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For any of you interested in this Cd, I will provide info on how to get it once it's released. It's scheduled for release sometime in July.

I'll post that info as soon as I get it... By the way, your CD "Welcome To The Party" is outstanding! Dennis Durick is BAD! I told Jim & Joe we should cover "Toot Toot"..

I just got this from Pops.. The Cd will be out real soon... Left to right Paul Kreibich-Drums Chuck Berghofer-Bass Arno Marsh-Tenor Sax Bob Summers-Trumpet and Flugle Horn Ross Tomkins-Piano

Kevin, stay positive and supportive and enjoy your father while he is here. I lost my mother to lung cancer April 30th. She was diagnosed in November, 2002. I spent as much time as I could with her and always kept a positive attitude. BTW, she lived a year longer than the doc predicted..

It would normally work, but Kurt is busy with DJ and sound gigs and I'm too busy with drum lessons & gigs that week... You know we do have a gig that week at the Avenue, 740 Michigan Ave, 616-451-2767, on the 7th & 21st, from 8pm to 11pm.. They could all come to that gig... .. In fact, it could become an Organissimo Forums Party night!

Dang Joe! Do I detect signs of "Guitarzenheimers" ?? It happens occasionally to guitar players who dawdle in those complex harmonic lines, and often too high on the fretboard!

There's a great mountain biking trail near Hastings,, the Deep Lake Trails @ Yankee Springs...

10pm?? Don't you remember the one we did at the church March 20th? We start at 5:50pm and we're done at 7pm..

The July 17th Jazz Vespers gig is a go... Maybe you guys can come and hear us in church...

Yeah,, I really enjoyed their creations together.. What an interesting alchemy... Jack D of course is one of my all time favorites...

Ya gotta dig Roy Haynes !!! I first became aware of Roy Haynes"s greatness on Chick Corea's "Now He Sings, Now He Sobs" LP.. I had to find out who this rhythmic genius was! So I started buying any recordings I could find that he played on... He is also outliving a lot of the great masters... Roy has been on the scene since the 40's and is still healthy and going strong!

WORD... B)

We've been getting one bitchin' storm after another since Friday and there are still more to come!

I posted this story earlier on the other Elvin thread... In case you haven't read it here it is... One of the first times I heard Elvin was at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago... It was back in 1977 and a drummer I knew was there and half in the bag and grumpy because his old friend Ira Sullivan hired Wilbur Campbell instead of him to open for Elvin....So my grumpy friend just keeps getting drunker and grumpier... So by the time Elvin comes on, my friend becomes rather vocal.... Elvin starts the set with a 5 minute drum solo, followed by a slow burning blues. The next tune is another slow burner that goes on for about 10 - 15 minutes with another 5 minute drum solo.... When the tune is finally ended, my drunken friend yells up to Elvin, "Come on Elvin, stop bullshittin and take it upstairs ".... With the timing of Jack Benny, Elvin comes back with, "He's right,,,, it's time to take it to the mezzanine" . The room exploded in a roar of laughter and applause..... Then Elvin kicks off a blistering 8 bar intro and just burns for the rest of the set! That was an unforgettable night for me! And drummer Wilbur Campbell also played his ass off that night! I'll never forget that night!

One of the first times I heard Elvin was at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago... It was back in 1977 and a drummer I knew was there and half in the bag and grumpy because his old friend Ira Sullivan hired Wilbur Campbell instead of him to open for Elvin....So my grumpy friend just keeps getting drunker and grumpier... So by the time Elvin comes on, my friend becomes rather vocal.... Elvin starts the set with a 5 minute drum solo, followed by a slow burning blues. The next tune is another slow burner that goes on for about 10 - 15 minutes with another 5 minute drum solo.... When the tune is finally ended, my drunken friend yells up to Elvin, "Come on Elvin, stop bullshittin and take it upstairs ".... With the timing of Jack Benny, Elvin comes back with, "He's right,,,, it's time to take it to the mezzanine" . The room exploded in a roar of laughter and applause..... Then Elvin kicks off a blistering 8 bar intro and just burns for the rest of the set! That was an unforgettable night for me! And Wilbur Campbell also played his ass off that night! God Bless you Elvin and thank you so much for all the great music!

This morning I ordered "Youngblood". I found it in one of the 2ed hand stores of the net. I'm not sure where my dad got the info.... It could be that he got it from a questionable source.. If anyone gets an update please post it...

I just got an e-mail from my dad that Elvin Jones has passed away...

Here is the gist of that update, a note to JazzTimes from Adam Mansbach, co-author of Elvin Jones' forthcoming memoirs: I just called Keiko after reading your email. Elvin is alive and recuperating. I was at Yoshi's with him all week, and while he was weak and has lost weight (and had difficulty playing at some points), the whole experience was, for me, tremendously uplifting: To see him walk onstage with an oxygen tank and proceed to not only play an entire set, but also an amazing fifteen-minute solo while the room was being cleared (as he did on two of the nights) was truly inspiring. Set by set, there was a lot of variation in terms of Elvin's strength -- largely due to whether or not he had the oxygen with him, which he only did about half the time. A lot of the reports circulating have seemingly been from people who only saw one set and thus didn't really get a full picture. Elvin is certainly in very grave condition, but he's still full of tremendous love -- for the music and for life -- and that, along with his many friends and loved ones, seems to be keeping him going. --Adam Maren, thank you for the update... I needed to read that.

I just love this line by your Mom! Yeah,, me too My mother had an outstanding sense of humor..

For those members living in west Michigan who would like to attend one of the memorial events, here is the info... A memorial service will be held at Daystar Ministries, 2220 Three Mile Rd, NE, GR, Thursday, May 6th, at 1pm.. Afterwards, there will be an event to celebrate and honor the life of Mary Lou Marsh at Westgate Bowl Complex, 4489 Alpine, comstock Park, in the same room we had for the fund raiser last year. There will be live music in a good 'ol fashioned jam session format. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions will be appreciated to help with funeral expenses. May this great lady rest in peace.. Randy Marsh

Well put, maren. My feelings too. Again, I would like to thank all of my friends here on this beautiful board.. You all have helped give me the strength and comfort I'm going to need to face the upcoming week...

Thanks everyone for your support and concern...

Thank you Rainy Day.. BTW, I lived in Oakland from Dec '85 to Nov '89. I lived at 3000 Nicol st. For 2 of those years I was a member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe.

Mary Lou Marsh, my mother, passed away peacefully at around 9:35pm at age 74, with many family members and friends present... I was sitting next to her bed, with a nice tenor sax solo playing in the background when she took her last breath... We thought it only appropriate to have Jazz, the music she loved so much playing in her last hour, so I shmoozed the nurses into finding me a CD player.. while she was still breathing, I played one of her favorite ballads, "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning" and held her hand.. Mom had been struggling with small cell cancer of the lungs since she was diagnosed in December of 2002. She is the one responsible for my love of Jazz and she had an outstanding sense of humor. I was sitting with her last Sunday night at the hospital watching TV... She caught me off guard saying, "That drummer on Conan O'Brien? He really sucks".. Mom always had jazz records playing around the house while I was growing up and also gave me my first drum lesson on the back of an Art Blakey album with a pair of brushes a drummer had left at our house. I was 13 years old at the time. May this great lady rest in peace..

HAPPY BIRTHNESS J G !! I'll see ya tonite at Vitale's