randissimo

what gives with all the standards?? they trying for the blue hair jazz society summer park gigs?

Enjoying this thread and this particular post...

Looking forward to our show together..

No kidding!

Actually, I think it's going to go towards a Moog. Some of it's going to go in my gas tank ..

Yeah Conn, that's me on drums.. I posted about that gig in a thread last year on Shirley Scott.. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...st&p=617987 Jimmy Forrest was hired to play in between disco sets at this night club known as the Alibi.. I was 27 and had worked a few gigs with Jimmy. He married a woman in Grand Rapids and started playing at this little jazz club I was working regularly at..

I just sent you guys $200 through the "donate" button. (Check your e-mail, Jim.) NOW how funny am I?? No rush getting them recorded for me. Work 'em into your live book, and play 'em some (at least a few places where you can), and get 'em in your bones a bit. You've got two years (a.k.a. "an eternity") to make good on 'em, before I start makin' any noise. And no they don't absolutely have to be from "Mother Ship" and "That Certain Feeling". Let me spin my entire Larry Young and BJP catalogs over the next couple months, and I'll get back to you with a list of potential tunes. I'll make the list fairly long, so there'll be lots to choose from. And Jim, you do have a copy of "Mother Ship", right?? WOW! THANKS ROOSTER !!!

In 1984 Charles Moore formed a band with Adam Rudolph and released an lp entitled, "Eternal Wind" on the Flying Fish label. . Don't know if they still exist but Eternal Wind is a creative band worth a listen. http://music.msn.com/album/?album=10111935

Ian Froman..

Indeed.... Half the attraction and allure of buying lps was the cover art... When I saw Capt. Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica" , King Crimson's first lp "Court Of The Crimson King", Monk's "Underground", Miles's' "Bitches Brew", Zappa's "Freak Out", or the Beatles lp "Sgt Pepper" I knew I had to have them!

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Sad news... I never knew him but heard him several times with Art Blakey in the 70's...

I've seen all those people- in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, as well as right here in Florida. Some things are universal. I expect some even inhabit this board! Good thing we don't have video! Don't forget Lansing..

Happy Birthness Free!

Finally getting more sunshine .. January and especially February were brutally cold, lots if snowfall, and only 2 or 3 days of sunshine all month.. High temps are very slowly starting to climb above freezing.. I thinks it's going to be another couple of weeks before we see temps warm enough to melt the 3 foot snow banks on the sides of the roads here..

I heard some of the interview last night driving home from a gig in K-Zoo.. Very interesting listening to Ornette's theories and I thought you did a nice job interviewing the very ornate Ornette ..

They'll be back. They always come back. This place is the Hotel California. I wish Deep (Danny D'Imperio) could come back.. Sure miss his stories and ascerbic and sometimes outrageous wit.. Be careful what you wish for. Truth is I don't think Deep could behave himself if he was given a 2nd chance.. The boy likes his beverages..

They'll be back. They always come back. This place is the Hotel California. I wish Deep (Danny D'Imperio) could come back.. Sure miss his stories and ascerbic and sometimes outrageous wit..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOqKBnb6GK8

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHNNY... LOOKING FORWARD TO OUR SHOW IN APRIL !!!

Looks like Pollock has decided we're too hostile..

This thread addresses a situation that is becoming more commonplace. As musicians get older there are more incidences of catastrophic illnesses and of course like myself, most musicians live and struggle from week to week and month to month financially and are in deep shit if they either have an accident or become ill and have to be hospitalized... We jazz guys basically have to try and look out for each other. Last month there was a local benefit for a bass player who had a massive stroke and only in his late 40's, and $6,000 was raised for he and his family. Right now there is a tenor player here who has stage 4 lung cancer and there's talk of organizing a fund raiser for him.. I have health insurance that I am renegotiating with my agent because the rate keeps going up and is now barely manageable. Thanks for posting this.

I remember the Fugs..