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I think this is what pulled me into the ECM records back in the 70's. I right away, liked the clarity of colors and textures of the drum mix, especially the cymbals.. The drummers like DeJohnette, Christenson, and Gottlieb based a lot of their concept around the cymbals more than the drums. The first album I heard was Eberhard Weber's "Yellow Fields" and that ride cymbal mix knocked me out! Other ECM favorites of mine are the Jon Hammer album, "Timeless", Keith Jarett's albums "My Song" & "Belonging". In my opinion Manfred Eicher brought a refreshing and welcome new sound to the "Jazz table".

" Go Ben go!!! I've never been decribed before with such verve!

I listened to Ammons but I also listened to Wardell Gray and Don Byas just to name a couple of great tenor players that don't get mentioned enough. Arno Marsh (Old time tenor player)

I don't know... I think you have to be in that late teens or early 20's age demographic to know what songs the parodies are... Even without knowing, the tunes are extremely funny and clever.

...I saw AL TV last night on VH1 and he does faked interviews with Brittany Spears and EMINEM.. The one with EMINEM is particularly funny

I believe this is the proves we have a strong CD! Jim Wilke has been playing the Cd now since the first week of March! How to read these music lists... The program is broadcast live on Friday and Saturday nights starting at Midnight Eastern Time. Thus, Friday Midnight is the start of Saturday morning, and Saturday Midnight is Sunday morning. Each hour is identified - eg. SA 0 (Saturday midnight), SA 1 (Saturday 1 AM) and so on. If you are in Central Time subtract 1 hour, in Mountain Time subtract 2 hours, in Pacific Time subtract 3 hours. There is also a piece listed in parenthesis at the end of each hour. This is an unannounced 40-sec fill segment that is not heard on all stations. If you'd like information about how to timeshift the program to a more convenient time to listen, send an email to jim@jazzafterhours.org FOR SATURDAY JUNE 21, 2003 *artist - title - album - year- copyright- catalog# SA 0 - Theme (open & close): Ray Bryant - After Hours - Alone at Montreux Jill Townsend Big Band - Blues in Maude’s Flat - Tales From The Sea - 2003 Pagetown Records - PTCD001 Eddie Henderson - ‘Round Midnight - So What - 2002 Village Records - CK 87172 Tino Derado - Odd Birds - Luminescence - 2003 Tino Derado - SSC 1111 Ernie Watts/Ron Feuer - I Loves You Porgy - Reflections - 2001 Adventure Productions - 7 23055 26704 3 Harold Mabern - Au Privave - The Leading Man - 1995 Sony Music Entertainment - CK 66148 Regina Carter - Black Orpheus - Paganini: After A Dream - 2003 The Verve Music Group - 440 065 554-2 Ben Webster - Lover, Come Back To Me - Soulville - 2003 The Verve Music Group - 314 521 440-2 Joe Pass - Them There Eyes - Summer Nights - 1990 Fantasy - 2310-939-2 (Red Garland - But Not For Me) SA 1 - (remembering Jimmy Knepper) Charles Mingus - Haitian Fight Song - The Clown - 1957 & 1999 Atlantic Recording Corp - R2 75590 Jimmy Knepper Sextet - I Dream Too Much - I Dream Too Much- 1984 Soul Note - 1092 Jimmy Knepper - When I See You - 1st Place - 1986 BlackHawk Records - 51001 (LP #) Bud Shank - Beautiful Love - By Request - 1997 Videoarts Music - MCD 9273-2 Kurt Elling - Goin’ To Chicago - Live In Chicago - 1999 Capitol Records -7243 5 22211 27 McCoy Tyner - Back Bay Blues - Land of Giants - 2003 Telarc - 83576 Stan Getz/Jimmy Raney - You Turned the Tables On Me - The Complete Stan Getz/ Jimmy Raney - Mosaic - MD3-131 (Jimmy Raney - Indian Summer) SA 2- Eddie Palmieri - Ritmo Caliente II - Ritmo Caliente - 2003 Concord Records - 2180-2 Sue Tucker - The Gentleman Is A Dope - May I Come In -2003 Sue Tucker - 7 98576 36712 1 The Carla Bley Big Band- Old MacDonald Had A Farm - Looking for America - 2003 WATT Works - WATT/ 31 The Galilloreto Quintet - Andante - The Insider - 2003 - Wide Sound - WD122 The Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Careful - The Easy Way - 2003 The Verve Music Group - MG VS 6095 Yellowjackets - Village Gait - Time Squared - 2003 Buzz Promotions - HUCD 3075 Larry