Ted O'Reilly

Cool. Will be spinning a Dave Young CD on that label with Cedar Walton a bit later. Now up:- Joe Henderson 'Mode For Joe' (BN NY USA mono) Dave did a 3-volume series of duets-with-piano for Justin Time that is very fine stuff. (Never mind that I did the liner notes for Volume 1). Over the separate discs he plays with Cedar (and has a special thing going with that great!), Oscar Peterson, Tommy Flanagan, John Hicks (underrecognized player), Mulgrew Miller, Ellis Marsalis, Cyrus Chestnut, Oliver Jones, Kenny Barron, Barry Harris and Renee Rosnes. How about that for a list of great pianists! How about that for one great bassist!

Is that the record with the good music but extremely ugly cover painting?

That's an elipsis. An homage to Sam Rivers. Yah! That's it... But, maybe more like Aposiopesis, an obscure Greek trombonist.

Yup, the jobs were 'hack', not the musicians. But you DID originally say "...they opted for being buried in the studios as session hacks." My interpretation was that you meant the musicians were hacks. "Session" as modifier for "hack" (the musician).

The White Stripes. So....what's white and red, but Black all over? (Again, I'm ignorant. Where IS the black/Black in this?)

Apology accepted. (I can never find the right smilie, or use them properly). I have only a little interest in early R&B, just what I remember from my youth, and much less in early R&R. Backing the McGuire Sisters must have been a pain, but even THEY were professional enough to get through the session in three hours. Pop (disposable) music wasn't made in the same way it is now, as I'm sure you know. Don't think though, that playing in the (soul-sucking) studios all day didn't mean they weren't out roaring in jazz clubs at night, probably moreso in NYC than LA or London. (Kenny Wheeler paid for his modest house out of studio work, not ECM recordings). I think many musicians considering the studio work their JOB, the jazz their ART. Painting walls 9-5, painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling at night. Same brush, same ability.

Okay, I had to search from A to G, but there it is: "Alfons Gaisbauer und Band". (TMK 010892). Not Austrian, but not Swiss, either. The label's TMK Musikvertrieb, Sebastianstrasse 141, D-50735 Koln. Anyone in Deutschland know Alfons Gaisbauer? CD bandmates include Felix Astor, drums; Dietmer Fuhr, bass; Michael Weiss-Wittig, piano; Klaus Osterloh/Martin Auer, trumpet; Jens Neufang, saxes; Bjoern Strangman, trombone. (All liner notes in German. I know enough German to get into trouble, not enough to get out of trouble, so I'll avoid any bad translation). I'd put this at about 10 years old, but it doesn't appear in Lord 6.0, published around 2005.

Nothing staged about THAT picture. Except maybe the half-full colon on the left side. (Who are they? )

Session Hacks?!? SESSION HACKS!?! This is from an obit of Earl Palmer (hack) today: "When you're working in the studios you're playing every genre of music," Hal Blaine, his friend and another prolific session drummer [bBS--read "hack"], said. "You might be playing classical music in the morning and hard rock in the afternoon and straight jazz at night. . . . That's where they separate the men from the boys. If you're going to be a studio musician, it's the top of the ladder." I've been in and around the jazz/music/broadcasting business for nearly 5 decades now, and I've gotta tell you, there are no finer musicians around than "studio hacks". Don't be putting down a guy just because he didn't want to spend his life on a bus doing one-nighters with Stan or Woody or Duke, or wanted to be part of his children's life. If you think half those people on the list are obscure, it's because you're ignorant of half the history of the music. Pity.

Nope, that's not it. I think this guy's usual horn is tenor sax.

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...