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  1. In the 23 October 1961 issue of Billboard, Jimmy Jungerman wrote:  “The Jimmy Giuffre Three tour Germany and Austria in October and November.  They start in Frankfurt, Germany, and will visit Rheda, Essen, Kassel, Kaiserslautern, Germany; Graz, Linz, Vienna, Austria; Homberg, Dusseldorf, Bad Homburg, Stuttgart, Bonn, Cologne, Saarbrucken, Tubingen, Mannheim, Nuremburg, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Aachen, Bremen, Hanover, Germany”. 

    Somebody needs to write a (800-page?) biography of Giuffre.

  2. 28 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

    No. Composer George Russell's wife was Juanita Odejnar. (He named a piece after her, which was recorded at the same session s "Ezzthetic.") After that marriage came to an end, Juanita married Giuffre.

    There is some evidence that Giuffre had something with Vivien Garry.  On page 18 of the 25 January 1952 issue of Down Beat there is a photo entitled “Lighthouse Gang Illumines Lecture.”  Below the photo it says:

    “For his lecture on progressive jazz in his Survey of Jazz course at UCLA, Nesuhi Ertegun brought a sample of the real thing for his students’ edification. Group was Howard Humsey’s [sic], from the Lighthouse cafe at Hermosa Beach, and included trombonist Milt Bernhart; trumpeter Shorty Rogers, tenorist Jimmy Giuffre; pianist bassist Rumsey, and durmmer Shelley Manne.  Lady at the left is Mrs. Giuffre, better known to record collectors as Vivien Garry. She assisted with some examples of vocal stylings.”

    I believe Giuffre married several times.  Juanita was his last wife.

    The Down Beat item is available on the Internet Archive.

    https://archive.org/

  3. 7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

    I first heard about her when Ernie Bubbles Whitman announced her sittin´ in with the Billy Eckstine Big Band, I think the tune is "´Deed I do" . Well it is not as boppish as the rest of the recordings, but we always enjoyed it, when that Spotlite album "Together" came out. 

    I assume you mean this tune:

     

  4. 1 hour ago, mjzee said:

    I always thought Dark Side Of The Moon was a smoke dope in college/test out your stereo album.

    I knew that response was coming - I have heard it many times.  I first heard Dark Side of the Moon long before college and I was not smoking dope.

  5. 11 hours ago, felser said:

    1973 was a lousy year for rock music in a lot of ways, quality fell off a cliff.  Horribly disappoint album by the Allman Bros. (Brothers and Sisters - hope I never hear "Rambin' Man" again), horribly disappointing album by the Rolling Stones (Goat's Head Soup), horribly disappointing album by Chicago (VI), horrible album by Grand Funk (We're An American Band), etc.  Good year for Soul/R&B, but rock fell off a cliff.  Over-Nite Sensation fit right in with the slop.

    Well...I remember 1973 as the year Led Zeppelin released Houses of the Holy (not lousy at all).  1973 was also the year that Dark Side of the Moon appeared - I have not heard the Pink Floyd album in years but I still have it memorized.

  6. A video of the Beatles captured by Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department during the British rock band's 1966 tour to Japan has been disclosed.

    The release came after a disclosure request filed with the MPD eight years ago by a nonprofit organization working to promote information disclosure in the city of Nagoya and a related lawsuit. The faces of people in the video, excluding the Beatles members, have been censored by the police department.

    The silent 35 minute 40 second black-and-white video was captured between June 29 and July 3, 1966, when the Beatles stayed in Japan, and is titled "security operations during the Beatles' visit to Japan."

    https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/03/entertainment-news/beatles-video/

    A few days after the visit of the Beatles, John Coltrane arrived.

  7. I don't know how many of you already know this about "media mail" - a lady working the counter at the post office that I use told me that each media mail package is opened (by USPS) to verify that it has the type of contents that it is supposed to have.  I told her I was sending only a CD and she said it had to be a CD bought at a store - it could not be a CD made at home.  I asked her if the package will be resealed after it is opened, and she said yes.  I received a tracking number for my package, but I will not start checking the tracking until at least a week from now.

  8. What I most wanted to read in Bley's autobiography was his description/analysis/reflection/etc. of his time as a pianist with Jimmy Giuffre in the early 1960s.  The topic begins at the bottom of page 75 and ends in the middle of page 79.  Page 78 has only a photo.  On page 79, Bley concludes: "The two most important figures in the early days of avant garde jazz were both composers and reed players: Ornette Coleman and Jimmy Giuffre."   I would have liked to read a bit more on the topic.

  9. 3 hours ago, OliverM said:

    Stopping Time, Paul Bley's autobiography with David Lee is hard to find, at least in Europe. Would really enjoy reading it, if ever anyone has tips to find a copy.

    In France, the book appears to be at:

    http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/cbs/xslt/CMD?DB=2.1&ACT=SRCHA&PRS=HOL&HLIB=861942101&IKT=8910&TRM=868808381

    I read the book many years ago - I thought the book was good but I had the impression it could/should have been twice as long.

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