mikeweil

Some of the best playing of Joe's I ever heard was when he took part in a re-incarnation of George Gruntz' Noon In Tunisia project - it was performed at the German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt and recorded by the local radio, who is part responsible for that festival. They should release that on CD - Joe was brilliant in that context, his own version of the sheets of sounds perfectly fitted into the Arabian context.

That's another sad story of song pirating - Red Top is a nice tune. R.I.P.

Cornelius Bumpus Monk Montgomery

Big Beat Steve sent me a copy of his Pacific 603 shellac - and as I expected, this is identical to the version on 4 Star 1294. So the Nick Esposito discography needs to be corrected, and this item of course must be removed from the Cal Tjader discography. Thanks a lot to Steve!

The drummer was Billy Brooks on this 1977 LP - he and Jimmy Woode are on the 1970 MPS LP recorded live at the legendary Jazz Galerie in Berlin. I can't recall at which occasion I saw Pauer live - perhaps with George Coleman?

You'd never buy that one used ...

I'd rather use "Four In One". Or "Trinkle, Tinkle". Did it shout "Guarachi Guaro" too?

Has the discussion thread been opened?

How did ya?

Sexy hat! Nice album, too ...

Very sad news. IMHO, one of the best European pianists, writer of plenty good tunes, and a player with a very nice groove. Always enjoyed his recordings. Must give his fine trio LP on EGO Water Plants a spin this evening ...

That's exactly the way I understand it!

Congrats to the Spanish team. They started the tournament a bit tentative, but the final was great! What they did to the Italian team and Balotelli in particular was close to humiliation.

That's great!!! I hope my band fellows will read this thread and watch this! That's what it is about!

Okay, will do - I was wondering ....

Up - I need to to answer these questions about the Empty Ballroom Blues versions soon as we have a September deadline for the discographical researches. Big Beat Steve - did you download the version I linked above (that link still works) and compare to the Pacific 78 you have? Thanks a lot - as I said it is getting urgent ...

I thought there was a difference between British and English.

Nice article by Malcolm Shaw. http://rustbooks.com/articles/articles.php

I'm afraid most jazz musicians never heard the original and play a faint rememberance of the Getz records they heard. Or they play these tunes from faulty fake book transscriptions - at least that is what I experienced with musicians over here. I have to work hard with my current band to get a bit closer to the originals. That Brazilian feel and phrasing is much more different from jazz phrasings than one might think, and you don't learn it overnight. Many do not care for those rhythmic intricacies in the melodic phrases.

Anyone remember the hot discussion when a track from what could be taken as Harry Allen's Stan Getz tribute was included in a Blindfold Test? IMHO this album shows a thorough knowledge of Brazilian music, deeper than Getz' when he recorded his first bossa nova albums (as great as he was), and indeed shows an inventive approach. When I remind myself how many saxists copy John Coltrane or Joe Henderson or Ernie Watts or Michael Brecker licks, I can't blame him. He does it well. I saw Scott Hamilton live last year and was disappointed, one lame quote from older players after the next, without any trace of the fire of the originals. On that Allen CD pictured, I hear a lot of fire. There's room for many ways of playing jazz

... darned typos ... at least, a funny one, and typically Germon ...

Up - how's the Patterson session? Maybe if it is still around by the time I get my tax refund ...