Coryell - Dolphin Dance - Inner Urge - 2001 Highnote Records - HCD 7064 Organissimo - Blake’s Shake - Waiting for the Boogaloo Sisters- 2003 PKO Records - 020 The Winard Harper Sextet - Glorify - A Time for the Soul - 2003 Svant Records - 2048 (Modern Jazz Quartet - Jack The Bear) SA 3 - Carl Fontana Conte Candoli Quintet- Nina Never Knew - The Complete Phoenix Recordings Volume 5 of 6 - 2002 Woof Productions - WPCD125 Keith Jarrett - My Funny Valentine - Up For It - 2003 ECM Records GmbH - ECM 1860 Trudy Desmond - My One and Only- My One and Only - 1998 Justin Time Records - JRT 8468-2 Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges - Back Beat - Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges - 2003 The Verve Music Group MG VS 68367 Ahmad Jamal - I’ve Never Been In Love Before - In Search Of - 2003 JFD Productions - FDM 36644-2 Avi Rothbard - Wives and Lovers - Going Somewhere - 2002 MidLantic Records - 2002-106 Dave Ellis - Summertime - State of Mind - 2003 Fantasy - MCD9328-2 (Akio Sasajima - Crazeology) SA 4 - Mike Kaplan - Melody for My Mom - How’s That? - 2002 Semi-Sweet Records - SM-12 Nat King Cole- Summer is a Comin’ In- Lush Life- 1993 Capitol Records- CDP 0777 7 80595 23 Bill Coon - Speakeasy - Speakeasy - 2003 Pagetown Records - PTCD0002 David Hazeltine - Nancy - Manhattan Autumn - 2003 Sharp Nine Records - 1026-2 René Marie - Bolero/Suzanne - Live at The Jazz Standard - 2003 MaxJazz - MSJ 116 Ken & Harry Watters - Sometimes a Shadow - Brothers III - 2001 Summit Records - 369 Marital Solal - Softly As In A Morning Sunrise - NY-1 - 2003 Blue Note Records - 72435 84391 2 0 (Thelonious Monk - Rhythm-a-ning) SA 5 - Elio Villafranca - Orishaoko - Incantations - 2003 Elio Villafranca - 24536 05572 Stacey Kent - EasyTo Remember - In Love Again - 2003 Candid Productions - 79786 John Scofield Band -Thikhathali - Up All Night - 2003 The Verve Music Group - 440 065 596-2 Pete Escovedo - La Cuna - Live! - 2003 Concord Records - 2162-2 Stan Kenton - Recuerdos - Cuban Fire - 1991 Capitol Records - CDP 796260 2 Mike DiRubbo - North Shore Reflections - Human Spirit - 2002 Criss Cross Jazz - 1231 Peter Madsen - Ugly Beauty - Sphere Essence - 2003 Playscape - PSRJ010303 Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto - Samba do Avião - A Day in New York - 2003 KAB America - SK 80018 (Ron Escheté - Blues Bruise) SA 6 - Teddy Edwards - Robbins’ Nest - Smooth Sailing - 2003 Highnote Records - 7088 The Marsalis Family - Sultry Serenade - A Jazz Celebration - 2002 Marsalis Music - 11661-3302-2 Pat Metheny - I Will Find The Way - One Quiet Night - 2003 Metheny Group Productions - 48473-2 Mike Melvoin - It’s Always You- It’s Always You - 2002 City Light Entertainment - 6 07325 00052 Joe Wilder - Centerpiece - Among Friends - 2003 Evening Star Records - ES 106-2 Miranda Sage - Some Other Time - Moong Tiger - 2003 Miranda Sage - BHR CD017 Vincent Herring- Invitation - All Too Real - 2003 Highnote Records - HCD 7106 The Drummonds - Pas de Trois - Pas de Trois - 2003 True Life Entertainment -TLE100072 (Theme)

Weird Al has outdone himself! Great parodies!! I think Weird Al is the new 'Music Satire Potentate" .. I believe he has taken Frank Zappa's place. In fact, Dweezil Zappa plays on a tune that is very Zappa-esgue.. Do yourself a favor. Either buy "Poodle Hat" or catch him on his Summer tour in a venue near you..

I heard the new Steve Winwood album for the first time tonight. I really like it! The album grooves with funky guitar, and lots of latin percussion... And Winwood is still singing great and played all the tracks on a Hammond B3! Some of the writing reminds me a little of his earlier albums with Traffic... It's definately a worthwhile Cd

Pepe, Thanks for the info and your time. Right now we are trying to find a bigger label, management, bookings, and a good distribution deal for our Cd. We have a jazz festival booking in Clearwater Florida Oct 18th and are going to try and book venues there and back as well as possible gigs in the Tampa Bay area. If you have any numbers you could pass on we'd sure appreciate it. In fact if anyone reading this post has any ideas we'd love to hear from you....

