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Bob Dylan is a fan, apparently:
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I saw him at the Kennedy Center a few months ago. He was embarking on a mega worldwide tour. But yes, no studio work in a long time.
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2 hours ago, Erlinda said:
Hi all, this is ERLINDA Anderza Ochoa, today is Xmas eve... 2022. Taking care of my mother Leonabelle Anderza. Thank you for this wonderful conversation
Thank you for joining in! I really enjoy your father's recordings!
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8 hours ago, mjzee said:
If you liked the original Fillmore East May 1971 album, I'd advise someone to grab this box at a good price. I found it amazing to hear how tight and inventive was the band. Aynsley Dunbar was a great drummer, I love Flo & Eddie (I know opinions differ, which is why I started this comment with "If you liked..."), I was blown away by the compositions, and the band is tight as all getout. I agree, 4 versions of Billy The Mountain is way too much (I never even liked it the first time, on Just Another Band From L.A.), so just skip over them. The booklet is fabulous (don't miss the interview with Ian Underwood), and, above all else, don't miss the Rainbow concert. It's astonishing to hear them, after the fire at Montreux, appear with rented instruments and be as great as they were. The verite moment at the end is what it is; I felt like a voyeur listening to it once, although it is fascinating and dramatic, and I probably will never listen to it again.
You mean you get to hear him pushed off the stage?
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On 12/5/2022 at 12:10 AM, Milestones said:
Damn, it's a monster of a book--784 pages!
Fitting for such a long, wonderful career!
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Such an awful story. He was much loved in the bay area.
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One of the great unsung composers of jazz, and a trumpet player with a very original approach. Definitely one of my heroes.
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8 hours ago, jlhoots said:
What about A. B. Spellman?
AB retired a long time ago. Katja is moving back to Germany. I assume her job will be open soon.
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22 hours ago, Larry Kart said:
I sent an email to Dan Morgenstern asking how such a nomination could/should be made. Dan should know.
Dan may well be on the committee but I am sure he cannot say so.
43 minutes ago, gmonahan said:Well, yes he should, since he was one in 2007!!
That does not guarantee he will know. I doubt Wayne Shorter knows how he became a Jazz Master exactly, just that someone nominated him.
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13 hours ago, bresna said:
How does a federal agency get away with having a secret committee? Given that there's money involved, you don't want the word "secret" attached to it. Seems weird.
Well, I have never seen it described as such so I am just speculating.
I never tried to ask. The current administrator is a friend of mine but she will not answer ANY questions about her job.
I guess someone who is not friends with the administrator could write and make a claim that they have the right to know who is on the committee under a variation of the FIA. If someone chooses to do so, please do report back!
I sure would like to know how things actually went down when the committee at the time decided to award it to the ENTIRE Marsalis clan. Only the Cassandra Wilson decision dwarfed this one in stupidity. One could have reasonably suspected that politics were involved, and in the USA politics are usually of a green hue, if you get my drift.
PS: I would like to ask the committee why my Joe Chambers nomination has been ignored for EIGHT years now and counting. Someone suggested it was because he was grumpy. If that was the criteria, then how the fuck did Keith Jarrett get it?
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Yes, they take submissions from the public. But they don't want campaigns, so 50 of us on the board cannot all nominate him. Just one of us.
Whether someone with pull like Mark has more chance than a nobody like me I am not sure, but I would not be surprised. There is a mystery committee which I suspect includes several previous honorees, such as HH. I could be wrong.
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It looks like Blue Lament was not on the vinyl version, but that is the only bonus track as far as I can tell.
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These are all very interesting questions and I wish someone had really talked to him years ago about his life and career. There is an interview on YouTube which has its merits but is pretty shallow. He was already having memory lapses.
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5 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said:
Does this date have Kenny Dorham tunes that were not recorded elsewhere?
One was recorded by the Messengers around the same time (Blue Ching). Blue Lament was recorded by Don Sickler years later. The other four are orphaned.
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On 11/21/2022 at 10:25 AM, Mark Stryker said:
Let me add my voice to others but with a direct prescription: What the world needs is a memoir from Michael about his alert and influential life lived within the marrow of the music business. THAT would be an ESSENTIAL read and revealing window into the last 50 years of jazz across the stylistic spectrum -- the musicians who made it and the people who produced and recorded it, packaged it, and sold and presented it, as well as the conditions in which they all worked.
And for Jesus Fuck's Sake, would the NEA please give him the Jazz Master award for advocacy. It's a mockery that he remains unrecognized in this way.
Mark, have you nominated him?
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On 11/23/2022 at 12:36 PM, bresna said:
I'm listening again to this and I do have to agree with Chuck that it's probably Charles Davis' playing that has kept this date from being released. But now that Michael Cuscuna is gone and Blue Note seems more willing to release stuff like this, I suspect we all might get a chance to hear this on a official release someday.
The 1959 Blakey came out because Zev Feldman wanted it released and talked Don Was into it. Cuscuna's previous assessment seems to have been ignored, or maybe he changed his mind?
If Zev pushes the KD date it might have a chance. But does he care about this one?
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I am curious about the set list.
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That February 1950 Jam session with Clifford Brown and Hasaan (William Langford) must have been interesting.
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On 9/29/2022 at 7:57 AM, RiRiIII said:
If only Bert Stern had filmed the Miles Davis Sextet at Newport 1958 for the Jazz on a Summer's Day film...
There are out-takes from the film at the Schomberg Library. Not cataloged yet so there is still a possibility. I was looking for film of Booker Little...
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Katey came down to the DC/Baltimore area this week-end and we brainstormed. I will post some questions occasionally here.
1. Have any Duke Pearson compositions been sampled? I assume so, but specific examples would be great.
2. I know of no video footage of Duke, but there used to be no footage of Hank either... Duke's nephew thought he saw footage from the 1960 Newport gig with the Jazztet on YouTube a while back. Has anyone else ever come across it?
Duke never went to Europe but maybe the Brazilian trip with Nancy Wilson could yield some footage? I am thinking of the Ray Charles video with Tina Brooks. The big band did do a 30-minute video for Connecticut Public TV but they could not find it.
Bertrand.
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A musician friend asked about this pianist who only recorded from 1952 to 1962. What do we know about him? He was born in NOLA in 1928, and was based in LA. Some recordings are:
1) Harold Land: In New York.
2) Harold Land: Take Aim.
3) Sonny Stitt: Hard Swing.
4) Jimmy Woods: Awakening.
Also dates with Bird, Wardell Gray, Teddy Edwards and Shorty Rogers.
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On 9/9/2022 at 3:46 AM, Harbour said:
Sounds nice
the Japanese UHQCD is part of a series of other reissues by him too, including The Prime Element on CD for first time ever.
Are there titles by other artists in the UHQCD series or just Elvin?
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In what way were these 'lost'?
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3 hours ago, Mark Stryker said:
Ah, thanks.
Might still be worth doing the 'Ask a Librarian' thing. I am always wary when I am told something is 'lost'.
Wayne Shorter
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The co-author of Endangered Species, Joe Vitarelli, never gets a mention.