bertrand

Yesternow is indeed the CD in question. I liked it a lot when I bought it and listened to it. It's been a few years, though... I saw the Orchestre National de Jazz just before Laurent's tenure was over. They played a rocking version of Zawinul's 'Dflat Waltz'. Brownie is right. The ONJ also does an electric Miles tune on the CD called In Tempo. I believe the companion CD, Reminiscing, also has one. If I remember right, one has 'Right Off' and one has 'Water On The Pond'. BTW, the Marsalis tune was the weakest thing at the gig. Laurent played it first, then announced it. I wasn't digging it as they played it without my knowing what it was (although I had a suspicion), and neither was my mother. So, you see, I don't have an a priori judgment on Wynton's stuff - I hear it first, dislike it, then find out it was one of his tunes. This is the ultimate acid test. Bertrand.

French arranger Laurent Cugny would be a natural for this. He did an album of electric Miles for big band which is great. He also did two albums with Gil Evans. Bertrand.

That was my first reaction as well... Bertrand.

Math post-docs can't understand Braxton's song titles because they're not math. Bertrand.

Wow - I didn't know that musicians had actually paid for her legal costs. Marty, any truth to the stories from both Ted Curson and Donald Byrd that they were there that night? I don't believe either of them. Bertrand.

My school is having a 50-year anniversary of the school celebration in June. Some people are trying to get me to go, but I have no desire to do so. It's a big formal party at the World Bank, for god's sake. Just the thought of Wolfowitz being in the vicinity gives me the willies. Fortunately, I found out there's a good gig that night. I'll take Jazz over a crummy reunion any time. Bertrand.

Don't need to tell you how proud of him his daddy is! Bertrand.

Ted Curson told me he was there the night Lee got killed as well!!! Bertrand.

Happy 74th birthday to Jackie McLean and Dewey Redman! They were born on this day in 1931. My son Matthew (5 years old) and I were discussing on the bus this morning about what a shame it was that they never recorded together. I told him someone would have to put together such a record, and he suggested 'maybe Michael Cuscuna' (he saw Michael's picture in the Richard Cook book, and I tried to explain to him what a producer does - clearly he understood some of what I told him). Neither artist is signed to a label right now - perhaps some indie could do it... Bertrand.

I haven't heard the song in years, but doesn't it mostly focus on the mathematical properties of 3? Bertrand.

David, I just sent you a PM. Arranger Mark Masters of the American Jazz Institute was looking for the Thad Jones Mosaic just last week. I will call him and see if he is still looking. Bertrand.

Are there any recordings of Dannie Richmond on sax? Bertrand.

The link does not seem to work, but you can find the page by googling the name Charles Sens. Bertrand.

One of the most frustrating things that ever happened in the course of my research on jazz copyrights was when a three-page request (about 50 tunes) went missing. The original request was in 1998. The Librarian who took the request was ill off and on after that, so I could never pin him down as to what had happened to this request. I would try requesting it again periodically, but no luck. A few years later, I found out my request had been mixed up with someone else's, so I assumed it had been sent back to the warehouse and never refiled. Again, periodic enquiries to the Librarian in question yielded nothing. Well, I go over there today and lo and behold, the music was added to my reserve pile! Apparently the Librarian retired (I knew that) and died last year (I did not know that), and they finally cleaned up his desk and tons of music was found. I guess he got really ill and never really straightened out his stuff before leaving. He's not just an anonymous desk clerk, by the way. Check this out: http://music.loyno.edu/encore/2004/sens.html Anyway, from a jazz viewpoint, I have now located some very interesting stuff including: Freddie Redd's original manuscripts for The Connection (plus the stuff from Redd's Blues) Pete LaRoca tunes (including the controversial 'Basra') 4 Moncur tunes (the two from One Step Beyond and the two jazztet tunes) Blue Mitchell tunes (including 'Fungii Mama') Some Frank Strozier (one piece, although checked off as found, is actually missing) I knew this stuff would appear one day. Seven years sounds like a long time, though. Bertrand.

I saw the first Star Wars when it came out in 1977. I hated every second of it. Bertrand.

