mikeweil

R.I.P., and many thanks for the great work!

Since most links in older posts are dead, here are new YouTube links to the videos showing Tjader's band live:

The "James Joyce of Jive" has left us ..... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/obituaries/jon-hendricks-96-who-brought-a-new-dimension-to-jazz-singing-dies.html He made me love vocalese and scat singing - R.I.P. There may have been better singers, technically, but ..... “I wrote the shortest jazz poem ever heard,” he once wrote by way of explaining his philosophy. “Nothin’ about huggin’ or kissin’. One word: ‘Listen.’ ”

A fellow board member loaned me his VHS tape and I transferred it to avi format. It's not the best quality, but if you really want it I think we can figure out a way ...

Me neither. All I found so far (thanks to another board member) is a copy of The Big Beat with a scene with Tjader's band, and a few live videos of the band at various stages that Duncan Reid had been given by Poncho Sanchez - most of this is on YouTube. What I am the most curious about is the music Tjader wrote (but not played) for the movie Hot Car Girl.

IIRC this was Andy Narrell's debut - such a nice sound combination with soprano sax and steel drum.

Hunting for that one myself!

I think every one of us has more than a few records with him - I really started to like his playing when I heard him with Ron Carter's quartet on the Piccolo double LP. Heard his playing with Monk only much later. Barron, Carter and Riley were a great rhythm team. R.I.P. My recommendation is this CD, which has excellent recorded sound.

Sorry to hear this - still have his first LP: Will try to find the time to give it a spin tomorrow.

My wife and I saw him perform someof these concertos last night, but with a differnt, larger ensemble - with his own group it all isa bit more to the point. We are looking forward to hear him again in February, this time with the musicians from the CD.Due to the problems of hearing a harpsichord properly in modern, larger concert halls, you will enjoy him perfectly when listening to this CD at natural volume. The program notes were full of annoying mistakes, wrong portraits of compsers depicted, and the false attribution of the f minor concerto to Wilhelm Friedemann Bach - it was written by a youthful Johann Christian in Berlin and worked over by his brother Carl Philipp Emanuel. If you love the harpsichord concertos of Bach and his sons, get this disc, it is excellent.

Columbia KG 31617 - https://www.discogs.com/Teddy-Wilson-Teddy-Wilson-And-His-All-Stars/master/704693 Or this one? CBS/Sony ‎– SOPW-9 10 - https://www.discogs.com/Teddy-Wilson-The-Teddy-Wilson/release/10816999

Here's the Paris clip in better quality: And here is one obviously from a later date - any idea who the tenor player is? I do not trust that guy's dates - could that be from the London dates in late 1958? A clip of Bey singing with Horace Silver's group:

The RCA Victor Lp was reissued on Blue Moon, along with some bonus tracks; the single the group did for RCA with Ray Ellis directing; The two tracks recorded in Paris in 1959 for Fontana, with Kenny Dorham and Barney Wilen; and two tracks done for the same label in London. Info here: https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/andy-bey-and-the-bey-sisters-albums/5730-andy-bey-and-the-bey-sisters-bonus-tracks.html But there is more: I just received a copy of a Fontana 45 not listed in any discography: According to a reliable source about Fontana singles issue dates this was released in January, 1959 - before the Paris session held on April 15, 1959. I found a total of six tracks recorded in London, issued on various singles and EPs and partly with the two Paris tracks mixed in. Four of them so far were not on any CD reissue. The Lord discography does not list them either. There was an EP sold on amazon that says the London tracks were recorded with a group led by British pianist Ken Jones. Besides that, there is a session with Kenny Clarke recently rediscovered, for Metropole in Paris. I will be investigating into Andy Bey's recordings before 1970 ....

The reissue of Dorothy Ashby's Atlantic album was new to me (although I had a download on some hard disc, which I never listened to), and is in constant rotation:

Yesterday's and today's playlist:

Ordered a single from the late 1950's by Andy & the Bey Sisters on UK Fontana - couldn't find it in any discography. Must have look into my vintage printed Bruyninckx discography in the basement tomorrow ...

The opening track, Melanctha, makes me wish Brubeck had recorded a trio album with Wright and Morello - I love this track!

He's on these Franco Abrosetti sessions from 2014 and 2017 (haven't heard them):

Which of Dizzy's many versions are you referring to? On the first 1954 version there was no interlude. You mean the interlude on the version with Stitt and Rollins? To me that sounds like a Cuban type figure I have heard elsewhere.

The most recent Lonehill CDs that I can find date from 2012.

I didn't mean Pujol, just the label Lonehill not being used any more. That would indicate Fresh Sound / Blue Moon just distribute Lonehill or sell their CDs throught their webshop but do not run it. There is a number of labels of that kind they do not sell, like Solar, Essential Jazz Classics, and others, we should not throw them into one pot just because they are European labels reissuing public domain material.