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Django Plays Bango Tango

Arturo Sandoval Plays Music from the Soundtrack of the Tortoise and the Hare

Howard Reich Plays the Melodies of Lester Melrose Dick Cheney Plays Famous Hunting Melodies Berigan Plays the Music of Richard Wagner Berigan Wakes Up, Smells the Coffee, and Hears the Melody

ARICEEFFRON Plays Rational Melodies Che Plays Organissimo's Greatest Hits Wittgenstein's Brother Plays Two-Handed Melodies

honestly, watching that guy play made me feel like someone was scratching fingernails on a blackboard - reminded me, strangely enough (or maybe not so strangely) of Arturo Sandoval - everything he plays sounds like Flight of the Bumble Bee, same with that guitarist -

Goebbels plays Popular Yiddish Melodies - Sid Vicious for Lovers -

me - I'll have a CD out next year -

I think Katz also mentions how weird/bad his cello playing sounds -

somehow I think it's the same tune, but I will make inquiries and report back - the Connection, whatever it's date, is an excellent play - probably the only decent thing ever written by Jack Gelber - I think it would go very well -

I can't give a citation - however, I seem to remember, in Dick Katz's long quote in the Pettiford chapter in Jazz Masters of the 1940s, that Katz expressed the opinion that Pettiford bowed badly - however I'm not certain of this, and it does not necessarily mean, even if my memory is correct, that there is a recording - anybody have the book handy?

that'a a drag - Bertrand, has anyone thought of trying to revive The Connection? I'll bet you could get some other musicians who would be quite happy to work with Redd on a new version of the play -

"I ran into him in the bathroom" well, as long as you didn't say, "put 'er there" -

to add, it's a bit vague in my mind, but I think that's the name of the tune - is Redd still alive? As I recall he had very fond memories of Godfrey -

I believe the pieces is called "Sir John," but that's from memory (I actually remember talking to Redd on the phone when I visited Sweden years ago, and we discussed Godfrey) - I haven't seen Godfrey since, maybe, 1982; I did inquire about him a few years ago and was told that he had died, but I'm not sure if this is true -

well, I was not going to be too specific, but John wasn't the first musician I knew who was inconsistent - let's just say that, if his pot supply was good that week, his time might waver somewhat - and trust me, it's very possible to be excellent but undependable/inconsistent - if we had time I could mention about 20 others - on a good night he was a quintessential modern jazz drummer - sensitive to the music, swinging, full of very creative backgrounds - on a bad night he changed time, lost his place, played too loud - sad but true -

I knew John Godfrey in the 1970s in NYC - he went by the name Sir John Godfrey (Freddie Redd named a tune after him) - excellent, if inconsistent, drummer -

Something Else is a major work, in my opinion - something which has always bothered me, as well, is how it never seems to be noted that this recording, though under Cannonball's name, is very much a warmup to Kind of Blue - Miles's blues playing, in particular, shows that he was really working on distilling his scale ideas -

1) I thought Martin Williams was gay (of course, Keane may be the cause of this) 2) when I lived in Connecticut in the late 1970s I got to know Nan Evans, Bill Evans last wife, pretty well; I met Keane at some conference, mentioned Nan's name, and, boy, did this set off a tirade - they hated each other and apparently had more than a few turf battles before and after Evans's death -

she can always confess and be forgiven - I think -

I think I'll wait until it's overpriced on Ebay -

what happened to the topic of nastiness? I was so happy to see it come up as a new post - and all I see is Gabe Kaplan! Next thing we know, you guys'll be posting happy faces here - what is this, a Prozac convention?

still got plenty of these - order today for $49.95 (how do we do it? ever seen those episodes of the Sopranos where they hijack a truck? You get the picture) -

unless he's talking about the Boston that's in the mountains of Afghanistan - in that case wear a burka - and an automatic rifle -

1) translating Dorn's note: "I don't know anything about gospel music." 2) Let's not forget that there is also a significant white gospel tradition with great music - Collectables has a White Gospel collection with late 1940s, early 1950s quartets; Yazoo has a Kentucky gospel collection; there's a great singing preacher who recorded on Savoy, released on Ace (can't remember the name right now) - all worth checking out - also, let's not forget the singing pianist Arizona Dranes, released on Document - early barrelhouse/religious piano.

well, when Balliett is good he's good, when bad he makes me want to strangle him - some of his profiles are indeed priceless, off the top of my head I'm thinking PW Russell, Red Allen, Mel Powell, ML Williams - I do find many of his impressionistic descriptions of musical performances excruciatingly annoying, and I skip over them - and he has LOT of blind spots - Miles was a "first rate second rate trumpeter," Jaki Byard's playing was "watery," he does not like Barry Harris, thinks Max did not swing - I'd have to go back, but these are the things whicc, ultimately, have dated some of his writing - and if one reads his festival reviews back to the '70s and '80s he is overwhelmingly negative about contemporary players, with a few exceptions -