The only info anyone has ever produced on the fate of Helen More were vague statements like 'she only served a few months' and 'she died a few years ago' (I heard this about 5-6 years ago). There are a number of Morgan bios in the works, but I don't think any are near completion. The info about More's death comes from a man in North Carolina named Willam Pitt, who is one of the potential biographers. I haven't heard from him in a long time, and I don't know where he got the information from concerning her possible death (she'd be 80 now, if she was 47 in 1972). Perhaps the social security death index might help, but I don't know how to search this. Jeff McMillan did his thesis at Rutgers on Lee; it is probably available at IJS. He found a lot on Lee's Philadelphia days, but almost nothing on the last part of his career. He did not explore the 'what happened to Helen' angle at all. He expanded on the Philly days in a later article for which I do not have the reference handy. Bennie Maupin's notes to the Lighthouse set seem to indicate that he and other musicians were close to her; perhaps they (discretely) stayed in touch? I saw a picture of Helen at the home of Lee's late brother Jimmy; she was very creepy-looking. Bertrand.

The first post in this thread does not mention bonus tracks for Drum Suite, so the discussion above is kind of moot... ... except, I just remembered there are a couple of other orphan tracks on Columbia: the 6/25/56 session with Ira Sullivan (2 tracks). So here is the correct way the entire Messengers Columbia stuff should be reissued: 1) The Jazz Messengers album (with Byrd and Mobley) which has a few bonus cuts and alternates. This was done properly in the late 90s. 2) Drum Suite + Gershwin Medley 3) Hard Bop + 2 tracks with Ira Sullivan ('L'il T' and 'The New Message'). Instead, we will get Drum Suite, probably with no bonus tracks. The problem can still be solved if Hard Bop is later reissued with three bonus tracks, the medley and the tracks with Ira Sullivan. Since my Japanese Hard Bop has no bonus tracks, I would buy this version if it were to materialize. Anyone have an in at Sony? Bertrand.

Lon beat me to it. I'm sure there will only be ONE bonus cut on Stepping Stones - 'Escape Velocity', which was on Woody III and not in the Mosaic box. This means that the odds of Woody III coming out intact are slimmer now. Drum Suite is a mystery. One side was a half-session of percussion-related stuff. The other half was extra tracks from the sessions for the Hard Bop album. If they put Drum Suite out, the whole Hard Bop album (plus a Gershwin Medley that was on the potpouttri album Originally) would be candidates for bonus tracks. Let's check my iTunes library real quick... The Hard Bop album (5 tracks) + the quintet half of Drum Suite (3 tracks) + the Gershwin Medley = 65+ minutes. I'm sure the percussion half is more than 15 minutes (I'll check downstairs later), so it won't work. I have a French pressing of Drum Suite and a Japanese of Hard Bop, so I'm only missing a CD version of the Medley. There's no real solution to this: if you put the entire Hard Bop session (9 tracks) on one CD, the three Drum Suite percussion tracks are orphaned. But if you want to put Drum Suite out as it first appeared with bonus tracks, you have to leave out one or two tunes. Two CDs are needed: Drum Suite as it appeared with no bonus cuts, and Hard Bop as it first appeared with only the Gershwin Medley as a bonus. The reissue list does not mention the Hard Bop LP... Bertrand. P.S. The listing at ejazzlines shows that the first side of Drum Suite is 18 minutes. So the total would be about 83 minutes.

Off the top of my head: Stanley Turrentine - Another Story is part of the Mosaic box Bobbi Humphrey - Flute In was out on Applause only Stanley Turrentine - The Look Of Love Applause as well Bobby Hutcherson - Natural Illusions ditto Bertrand.

Paul Combs' bio of Tadd Dameron should be great. Paul has left no stone unturned in documenting Tadd's life. Should be a great book, and it will be out in the near future. Bertrand.

It seems there is some confusion. I will try to clear it up: Keiko Jones (from Japan) is the widow of the late Elvin Jones. Kiko Morgan (a Japanese-American woman raised in Chicago) was Lee Morgan's first wife, and since they were never divorced, she inherited the rights to his music. I last spoke to her in December 1999; I assume she is still around. His partner Helen More is the woman who shot him. Wayne Shorter's first wife, who was the Japanese-American woman on the cover of Speak No Evil, was named Teruka (she used the English name Irene). She later married Billy Dee Williams and is still living, to the best of my knowldedge. Wayne's second wife was the late Ana Maria Shorter (she died in the TWA crash 7/17/96). His current wife is Carolina Dos Santos Shorter. No one named Keiko or Kiko was ever married to Wayne. Bertrand.

The complete Booker Ervin and Woody Shaw Blue Note sessions. Bertrand.

Is it too late for an organissimo poll to change the title of the Booker Ervin? I really dislike it. Hell, even Back From The Gig would be better! Bertrand.

Isn't there also video footage of the maintenance shop stuff? Here's hoping for a DVD... What's the personnel on that gig? Thanks, Bertrand.

Any new information on this? Bertrand.