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yes, Chuck may well be right - temperment plays an important part in musicians who become leaders - many are content to work as sidemen, no matter how great they are -
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I tend to agree about Dexter, whose playing I've never found interesting - depended, a bit, also, on how stoned he was at a particular session - Jackie McLean, on the other hand is a brilliant player. But as for trombone players, I don't care how dead he is, I'm going to put JIMMY KNEPPER in here - a great player, sweetheart of a guy, and everything else -
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the 1919 James Reese Europe's are not the prime ones to listen to - they are intersting but you really need to hear the recordings from 1913-1914 - hard to find, however -
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Which alto player sounded the most like Bird?
AllenLowe replied to Hardbopjazz's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Dizzy Gillespie votes for Dave Schildkraut: "Dave was the only alto player to capture the rhythmic essence of Bird." (I know I'm a Schildkraut maniac, but Dizzy said this to me in the early 1980s) - also, there's a famous blindfold test in which Mingus mistook Davey for Bird (he was listening to Case Ace, from the album Handyland) - interestingly enough I don't think Dave was an imitator, but he did absorb a lot of Bird's ideas and make them very personal (I actually think he was even more eccentric, rhythmically) - one thing Dave told me he got from Bird was the ability to phrase ahead - that he was sometimes looking at the harmony 3-4 bars ahead of where the rhythm section was - this created a very Bird-like tension - another interesting thing is that Dave said he'd had some conversations with Coltrane about the "upper register" - Dave had a mystical-like attachment to the sax's altissimo range and always felt he had been the first to go there, and that he had influenced Trane in this respect - impossible to verify, but Dave was never one for self-promotion and was quite credible in all other respects (another great story is Lester Young coming to hear Dave at a strip show on 52nd Street and inviting him to sit in with him at Birdland - Dave declined and Prez, disappointed, said "this ain't the Downbeat Awards...") - -
Una Mae Carlisle/Lil Green on "Night Lights"
AllenLowe replied to ghost of miles's topic in Jazz Radio & Podcasts
I love Lil Green - I've always felt she was a major, if unheralded, figure in what I call the "blueing" of American pop singing - the post-war influence on white singers (particularly female) of "bluesy" vocal gestures - -
still plenty here -
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still have plenty -
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Dr. Rat - respectfully, I think you're missing Chris's point - the musical orbit that Christian moved in (Goodman/Hammond) would impact on such a thing - not all black musicians moved within that orbit, but Christian had gotten his professional/East Coast start from Hammond/Goodman. So it's very possible that Hammond may have exercised some power in this area - and we know from after-the-fact accounts that Hammond, for all his aura of altruism, could behave in a much different manner -
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listen also to the things he did with Django -
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5th Annual Jazz Composers Collective Festival
AllenLowe replied to robviti's topic in Live Shows & Festivals
Mike - hope it's ok with you to take your response to another thread and bump it over here: "Transcribe yourself a whole book of "unplayed" things - then to make your set lists, combine these with standards, originals, and completely improvised pieces." this is a different and philosphically less reactionary idea than doing specific, single-composer "projects" - and I approve - -
Mike is 100% correct, and I'm about to get spanked about my feelings on this subject in another thread -
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5th Annual Jazz Composers Collective Festival
AllenLowe replied to robviti's topic in Live Shows & Festivals
"some posters expressed the preference to dig into obscure, seldom-performed originals then the same tired standards. I agree." I do too - but if a musician can't come up with some kind of original music/perspective that doesn't rely upon repertory of one kind or another, he or she is in the wrong profession - -
5th Annual Jazz Composers Collective Festival
AllenLowe replied to robviti's topic in Live Shows & Festivals
let me add - it is one thing to do that older, under-performed music as part of a larger personal repertoire - I'm just real tired of the use of the ghost name to draw attention to the performance, worthy as it is. Been there, done that - you never heard of Bird doing "the Duke Ellington project," or Bud doing the "James P. Johnson Project." This is a large part of the reason that jazz has lost some of its edge - -
5th Annual Jazz Composers Collective Festival
AllenLowe replied to robviti's topic in Live Shows & Festivals
I know all about the Herbie Nichols project - I was the one who connected Ben Allison with Roswell Rudd to initiate the project, FYI - and my objections are not to dusty ghost renditions. I just think the "project-tribute" has been done to death. Even if done well, it's really primarily a marketing tool for musicians (trust me- I've done the same myself) - it's time to move on, IMHO - -
bump...daddy needs a new pair of shoes -
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there's something about the Basie band and free jazz - Dickey Wells was another proponent of free playing - always playing outside the changes, even back in the 1930s -
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I think Chris is saying that Hammond could very well have exercised his influence, which was considerable, in making it hard for Christian to record as a leader - this is not an unreasonable conclusion -
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in the event of my death I am to be stuffed and placed on Roy Rogers's horse -
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it's a good question, but remember how young he was when he died - maybe there just wasn't enough time -
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there is a book I have (somewhere) which is called, I think, the Charlie Parker scrapbook, or something like that - it has a great deal of the chronology of his life -if I can find it I'll try to look up that gig -
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Da Capo reissue - slight tear on binding, still holds together fine. $10 media shipping. email me: alowe@maine.rr.com check, paypal, money order -
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Lawmaker Seeks to End Sexy Cheerleading
AllenLowe replied to BERIGAN's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
I keep thinking of Belushi under the bleachers in Animal House - -
Used CDs for sale, prices include shipping. Paypal, check, money order. Email me at alowe@maine.rr.com her's what's left: 1) Teddy Wilson: Every Time We Say Goodbye. Musicraft. $8.00 5) Charlie Mingus: Paris 1964 Vol, 2. Dolphy, Coles, Byard. Charly issue. $8. 7) Ron McClure Trio: Richie Beirach, Adam Nussbaum: Inspiration. Ken Music. $6 9) Hampton Hawes: Live at the Montmarte. Black Lion. $8. 10) Gil Evans: Where Flamingos Fly. A&M. $6.
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I have a bit of old stock on a CD my group recorded at the Knitting Factory in 1991 - Title of CD is "New Tango '92". Has Doc on some studio cuts, Julius on the "live" cuts - $6 shipped. Contact me by email : alowe@maine.rr.com Check, paypal, money order -
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Loren Schoenberg, a friend, has led his band for some years. Bobby was a real mensch - so sorry to hear about this -