Ted O'Reilly

If "it's all good", why am I always turning off the radio? This site is terrific! Thanks! (As a little kid, I got up about 4 words-per-minute for a Scout badge...)

The 1972 film "The Hot Rock", with Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Liebman et al. has a score by Quincy Jones, and much of it was improvised-to-the-film. In a very rare move, they were even given an on-screen individual credit: guys like Clark Terry, Frank Rosolino, Gerry Mulligan, Ray Brown, Clare Fischer, Victor Feldman, Grady Tate... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068718/ It's a delightful movie, by the way...based on a 'Dortmunder' book by Donald E. Westlake.

Geez, for clarity's sake, I DO wish you 'Murcans would adopt the spelling of "cheques"... What is he drinking? Bitter tears. Tastes like Coors Lite?

Oh, I know it happens all the time. Still silly... It's a "pig-in-a-poke" world.

But, but, but Amazon tells NOTHING about the release. NO thing. Not a THING! Just "Miles Davis Quintet Live In Europe 1967" and send us $49.86. Number of discs, from where, when, with whom and how? Nada. But pre-order now!!!

I somehow seemed to have missed this one, though some of the tracks look familiar. Might some of them have been used on compilations or sampler-type issues? Given that it's a pricey Hip-O, I might wait until it's available on a Bargain Day somewhere online...

Thanks, TJ. Don't need it, but couldn't resist the price. Even a couple of bucks cheaper in CDN dollars these days.

"Jamey Aebersold" and "Music Minus One" are not the same thing, right? The ways of producing them is likely quite different. I remember having a trumpeter's version of an MMO with Clark Terry and Bob Wilber, with the trumpet removed for students, but then buying a Classic Jazz release of the identical session with CT's horn audible.

Good catch Marcel! I must admit I just glanced at it... The credit on the page says "CP file photo" (that's Canadian Press), so the Star would disclaim it. I'd guess they're trying to get the artists together in a single shot, but ethically they should call it 'Photo Illustration' or some such. It's not quite the Newsweek cover of OJ's mug shot, but... Rather unusual for Canadian Press to run doctored images. They should have used this one instead: Brownie, that's the concert image that sticks in MY mind, and I think that's what I thought I was seeing when I looked at the paper and the posting...

I remember a concert at the Internationales Jazzfestival Bern, maybe 1989, when trumpeters appearing that year had a set of just them with a rhythm section. My memory's a little foggy, but onstage were guys like Clark Terry, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Conte Candoli, maybe Warren Vache, AND Brian Lynch, who was there with Art Blakey I think. Lynch was the least-well known, but I swear on Satchmo's grave that Brian wiped the floor with all those heavies. Played faster, slower, higher, lower, simply better than anyone else. Somewhere, there's video proof of this -- the concert was shown on Swiss TV.

I like the physical copies, too (have never done a single download). I don't understand why say, the Hackett item is shown as 5 discs...when they're all single downloadable tracks, why not just a list of 125(+-) tunes?

Good catch Marcel! I must admit I just glanced at it... The credit on the page says "CP file photo" (that's Canadian Press), so the Star would disclaim it. I'd guess they're trying to get the artists together in a single shot, but ethically they should call it 'Photo Illustration' or some such. It's not quite the Newsweek cover of OJ's mug shot, but...

A perusal of Mark Miller's deeply-reseached book "Cool Blues: Charlie Parker in Canada 1953" (Nightwood Press), covering the MH event, shows Don Brown has misremembered a couple of fine points (and that's a surprise to me: Don has prodigious recall). For the sake of complete accuracy, the suggestion that Dick Wattam didn't buy any ads for the concert is wrong — Miller even used a few in the book — and the author of the contentious review in The Globe and Mail was Alex Barris, not Robert Fulford. Still a good article, and considering the press' disinterest in jazz in jazz these days, that it's on the front page of The Star's entertainment page is good...

Organissimo member Don Brown is the authority referenced in today's Toronto Star entertainment story about "The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever"... http://www.toronto.com/article/691867--toronto-pop-chronicles-the-greatest-jazz-concert-ever Good one, Don!

Per your examples: Busk, excellent. Lasker, pretty good. I'm still trying to erase Okin (who is he anyway???) from my memory bank. The living ex-Ellingtonians (Buster Cooper and Art Baron were both past their best-before date, the music was average at best, the lecture hall poor with bad acoustics and audio... And how often can you recycle Ellington-trips-to-UK as a topic?

If you're bringing up harpsichord and celeste, you've gotta give equal time to Clavichord! Oscar Peterson recorded on one (with guitarist Joe Pass) for "Porgy And Bess" (Pablo 2310-779), on Jan. 26, 1976. And it's better than you might think...

I think I'll wait to see what The Word is from Ellington-mavens on this. I was at the last one in London, and was quite disappointed.

Maybe "massive" refers to the box, 'cause 7 CDs does seem lean...

Sometimes all in the same day. Who could forget

The Man In The Raincoat?!? A big-time Canadian hit, it was, it was... (Starts about 1:12 in). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Wright_(composer) ...Gee, even found that original 78: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alyK8SgUTCc&feature=related

The topic heading is wrong. What this is, is simply a list. "Lineage" means lineal descent from an ancestor, in the sense of ancestry or pedigree. I thought this would be a description of the sequential/progressive (regressive?) ownership of the label.

Yes, I was.

This was my first Mulligan album. I found it for $1.99 when the record companies were getting rid of all their mono records in favor of compatible stereo. I haven't heard it in a few years, but it's a good one! It is, indeed!

Jazz fans in Canada were surprised by the sudden death of one of the really Good Guys in jazz, and a long-time close friend of mine... The Hamilton Spectator had a good item about his death: http://www.thespec.com/living/article/547569--mohawk-jazz-icon-dies

"Small-Scale Lindbergh" led me to think of someone of small stature. Mr. Hill was, rather, a giant in his field. Very interesting...