Michael Weiss

Do you remember what he said? IIRC it was pretty callous.

Thanks for the well-wishes Valerie. I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of enthusiasm Berklee students have for this music.

I'd be happy to come down to FSU.

On Monday I'll be presenting a masterclass at Berklee on Wayne Shorter's compositions from "High Life." It's free and open to the public. Details here.

At the Angry Squire gig he could barely get enough air into the horn to play it. Of course there was a piano player. I think it might have been Duke Jordan. I don't think Hank played any original tunes. I believe it was Lodi Carr's gig.

Surprised there hasn't been more discussion about this book here. A definite "must have." Today's NYTimes did a big piece on it. There will be a photo exhibit at the Gallery at Hermes on Madison Ave. beginning October 30.

Miles at Paul's Mall, Boston, August 1974.

I bought a mint copy of that LP, still in its shrinkwrap, for 20 cents last week, at the Music Exchange liquidation sale in Kansas City. It was in a box with showtunes and Christmas records--such is the nature of this liquidation sale. I'll give you a quarter for it.

I found Chris Albertson in my filing cabinet.

Sorry about that. I moved the photos around in photobucket.com and it messed with the links.

Some more... Kenny Washington Lou Donaldson Lou playing Thanks For the Memories Michael Weiss MichaelWeiss/EricAlexander/JohnWebberKennyWashington CedarWalton/FrankWess/JimmyHeath/RayDrummond/BenRiley

Photos I received from Fuji Fujioka Ben Riley Cedar Walton Michael Weiss/Eric Alexander Gloria Ware (Mrs. Wilbur Ware) Jimmy Heath with Ronnie Mathew's daughter, Salima Ira Gitler

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/...-from-coltrane/

94 here.

At least as strange as Milton Berle introducing Ornette Coleman on Saturday Night Live. Remember that?

Given all that the Masterlink can do, I'm sure it's worth the $$. I was just looking for an inexpensive way to get my aging reel-to-reels and cassettes to disc and replace my dead Adcom CD player simultaneously. I went ahead with the Teac. Just hope it lasts at least as long as the Adcom did.

I'm very happy for you and your machine which costs four times the one I'm looking at.

I don't imagine anyone else here is just arriving at this situation in late 2008, but.... Anyone familiar with the Teac CD-RW880? It's only $200. As an alternative, I'd get a USB Audio Input Interface from AltoEdge (for Mac) but my CD player is shot so I need a new one anyway. Got lots of reel to reels and cassettes to convert. Thanks for any input.

CELEBRATING JOHNNY GRIFFIN A TRIBUTE IN WORDS AND MUSIC Reminiscences from fellow musicians, family and friends Johnny Griffin's compositions performed by Johnny's longtime rhythm section (Michael Weiss, John Webber and Kenny Washington) with Eric Alexander. Additional performances by Jimmy Heath, Cedar Walton, Ray Drummond and Ben Riley. SEPTEMBER 14, 2008 7 p.m. St. Peter's Church 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street New York, NY

Just saw Ocean's Eleven on TV last night. Who's playing in Red Norvo's band? Looked a little like Al Cohn, (Jerry Dodgion??) playing alto. Jimmy Wyble on guitar.

One of my alltime favorite BNs.

A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY GRIFFIN IN WORDS AND MUSIC Reminiscences from fellow musicians, family and friends Compositions of Johnny Griffin performed by Johnny's longtime rhythm section, Michael Weiss, John Webber and Kenny Washington SEPTEMBER 14, 2008 7 p.m. St. Peters Church 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street New York, NY

Just realized I've performed with everyone in that picture so I better recognize them.

Left to right: Ronnie Mathews, Curtis Fuller, Woody Shaw, Stafford James (seated), Eddie Harris, Tony Reedus

I'm playing with Frank for Jazzmobile on Wednesday. I'll see if we can play "the Midgets."