Jim R

You'd think 9 am would be late enough on the west coast for everybody to be up... -_- (that's a yawn) Well, due to circumstances beyond my control, I dozed on the first hour of the bash. But I'm awake now!! Hey, pass me some of that cake- I haven't had breakfast yet! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ORGANISSIMO BOARD !! Many thanks to Jim, and to everyone here who makes this place such a great place to hang out. :rsmile:

Maxine, Thank you for posting, and for contacting me. I tried to respond to your e-mail, but my message was intercepted by the Earthlink spam blocker. I found the above photo by searching the internet using Google. The photo came from a Brazilian website: http://www.jazzclub.com.br/images/foto-Dexter%20Gordon.gif Unfortunately, I just tried looking for more by going to their homepage (http://www.jazzclub.com.br) and trying different links, but so far I haven't even found the photo there (and no references at all to Dexter)...

Interesting. I don't recall whether I've ever come across this information before (not even in Adrian Ingram's bio/discography of Wes), and I've been a jazz guitar fanatic for years. A search turned this up in at least two sources on the web, and although they seem fairly reliable, I would reserve just a touch of doubt, since this info was not mentioned by Ingram. Perhaps some of our members with extensive discographical resources can offer info as to whether Lord and others list this session: Almost Forgotten - Various-Instrumentalists / various artists (Columbia FC 38509) Alonzo Johnson (ts) Buddy Montgomery (p) Wes Montgomery (g) Monk Montgomery ( b ) Robert Johnson (d) NYC, June 15, 1955 Love for Sale So yes, it was a compilation, apparently with only one track including the Montgomerys. ======== Edit: It just occurred to me that this is listed in an old (1991) Japanese discography collection called "Jazz Hero's Data Bank", which further tempers my doubt about this being accurate. The Ingram book dates from 1985, BTW, and I don't know whether this info was available to him at that time...

Thanks for reviving some memories, Jim. A lot of people have called Mays the greatest all-around player ever, and as a person who grew up a Giants fan in the 60's, it's hard for me to argue with them. My older brothers had some cards (including the '66 Mays), and I collected Topps in '67, '68, and '69. The one high-series card that I wanted but never got (never got to the mail-order level, so I pretty much satisfied myself with the earlier series stuff) was the '67 Brooks Robinson. I've got a few great memories of going to Candlestick, in fact something great seemed to happen every time I went (which wasn't all that often). My uncle was visiting in June of 1963, and my dad took everybody to the game on June 15th (no, my memory isn't that good- I was only 7 at the time... I looked it up)- the historic no-hitter (1st Giants' no-hitter since Hubbel in 1929; first by a Latin-American pitcher in the ML) by Juan "The Dominican Dandy" Marichal against the Astros. Also, there was "Willie McCovey Day" at Candlestick toward the end of his career. I don't remember many details, except that Stretch came up as a pinch hitter and won the game with an extra base hit. But I digress... for me, Mays has always been and always will be the man.

Thanks John. I just remembered the thing that first made me start to wonder about this. Years ago, I heard about a rare 1954 (10") Rene Thomas LP (on Barclay, as I understand it) called RENE' THOMAS AND HIS ORCHESTRA. As far as I know, this was a quintet recording.

Perhaps this is a good place to ask a question I've wondered about for some time. I've seen other european jazz recordings where the word "orchestra" was used to refer to a smaller group of musicians than I'm accustomed to thinking of as an "orchestra". In fact, I've probably seen the same thing occur on a few american recordings as well, but it seems more prevalent in europe. Is it a matter of language, or custom, or an "inside joke", or am I just confused, or...? My dictionary doesn't give anything more specific than "a group of musicians playing together", but the typical usage would seem to be somewhat different in the U.S. as compared to (for example) France, yes? No?

You gotta love it. Anyway, yeah, go ahead and increase the drip rate! Al, have a nice turkey & avocorcovado sambawich, and some copacabanabanana cream pie, too!

Pretty shellfish, saying happy birthday to yourself on Al's thread.

