Michael Weiss

1991 Birdland, NYC The Song is You Countdown

That's got to be John Guerin on drums on the funk tracks.

Be sure to stop by and say hello Justin.

Opening tune, opening night stream from Smoke: https://www.facebook.com/smokejazznyc/videos/145121881922133

We had a good week last week at Smoke. https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/357142721_10159895642357371_3648061111507355283_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=103&cb=99be929b-59f725be&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=ou_4Z3yye90AX_m76jJ&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=00_AfBwntr7veTM77bN56GuaQMZcAWlhq0DC10MGPC0MWuoTg&oe=64AB0841

The bassist Gerald Cannon is quite prolific. https://www.cannonmusicnart.com/gbasscleffgmailcom

When I recorded N.Y. Cats (SteepleChase) with Ronnie he was cranky at the rehearsal or session, don't remember which. But it was a momentary snit fit and he was cool after that. Don't even remember what got under his skin. Passionate guy, that's all. On the Mingus Epitaph tour Ronnie and George Adams were two of the chillest in the band.

Jimmy told me that he and Trane would assign themselves particular Bird solos to transcribe and share with each other.

I'll be working with George, Russell Malone, Willie Jones and Vince Dupont at Smoke, June 29-July 2.

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