Pepe, Are you involved now with festival promoting? Organissimo is trying to hook up with as many festival venues as possible for next Summer. if you can help in any way it would be much appreciated.

Jessica Williams is weird but a genius... I had the opportunity to work 2 nights with her at Yoshi's when I lived in Oakland, Ca in 1987.. Often if there was any distraction going on with the audience she would stop playing and walk to the edge of the stage and just stand there staring at the people making the noise... This happened the first night I played with her. It was one of the most challenging gigs of my career!

If anybody is in or near Michigan and is interested in hearing us at one of our shows here's the schedule. We will be featuring jazz vocalist Harvey Thompson and my father, tenor sax man Arno Marsh... Thu 7 till 9:00pm Rotary Pavilion, Downtown Cadillac - "Upbeat Cadillac", Fri 7 till 9:00pm Rambadt Park, Reed City 1/2 mile E of 131 & US 10 - "Crossroads Picnic Showcase" Sat 7 till 9:00pm Wenger Pavilion, Baldwin - "Sounds from the Forest" Sun 2 till 4:00pm Waterfront Park, Ludington - "WestShore WaterFront ShowCase" 7 till 11:00pm Gull Landing, Downtown Pentwater - "We’ve Got the Sunday Blues & All That Jazz" Mon 7 till 9:15pm Waterfront Stadium-Grand Haven - "Stompin at the Stadium" Rainsite @ Grand Haven Community Center All venues and times are the same for this ten week series

Check this out... My father, tenor sax man Arno Marsh recorded and toured with Woody Herman's 3rd Herd during the Mars years and can be heard playing most of the tenor solos.... He currently resides in Las Vegas and anybody interested in this period of woody Herman's music can email Arno at MarshNV@aol.com My dad will be touring June 26th thru June 30th with Organissimo and Jazz vocalist Harvey Thompson. We will be performing in outdoor venues in Northern Michigan. For more information go to organissimo.org and check out our calendar.

My favorites are Phish, String Cheese Incident, Dave Mathews, Cowboy Mouth, and Ben Folds

Yeah, she's not only a great pianist, she's a "stone fox!" I saw Roney with her at the Jazz Showcase 5 yrs ago..

Here's a good Roney story.... Back in the early 90's I went to the Jazz showcase to hear the great Elvin Jones. Wallace Roney had only been on elvin's band a couple of weeks and had previously been recording and touring with Tony Williams. Here is my story which took place about 2 weeks after Wallace Roney's first week with Elvin Jones... The first week playing on Elvin's band, Wallace Roney was having some difficulty fitting into Elvin Jone's unique time approach to swing rhythm which is, if you're familiar with his style, based on an 8th note triplet feel. Tony williams on the other hand, had more of a straight 8th note time feel.. My friend Bud Spangler, who was running sound and recording that night for a radio show at Yoshi's that first week, had a conversation with a somewhat distraught Wallace Roney about the issue, and being a fine drummer himself, Bud brought to Roney's attention the obvious difference between Elvin' time feel and Tony's. Roney nodded his head and told Bud he had never thought about the diffence before. After that conversation the last set seemed to swing a little better for Wallace. 2 weeks later at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago they are in the middle of an intense set and Wallace Roney is up there blowing a blistering solo on a medium tempo blues... As he ends his solo, Elvin drops his dynamics down real low and says very audibly, "That was nice Wally, just don't bite off more than you can chew".. I was sitting 3 or 4 rows back from the band and clearly heard this comment from Elvin, which was meant sincerely, but had a great comic affect on the other band members as well as those in the audience who heard the remark.. You should have seen Roney's face after Elvijn said that. Wallace Roney sounded great that night!

FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2003 *artist - title - album - year- copyright- catalog# SU 0 - Theme Paquito D’Rivera - Who’s Smokin’? - Big Band Time - 2003 Timba Records Germany - 245 360 559-2 Garry Smulyan - All My Life - The Real Deal - 2003 Reservoir Music - 172 Slide Hampton and the World of Trombones - Moment’s Notice - Spirit of the Horn - 2002 Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild - MCGJ1011 Bruce Barth - Days of June - Live at The Village Vanguard - 2002 Maxjazz - MXJ 205 Maria Schneider - Allegrésse - Allegrésse - 2000 Enja Records - ENJ-9393 2 Les Paul Trio - Danger, Men At Work/ Embraceable You - Les Paul Trio - 1991 Delta Music - 15-741 Ben Sidran/Bob Rockwell Quartet- Walk Pretty - Walk Pretty - 2002 Go Jazz - 6060 2 (McCoy Tyner - Bouncin’ With Bud ) SU 1 - Bobby Militello -Graduation Day - Heart & Soul - 1993 Bobby Militello - PMD 7806-2 Luciana Souza - Never Let Me Go - North and South - 2003 Sunnyside Communications -1112 Mike DiRubbo - Human Spirit - Human Spirit - 2002 Criss Cross Jazz - Criss 1231 Geoffrey Keezer - Passing Time - Sublime - 2003 Telarc - 83563 Steve Turre - One 4 J - One 4 J - 2003 Telarc - 83555 Jessica Williams - They Say It’s Wonderful - All Alone - 2003 Maxjazz - MXJ206 Obie Jessie - See The Dolphin Dance - Here’s To Life - 2001 Jazz Family Records - 8 08739 0 1012 9 Arturo Sandoval - Joy Spring - Trumpet Evolution - 2003 Crescent Moon Recods - CK 87195 (Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven) SU 2 - Roy Haynes - HowDeep Is the Ocean - Love Letters - 2002 Village Records - CK 87197 Ted Nash - Still Evolved - StillEvolved - 2003 Palmetto Records - PM 2092 Erik Truffaz - Belle de Nuit - The Walk of the Giant Turtle - 2003? Kameleon Music - 72435 8314403 Fred Hersch/ Norma Winstone - Stars - Songs & Lullabies - 2003 Sunnyside Communications - SSC1108 Poncho Sanchez - On Time- Latin Spirits - 2001 Concord Records - 4981-2 Janis Siegel - My Love Is/ My Babe - Friday Night Special - 2003 Telarc - 83566 Chick Corea - Quartet No.2, Part 1 - Rendezvous in New York - 2003 Stretch Records - SCD2-9041-2 Diana Krall - Hit That Jive Jack - All For You- 1996 GRP Records - IMPCD-182 (Al Cohn & Zoot Sims - Morning Fun) SU 3 - Jesse Davis - Vee Cee - The Setup - 2002 Alltribe Records - ATR0725 Organissimo - Meet Me @ 11 - Waiting for the Boogaloo Sisters - 2003 PKO Records - 020 Brienn Perry & The Woody Herman Orchestra - A Cottage for Sale - “Live” at Fitzgerald’s - 2003 Big Head Records - BHE-0005 Laslo Gardony - Stella By Starlight - Ever Before Ever After - 2003 Sunnyside Communications - SSC 1107 Ravi Coltrane - 26-2 - Mad 6 - 2002 Village Records - CK 87173 Steve Kuhn - No Problem - Love Walked In - 1998 Venus Records - SSC 1109 Art Blakey - Moanin’ - Moanin’ - 1999 Capitol Records - 7243 4 95324-2 7 Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Moanin’, Twisted - Everybody’s Boppin’ - 1989 CBS Records - CK 45020 (Eddie Higgins - Wolf in Chic Clothing) SU 4 - Charlie Mariano - You Better Go Now - Deep In A Dream - 2003 Justin Time Records - 3302-2 Chet Baker - Ellen David - But Not For Me - 2003 Random Chance Records - RCD10 Charlie Haden Quartet West - Our Spanish Love Song - Always Say Goodbye - 1991 Polydor/Polygram S.A. France - 314 521 501-2 Ann Dyer - The Official Story - When I Close My Eyes - 2003 Sunnyside Communications - SSC 1113 Duke Ellington - Flirtybird - Anatomy of A Murder - 1999 Sony Music Entertainment - CK 65569 Edward Simon - Calabria - The Process - 2002 Criss Cross Jazz - Criss 1229 Teddy Edwards - It’s The Talk Of The Town - Smooth Sailing - 2003 Highnote Records - 7088 Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto - Tango - A Day In New York - 2003 KAB America - SK80018 Mark O’Connor - Pillows- Mirage - 2002 MOConnor Music - BJ 3309 (Johnny Hodges - Good Queen Bess) SU 5 - Melvin Sparks - Breeze - What You Hear Is What You Get- 2003 Savant Records -2049 Ray Barretto - Close Your Eyes - Homage to Art - 2003 Night Bird Music - SSC 1105 Chris Buzzelli - Where or When - I Can Pick My Friends - 2002 Chris Buzzelli - 8975-2 Eden Atwood-No One Ever Tells You-No One Ever Tells You-1993 Concord Jazz- 4560 The Acoustic Jazz Quartet - Organic Unity - Organic - 2003 Acoustic Jazz Quartet - 82407 Lizz Wright - Afro Blue - Salt - 2003 The Verve Music Group - 314 589 933-2 Dave Brubeck - Don’t Forget Me - Park Avenue South - 2003 Telarc - 83570 Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass - Very Early - Brassy & Sassy - 1992 Concord Jazz - 4508 (Major Holley - Blues for Alice) SU 6 - Vana - A New Day - A New Day - 2003 Twinz Recods - VANA002 Steve Wilson - Wish You Were Here - Soulful Song - 2003 Maxjazz - MXJ 401 John Stetch- All The Things You Are, Interlude - Standards - 2003 Justin Time Records - 190-2 Joshua Bayer - Tre- Lines and Grooves - 2002 Jazzheads Records - JH1 140 Paul Desmond/ Gerry Mulligan - Two of a Mind - Two of a Mind - 2003 BMG - 09026-64019-2 John Taylor - Tramonto - Rosslyn - 2003 ECM Records GmbH - ECM 1751 Joyce Breach - These Foolish Things - Remembering Mable Mercer - 2003 Audiophile Records - ACD 332 Jim Snidero - River Suite: Dawn - Strings - 2003 Fantasy - MCD 9326-2 Terence Blanchard - On the Sunny Side of the STreet - Let’s Get Lost - 2001 Sony Music Entertainment - 2 SK 55953 (Theme)

