Michael Fitzgerald

Seth Justman, J. Geils Band - B-3 with 4 Leslies

Not a magazine, it's a hardcover book - you can find on amazon or elsewhere. In the tradition of Scarecrow Press, it's expensive. Mike

At least a significant article in the Annual Review of Jazz Studies (but not the one immediately upcoming, which is all Mary Lou Williams). A Sonny Red discography has already been prepared in BRIAN and hopefully will be made available online following the article's publication. The author is Anders Svanoe, a Wisconsin saxophonist who has recorded with Roscoe Mitchell. Mike

Do you recall which station? A friend is researching Sonny Red and might be able to follow up on this. Mike

The actual double album? Or the Savoy original configurations (North South East...Wess and No Count)? The latter, yes, the former - dunno. I was just listening to this the other day - nice stuff. Mike

And I want to say that he played with Hemphill's saxophone sextet - but I don't see this in the discographies. Maybe it was a live show I saw? Or something live on the radio? Mike

Complete Impulse is NOT complete anymore. But Complete VV *is* - so that would make MY mind up. Mike

I want to say "Afro Blue" - but am I thinking perhaps of another Santana/Shorter TV appearance (and wouldn't you have recognized that)? I have just about all the stuff on VHS somewhere around here - let's hope the tapes haven't aged as badly as Mr. Marcello's in another thread. I should clarify about the "best Night Music show" - I mean *as a show* - there were a number of wonderful individual performances (mostly *sans* Sanborn), but I'm talking as a whole program together. Leonard and Sonny did nothing for me, fwiw. Mike

I stayed up watching all those Night Music shows and there were occasional flashes of quality, but Sanborn for the most part did NOT fit in with the guests. I give him credit for trying and for supporting the Hal Wilner eclectic booking, but more often than not I was wishing that someone else were there who had a bit more taste. Who? I don't know. I mean, it's not like Sanborn had any screen personality, so it could be anybody. Best Night Music show was the first one: James Taylor, Milton Nascimento, Nana Vasconcelos. After that it became a circus with just one act after another. The first show took pains to get a set of guests that worked well together - Milton singing backup for James and vice versa, breaking down into duets, etc. I do enjoy the occasional Sanborn performance - the earlier the better, I guess - Gil, the first few Warner Bros. albums (when he was hanging with Victor Lewis and Don Grolnick). His contribution to McLaughlin's Electric Guitarist album isn't too bad, either. Mike

During the school year there is no time for heavy research, so not much activity. WKCR folks are handling the dubbing of MD and DAT, thanks all the same - will keep you in mind. Another tune I would push for would be "Prelude To A Kiss" which I heard Marshall play many times. Mike

Freddie Redd, for one. Mike

My own site has a donate link, hardly ever used. I hope this one gets more action. I have no idea how the finances for the organissimo site are, but if (IF) money is OK for the board's upkeep, this kind of thing might be a real nice thing to turn into a regular happening. I've heard of a few other jazz legends who are really struggling and "organissimo, the board that cares" might get a reputation (and I mean a *good* reputation) for its humanitarian efforts. Mike

I would not assume anything gets decided ahead of time. The setlist is as improvised as anything else. Sometimes they just start and within a couple of minutes it turns into a tune - or else it goes for 20 or 40 minutes without turning into a tune. I watched Gary Bartz drag the rest of the group into playing Greensleeves at Iridium. For awhile it was just him quoting the melody in a free piece, then he just became relentless and (to me, it seemed reluctantly) eventually the others stopped the free stuff and went along with him. There are pieces that are part of the "book" as it were, that I listed. If you mention one of them to the guys before the set, you might end up hearing it. Or not. Not having heard Allen & Grimes together, I have no idea what their take on things is. With David Murray & Grimes, they allegedly played tunes, but it was more a case of 20 minutes of blues ending up with the melody of Blue Monk, or 20 minutes of free playing eventually ending up with 'Round Midnight. In both cases, it was Murray who controlled where the performances ended up. Mike

It is a big crapshoot. I attended a number of Iridium shows last summer and on a particular set, sometimes it was 100% free improvisation, on another it might have 3 or 4 tunes - yes, tunes you would know: Oleo, Doxy, Round Midnight, Dark Eyes, etc. I think this rather haphazard approach is not beneficial. Someone not into totally free stuff might come in and be really turned off but had that person attended the following set, he would have come away with a very different impression. Mike

Like I said above, Museum of Television and Radio in NYC has got a TON of stuff. Library of Congress does too. Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies, etc. There are some private film collectors too who have huge archives (Cantor, Chertok, et al.). Then there are the "normal" collectors where video is part of their collection same as audio discs and tape. If you can bear just Seeing it and not Having it, you might do OK. Mike

Yes, absolutely, EVERYTHING goes into the discography. The quicker I get it, the quicker it gets in. There are still a lot of things that Henry has not gotten to me in CD form (I can't listen to MD or DAT so I'm waiting on someone else to transfer those). So, drop me a line when you've got the recording and we'll hook up. Glad the discography is getting some use. Mike

I like it - Allen prices according to how much HE liked the book, not based on a percentage of the original list price or anything. Mike

What happened to my post with this? http://www.tonyscott.it/nbc.htm Mike

The two sets overlap quite a bit but are NOT identical. The Mosaic set is Getz AND Raney. The Roost set is Getz on Roost. So the Mosaic has stuff from Verve and Prestige while the Roost has stuff with Johnny Smith. Mike

Why must we get ANOTHER CD of Symphony For Improvisers (mine says 1994) when there hasn't been ANY US BN CD of Where Is Brooklyn? I mean, I know the whole RVG thing is rerun city, but doesn't it seem logical to try to get the harder-to-find stuff out there? Mike

Had a recent note from Tamara Shad (daughter of Mainstream/Time founder Bob) who wrote, "We are about to relaunch Mainstream" - is this the same project as mentioned above? If not, perhaps they will be handling CD issues. Which would be great. Mike

https://www.givengain.com/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?c=1065

I believe all Jazz Messengers reissues have been held up because "Messengers" is a reference to Islam, taken from the Koran. Mike

Danny Bank is still with us. He teaches and occasionally gigs. Most recent I have seen him, I think, was with Loren Schoenberg's big band. Bank has an unbelievable baritone sound. That's why he worked so much. He was not an improviser, which is why he never made anything as a leader. Mike

That's the one titled "Performance" - see here: http://www.tonyscott.it/nbc.htm Mike