

Triple click selects paragraph - is this MS Word only? Mike

Cedar Walton has worked with Charles Davis several times - in the 1970s and 1980s on Walton albums, and most recently in 2002 on Davis's album "Blue Gardenia". For someone who was not in Walton's working group - Bob Berg, Clifford Jordan, Ralph Moore - I wouldn't say it's rare at all. In fact, Mobley and Walton only ever recorded together 7 times - three times under Mobley's name. Davis and Walton recorded together 6 times - and three of those were under Walton's name. I don't disagree with the "insurance" idea, but more information would be needed so we have something more than just speculation - maybe Davis was supposed to be the only horn and someone saw Mobley at the last minute and invited him - maybe.... Mike

If you're going to do that, then how is it locking a thread at all? It just encourages picking things up again and letting them escalate. Mike

The late 1940s were the time when the Islamic movement touched a number of jazz musicians - Talib Dawud, Rudy Powell (early), (Sahib Shihab (1947), Art Blakey (1947?), Yusef Lateef (1949), Ahmad Jamal (1952). Abdullah Ibrahim is rather late (1968). http://www.muslimsinamerica.org/1900s.html http://www.aaari.org/moustafa_bayoumi.htm http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/history/h...%20I/cult7.html See my website for a list of Muslim Names In Jazz. Mike

Locking a thread should be the responsibility of the board moderator, not anyone else. What I like about it is that history is preserved and information doesn't just vanish. If at some point a new thread needs to refer to a locked thread, that can be done with a link. I wish folks would police themselves and use good judgment - but what I have seen is that some people can't handle that responsibility. And I don't even know what's going on over in the political forum. Mike

Well, at least the Seinfeld DVDs allow one to get the entire thing. There are plenty of shows that will never be seen on DVD, though. Mike

What does deleting a thread that has gotten out of control do that couldn't be done by locking the thread? Mike

The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek - TCM encore starting in seconds! Mike

The ending credits on movies are getting longer and longer - and yes, apparently it is required that credits be shown on television (otherwise why wouldn't they just cut them?) - but isn't there any legal requirement that they be legible? Pretty soon to fit in the immense credits from a movie they will need to start them 15 minutes before the ending time. Mike

Oddly enough, it's Wayne who is buried in that grave. Mike

It's Solar, a tune composed not by Davis but by guitarist Chuck Wayne. Mike

What about the fact that an old film was only one PART of an extended show with other feature films, cartoons, newsreels, maybe even live music? So you might NEED a slow-down after all that. Watching it nowadays, after it has been removed from its "natural environment" is different. Mike

That a 45 rpm of Ascension was actually created - what does that mean? Does that prove that there really is a God? I mean, 1965 - space on the jukebox is occupied by Motown, Beatles, Petula Clark - someone actually thought there could be a market for an edited Ascension? Mike

Re: Dinwiddie - have you looked at the dreaded allmusic site? If not, why not? Mike

Actually, sruti - http://www.remembershakti.com/video.html Mike