mikeweil

I counted 14 or 15 sessions Lucky did during his first stay in Paris, recorded between February 22 and May 11, 1956, issued on 9 different LP's or EP's, all of them issued under his name! More than pretty much any other American in Europe did in such a short time! His second stay yielded 12 more sessions between June 1957 and Spring 1961, not counting those in other European countries (another 3 or 4), but this time only 4 were released under his name. There was another stay between 1968 and 1970 with LPs in Germany and Spain and live recordings from Switzerland. B-3er, Lucky quit playing music because of his frustration with the business side of music. For a while he lived in a cabin in the woods, even on the streets of Seattle; last report I found was he was in an insititution in the Seattle area with no more remembrance he once was a great jazz musician. But it's hard to find definite details. There were some (probably deleted) posts on the BNBB about this.

Lucky will always be among my top five tenor saxists. I recommend: - Tricotism (Impulse) - his complete ABC sessions, either trio with Pettiford and Skeeter Best, or quintet with Jimmy Cleveland and Osie Johnson added; the trios are sublime - the Paris dates, especially the ones with Emmett Berry and Guy Lafitte on the recent Americans Swinging In Paris CD; - the sessions with Kenny Clarke and Martial Solal in the same series - the session with Solal recently reissued on High Note - the unearthed Candid session with Solal and Klook - the Groove Merchant sides - the sessions with Milt Jackson, two each on Atlantic and Savoy, the latter scattered over four LPs - his late 1940s / early 1950s sides for RCA Victor and Decca but I never heard him play a bad note ....

Don Patterson is among my top five favourite organists. Never heard a bad recording of his. I always found him the closest to Horace Silver of all organists, especially as a composer. I think he inspired Sonny Stitt to some of his best playing. B-3er, what do you think of the take on The Good Life on the Muse LP with Richie Cole?

Yeah, that's really cool and radically democratic! This is it: Ask the people instead of deciding over their heads!"

I hung around at the All About Jazz Forum for a few days, probably will continue, but I just voted for this forum as the prime successor to the Blue Note Bulletin Board. I'll try to lure as many people over here as possible. I requested an Audio Talk department a scant 12 hours ago, and there you are: this is board maintenance. The longer I think about it, the angrier I get: It is their board ... would be nothing without us posters. No creative input into the board by the Blue note people themselves ... okay, they have work to do, but they could have cared just a little more. Just to remove that stuff without warning is to destroy an enormous wealth of valuable information. Thanks a thousand times, welcome at the new home.

The only thing missing is a type of "Audio Talk". Maybe we title it "Jazz Engineering" and try to lure Jim Anderson over here ...

Great Job! Now let's see which is going to be our safety copy, this or All About Jazz ..... All a-board here as well: our gateway to the world of real music ..... B)