Gheorghe

wow, I didn´t know that Jakie Byard played alto also.

So sorry, sincere condolences !

Glad she got the best surgeon in your area. My best wishes to your wife !

It´s very possible it was that way.

Well, I must admit I don´t have a Radio anymore. I have a Denon CD Player, and on top of it a Turntable, that´s all. During the golden days of Radio, in my case 1973/74 I had a Radio About this Kind of model, and somehow connected it to a simple tape Recorder and recorded the jazz programs. When my record and CD Collections grew larger and larger I didn´t listen to Radio anymore. As much as I know, jazz on Radio here in Austria is at a quite late hour, when I already Sleep during week time since I have to get up early in the morning. But those were the days, those fancy radios, in my case I got my own radio of this type after my grandmother died, I got a fossile Radio and a fossile TV also made with wood.....

Joe Newman was a solid trumpet player, no question ! Nothing that "knocked me out" but good enough to sit down and relax after a busy day and enjoying some swingin´ music. So that´s the part that´s okay with me. But the other thing that really pissed me off was his attitude on stage when he traveled as a single artists and performed with locals. I witnessed this on several occasions. The local rhythm section was doing a good job and swung and they had played with enough visiting US greats (bigger names than Joe Newman), and he stood their and lectured the guys how to play, what to play, what not to play...…. it was so embarassing. If it would have been some heavy stuff with difficult forms , tempo changes and tricky chords, okay...…. but you don´t have to be a Nobel Price winner to Play "Bye Bye Blackbird", the local Rhythm section had played that stuff 100s of times and sure knew how to play "Blackbird" without all that lecturing shit from Joe Newman.

Those Uptown records really are something. Symphony Sid was something. Though some people, including musicians didn´t love him, I think that voices like his were important to make jazz more popular. All those …... "come by, relax and have a wonderful time with a lot of musical fun, with those wonderful guys…." Hip talk like this for advertising jazz isn´t any more. When I was young we also had a good jazz DJ on radio, and his voice also was a "trademark". Influencers like those personalities really put your coat to some records, so you went to the record dealer and bought them or you went were this guy would tell you that you can meet "the gonest"..... When I was a boy, my dream was if I wouldn´t become a jazz musician, I might become a radio DJ for jazz. And believe it or not: I spinned my few Jazz LPs settled a taperecorder and a mike and between tracks I´d comment them with a very deep "supa cool" voice and recorded all those Proceedings on tape. So I produced hours of "my own Radio jazz program" where I would be the MC..... Years later I discovered those home-made tapes and had to laugh, to hear that unfinished voice of an adolescent, trying to make "cool talk" . Too bad I threw them away when we moved downstairs….

Since the 1947 Carnegie Hall Concert was mentioned and asked to be discussed, here is the other, lesser known Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie Parker encounter from TownHall. It´s interesting that here the piano is very well recorded and not only Diz and Bird, but Al Haig also get´s a lot of solo spot. And very fine Sid Catlett sittin in on the last two numbers. On the later Carnegie Hall concert the piano is barely audible, John Lewis is almost unheard.

Yes, that´s the cover I tried to post. On my copy (it´s Japan Import) there is also the sides with Machito. It seems that the japanes LPs had longer playing time. Seeing the liner notes I also thought About something I Always noticed: Other than liner notes by let´s say Leonard Feather or Ira Gitler etc. , here the most written stuff doesn´t really have anything to do with the recorded Music. Only at the end he mentions the tunes played on that Album.... I never really dug the Verve liner notes…...

IMHO the Big Band set has a worse Sound Quality than let´s say the Pasadena Concert. And Right, it´s the Combo set that made this date famous. The first Pressing of it that I had , some of the longer tracks were splitted in Part 1 and Part 2. Later I bought the CD with the whole concert (it´s said minus the tracks with Ella Fitzgerald, (How High the Moon, I think) they were not published due to bad Sound Quality" . But the Combo set is among the most exiting Things of Diz and Bird. "Dizzy Atmosphere" is so fast, it seems that the Rhythm section struggles on it. John Lewis is barely audible. It took me years to master "Dizzy Atmosphere". Or, let´s say when I started playing in public in 1978 I had difficulties to Play that fast in A flat, but I don´t know how it came, two or three years ago I tried it again and it was no appearant difficulties. Maybe the out Chorus (shout Chorus) is a bit a challenge, but I love to Play that tune. The Studio Version from the 1945 sides is at a moderate tempo, which is strange since I know it otherwise only with rapid tempo, like the Carnegie Hall Version and the 1950 Birdland Version Bird/Fats/Bud. That´s also very fast. Blakey is fantastic on it.