Yyyyyyyyyyyeah! I... ...knew... ... the big day was... ... app... ...roaching! Really! I... ... DID! ... ... Um... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AL!!

Wow, thank you very much FrancoisD. I've been looking for this data online for some time. I eventually got the booklet for the set, but have never gotten around to entering all of this data into my database file. Since I do have the booklet, I can offer the following correction/addition. On the above list, toward the end of DISC IV, I see an error beginning at session (S) and the omission of session (T). Here is how it's listed in my booklet: (S) same personnel as ( R ): Chicago, September 25, 1959 14373-6.....Ain't No Use vJW....................52033, 52093, 52111 14374-8.....Shake, Rattle And Roll vJW.....52033 14375-1.....Good Morning Blues vJW.........52033, 52093 14376-3.....Just A Dream vJW aFF............52033 ________________________________________________ (T) same personnel as (D) or ( R ) exact date and location unknown 14471.....It's A Low Down Dirty Shame vJW.....52033

Yeah, Brad, I got the news via an e-mail from Mr. Crawford. I think it's been available since 2/18. MANHATTAN SYMPHONIE came out on CD around the early 90's as part of the French Sony/Columbia Jazz Passport/Jazz Originals series. I suppose it's been o.o.p. for quite a few years.

Dan, congratulations, and thanks for sharing the photos. Nice looking spread! Those yards look really nice... kind of like how ours... used to look when we first moved in. Long may you be comfortable and happy there.

Brand new release on Steeplechase: SCCD 36032 - Dexter Gordon - "Loose Walk" More never before released material from the vaults. Recorded live at Copenhagen's Montmartre Jazzhus June 24, 1965 featuring Dexter Gordon (ts), Kenny Drew (pno), Neils-Henning Orsted Pedersen (bass) and Alex Riel (drums). Tunes include: "There'll Never Be Another You", "Come Rain or Come Shine", "I Should Care", and Sonny Stitt's "Loose Walk". Total playing time: 47:31.

Seeing these answers is somewhat consoling, in that I only own one of these albums (Jazz Sur Seine), and have never heard of several of these artists. Anyway, it's the musical discovery that's important, and I found the music on this test to be generally fairly intriguing. It will be fun to listen again with the answers in mind. If possible, I'd like to see more discographical data (record labels, recording dates). Thanks again

I did...it was back in December. Had a really nice day with my wife and daughter. Oh and happy birthday to Jim! Right back at ya Alexander! Okay, anybody else we forgot? Might as well take care of it here. Come on, we won't sing to you!

Wow, thanks Al- I mean, All (AND Al too, but especially all). I have to admit, my birthday isn't "on file" here. I leave it to Al to remember. B) If he forgets, then that just means I don't have to put on the goofy hat, smile at all the waiters, and get my chocolate mousse spoon fed...... wait..... sorry- suddenly I was back at the mexican restaurant from the other night (the 23rd, Al! ). Jim, thanks for Googling that cover that Jim wanted me (Jim) to find for Jim.

Another Bent Gordonsen fanatic signing in. Fitting that I spent part of the morning (without realizing it was Dexter's b-day) copying a tape for Dan.

