Jim R

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.

Or, with this instrument? (now that I've read some of the other posts, it begins to become clearer... I own this CD )

Beats the hell outta me. My Google search actually turned up quite a variety of gadgets (some with hoses, some without) that apparently all qualify as "melodicas". Anyway, I guess I'm like you- when it comes to melodicas, I'm "old school" (no hosin' around). THAT'S what I'm talkin' about! 1959 melodica jammin', baby! B)

I was about to start reading this thread, and the word "melodica" came into my head. So, my compulsion for Googling kicked in immediately, and here's a couple examples of the family if toys- er, instruments - that I was thinking about for track 13: Maybe this has already been discussed. NOW I'm going to read this thread and try to catch up!!

Wow, I feel like I'm late to the party, but I just finished listening through for the first time, so here goes... Got my disc over the weekend, and will now spin it and take down some impressions as I listen... 1. My initial reaction to this (I have no idea what it is) is that it sounds like it could have been from a soundtrack, perhaps a spy thriller in an urban setting. As the piece develops, some of the unusual sounds that are incorporated make me a little less sure about that. Anyway, as a piece of music unto itself, it does very little for me... I find myself wanting to watch an old spy movie... 2. Wow- cool arrangement. This isn’t the type of thing I normally listen to, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard this, but it holds my interest a lot more than track 1 did. I’m not getting a real sense of a place and (or) time, either. It doesn’t strike me as definitively 60’s, or 70’s, etc. I find this refreshing, and it tells me that this is the sort of composing and arranging that will stand the test of time. Still wouldn’t say it’s my favorite type of music (I tend to prefer small groups), but this is pretty nice. 3. This is hitting me much in the same way as #2. I like this too, even if I’m not getting any real clues as to who and what this is. It reminds me a bit of some of the Mingus stuff I’ve heard. It occurs to me that this was very brief, as were the first two tracks. I actually would have liked to hear this stretched out a bit more... more from the alto player. I was just getting curious, and it was over! I’ll have to come back to this later. 4. This is tasty... that piano sounds familiar somehow... a Monk influence going on, but not quite Monkian enough to be Monk. I like all the elements of this, and this composition has a familar ring to it as well, but again I’m not really getting a strong sense of who this is. Not yet.... and #5 is starting up, so on I go... 5. Gerry Mulligan? CJB? I don’t own that, but that would be my guess. Ditto my last sentence on #2. 6. Wait a minute... here’s another one that reminds me of that spy movie feel. Very late night, roaming the empty streets, hip 50’s kind of feeling going on here. I haven’t a clue who this is, and maybe that’s because I was never much of a movie buff... 7. I love the opening, nice chords, and dig that unison line (something is reminding me of Oliver Nelson). Ah, another baritone sax. I like the sound of the vibes comping for the solos here. Great work by the bassist, and the drummer as well. Extremely well executed stuff. This may be my favorite track so far. 8. There it is AGAIN! Except this time it’s a little more laid back, a la The Pink Panther kind of sound. Again, this isn’t the type of music I sit down to listen to on the stereo, but I’ve heard quite a bit of it in film over the years, and I sometimes wonder why I don’t look for more recordings like this, because I do enjoy it. Wow, that one was brief, too. Kind of the opposite of the stretching out that was evident on Randy’s test! 9. This is a little different- very spare/sparse. Hmmm... whoa- it’s over! That’s getting a little TOO brief, IMO. It’s like filler. Anyway, I would have enjoyed more. No clue. 10. Another branch of the large ensemble tree where I am relatively ignorant. Tito Puente? Hmm, an english lyric. I don’t recognize the singer or the song. This one doesn’t do much for me, unfortunately. I appreciate the passion in the tenor solo, but overall it’s a little too loose for me. 11. I like this a little better than #10, but still not really my cup o’ tea. Very brief again. 12. This theme I recognize, but I’m not going to be able to call the name. I may even own this one... very nice midrange tenor tone (Mobleyesque in that sense, but.... ? no bells are going off). The piano solo strikes me as tenative, as if the player wasn’t really comfortable with this piece. There’s that theme again... I should know this... (and I have a feeling this is my one chance to avoid a complete goose egg! arg...) 13. Very interesting piece. I’m giving this one a second listen now, since my thoughts couldn’t keep up the first time through. First of all, what is that instrument that takes the first solo? At first I thought it was a harmonica, but now it sounds more like one of those (pardon the expression) “toys” that you blow into and has a little keyboard (with buttons too, like an accordion has?). Man, I’m struggling on this one. Anyway, it doesn’t sound like a toy in this player’s hands (just as a harmonica doesn’t sound like a toy in Toots’ hands). Very cool sound. I don’t know the alto player, and the salsa (?) rhythm passage only adds to the intimidation I feel in trying to guess who this might be. Nice piano work. I like the melody, as well as the overall structure of this. Really nice music. 14. The accordian is an instrument that I’ve come to appreciate more and more in recent years. I won’t go into why, but basically I just think it’s time for people to stop bashing it all the time (go ahead and bash polka music, but not the accordian ). This track has a very appealing sound to my ears. Not sure I’ve ever heard this particular instrumentation, with accordian, electric guitar and vibes. This works for me- very nice texture. Nice melody again. This track wasn’t as brief as some of the previous tracks, but again I would have liked to hear just a bit more stretching out (more from the guitarist would have been nice). I’m anxious to know more about this one! 15. I like the “feel” and the “mood” on this more than the actual composition and the solos. Relative to the previous tracks, this doesn’t quite draw me in as much. Still interesting and listenable, though. 16. Ditto my opening comment on #15. The overall mood is appealing to me, and in general this is highly listenable, but the “guts” (the writing and the execution) don’t really knock me out. Very pleasant, something I wouldn’t be quick to shut off, but probably not something I would rush out to buy. This one put me in the mind of a soundtrack sample right away. 17. My reaction is almost identical to #16, except that this one was too brief. In this respect, and in this context (music that reminds me of film soundtrack material), I’m reminded of some of the soundtracks I have had (or still have), where it was not unusual to see very short pieces (say, 1 minute in length) were interspersed with longer pieces. While the shorter pieces might be very nice, I almost always tend to forget about them more easily and more quickly... but I’m sure they have their role in the films in which they were used. They work better “In context” than they do on their own (although this disc as a whole is starting to take on a nice personality of its own!) 18. Is this Miles, Barney Wilen, et al, from Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud? Brief! 19. This one sounds familiar. A little less fitting with the “soundtrack” feel of the previous selections, although it certainly could have been used in a film. The tenor sounds much more familiar to me than the trumpet (which doesn’t sound familiar at all to me right now...). The chops and the playfulness remind me of Clark Terry somewhat. 20. I’m one who does go in for jazz vocalists more than most board members, but I’m also pretty picky about what I like. This tune is a nice swinger, but the vocalist comes up short for me. I have a feeling he’s not a fulltime singer (no law against that, but I’m just making the observation). Not terrible, but not quite together either. I don’t really have a very discerning ear for organists, but overall this track doesn’t strike me as being all that heavy duty (I don’t recognize the guitar player either, which doesn’t really surprise me, as there have been so many groups like this over the years). Nothing really outstanding on this track, for my taste... and I would say that this didn’t really fit too well with the most of the selections on the disc. As I progressed through this CD, I began to realize that I am going to want to keep listening to this, think about some of the film music I have passed by (or allowed to pass me by), and pay close attention to the answers when they’re revealed. From time to time I’ve thought about investigating more soundtrack music (domestic as well as foreign, as I’ve seen quite a few interesting mini-essays at Dusty Groove!), and this disc could be a catalyst in that regard, whenever I reach a point where I’m ready to follow another new musical path. MANY thanks to Vint for putting together this very interesting and tasty disc! Now to go look and see if anybody was as clueless as I was. ========== Edited for a couple of typos