Sounds strange for me. Never tried "canned food" neither canned soup. For my tastes, a soup must be done by myself or by my wife, we don´t eat stuff that is canned……, okay if we are lazy or don´t have the necessary time for cooking, then we eat some cold dishes, Tomatoes, green peppers, goat cheese, bread, , and if we have more time or the weather is Cold so there´s not much outdoor activity, we just stay in the kitchen and cook something….

I allready posted the "Afro Cuban" (Spotlite). Machito , Howard McGhee, Brew Moore . Here is another edition of some of the stuff, it has more Machito from the late 40´s and Features also the Afro-Cubop Things made by Machito with Howard McGhee, Brew Moore. I also tried to post the Charlie Parker Vol. 6 (Fiesta) on which you have the Parker-Machito tunes "Mangue Mangue" and "No Noise" but the System didn´t allow me the pic, I tried to make it smaller but nope…….

A fantastic quartet date, and the greatest surprise is the duo with Philly J.J. (Surrey with the Fringe on top).

Great collection ! How about this ? Miles Davis with Lee Konitz at Royal Roost is great (september 1948). Not "late forties" but also remarkable the 1952 sides with Jackie McLean. And from the "cronological" I have this one with Fats.

Fantastic !

Thanks for posting this. Really a moving article. And agree to what you said About the two live Recordings from France 1948 and Pasadena also 1948. I posted the Album covers on Monday here.

This is my favourite Red Garland session.

Oh yeah, fantastic !

Another of my favourites. I Always liked the sides Sarah Vaughan made with the boppers Diz and Bird, and the string Thing of "If you could see me now" arranged by Tadd Dameron, coincidally with Bud Powell on piano. And of Course the Billy Eckstine Big Band. I love those sides and bought that double LP in the late 70s, Fantastic ballads , this Wonderful voice, and also some vintage Bebop Bigband Sound on let´s say "Second Balcony Jump", "Oo Bop ´sh Bam" etc......

Well, most Big Band Recordings Dizzy made were in the years 1946-1948/49, then Dizzy was forced to disband. The big band Things started after Diz returned from the West Coast (Billy Berg´s ), and I think the venue where they performed was the Spotlite. There´s a marvelous double CD of the 1946 band at Spotlite too. The Studio Recordings that followed were for the RCA Label.

Yes, Bill, though "Groovin´High" is one of the best known bop sessions , it always makes me to listen to it again and again. I´m lucky I know a trumpet player who is very much into that Music and we play it as often as we have the possibility. And here is another one from around 1949. It may not have the Musical depth of the "Groovin High" , but still very interesting. Beautiful ballads also, and really funny those Things like "Hey Pete, let´s eat more meat" or "In the Land of Oo bla Dee" …….

Very interesting interview, though towards the end it became a bit too much spiritual or philosophical stuff for me, or how you want to call it. But it seems that stuff helps Sonny Rollins to Keep alive and not missing the Saxophone and the audience so much. He says his pulmonary disease came gradually and he had to stop playing in 2012. Actually, on his last recording I think it was a tune called Professor Paul you can feel he has difficulties blowin, . But with the exception of this one tune he played fantastically until the end of his playing career. Interesting the Thing he said About that Quote of "I can do better than you" on "Serpent´s Tooth". Anyway, that record "Collectors Items" is a strange record, not bop, not cool jazz, something between, and it´s strange to hear Bird on Tenor (like on the "Half Nelson Session" from 1947).

"Milestones" actually was the first tune of so called "jazz", that I liked when I was a kid. It seems that before hearing milestones I thought "jazz" is something like Dixieland, and when I heard that "cool sounds" I knew I must start to get to know as much is possible about that music. And comparing "Milestones" with "Aghartha", well I liked "Agharta" too, but I didn´t understand well what the older guys said about "the old Miles and the new Miles (sic!)". They were referring to what Miles played after 1970, but I thought if they say the old and the new one it is about two persons, who coincidentially have the same name. And so I thought then, that "Milestones" is the "Old Miles" playing "Old Time Jazz", and "Aghartha" is another person also "Miles Davis" who plays "Modern Jazz". So I thought, that jazz from the 50´s, 60´s is "oldtime" and was quite astonished when I learned that "oldtime" is the Kind of jazz I still don´t like so much (Dixieland etc.)…...

Right now I listen to Dizzy Gillespie Big Band ! Fantastic !

From the cover photo I thought he looks very much like Billy Eckstine.