Michael Weiss

Thanks Pete.

Dex - keeping his ear on the Bachrach songbook! What a place to slip in that quote! So unexpected. If someone would be so kind as to embed the youtube here that would be great. I couldn't figure out how to do it.

Top of his second chorus.

Couldn't say I'm an expert on his whole output but I always loved his inspired work on the Thad Jones Mel Lewis date.

My only experience thus far playing with Alvin was on the Griffin/Grossman recording, which I recall describing in another post. Suffice to say Alvin's quite a character and was a lot of fun to play with. He and Johnny were pretty close. Yes - Geneva.

Neither did Buddy. I think not reading music only strengthens the ear and all the instincts associated with making music. I played with Steve Lacy in 1981, playing among other things, his written music.

Picked up my copy a few days ago at a great store in Barcelona, Jazz Messengers. Can't wait to hear it.

Thanks for posting. Lots of goodies there.

Sure would have liked to hear the rest of that! I've been playing this tune for years. One of my favorites. I first learned it from a live KD broadcast from the Half Note - a feature for Sonny Red. Great tune. Never got to hear Teri Thornton's version.

In 1995 I toured with the Jazztet in Europe with our first concert at the Vienna Volkstheater. It was, I believe, Curtis' first return to the stage after his lung operation. We followed George Shearing's trio. - a great treat.

Which sister? The one I knew, Elaine Dundy, died a few years ago. Betty Lorwin

At a stoop sale yesterday for $1! Just about in front of Ronnie Mathew's old house.

New print available. Interesting article about the new Shirley Clarke Project in the NY Times today. Coincidentally her sister lives in our building.

What about Steven Mackey?

You can do that, or if you aspire to be a professional musician, the recommended course of action is to develop your ear and transcribe it off the record yourself.

I have a tape of another gig from the same club in Newark, two weeks earlier: Horace Silver and Lou Donaldson in a quartet with the same bassist Jimmy Schenk and Lloyd Turner on drums.

Herbie sure knows, among lots of things, how to put those bass trombones to work.

I played there with Johnny Griffin in 1985. I remember a nice vibe in the club. People were there to listen.

Au Privave

My enlightened response is to listen to every version Ellington recorded, live and studio, and painstakingly isolate every second bar of every A section, in-head and out-head, playing each one over and over while seated at your piano, picking out every note of the sonority that you can hear. After thirty hours or so of this you will either find your answer or the closest thing to it. Have fun!

Glad you enjoyed the CrissCross date. Unless other inquiring minds really want to know the changes to Riverbed, I'll send by email.

I have several of Wayne's lead sheets and I also saw Wayne's lead sheets (Dolores, Pinocchio, Guinneviere, ESP, Capricorn) at the Miles exhibit. With all this existing evidence, there's no question in my mind that Miles made several "modifications" - usually form related - to many (certainly not all) of Wayne's tunes for HIS band. I'm not passing judgement; they obviously had a fruitful relationship. And obviously a collaborative one when it came to Wayne's tunes. Just compare Wayne's own recorded versions of his tunes with Miles'.

Wayne's tunes, more often than not, turned into something entirely different after Miles got his hands on them.

Did you mean Ben Dixon?

I wish I could listen back to the two weeks I played in 1987 with Joe Henderson and Johnny Griffin on the front line. I wish someone would put these out: John Coltrane Band Lee Morgan (tp) John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter (ts) unknown night club, NJ, August or September, 1959 Giant Steps Naima A Night In Tunisia unknown title John Coltrane Band Freddie Hubbard (tp) John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter (ts) Tommy Flanagan, Cedar Walton (p) Ahmed Abdul-Malik, George Tucker (b) Elvin Jones (d) "Birdland", NYC, September, 1959 Moment's Notice Giant Steps Naima unknown title