Jazz Kat

I had no idea Ray played sax. There must of been something wrong with my disk. The second set was all fuzzy.

Bird and Dizz were definately more important to the creation of bebop. First of all, Trane wasn't with Monk that long, compared to how long Bird and Dizzy were together. But I love that Carnegie Hall concert. I think if Bird lived longer, he would of made some better quality recordings with the advance of recording technology, and I would like their stuff more than Monk and Trane's recordings.

I don't listen to that much new music anymore, and this was quite a hard question. I guess I'll say Jon Ellis, because Charlie Hunter's Friends Seen and Unseen was just extraudinary.

Didn't we have a lot of conversations about this? Anyway, I play at least a couple hours a day.

I like some of his Christmas stuff, but I have to be in the mood for his voice. I do hope he is well though.

You know that band that plays on Jazz In The Sun. BET.....

I thought it was funny that when Blakey introduced the Clifford Brown, and Lou Donaldson period, he said when they get too old, I'm gonna get me some younger ones. Then he says, I hope to work with them forever. Just puzzled me.. Anyway, any group he had with Lee Morgan was great!

just a post, i haven't sent them out yet. I'm having some problems with my burner, but I'll try to get them out very soon. Sorry for the long wait.

Maybe you guys touched on this before, but I am looking for some great classic Christmas jazz. I know about Jimmy Smith's Christmas Cookin' and Kenny Burrell's Christmas album, but are there any real good ones out there from real hard boppers in the 50's or 60's?

I like the girl with the Che Guevera shirt on.

I'm playing drums on this recording.

Just jivin'! Hope you dig it!

I hope you all love the cd! We'll probaly be going back in a couple of months, but it costs a lot for 3 kids who don't have jobs. We been selling the cd around here for 5.99. Donations are appreciated. But like i said, I want you guys to dig it!

Friday night, we just recorded our album, and we have a finish product. I love it. The track list is: 1. A night in Tunisia 2. Watermelon Man 3. Nardis 4. Well You Needn't 5. Blue Bossa 6. Deluge 7. Summertime 8. Song For My Father I would love for everybody to hear it! Can I send anybody a copy?

Great thread! Lee Morgan!

Happy birthday, even though it's late. Thanks for giving us what jazz drumming is now.

I'll give you a copy.

We got about 5 or 6 hours in the studio and about 7 songs, each about 5 minutes long at the least. Nardis is about 10.

Everything I'd rather be doing.

Man, Howwie really looks like that cop on 7th heaven....

I may have worded what Dominic Duvol has said, a little wrong. I think the big picture he was trying to tell us was that, the majority of our gigs are going to be at small bars and clubs where people just want to have a drink and relax and listen to mainstream quiet music. He stressed that it would be better if we had a chord player, to keep people's attention, because they have no idea what we're doing is actually with some intelligence.

Most of us have been playing "the basics" since we were about 11 or 12. Well I can say for myself, I rather be playing something totaly new. Anybody want a copy of the cd when it's done recording?

We were playing last night around 2 in the morning. We were running through our tunes that we're going to be recording in about a week. They are Afro Blue, Watermelon Man, Nardis, Night In Tunisia, Well You Neddn't, Blue In Green, and Deluge. We were playing and the bass player's dad, who happens to have about 100 cd's out, (he plays bass too) starts questioning us on our direction. He told us we were sounding really 'out there' and getting really progressive. He told us if we wanna get gigs, we need to play straight ahead. And if we don't, not real jazz musicians will like us. Any ideas?? We really wanna play far out there stuff, but our advice is to play more, in the box, to get more gigs.

I probaly wouldn't call this new album for Herbie, a sellout, because I like when artists do their thing no matter what other people may think. But it's ghastly. Not kicking myself about this Ellen thing.

No, I didn't see it. Not that I would have anyway. I think it's on around 10? Anyway, I'm curious to find out what tune he played. and was Christina there...?