Ted O'Reilly

Somewhere on my shelves, among the 3,000 or so alphabetically-filed jazz CDs, is a pretty good jazz alphorn record but damned if I can remember the guys name! He's Austrian, rather than Swiss, and it's a bit of a bogus alphorn, because he's added keys, giving it more notes than the seven of the natural horn. Sounds like a combination of a french horn and trombone. Can anyone jog my memory as to who it is?

If that means all the stuff that appears all the time under certain posters' entries (such as Jazzmoose doesn't have a personal statement currently) me too. Whadda waste of bytes...

I wish Dave James had never thought to add "up over and out" on each of his postings...

Spam.

Which Buddy Collette bio is that? Details, please. Isoardi Book Just happened to be reasing it the other day and read the section on Jackson. Thanks, Sidewinder. I think I'll be able to come up with that one...

Three summer session in NYC (with two different bassists) produced two Columbia LPs. "The Calvin Jackson Quartet" Columbia LP 756, and "Rave Notice" Columbia LP 824 In 1953 and 1954 pretty much the same quartet did sessions for Victor (four studio sides) and Vik (a live album). This was a very popular and successful group -- Jackson died in late 1985, Appleyard remains an in-demand artist today.

I wonder, how did you get it? Is it an air check from Toronto?, in which case it's 55 minutes or so, max...because I never made a copy for anyone but the Kiener family, and there's about 90 minutes that I taped...

Pat, and fellow tenorman Kirk MacDonald will be doing their annual tribute to John Coltrane at The Rex Hotel in Toronto next week, Thursday the 25th through Saturday the 27th of September. (Just after what would be Trane's 82nd b'day, on the 23rd.) I don't know of any tenor man other than Pat who worked regularly with two of jazz' greatest drummers, Buddy Rich and Elvin Jones....

Barry was a really fine jazz pianist, and I had the opportunity to record him solo at Cafe des Copains in Toronto... Apparently there weren't too many digital recordings of his solo playing, and his family asked for a copy after he died. I don't know if their intention was to release it, but he was a fine player, who did himself wrong. I have a cassette copy that I pop in the player every now and then...

Which Buddy Collette bio is that? Details, please.

flat5, "Lotus Land" was on the Columbia LP 'The Calvin Jackson Quartet' (CL 756, recorded in NYC June 27, 1955 -- never on CD) with Jackson, piano; Peter Appleyard, vibes; Johnny Stapleton, bass; Howie Reay, drums. It was a popular Toronto band of the day... The current issue of "coda" jazz magazine has an excellent feature article on Calvin Jackson. http://www.coda1958.com/

I DO know what you mean. We have the same situation in Toronto, where a certain 'public'station is all about itself, not the music and community it's supposed to represent...

Amazingly good recording quality. I'd never heard of Martha Copeland before -- she seems typical of the time... Thanks for the link. I'll have to spend some internet time with WFMU -- looks like they have some interesting shows.

I liked the Jazz Couriers things with Tubby Hayes/Ronnie Scott. The best British jazzers, together, I thought. Preferring Hayes a bit more...

I vote for Al Cohn as the tenor player. (Too bad they only show his hands during the solo). As I recall, Scott was married to the featured singer Dorothy Collins at the time. Took home two healthy paychecks from that show...

I am completely ingnorant of pop music after, say, the Everly Brothers and early, early Elvis. But that's because as a teenager, I really got into jazz of all eras. Until this forum, I had never heard of "Something In The Air", but I knew that the RAF Dance Orchestra No. ! (aka The Squadronaires) had a theme song called "There's Something In The Air". (See hep CD 44, track 14) Given the confessional attitude here, is that worse, or better? (I once dated Neil Young's cousin Stephanie, who really COULD sing...)

Hmmm...I wonder if that was Dick Hyman's organ. (So to speak). He was around then, playing lots of live shows. And don't forget -- that was all live, commercials, too...

What a rip-off this topic is! Absolutely no references to Sarah Palin, as I expected.

Mallards, on the other hand, not so nice...

But did he soften your laundry?

Seventy-eight? Naw, maybe forty-five, or thirty-three and a third.... Happy Birthday, Sonny!

Consumer Reports. The last unbiased magazine.

Sorry, but I had no idea that you were joking -- my fault. The problem is, there are people out there who believe (or want to believe) that that squeak can/SHOULD be "oiled", rather than accepted as the artists did at the time. Personally, I think that modern (and amazing) recording techniques have replaced ability. The jazz thought that "there are no wrong notes" if the artist can resolve ("fix"?) it as he plays is not accepted any longer. As a result, sterile, perfect recordings dominate. I think that something like "Cottontail" as an example would never, COULD never happen today....two or three microphones picking up the self-balanced sound of 15 musicians for a perfect performance? Uh-uh. Likely, a 'producer' would demand changes...

Sorry, what was a joke? That they've taken the squeak out? I'm sure someone has tried to, and I'm further sure that a lot of people who know nothing about recording think it's possible (whether it's the pedal or the throne). I've heard the same thing coming out of piano pedals, too. (It's a good reason for every engineer to carry some Three-In-One or WD40 along with the mics...) I guess the squeak never bothered me enough to notice it on Candy. I'd think it would be easy enough to determine whether it's a pedal or throne by the regularity of the noise. On a similar note, I know someone who hates Ben Webster because they can hear his breath through the horn. I think it's an essential part of his compelling sound...

If they have, they've taken something else out with it. It's impossible (unless there was a mic/track devoted to the foot pedal ONLY which can be dumped) to filter it out with some other sound being effected.