Michael Weiss

Mostly dealing with teaching and learning, but spot on! Watch from beginning to end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQrvQIUNe8E

Can always use more info on Oscar Dennard.

Around 1976-78 I heard Clifford Jordan's group at the New Foxhole Cafe in Philly. He had Wilbur Ware and Wilbur Campbell. At some point during the evening Babs came in. He was hawking his books and pamphlets. I vaguely recall him sitting in on Round Midnight. He was intense,

I had the opportunity to play under the baton of GS for several years in the 1990s - in the Mingus Epitaph Orchestra and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Notwithstanding all respects and courtesies due, etc...., there were any number of trying, one could say incredulous, sometimes pathetically hilarious moments. It was instructive to witness how many of the elder statesmen just rolled with it seemingly unperturbed - Eddie Bert, Britt Woodman, Joe Wilder, Buster Cooper, George Adams, Joe Temperley, Don Butterfield... But just one case in point: In one of the Epitaph movements, my part began with five bars of rests per stave all the way down the page. In the first rehearsal I'm counting my ass off making sure I don't get lost. As I'm counting I'm listening to the orchestra expecting to hear something having to do with five bar phrases. All kinds of polyphony going on. After a while without success I give up counting altogether and just listen. Sure as shit it's just a goddamn twelve bar blues!

Unfortunately I didn't get to NYC in time to have had the opportunity to meet or play with Blue.

Interesting to hear Blue (with Clifford Solomon and Victor Gaskin) work in this context. Live in Gothenburg 1972

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=174741677

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/magazine/sax-and-sky.html

4/3/15 Evans of jazz (3 letters). Also in the same puzzle: Lauper of pop and Songwriter with the 1941 autobiography, "Father of the Blues" This constructor has wide musical taste!

This is fascinating. But their voice is not that low. Lady Day asked for Ab, but the pitch on here is G - a half step flat.

http://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2015/03/24/boston-justice-and-all-that-jazz/

So I guess what you're saying is you liked it.

http://www.nytimes.com/svc/crosswords/v2/puzzle/print/Mar0115.pdf

It was mostly Broadway and studio musicians who had answering services, such as Radio Registry.

Here are a few I saved over the years

I played Trane's Countdown solo on recorder for my secondary instrument jury in college. I would never consider making anyone else have to hear it! But then again, a soprano recorder is shrill as a motherfucker.

Roy Haynes and Ahmed Abdul-Malik

Many thanks.

VILLAGE VANGUARD JULY 9-14, 1991 Artwork: Morgan Harris For many years Morgan designed the posters encased in front of the Vanguard.

Johnny O'Neal

Thanks Guy and other guys.

It looks like it was the right decision to cancel. Hopefully we'll be back in 2015-2016.

UNH has just cancelled our concert due to weather. I would have thought a foot of snow is no big deal up there.

That won't be an issue, but thanks for the warning.

The more you know, the more you know what you don't know.