I have several of those cover books already mentioned, and also enjoy the Manek Daver books on David Stone Martin. I also enjoy "Images of Jazz" by Lee Tanner, and some of the Claxton, Herman Leonard, K. Abe, etc. I just tried a Google search for a jpg of the cover of Naoki Mukoda's "Jazzical Moods- Artwork of Excellent Jazz Labels", which is one of my favorites. So far I haven't found an image, but I did come across a site that lists an enormous number of jazz-related books. I'm copying in the section on photography and graphics (this is a database of somebody's collection, thus the notations about purchase locations, etc). The site is at: http://www.ncpr.org/tenspot/Guy/Jazz%20Books.doc Jazz Photography and Graphic Arts: Atkins, Ronald, editor, ALL THAT JAZZ! The Illustrated Story of Jazz Music. EBAY Item #151496306 Fascinating story of the 20th Century's most enduing style of popular music. Carlton Books 1996ISBN0-76519-953-X. 224 pages including index. Contains the chapter: Intro., Evolution of Jazz, Jazz Giants, A-Z Jazz Players, Milestone Recordings, Jazz Media, Jazz Glossary, Index and Acknowledgements. Beautiful book with only a little wear on the cover which is creased. Opens @ $5.00 B&N reprint at $35.00, bids to $10.50. also EBAY Item #169424454 opens at $9.99 Abé ,K., ed., JAZZ GIANTS: A VISUAL RETROSPECTIVE EBAY Item #156605130 Billboard Publishing, NY 1988. Originally published in Japan by Shinko Music, Tokyo 1986. As New in White Box, 280 pp. 359 illustratiions, 52 in full color. Index of persons, cameo biographies of contributing photographers. 10.5" x 13" black cloth boards. Fine Hardcover in Fine DJ in White Box ISBN: 0823075362. (60 oz) Open @ $60.00 Also EBAY Item #161842416, purchased for $25.00 Brask, Ole, Photographs Jazz , EBAY Item #162804505 A very large book with over 100 photos of the jazz greats. Foreward written in german. Hardcover in Mint condition. 1 bid $9.99 (mine) Chiswick, Linton, MILESTONES OF JAZZ, A Chronological History of Jazz Music in Photographs, EBAY 188993885 Opens at $9.99 Ciardiello, Joseph, Like Jazz, EBAY Item #166180938 illustrated by Joseph Ciardiello, poems by John Kruth, published by Spanfeller Press in 1994, hence first edition, but the book's even better than that. This is a wonderful 33 page paperbound book measuring 7" X 11" focusing on well-known jazz artists. A drawn portrait and a poem is provided for each artist, including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Sun Ra, Billie Holliday and others. Joseph Ciardiello is a portrait artist whose work appears in a wide variety of publications, including The New Yorker, Jazziz, and many others. He employs a black and white pen-and-ink technique in line drawing, sometimes enhanced with color wash, that is superb.He's a master at capturing the essence of a personality, and he specializes in jazz musicians. He was the staff artist at Jazziz for many years. His portraiture is most widely known for gracing the recent Capital CD series of jazz artists. I purchased this for $10.00 Claxton, William, et al, Jazz Seen ~ TASCHEN America Llc / May 1999 Our Price: $27.99 Claxton,William : Jazz West Coast. SIGNED! EBAY Item #152642033 Artwork of Pacific Jazz Records by William Claxton and Hitoshi Namekata, with text in English and Japanese. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 1992, second edition, 113/4? x 11 3/4?, 126pp., soft cover with dust jacket in mint condition, this copy is SIGNED by William Claxton. This book is a tribute to the 40th anniversary of the founding of Pacific Jazz Records and is profusely illustrated with color and b&w reproductions including a photographic portfolio by William Claxton. William Claxton?s pictures are like stills from a dramatic film in the way that the recording session snapshots successfully convey the emotional vibrations of the musicians in ?the midst of a performance.? Claxton?s photographs of the musicians surpass the level of a mere portrait because each photograph represents a single moment of action, captured on film for eternity. 