Ted O'Reilly

Maybe copyrights, too. I started to wonder about all this years ago, when the TV ads started calling Preparation H "Prep H"... C'mon, how close do you need to be to over-the-counter (OTC!!!) hemorrhoid medications that you can shorten their names...they must not be working if you have a nickname for 'em.

I did indeed see/hear the under-recognized Joey with the John MacLeod Rex Hotel Jazz Orchestra, a worthy successor to Rob McConnell's Boss Brass, in which Joey's role is not unlike Ed Bickert's...strong solos, sensitive comping for others' solos and be a sparkplug. The nods from the other band members to Goldstein may be enough for his ego, but I still wish that the listeners would recognize his contributions, though he's one of 20 in the band.... Is it really too much to type out "Or Something Like That"? Whut-the-hell-ever-happened-to-read-and-understand-NOW? Is it really creative if no one understands you?

Hmmm....what means "OSLT"? Please reply ASAP of at least PDQ, SVP.

Yes -- I think I read that in the Mosaic Bill Barron notes.

Yes, he did. Wrote the liner notes, too. I have them on a fine 2-CD release from FNAC Music in France, released in 1992.

In Copenhagen...a modest gravestone.

And that's 22:30 for side A, 21:40 for side B. Or else!

The basement was in the Town Inn at Church and Charles. Sonny Rollins played at that event... Yup to the El Mocambo too. And the Pullen recording was at Thunder Sound on Davenport Road, just west of Yonge Street. We've spend some times together, Joe. Too bad a coffee meet-up didn't happen, but let's try again next time you're in town.

So, no 16-inch TT then... (Great gift, though. Congratulate the kids on the authenticity.)

...on the pool table to the left: mats for 16 inch transcription-size turntables?

Interesting: Cavallaro did the piano work for the soundtrack of The Eddie Duchin Story, so there's a conflation of sorts there. (Kim Novak was lovely, though...) Jack Teagarden's on there, too. A stellar cast of soloists that never really gels into a band, so it's a bit disappointing as a session. (It's also on the Fresh Sound 11 CD set of The Keynote Jazz Collection 1941 -1947, one of the best reissues of the past decade.)

How about Liberace then?

I've been aware of Herman Chittison since I was a kid in the late 1940s. As among the last of the Radio Generation (we didn't get TV in our house until about 1954, radio was really important for my entertainment (still is, really), and a favourite show was "Casey Crime Photographer". Casey was a newspaper photographer who would solve a crime, then head off to his favourite bar for a nightcap. Herman Chittison -- as himself -- was the bar's resident entertainer and would be featured, if briefly, on pretty much every show. As a result, Chittison might have been the first named person that came into my 6-to-7 year old mind as someone who was a musician! I think I started out pretty well: it could have been Eddie Duchin! It just came to me that the bar where Chittison played was the Blue Note Cafe, so I guess that's how *blue note* came into my consciousness too, long before I would have heard of the label...

2013 vintage...

I see the Forum has an interesting number of members: 7,777 Total Members

One of the best versions of "Body And Soul", especially for Paul Gonsalves tenor. But for some reason, today it was all about Jim Hall's guitar solo...

Brad, I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's typical of the kind of research and inside-knowledge that Steve Wallace brings to all of his writing. He's a hell of a bassist, too!

The fine jazz bassist and blogger Steve Wallace wrote a wonderful piece about Patti a year ago... It should tell you pretty much everything you'd like to know. http://wallacebass.com/patti-bown-overcoming-in-triplicate/

I was at the Kursaal in Bern for about 15 years' worth of these concerts. There'll be some great performances in that box! Different networks of the Swiss system carried different shows, as I recall...some in German, Italian, etc... There have been a bunch show up on Youtube over the years.

Is he any relation to Mariano Rivera who used to pitch for the Yankees?

Ed made TWO recordings with Ed, and I produced the first one. (I think you only know of the Concord release.) I don't think either man thinks it was a mistake, and I'd like to know why you think that's so. They're different, not better/worse, nor does either see the other as a competitor. It's certainly true that Lorne adores Ed, but come on...it ain't a challenge. Ed's a master, so's Lorne, and if you don't think so, you've not paid close enough attention.

The Naxos "Jam-a-Ditty" (Naxos Jazz Legends 8.120813) is the best-sounding issue of the Ellington Musicrafts I've ever heard. And I'm not saying that because my friend David Lennick did them. There are half a dozen Capitol transcriptions from June 9 1947 rounding out the CD. Musicrafts were pressed on licorice from the sound of the 78s I've heard. (The Naxos issue is not, or no-longer, available in the U.S.A. I understand.)

"Bated" breath, surely... I've not talked to Ed since then, so... I think that string gauges may be Ed's secret weapon, so he may not pass it along. One of his 'musical sons' in Toronto, the excellent Reg Schwager once said something like (I'm sure I'm paraphrasing) "I just buy a set...Ed sure doesn't..."