mikeweil

from this box:

..... from the Bill Evans Verve box set

"Little Niles" and "Hi-Fly" may well lead the list ... These are the performances of "Little Niles" I find in the Lord disco: Randy Weston, 1956, Riverside Donald Byrd, 1957, Columbia Herbie Mann, 1957, Epic Oscar Pettiford, 1957, ABC George Shearing, 1958, Capitol Abbey Lincoln, 1958,Riverside Randy Weston, 1958, United Artists Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross, 1959, World Pacific Emil Richards, 1960?, Del-Fi The Three-Out, 1960, Columbia (Australia) Paul Serrano, 1960, Riverside Jack Brokensha, 1963, Savoy Dollar Brand, 1966, BlackLion Eugen Cicero, 1965, MPS Phineas Newborn Jr., 1969, Contemporary Phil Woods, 1976, RCA Victor Gemeente Reinigungsorkest, 1980, BV Haast Horace Tapscott, 1982, Nimbus Mark Murphy, 1982, Muse Kenny Barron, 1982, Baybridge Alejandro Espinosa, 1984, AE (Chile) Phil Woods, 1984, Red Soesja Citoen, 1986, Timeless Urs Voerkel, 1987, Percaso Art Lande, 1987, Great American Music Hall etc. - a total of 82 peformances, Weston's included. True - that's why Rodney Kendrick's selections were so important - IIRC Weston was his mentor. Some label now should contract him to do a Randy Weston tribute. Hi Fly is listed 151 times (Weston's recordings included).

In memory of a great pianist and a wonderful human being, my favourite album of Randy Weston:

The Frankfurt gig at the Palmengarten concert series was with Rolf Lüttgens (piano), Günther Hermes (bass guitar, the model Paul MCartney used to play, of all things), and Ralf Hübner (drums). Pony was in good form and shape that day. If you can find that tape and digitalize it, that would be nice. If you remember the date and personnel I can incllude it in the discography.

Noting human beings make is for eternity, data included. We only can keep the essence in our minds and pass that on. Not even texts careved in stone are safe. As far as tape and other storage media are concerned, I was aware the timeswould come. When I think of the many great books that have vanished, or great musical moments that weren't even recorded. John Cage once said, people think, when they have the record, they have the music. But they only have the record. He was right. We always want to keep and collect things, but in the end .... my best friend had a large book and CD collection, but when he died, he had left no will, and most of it was dumped. Just one example ..... fires, warfare, earthquakes .... I'm in tears when I think about all the stuff that was destroyed. But that seems to be part of life. So much for the philosophical aspects. Not to talk abot the economical: who will pay for all that storage? When I think about all the problems libraries, archives, and museums have ...

All of Moody's Prestige. Argo etc. LPs are simply enjoyable music. Still have to get me some of them, but what I have is so nice ...

R.I.P., eternal thanks for the music, and enjoy the everlasting jam session in heaven I am sure you are going to call ..... Saw him once in a unique piano duo with Abdullah Ibrahim - he was such an impressive, sweet appearance ...... so was his music.

Gary McFarland arrangeents:

Thanks, ordered a copy!

Pulled some old photo albums - I saw and heard Poindexter play in Frankfurt on August 28, 1975 - 43 years ago, almost to the day. If I can pull them photos out without damaging them I will scan and post some.

Back to topic: The new double CD includes some alternates, but five tracks recorded for MGM and one for Clef remain unissued (are they lost?), and I'm not sure about a few others that obviously were issued on a Clef EP in different takes. Still waiting for my copy to find out whether the liner notes say anything about these. So, except for the alternates, nothing I do not already have on LP, but it's nice to have them on CD.

The new box includes a massive error: The first track titled" Felicade" is in fact Luiz Bonfa's "Felicidade"

The "lost" Tadd Dameron session:

Probably posted already .....

Wonderful! A befriended harpsichord player alerted me to her crowdfunding campaign to the follow-up CD with more English music, but I was curious and ordered this one - a really great performance. Here's a link to her crowdfunding page - scroll down for English version: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cd-postproduktion-veroffentlichung#/

This one, perhaps?

This makes me want to hear the Verve studio LP recorded a few days later (not with the MJQ who were on Prestige at the time).

Up - can someone with ears to hear the difference between Pony and Cannonball please listen to that album?

Slightly off topic - has anyone heard this live recording: " On Sunday, February 21st, 1971, a benefit was held in New York's Carnegie Hall for Swami Satchidanda's Integral Yoga Institute, featuring Laura Nyro, the New Rascals and Alice Coltrane's All-Stars. The latter band was a remarkable coming-together of talent, with Lady Trane joined by legends such as Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and Jimmy Garrison on stupendous form (with a little assistance from members of the Yoga Institute). The astounding performance of John Coltrane's Africa on this set, broadcast on WQXR-FM, finds them improvising thrillingly, and is accompanied by background notes and images. Alice Coltrane (piano, harp) Pharoah Sanders (tenor sax, soprano sax, flute, percussion, fife) Archie Shepp (tenor sax, soprano sax, percussion) Tulsi (tamboura) Kumar Kramer (harmonium) Jimmy Garrison (bass) Cecil McBee (bass) Clifford Jarvis (drums) Ed Blackwell (drums) " That album, btw, was reissued as SACD on Dutton Vocalion.

I hope you ordered the Gambit version, which has longer edits. A little more than one minute more, mostly end themes, which were edited off on the first release on Royal Jazz. This was Poindexter's gig, one of the first after he had arrived in Europe. René Thomas plays his ass off on this one.

Got the Fresh Sound reissue on CD today - nice surprise. This 1972 date would have fitted nicely into the Prestige catalogue of the time. The girl on the cover is Pony Poindexter's daughter Deana, who even sings a bit on twp tracks. Her dad taught her to sing along with the themes.