Michael Weiss

Correct on the Way You Look Tonight. I have no idea what band that is playing Quietude. They sound very good.

#1 Claudio Roditti playing Lee Morgan's Free Wheelin' from Mode For Joe. #2 Thad's Quietude. Nice to hear rhythm guitar, but I have to pass on his solo his solo. #3 Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse Allstars, with Conte and Lee Morgan. #7 Don Fagerquist, arr. by Marty Paich? #8 "Claude Reigns" by Manny Albam for Charlie Barnet's band. This is a faster version than the studio recording. What a trumpet section! #12 Med Flory Orchestra - Jazz Wave? Guessing here - don't have the album. Richie Kamuca, yes? #13 Relaxin' at Camarillo played by Howard Roberts: Good Pickins with Bill Holman on tenor.

A little late to the party... Can I still get a link? This sounds like my kind of BFT

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Listen to Kenny Drew with Bird.

My apartment (10th floor) was swaying big time. I busted my ass down the stairwell to the street. It's amazing there's apparently no damage. I'm the one that's still shaking.

Spoken with the palate of a pro. Maybe it's time for a wine column for the Freep?

Whatcha drinking tonight?

Would like to see more details i.e. track listings.

What on earth would give you that idea?

For what it's worth (a lot to me anyway), found this in a box today:

That shot was altered to remove the beam structure of the studio - see the pic in Ubu's post. Here's a 2nd shot of that band: Alas, if only Rudy would still record like this. All grouped together in the room with no headphones, no baffles, no drum booth....

Great show. Thanks for posting. Ray sounds great. What a gentleman he was. This was the rhythm section I most often worked with in the Junior Cook/Bill Hardman quintet so it's nice to see and hear them in an earlier time.

Margaret Johnson was a Kansas City pianist who was a close friend of Lester Young. She was leading her own band when she was 15. She also replaced Count Basie when he went to Chicago, also Mary Lou Williams when she was away from Andy Kirk's orchestra. Margaret Johnson died in 1939 at age 20. According to Gene Ramey, she played like Bud Powell back in 1936! No - I'm talking about the blond woman in the video who seemed to have befriended Bud in France.

There are several goodies! At the book party at Hermes in NYC Nica's original photos - old polaroids - (uncropped) were on display as well as several others that didn't make it into the book. I've seen Nica's telephone/address book. Pretty amazing....

Thanks for the notice! Some additional footage from the Montmartre I hadn't seen. Nice to see Rene Urtreger. Wonder why Pierre Michelot wasn't interviewed. Would have been considerably more valuable than LdW. Despite a few mistitled tunes and the slightly out of sync video, a worthwhile addition to Bud on video. Who was Margaret Johnson?

The exclamations may not be encouraging but for hilarious studio dialogue nothing beats this classic:

(sounding like a broken record) Another year without Lou Donaldson.

Is track #4 from here? New York Jazz Sextet (Scepter LP 526) Art Farmer (tp) Tom McIntosh (tb) James Moody (ts, fl) Tommy Flanagan (p) Richard Davis (b) Albert Heath (d)NYC, December 27, 1965, January 17, 1966

Barry lives in Weehawken in Nica's house and Kenny Barron lives in Brooklyn.

David Wong

Thanks for the tip Michael. Can you recommend specific CDs? The Alexandrov, Obouhov and Feinberg preludes can be heard here The Feinberg Sonatas can be heard here and here The Szymanowski Mazurkas here The Szymanowski Masques, Metopes and 3rd Sonata here

If you like Scriabin then you should check out his disciples - Feinberg, Roslavets, Obouhov and Szymanowski!

Jimmy is playing his ass off today and you should hear him when you're in NYC.