bertrand

My town was voted second best place to live in the U.S after Portland, Ore., so there

The look on his face is priceless...

You used to work for Second Floor Music, correct? Bertrand.

Sunday, 4/26/09, Baltimore Museum Of Art Ben Riley's Monk Legacy Band Don Sickler: trumpet, musical director Wayne Escoffery: tenor sax Bruce Williams: alto sax, soprano sax Jay Brandford: baritone sax Freddie Bryant: guitar Cameron Brown (filling in for Essiet Okon Essiet): bass Ben Riley: drums First set Green Chimneys Brake's Sake Bemsha Swing Bright Mississippi Rhythm-A-Ning Epistrophy (Theme) Second Set Shuffle Boil Bye-Ya Straight, No Chaser Ask me Now Evidence Epistrophy (Theme)

If you want to try Bohemian Caverns in D.C., ask for Omra Brown at 202-299-0800. I see they are already booked for the weekend of 6/19. Bertrand.

I was trying to be nice

I found their performance of 'Sugar Magnolia' on Letterman tonight somewhat lackluster. Bertrand.

If Twins in D.C. is not in the plans this time, perhaps Bohemian Caverns? Bertrand.

I was whistling 'Half A Dozen Provocative Squats' the other day in my cubicle at work. Will I get in trouble? Bertrand.

This thread makes me puke.

What is it we are trying to find out? Bertrand.

Icing on the cake: the takes to be used for the Blakey will be the ones suggested by Kevin Bresnahan. He will get co-producer credit. Bertrand.

I saw Freddie Redd 3 times this week: 1) At Twins in D.C. on Wednesday 3/25. 2) At a private party/jam session on Thursday 3/26. 3) At Smalls' in NYC on Saturday 3/28. Freddie played tunes from his three BN LPs arranged for quintet/sextet by my friend Brad Linde, who did an amazing job putting this together and booking Freddie. Freddie had not played most of these since the original sessions almost 50 years ago! He sounded amazing. Personnel and set lists to follow. Bertrand.

The Jefferson Airplane covered 'Other Side Of This Life' - it was part of their set list. Bertrand.

There is also www.loc.gov fro copyright deposits. Neither tune shows up online. This either means: 1) The tune was not registered 2) There is no 'activity' (registration or renewal) since 1978, so the info can only be found in the physical card catalogs on site at LC. Bertrand.

You beat me to it! (Plastic) Bertrand.

Sounds interesting, but I'm sure these are boots. Bertrand.

As stated earlier, as far as we can tell, there were 2 McMaster pressings (at least): one good, one bad. I was lucky that the one I picked up used years ago was good. The Collectors' Choice was a repressing of the BAD pressing. Bertrand.

He did this gig last year: http://www.harpersferryhistory.org/events.htm Bertrand.

I wonder what this band would have been like had Miles not been such a lazy motherfucker and learned some Mobley originals. Bertrand.

Bartz is on five of the 6 tracks, which are sextet with Lee+Freddie. He wrote 'Freedom Monday', but Blakey put his name on it. Also the title track is credited to both trumpeters, but the copyright is Freddie only. Lucky is the sole horn on 'Spot Session', which is from a different date. The tune 'Slowly But Surely' is from the same date as the sextet tracks, but was put on another LP. I bet they won't include here where it belongs. This is currently available on iTunes. I bought it assuming it would never come out on CD. I'll stay away from those Jazztet downloads. Bertrand.

In case there was any doubt 24 hours later - the thing about the tree was a joke. Bertrand.

If you get the Blackhawk 4-CD, the Carnegie Hall twofer, and 'Prince', you pretty much have all the official Mobley with Miles, unless there are some out-takes from 'Prince' I don't know about. I'm not really sure there is a need to have this further boxed. Of course, this is the official stuff. We'll not even get into the 20-CD tree of Mobley with Miles that's circulating. Bertrand.

My instinct would tell me to stay away from any joint owned by that hack Arturo Sandoval.

Fasstrack, Are you referring to Gerry Eastman the guitarist? Did he recently pass? I didn't think he was that old. He used to be a member of Super Nova, a great band based in D.C., although I guess he left a while ago. Very sad to hear this. Bertrand.