Caught the first episode of the first season and was hooked! I've been following the series almost religiously! Great writers and actors... I've got access to all the episodes on DVD...

Sorry JSangry... What was I thinkin'? By the way, I would love to hear your music.... I have for a long time been interested in the more creative and experimental expressions of music, I've been in a few projects over the years improvising not only on the 3 basic musical elements of melody, harmony, and rhythm, but also the equally interesting elements of color, texture, density, velocity, as well as a varied range of dynamics. Until recently, I had an experimental ensemble we called the "Flagrant Disregard". It was put together through a need to venture outside of the conventional songform approach, to a freer format based off of a sketch or concept that would allow us individually and collectively, to creatively explore and without conventional rules, new places, often resulting in exciting adventures sometimes with humor, and always resulting in great delight! Our philosophy was basically that there was no wrong note or sound... The band was inspired by Sun Ra, Art Ensemble, Frank Zappa, Lounge Lizards, Vinny Golia, early Weather Report, Capt. Beefheart, Bitche's Brew, with just a dash of Spike Jones... One night we had 8 warbling sax players in a semi-circle while I recited Capt. Beefheart's "Old Fart At Play," in a Reagan mask with a tie died shirt on that read, "No Commercial Potential".. It was at a brew pub in Kalamazoo and the college kids loved it! Do you have a website where I can hear some of your music?

Randy, AAJ is Mike Ricci's board and in my opinion he can do what he likes with it, whether you and I agree / like it or not. You're right about that. It is after all, Mike Ricci's board...I guess I've said enough already, end of subject.. Thanks Jim and have a great weekend..

...it seems strange that musicians can't post about their gigs at a site that calls itself "All About Jazz". Gigs are our bread and butter. We certainly aren't making any money off CDs! I don't have a day job, nor does Randy. This is how we make our living. Seems like we should be able to post about our gigs on a JAZZ bulletin board so fellow jazz listeners know what's up. ~B3er~ Mike (xricci), Like JSangry, I too don't want to drag this issue out any further, but you have yet to explain why, or better yet apologize for censoring my post in AAJ.

Wait a minute Mike... Blatant spam message?? Because I mentioned that the singer I was posting about would be featured on a tour with organissimo in late June, and anybody interested should contact us at organissimo.org?? That's spam??? My intention was not to spam AAJ.... I suggest you read the "alleged spam" posts more open mindedly before you delete'em.... Note: This quote wasn't actually in the May 29 4:13 pm post. I tried once again to go to AAJ to read xricci's posts and again was not able to post a reply without going through the whole registration process all over again. So I decided to copy and paste xricci's quote and reply to it over here..

Go to AAJ/Vocalists/ "Has Anyone Heard Harvey Thompson Yet".. I gave a little bio description of Harvey and mentioned the fact that Organissimo would be doing a 5 day tour in late June; and the part about Organissimo got completely edited out of the post..xricci needs to respond to this post so the members over here at organissimo can read his response. There are many members here who would like to know what's going on...

I tried to go to my post at AAJ and wanted to add a reply requesting an explanation for why my original post was edited and couldn't get in! My username and password did not work...Very strange!!

It's maybe that the AAJ are threatened by the growing popularity of "organissimo forums".. How petty... AAJ is supposed to be all about jazz... Not about censoring jazz musicians from posting their jazz events Someone at AAJ needs to explain to me why my post got edited so Organissimo would not be mentioned.