1 bid @ $74.95 Claxton, William, YOUNG CHET, te Neues Publishing Company, 112 pp., ISBN 382389966X, HB, List $16.95 Daver, Manek, David Stone Martin: Jazz Graphics, Graphic-sha Pub.Co., Tokyo, Japan, First Printing, 1991, PB Daver, Manek. JAZZ ALBUM COVERS: The Rare and the Beautiful. Tokyo, Graphic-Sha Publishing Co., Ltd. 1994. OUT OF PRINT Deffaa, Chip and Johnsen, John and Johnsen, Andreas, Jazz Veterans; A Portrait Gallery, Hardcover, Sep 1996,Cypress House, ISBN: 1879384280 / List $44.95 Driggs, Frank and Lewine, Harris and Bacon, Paul, Black Beauty, White Heat; A Pictorial History of Classic Jazz, 1920-1950, Paperback, Apr 1996, Da Capo Press ISBN: 030680672X / List $29.95 Friedlander, Lee, The Jazz People of New Orleans, EBAY Item #151715128 text by Whitney Balliett. This hardcover edition with dust jacket published in London by Jonathan Cape. Looks to be a 1st edition copyright 1992. Book is in excellent shape. Mint shape. Clean and barely used. Photos are of the current state of jazz and its peoples in New Orleans, La. Photos are mostly portraits in homes, clubs, at funerals and on the street. A mood is captured, however. Close to 100 black & white photos in the Lee Friedlander style. Seemingly random shots but with an artistic composition that states these weren't random shots. Sold for 21.50 bid, Also Item EBAY #160493989, opened at $34.95 Pantheon Books, New York, © 1992, Stated First American Edition, 120 pages, 9" x 11.25", Hardback with Dust Jacket,Red Cloth, Title Embossed on Front Cover, Gilt on Spine. Average price: $36.71 9/18/99 Friedman, Carol, THE JAZZ PICTURES, EBAY Item #146508524 LENA HORNE, BOBBY SHORT AND OTHER LEGENDARY JAZZ MUSICIANS ARE PHOTOGRAPHED BY CAROL FRIEDMAN IN THIS BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED HARD-TO-FIND BOOK. 202 BLK&WHITE PLATES. STUNNING! Starts @ 9.99 no bids Gavin, James, Art of Jazz Photography: Claxography,Hardcover, 132 Pages, Nieswand-Verlag, April 1996, ISBN: 3926048670 / List $75.00 Gelly, Dave, The Giants of Jazz, EBAY Item #168663578 Sold at $5.99 Wonderful caricatures of British artist David Smith aka ?Weef?, 143 pages published by Schirmer Books, New York , also EBAY 187066460, opens at $5.00 Hinton, Milt and David G. Berger, Bass Line, The Stories and Photographs of Milt Hinton, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1988. HB Hinton, Milt, David G. Berger, Holly Maxson, OVERTIME, EBAY Item #148933613, Pomegranate Art Books, San Francisco, 1991, 1st PB, edition. A soft cover copy of "Overtime - the Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton" is 164 pages and was copyrighted in 1991. From the dust jacket: "Milt Hinton shows, through his photos, the age-old axiom that people, despite oppression, will live their lives with a joy, a dignity above and beyond the confines of their oppression." (I purchased this earlier from another seller, it started here at $4.99 one bid, List @ $34.95 Jones, M., Jazz photo album: a history of jazz in pictures, London, British Yearbooks, 1947. (Kennington) Keepnews, Orrin and Bill Grauer, Jr., A Pictorial History of Jazz, New ed., Crown EBAY ?, Publishers, Inc., New York, 2nd ed., 1966, HB/DJ, original ed. 1955, original price $7.95 Purchased from Charles Brown Also Keepnews, Orrin and Bill Grauer, Jr.. Pictorial History of Jazz, A. New York; Crown, 1971, 2nd edit.,3rd printing, new revised, 297 pgs. $12.95 (bookcrazy.com) Also London, Hale, 1956 / and London, Spring Books, 1968. (Kennington) Kohler, Eric, In The Groove: Vintage Record Graphics, 1940-1960, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1999, gift from Carrie Berard, list @ $18.95. Oliphant, Dave, ed., The bebop revolution in words and music / with an introduction by Lawn, Richard , [Austin, Tex.] : Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, c1994, 227 p. : ill., music, ports. ; 26 cm/ Note: Papers and discussion from a symposium held in conjunction with an exhibition, with a description of the exhibition "On display from 20 April through 18 September 1992, 'The Bebop Revolution in Words and Music' was ... mounted by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center to showcase the wealth of jazz-related materials in its archive of ... Ross Russell."