Ted O'Reilly

In golf, no one is trying to stop you from doing what you're trying to do...just yourself. A different kind of skill/test/competition, but not a "Sport". A game, recreation, good-walk-spoiled, but not a "Sport" unless you're Happy Gilmore.

I was in the Virgin Megastore on the Champs Elysees in Paris a couple of weeks back -- it seemed busy enough. Jazz section was extensive, and not TOO expensive, but that may be because of the relative value of the Canadian dollar. Found a few things that I bought. Also visited a little Paris shop called Croco Jazz, and one value of the megastore was appreciated: SPACE! A cramped, dusty, curiously-laid-out shelf system made the usual search less than an enjoyable adventure.

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You say that like "dirty stuff" is inherently bad.

Didn't W. Marsalis (or maybe E. Dankworth) record something on an Edison cylinder a few years back? Did anyone hear the results?

"Piqued", not peaked. (Though your curiosity may have reached a peak). First time I've probably ever written or used the word, so I'm clueless. I figured a dude watching a TV show about trucks driving over frozen lakes and oceans would get cut some slack. Obviously I was wrong. Thanks for the correction. You're welcome. Thank you for receiving the correction with the right attitude. Maybe I've read too many "Word Of The Day"-type things, or Reader's Digest vocabulary-builders. I know I can be a pest on language/spelling, but it has the same effect on me as out-of-tune singers and players...

From the website www.billieholidaysongs.com/live_songs.htm comes: Live Session #52 [radio broadcast] New York, 9/December/1956 Percy Faith And the Woolworth Orchestra Unknown Band, Billie Holiday (v) Percy Faith was a popular arranger and conductor. From 1955 to 1957 he worked as musical director for the CBS show "Woolworth Jazz Hour", where this radio broadcast took place. This is the only session she ever did with Faith. Count Basie was also in the show. (LR 176) You Better Go Now (LR 177) Them There Eyes Tracks in the box Perfect Complete Collection vol.11

"Piqued", not peaked. (Though your curiosity may have reached a peak).

Interesting....Coda, Canada's Jazz Magazine (just now celebrating its 50th anniversary) has just done the same thing in three Canadian cities: Toronto, Monteal and Vancouver. I was at the Toronto event, and it was well attended, though some Bright Lights who should have been there weren't, for one reason or another.... Seems a good thing to do/have done.

Thank you, John...I tried. It can be tough to say enough to satisfy Jazz Fan's interests, but not too much, turning off casual listeners. Also, CJRT was considered an "educational" station, so the manager had my back if people called to say all they needed to know was "That's Take Five by Brubeck" and didn't care who the alto player was. Or if it WAS an alto... (Speaking of the New Yorker's fact-checking, who is Walter Gottlieb? William's evil twin?)

I once heard that the first pianist he worked with as a pro, in San Francisco I think, was Don Ewell. Mathis' manager thought a solid accompanist would help settle down a nervous young man. Certainly adds credence to the jazz flavour... (Maybe Don himself told me? It was 40 years ago, so....)

My good friend Ted Ono, who knows as much as anyone about jazz singers, has sent me this note: "They were artificially done by adding other musical instruments in stereo (done in the late 1950s). I believe one channel had more exaggerated bass. It was done for some budget reissue LP in the early stereo era. I don't think there was a single genuine alternate take. In this 1990s Bethlehem CD series's case, it was a ploy to sell the CD, which otherwise consisted of only nine tracks." I'd take that as the final word, but as to WHO the added trumpeter is, ...???...

...and I was hoping it was Herbie Hall.

I don't have the Bethlehems, so I can't listen to them, but according to the Lord 6.0, there isn't a trumpet on those sessions at all! The alts. were in stereo, it says, (in late 1954--early stereo) and players were no different than the issued takes: Tony Scott, clt; Dick Katz, pno; Percy Heath, bass; Osie Johnson, drums. "Too Much In Love To Care" had an unidentified vibist added... The Bethlehems were the first records under her own name, though she (as Carmen Clarke, from her marriage to Kenny Clarke) was on disc with Mercer Ellington for Musicraft and appears on a 1948 broadcast with Bird (and Miles! so maybe it's him) on Mosaic MD7-129.

Allen, I hadn't noticed...is it auto-coupled, do you suppose? 1 & 4, 2 & 3...

Well, okay, but at the back, please...

What's a "rickroll"? And how could it be worse?

Despite the headline, it ISN'T a Duke Pearson record. It was recorded 4 years after he died. It's just a college band with a guest artist playing some Duke Pearson tunes. That's what it says, isn't it? Why would it have value to anyone but members of the band? Probably pressed a thousand copies, sold 165 to friends and family: it's a souvenir, a vanity record... Stamm was on the original Pearson discs on BlueNote--why not seek them out and hear the masters play, rather than get worked up about amateurs?

Right you are, John, they're available from Norris. And he has an excellent Alan Barnes (alto/bari) CD on Concord-for-Europe-Only called "Manhattan". (CCDEU-4947-2)David Newton, piano; Matt Miles, bass; Steve Brown, drums; and special guest on 6 of the 11 tracks, Conte Candoli on trumpet. It was recorded a couple of years back (April 25, 2000), but it's all new and great to me. Norris' prices are good, too, as they include shipping. Ask him for his new Newsletter -- he's got a lot of back catalogue are bargain prices. Nothing is online, sadly. I think Norris views computers much as Dracula views the dawn.

I do own that box, and have never opened it...it's still in the shrinkwrap, and it's rusting nevertheless. I have on single discs most of what I want to hear frequently, so it just sits there, patiently decaying. (But not the music!) I'm sure there are other examples of designer-gone-wild, and one would have to include a CD (now forgotten title) I once had that was in a very tiny artistic font, printed black on navy blue. Outdoors, in full sunlight at noon on June 21 it might have been possible to read it, IF you were a Philadelphia lawyer...

quote] Little Jazz Pills? I could use a vial of those!

Don't you mean 'Streetcar Named Desire' by Arthur Miller? HA HA!!! Damn! I forgot to add the "irony" smiley.....so, I end up looking like I didn't know. I should take my own advice. (Thanks for getting it, though).

Or so you'd think... How about my personal fave - Art Blakely? It's all just sloppy. In the words of Willy Loman "Attention must be paid!" (in 'Death Of A Salesman', by Tennesse Williams). I know there are bad spellers, and maybe good spelling is just a knack, but I believe you should pay special attention to names. Back when I did general reporting I had an editor who drummed it into me "Get the name right!!!". I felt foolish one time asking John Smith to spell his name for me, but he said, "Thank you for asking, no one ever does. It's J-O-N S-M-Y-T-H." Or, maybe it's because of the dozens of misspellings of my own name I've had to endure...

Minimal miking and equipment, maximum music, on the N.O. sessions, and the Evans. 47 year old recordings, but couldn't be improved upon today, I'd say. Jones achieved simplicity, as Roy DuNann did...

"Sven", not Seven. (Seven Klangs would be too noisy.)