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  1. Does Wayne Shorter play on all of Man-Child, or just one track?
  2. Noal Cohen has updated his discography with new info regarding this session, much of which was helpfully provided by Joe Harley: Tina Brooks Discography - Noal Cohen's Jazz History Website The three new tracks with Tina are great! Note that, curiously, the 6 extra songs differ from the info that was shared in the very first post in this thread. In the spirit of revisiting dates with Tina Brooks, it seems there could be extra material to be considered for the following sessions (Tina may not be on all tracks): The Sermon 2/25/58 (3 songs) Cool Blues 4/7/58 (7 songs) Back To The Tracks 10/20/60 (1 song) Could there be enough for a Jimmy Smith/Tina Brooks out-takes CD? Will purists accuse Blue Note of scraping the bottom of the barrel? The three new tracks with Tina are great, just got my mind blown by his solo on Hackensack/Lady Be Good.
  3. You want to puke? For some unfathomable reason, she was chosen to 'play' Abbey Lincoln in a recreation of Max Roach's We Insist. Nasheet Waits was leading the band, maybe he just did not know. An insult to Abbey's memory and everything she and Max fought for. Several us boycotted the gig.
  4. My friends at work kindly gave me a gift certificate for KC. I still have $65 left on it, no idea how I will use it, except the gift shop may have some CDs. I attended the April Jason Moran and friends concert. Great lineup on paper but somewhat underwhelming, I felt it did not quite gel. I saw a couple of things that I was surprised were able to go through: 1) Sun Ra Arkestra when Marshall Allen was receiving his Jazz Masters award in April. I have never sung along to 'Space Is The Place' with more glee. 2) Fay Victor's Herbie Nichols SUNG in May. Fantastic project, but definitely 'left of center'. My last visit there was a free event for the DC Jazz Festival. There was some unpleasantness on the shuttle bus on the way over which I cannot discuss here per forum rules.
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    Tina Brooks

    They made a CD together, The More I See You.
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    Tina Brooks

    Ellen Brooks was the one who stabbed or shot him?
  7. I agree, they had some great concerts there. A real shame. In a normal world, it would have been a great place to put on concerts related to whatever goodies might be found in the Wayne Shorter Archive once it is cataloged. Kevin had a good rapport with Wayne and Carolina and brought him there several times. I will have to find another venue...
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    Tina Brooks

    I heard the Harold Vick tune Our Miss Brooks at a gig on Friday. Could it have been written for Tina? Vick declines to comment on the title in the liner notes. Of course it was also a radio then TV show with Eve Arden. I always liked her. I would like to see the show.
  9. I am very excited about the news and hope to visit as soon as it is ready, hopefully I can do so on a weekend. Sheet music will probably only be viewable onsite. There is also material at the Library of Congress which I made them bring in from copyright 30 years ago. I had sent Wayne copies of all of it, I wonder if what I sent him will wind up at NYPL! I am very curious about a number of unknown pieces, including Mass '65. One piece that was not at LC was his very first composition, La Vie Et La Mort, intended for two organs but eventually played on solo piano. I hope NYPL will have it. I attended the lecture where this blog post was presented. The presenter did not address where the material came from, but I suspect he thought the Library had somehow acquired it. Jazz Scholar Willard Jenkins Reflects on the Library’s Jazz Collections | In The Muse
  10. Alto sax Erena Terakubo at Takoma Station in DC - fabulous! She just started teaching at Michigan State in East Lansing so maybe she will team up with Jim and the cats from Organissimo!
  11. Is it too late to tell Blue Note?
  12. That session with Cannonball exists?
  13. What the hell is that??? Is it real? FM records had a motto: 'no static at all'.
  14. Never noticed that! Did Blue Note try to sign Dolphy away? So FM records is Kay and Kameron, but the name Fred Miles also pops up. What a mess.
  15. Not familiar with this label at all. So what label did Iron Man come out on? Blue Note had to ask permission for Out To Lunch?
  16. Really? What is FM records?
  17. The date I have heard that is being hunted for is a live date shortly before Out To Lunch. Maybe it has been found. I am always the last to know. I doubt Dolphy was under contract with Prestige by then. I always wondered if the Blue Note date was a one-off, or if he was going to make another record for them which of course was never to be.
  18. He delegates plenty. The Mingus Ronnie Scott was also hardly lost.
  19. From my brief experience trying to help him, 'easily distractable' is the understatement of the year. Is this the Dolphy thing with Joe Chambers or something else? The tapes for the one with Joe have not been located yet, IIRC.
  20. The family had some of their own copies of material, which has allowed some unissued sessions to be released. But it is not clear if they have anything left or if that has been completely mined. I am curious about some of the last sessions, like the one Pim mentioned.
  21. Gregory did pass away. His mother might still be around.
  22. I can't find much about him online. Maybe one photo.
  23. I was being facetious of course, but seeing these kind of collectors' prices when the artists were barely making a living is depressing. That True Blue price would have been a little under $700 in 1960. I doubt Tina made that much from sales of the LP in his lifetime.
  24. Does Tina Brooks' estate get a cut of the sale price?
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