--p. 27 ?Originally published as Vol. 24, Nos. 1/2 of The Library Chronicle of The University of Texas at Austin"--verso of title page Includes bibliographical references. Lees, Gene and John Reeves, Jazz Lives: 100 Portraits in Jazz, Stewart House, PB ed. 1994 also Hardcover, Published: Oct 1992, ISBN: 189556512X OOP Marsh, Graham, et al, Blue Note : The Album Cover Art / Chronicle Books / September 1991 / Our Price: $19.96 : List @ $24.95 Marsh, Graham, et al, Blue Note II : The Album Cover Art / Chronicle Books / September 1997 / Our Price: $19.96 : List @ $24.95 Marsh, Graham and Glyn Callingham, California Cool, Chronicle Books, San Francisco,1992, List @ $24.95 Marsh, Graham and Glyn Callingham, New York Hot, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1993, List @ $24.95 Motion, Tim, Jazz Portraits: An Eye For The Sound, Images of Jazz and Jazz Musicians, Smithmark Publishers, 1995, HB Mukoda, Naoki and Satoh, Hideki. JAZZICAL MOODS: Artwork Of Excellent Jazz Labels. Tokyo, Bijitsu Shuppan-Sha, 1993.OUT OF PRINT Putfarcken, Jan, 100 Jazz Photographs, EBAY Item #149606537 Printed by Verlag: Germany, (1994). Oblong 12mo (5 x 5 1/2 inches), blue cloth, slipcase, unpaged. Illustrated with 100 fine B&W photographs of the Jazz Greats. With brief essay by Mike Zwerin. 1 bid @ 9.99, ends 8/24/99, also EBAY 188656111 Shadwick ,Keith, Jazz Legends Of Style. Chartwell 1998. 352 pages. 9 1/2 x 12 1/4. Contains loads of color & B & W photos. Over 300 artists are covered with pertinent details and fascinating anecdotes detailing each one. Hardbound Shadwick, Keith, The Illustrated Story of Jazz, EBAY 189869464 181 pp., opens at $19.99 Smith, Michael P. and Sandmel, Ben, New Orleans Jazz Fest; A Pictorial History, Hardcover, Mar 1991, Pelican Publishing Company, ISBN: 0882898108 / List $22.95 Smithsonian Institution Travel and Terry, Clark and Hinton, Milt, Seeing Jazz; Artists and Writers on Jazz, Hardcover,Oct 1997,Chronicle Books,ISBN: 0811811808 List $35.00 also Paperback,Oct 1997,Chronicle Books, ISBN: 0811817326 List $22.95 Sol, Ydo , Faces of Jazz , EBAY Item #162273426 Neiswand Verlag, Hardcover (Oversized, B&W photos, text in German) Reserve met at $20.00 bird@access1.net Stewart, Chuck and Paul Carter Harrison, Jazz Files, reprint (1991) DaCapo, PB, list @ $17.95, orig.ed.1985, Little-Brown, Boston. Stock, Dennis, Jazz Street, EBAY (Item #151468819) a photographic exploration into the world of jazz by Dennis Stock. with text by Nat Hentoff. Doubleday. N.Y., 1960. 1st ed. near fine in dust wrapper with some creasing, rubbing, tears and tape reinforcement, 2 bids @ 25.49 also London, Deutsch, 1960, also London, Jazz Book Club, 1961. (Kennington) also EBAY 188777697, bound upside down, no dj, opens at $5.00 Stokes, W. Royal and Peterson, Don and Dance, Stanley, Swing Era New York; The Jazz Photographs of Charles Peterson, Hardcover, Aug 1994,Temple University Press ISBN: 1566392276 / List $49.95 also Paperback, Apr 1996, ISBN: 1566394643 / List $24.95 also EBAY #180399576, sold for $18.50 Tanner, Lee, Images of Jazz With CDROM, Compact Disc, Jan 1999, Friedman Fairfax Publishers, ISBN: 1567997201 List $32.50 Ullman, Michael, 1945- , Jazz lives : portraits in words and pictures /Washington, D.C. : New Republic Books, 1980/244 p. : ports. ; 22 cm/Discography: p. 231-244 Vail, Ken, ed., Jazz Milestones, A Pictorial Chronicle of Jazz, 1900-1990, 1993, Castle Communications. Also Paperback, Apr 1997, Omnibus Press, ISBN: 1860740502 List $24.95 Williams, Richard, JAZZ-A Photographic Documentary EBAY Item #144875595 Crescent Books. NY, 1994, Large format book filled with high quality photos of jazz greats 144p., Armstrong-Ellington-C.Parker-Mingus- Monk-Pres-M.Davis-Coltrane many many more 30p intro/appreciation of jazz $3.50 S/H, closed at 9.00 (no bids) Used @ $46.00 Bigalow Books, also EBAY Item #174053418, open at $22.00 Williams, Richard, Miles Davis: The Man In The Green Shirt, Henry Holt, HB, List @ $40.00, 1st ed., 1993 Wolff, Francis, et al, The Blue Note Years : The Jazz Photography of Francis Wolff Cuscuna, Michael and Hancock, Herbie and Schnider, Hardcover,Oct 1995, Rizzoli ISBN: 0847819124 List $65

