Michael Weiss

Airlines, banks, credit card companies, utility companies.... I've had a few pleasant surprises, but most of the time it's pretty bad, especially when you're stuck on hold for who knows how long and are forced to listen to the most inane, repetitive, awful crap. Post your "on hold" nightmares here. I'll start: IBERIAN AIRLINES

Trumpets -- Nat Pavone, Richard Williams Tenor Saxophone -- George Coleman Trombone -- Benjamin Jacobs-El Trombone, Arranged By -- Slide Hampton Baritone Saxophone -- Jay Cameron Double Bass -- Butch Warren Drums -- Vinnie Ruggiero Part I 1. Ow! 2. I Remember Clifford 3. Exodus 4. Mack The Knife Part II 1. Sister Salvation 2. Fump 3. Round Midnight 4. Summertime 5. Milestones

Thanks everyone.

I think #14 is "Cabaret." This type of number commonly referred to as a "flag waver."

They never gave Johnny Griffin one. He was a US citizen but he lived in Europe since 1963 - maybe that was the factor.

Still hitting' with that ferocious intensity. Tonight Cobb kept the pots on on at least three fast tempos in the one set - Del Sasser, Lazybird, and something else. Are Cobb, Roy Haynes and (semi-retired) Al Harewood the oldest active jazz drummers of all time?

I remember hearing about that club, La Bastille. I was lucky to hear Duke that summer 1973 at Interlochen Music Camp. But I missed Ella with Tommy Flanagan at the Dallas Fairmont, not to mention any number of headliners at the Lark Club before my time like Lou Donaldson and Sonny Stitt.

At the Met: Balthus, Cats and Girls This piece was amazing: William Kentridge's five-channel video installation The Refusal of Time (2012), a thirty-minute meditation on time and space, the complex legacies of colonialism and industry, and the artist's own intellectual life.

I was at that concert.

The drummer (except for one cut) on Wayne Shorter's High Life.

I got a little bit of a head start so I'll chime in to get things rolling. It ain't much, but from a quick listen through: 1). Sounds like Walter Davis, Jr. I know I've heard this tune before but don't remember the name of it. Is that also a young Kenny Washington? 3). The first tenor solo sounds like Frank Wess. Can't ID anyone else. 4). I have no idea who this is. I like the composition, not the bass solo. Wish the pianist played a little more. 7). Jacquet playing Body and Soul on bassoon. 8). Sounds Keith Jarrett-ish. Is that him? Sorry, that's all I got.

Broadcast on CBS now. Bill O'Reilly? WTF?

A very serious, no-nonsense uncompromising musician, held in unquestionable high esteem by the entire NY jazz community. Dwayne had overcome yet continued to battle serious health issues for several years. I don't know the circumstances surrounding his death, but had just seen him perform with Peter Bernstein last Thursday. He was only 43. I had the pleasure of working with Dwayne on several occasions over the past twenty years. RIP

Check out Yusef on 'Teef from Sonny Red's Breezing on Jazzland. The whole solo is here: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Sonny_Red_Breezing_A_Story_Tale_The_Mode_Images?id=Bnr4pvbpi7q5n3qshtwte6v3uq4&hl=en

Mark Stryker's obit

Mark Stryker.

Stefano Doglioni doesn't play like Eric Dolphy but he plays the shit out of the bass clarinet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhjBa5qsaAM

You need to post your source.

This quote (in the NYTimes obit) speaks volumes: “I have never thought of music as a challenge"

Bon Anniversaire!

Couldn't find previous posts about this, but stumbled across it on youtube. Very poignant. http://youtu.be/c8blCAKyFD8

In 1973 (age 15) on advice from my high school music teacher: Horace Silver/Blowing the Blues Away. Followed by Four and More and a Coltrane double-LP reissue The Atlantic Years. Over the next couple of years: Return to Forever: Light as a Feather, Hymn to the Seventh Galaxy Billy Cobham: Spectrum, Crosswinds Mahavishnu: Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire Herbie Hancock: Headhunters, Thrust Weather Report: Mysterious Traveler Sun Ra: Jazz in Silhouette Thad Jones/Mel Lewis: With Joe Williams, Central Park North, Consummation, New Life Trane: Ascension McCoy: Sama Layuca, Trident, Echoes of a Friend Miles: Jack Johnson Elvin: Genesis Freddie Hubbard: Straight Life Joe Farrell: Moon Germs Ahmad Jamal: Impulse Years reissue

9/28/13 "Dat_____" (classic jazz song)

Barcelona: - The Sagrada Familia is awe inspiring. You must buy tickets in advance to reserve a time slot, but you can stay as long as you like. Well worth it. - La Boqueria (the market) is a top destination, just off the Ramblas. There are many delicious food stalls. The seafood one in the back (#220), "Bar Boqueria" is killin'.