According to several studies by some of the leading behavioral scientists in the world, the problems of over-posting (as well as under-posting) often go unnoticed, and can lead to serious health issues. Naturally, the numbers vary a bit from study to study, but on average, they generally agree that a healthy, normal, well-adjusted person who joined this board around the time of its inception should currently be somewhere in the general neighborhood of 700 posts (give or take a few, of course). I rarely look at my own totals, so I'll have to take a look and see where I am after I finish this post...

I tend to agree. It seems totally logical that at least some tape exists (they even played together at the '61 Monterey festival), but it would be nice to see/hear some more concrete evidence after all these years...

I (still) wonder if he (or anyone) has actually heard it. Did he mention it at all in the text of his book?

No, there are (at least) two, the 2002 edition (int'l edition #1) which I posted a link to above; and the 2003 edition which Mr. Crawford sent to me (Miles on the cover). I don't know if there is (or will be) a 2004 edition, but I suspect so.

I recently ordered some Steeplechase discs from Stateside Distributors in Chicago (recommended- you can e-mail Peter Crawford at Stateside@prodigy.net). Along with the CD's, Peter sent me a copy of the Danish magazine "Jazz Special", 2nd international edition, 2003-110 pages, high gloss cover (great b&w photo of Miles by Jan Persson), high quality printing (even the ads are beautiful), and numerous articles (with great photos) on a wide range of jazz and blues artists (Doug Raney, Svend Asmussen, Ben Webster, Bud Powell, Idrees Sulieman, Wild Bill Davison, Sonny Boy Williamson (#2), Caecile Norby, Marylin Mazur, Thomas Clausen, and others; a blindfold test with Chris Minh Doky; a feature on the Storyville label, and much more. Not your average "filler" with a CD order! Has anybody else seen this? I guess they put out a bi-monthly issue for several years prior to these annual international editions. Anyway, the first international edition can be viewed online (you need Acrobat Reader 5), at: Jazz Special #1. The main website is at: Jazz Special =========== Edit: BTW, I forgot to check if this has already been discussed, so apologies if it has...

The only reference I recall (here at Org) was that trading site that Dan Gould posted about, where somebody had it listed. I don't recall the details now, but as far as anybody knew, it still hadn't been "circulated"... which is why I'll remain skeptical for now...

Don't know the answer, Late, but I Googled the image anyway: Dizzy Gillespie and Ornette Coleman performing at the Lord Buckley Benefit at the Jazz Gallery. December 5, 1960 Bob Parent / Archive Photos

Two threads... 50 years each... 50 + 50 = 100... HEY, LET'S NOT KILL THIS GUY OFF!!

Bev, why don't we just come out and say what's really wrong with this list? ... ... No Louis Stewart?

Doug wasn't born yet (came along in Aug. '56)

I'll disagree (and object) slightly. Vocal jazz may be less popular in some circles (such as this board), and generally less popular than it used to be, but in terms of the entire history of the music I think it's more important than you're making it out to be. "A primarily instrumental music"... that has kind of a false ring to it. Jazz is certainly not "primarily instrumental" by definition, and even if you're simply saying that there are more instrumentalists than singers, putting it that way seems a bit unfairly exclusionary (to singers). The human voice, as an instrument, is just one category among many categories of "instruments", so of course it's in a minority compared to the whole range of instruments used. I hope that made sense. Again, it's only a slight objection, as I do see some truth in what you said.