I don't remember how I got on their mailing list, but I was lucky enough to get their mailings (pre-"brochure") from the get-go. I bought the Monk LP's. Later on I sold it (along with the Clifford Brown and Tina Brooks LP sets) when it was all out on CD.

I just upped a thread (the only JW thread here at Organissimo) on her, but then realized that it's in the "New Releases" forum. So, I decided to start another one. On the radio this morning, I heard a track called "I Remember Dexter" from her THIS SIDE UP (Maxjazz) CD. I was knocked out, and when I found out it was JW, I knew it was time I started exporing her work. Up to now, I have only heard a few things on the radio, mostly Monk material. I read on her website that she worked with Philly Joe Jones when she was still a teenager, and later was house pianist at the Keystone Korner, working with Dexter, Getz, and many other greats back in the 70's. I've been impressed by everything I've heard from her, but just have never gotten around to really checking her out. So, for any fans out there who know her work, please fill me in...

I was about to start a new Jessica Williams thread, but since I found this one I'll bring it back up for air. This morning, on KCSM, I heard a track ("I Remember Dexter") from her THIS SIDE UP (Maxjazz) CD. It was one of those things where I knew before the track was over (and before I knew who it was) that I was going to buy the CD, asap. I've known about JW for several years, and I've been impressed with what I've heard (mostly Monk material), but I've never gotten around to making a purchase or really exploring her work. That situation is going to change, very soon. If the rest of the CD is as good as the track I heard (and I expect it will be), I think I'm about to develop yet another pianist pa$$ion (I hope to God I can find some used copies, or I'm in big trouble...)

PLUNGE HEADFIRST?!?!?!?! ... no... stop... don't. Gene Wilder. Willy Wonka. Meant the opposite of what he said. I've bought 450 Brazilian CD's. 95% of them from the bastards at Dusty (aka Musty, Rusty, Crusty) Groove. I'd do it all over again (no you wouldn't). Don't listen to me.

Blindfold Test #3 was something like 79:58, and over 700 MB (somebody explain that to me, BTW). I think I should be in the Guiness book.

PLUNGE HEADFIRST?!?!?!?! ... no... stop... don't.

FWIW... Melodica Variations of this keyboard have since been manufactured by numerous companies in different regions of the world, each giving the instrument a different name i.e. pocket piano, blow accordion, melodeon, diamonica, melodyhorn, wind piano, keyboard harmonica, pianica, cassotto, etc The melodica is a free-reed instrument similar to the accordion and harmonica. It has a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. Pressing a key opens a hole, allowing air to flow through a reed. The keyboard is usually two or three octaves long. Tenor melodicas are the most common type of melodica. The left hand holds a handle on the bottom, and the right hand plays the keyboard. Tenor melodicas can be played with two hands by inserting a tube into the mouthpiece hole and placing the melodica on a flat surface. Soprano melodicas are thinner than tenors and are designed to be played with both hands at once; the left hand plays the black keys, and the right hand plays the white keys. Popular melodica manufacturers include Hohner, Samick, and Bestler.