Michael Weiss

That's likely. You could go to Skyline from anywhere in the city - either half the day or full time.

Didn't know about that. Having gone to Skyline 1973-1976 I never heard his name mentioned there. However I came across this: "In the late 1940s he moved back to Texas and taught school in Wichita Falls until 1955, when he settled in Dallas. There he held a teaching position at Oliver Wendell Holmes High School until his retirement in 1976. Hardee gave his last performance at the Nice Jazz Festival in France in 1975. He died in Dallas on May 18, 1984."

Great to see you Kevin. Thanks for braving the frigid weather. Glad you enjoyed the music.

Thanks!

Martin Milgrim posts here as MartyJazz

Martin Milgrim can do it. He has no formal musical training, never played an instrument but identified every tune I soloed over, - standards, bebop tunes, didn't matter.

January 24-28: Frank Wess Octet Tribute Band @Birdland, NYC with Rufus Reid, Dennis Mackrel, Steve Davis, Scott Robinson, Bill Easley, Mike Rodriguez February 3: Michael Weiss Quartet @Side Door, Old Lyme, CT with Eric Alexander, Vince Dupont, Pete Van Nostrand February 4: Michael Weiss Trio @Scullers, Boston, MA with Vince Dupont, Pete Van Nostrand February 5: Michael Weiss Trio @Django, NYC with Clovis Nicholas, Pete Van Nostrand

That’s my phone’s ringtone.

Thanks Gheorghe. That melody Lou plays at the end is not Wee. It's something else.

Spoke to Lou yesterday. He sounded good. He's coming up to NYC on Monday for a birthday event at Dizzy's. A cassette I was just listening to had something left at the end of the tape that must have been recorded over earlier. I recognized it as a gig in NJ from 1986 of Lou, Al Harewood and myself. Just a snippet, but a moment preserved... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL6ZC0TxGHw

https://youtu.be/AiOZkqbE78o Uploaded from a cassette I've had since the mid 1980s. FWIW Doesn't sound anything like Hank Mobley. More corroboration on Robin Kelly's date of June 10, 1955: https://ctva.biz/US/TalkShow/TonightShow_1954-55_SteveAllen_s1.htm

Lou Donaldson played an unaccompanied "Thanks For the Memory" at Johnny Griffin's memorial. Carol Sloane singing "Isn't It a Pity" accompanied by Roland Hanna at Tommy Flanagan's memorial. I played at a lot of memorial services but a couple stand out: playing "Easy to Remember" with Joe Wilder, Buster Williams, and Tootie Heath at Percy Heath's memorial at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, and playing "Saturn" at John Gilmore's.

[conjuring up Herman Foster's voice] "Allright!"

https://www.thesnaponline.com/2022/10/14/this-is-the-greatest-day-section-of-highway-740-renamed-after-badin-native-jazz-legend-lou-donaldson/?fbclid=IwAR1j0wU11wrdLspFmQP50S6f7Dt30PiDITiG0ZFyvXpVhbsN-6zr1FHoMCk

Thanks. Vancouver musicians Cory Weeds, John Lee and Jesse Cahill (Matt Jorgenson for US dates). My compositions and a few arrangements of standards.

November 16 SEATTLE – Vermillion Art Gallery/Seattle Jazz Fellowship November 17 PORTLAND – The 1905 November 18 VANCOUVER – Frankie's Jazz Club November 19 VANCOUVER – Frankie's Jazz Club November 20 WHITEHORSE – Yukon Arts Center November 21 POWELL RIVER – Wildwood Public House November 22 VANCOUVER – Capilano University (master class) November 23 BELLINGHAM – Firehouse Arts and Events Center November 24 SALT SPRING ISLAND – ArtSpring November 25 NANAIMO – Wellington Secondary School November 25 NANAIMO – Simonholt (matinee) November 26 VICTORIA – Hermann's November 27 VANCOUVER – (private house concert)

Great to see you Peter. The Rochester club I played with Griff was called Calabash.

Can't wait to hear it nonetheless.

September 17, 7:30p Ravenscroft Hall, Scottsdale Lewis Nash and Friends with Ralph Moore, Steve Nelson, Michael Weiss, Nat Reeves September 18, 7:30p The Century Room, Tucson Michael Weiss Trio with Scott Black, Arthur Vint

Finally! That's tremendous news. I've had the audio since the mid eighties and love hearing Hank stretch out. Can't wait to see this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIIbCX1gAno

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Some workshops added for next week-- Michael Weiss Trio February 8. 2022: Parker Jazz Club, Austin, 8:00-9:30 February 10, 2022: Scat Jazz Lounge, Fort Worth 8:00-10:30 February 11, 2022: Kitchen Cafe, Dallas, 7:30-10:30 February 12, 2022: Mesquite Arts Center, Mesquite. 7:00-8:30 Workshops/Master Classes February 9, 2022: Monks Jazz Club, Austin 12:00-1:30 February 9, 2022: Huston-Tillotson University 2:00-5:00 February 13, 2022: Carroll Senior High School, Southlake 12:00-4:00 February 14, 2022: Texas Christian University, Fort Worth 12:00-2:00 Hope to see some of you area Organnisimists, with masks on. It's going to be a microscopic minefield.

John Ogdon was teaching at IU when I was there. Real character. Jim Beard studied with him. I like to play the first page of the Dutilleux sonata but I'm done after that. Thanks for hipping me to the Dukas sonata.

Heard him with Miles in 1974. Was amazed (as a sixteen year old) at the telepathy going on, how he had his eyes closed when Miles was flashing his hand signals like a catcher to pitcher. He came out a few times to gigs I played with Jimmy. In 1994 we recorded soundtrack to an episode of the cop show NY Undercover, Mtume was producing. A good experience to have. Of course we did Gingerbread Boy. What Jim said...