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Here's a guy who never seems to get any recognition, but he pre-dates Konitz, recorded several LPs as a leader, and look at his sideman credits: http://www.the-aleecat.com/aaron_sachs3.html

Thanks for the link! IMHO, the greatest jazz improvisers had the ability to think of and execute high quality lines at tempos the reast of us can only open our mouths and say, "huh?

Bloomie might seem like he has his heart in the right place, because his PR machine is so extensive. He owns TV channels, a magazine, a news service, a financial terminal that every financial company has to rent monthly (if you do something he doesn't like, he simply won't let you rent it), and he's mayor of NYC. What gets out is what he wants to get out. In the last election, the vote was split down the middle- 52% white vote for him, and 48% everyone else for Thompson, whom he smeared like he's doing to John Liu now. Since he assumed mayoral control of the city's schools, I've been his employee for twelve years, and there's not one teacher I know that isn't praying for his term to end. He's destroyed the education of an entire generation of children, so he can privatize the school system, and bring down the union. He's done this by closing down almost every HS in the city (now he's closing down all the elementary and middle schools), and re-opening them as charter schools that only admit the highest performing students. The remaining public schools get the lowest performing students, and are composed largely of Special Ed. and ESL students. I wonder which schools are going to perform better? At my HS, we were graduating kids that weren't even ready for the tenth grade, not to say college, because he ordered principals to pass 80% of the students, regardless of their grades. If a teacher didn't comply with this, they would receive a "U" rating, and eventually get their license taken away. There were FIVE lawsuits by teachers against the principal of my HS at last count, even though they had to fire her because of incompetence, anyway. You can ask any CUNY teacher, and they'll tell you that the percentage of NYC students that need remediatial classes is 80%, in the schools they can even get accepted by. Even NYC residents know nothing about this (my niece works for him in the gov't, and she isn't aware of this), because he has contributed to every media outlet, and they're all beholden to him. Sure, he's for gun control- he's probably afraid someone's going to shoot him!

What? You mean he's not going to be serving a fourth term?

Thank you, Colin! You won't regret this. I have my lab set up with endless loops of Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Babbitt, Boulez, Riegger, etc... Now, if we could just get your signature on some of our release forms, we could get started by the beginning of next week. No, don't bother to read them; they're really just dull, legalistic forms, absolving us of all responsibility for whatever uh, consequenses of our little study... We'll send the Krugermobile to pick the little tyke up bright and early Monday morning. No, don't thank us; remember, there is SCIENCE, and then there is everything else... Doctor Warren Kruger

Has anyone heard the BE "Book' LP (i forgot which one) with Frank Strozier on it? Does FS get a lot of blowing time on it?

"The Letters of William Gaddis", new on Dalkey Archive Press.

Actually, that would make a fascinating idea for an experiment. Expose a baby to only atonal music for their first five years of life. Then, expose them to tonal music and see what their reaction is. Anyone got a kid we can use? starthrower- I didn't mean to imply that you were "shoving your taste down the kid's throat". I'm afraid I was guilty of doing that, and it didn't go too well...

"A Jazz Journey with Rusty Dedrick and the Ten Man Band" only $1.00! Plays perfectly, but the jacket has come apart. The used record store I frequent throws stuff in the $1.00 bin based on condition of the jacket; they usually clean all their records. I've gotten some great deals in the 30 years I've shopped there, including turntables, amps, VCRs, cassette decks, books and magazines.

Yea, I've had close to 20 years experience trying to expose inner-city kids to jazz, and if you try to shove your taste in music down their throats, they'll puke all over you. While I've only worked with HS kids, I think it's safe to say that Bloomberg's twelve years of mayoral control of the NYC school system has ensured that these HS kids will be operating at a ten year-old mentality until they take their college remedial classes... in any event, for the non-musician kids I taught, the only jazz that they would spontaneously go crazy over was "Sing,Sing,Sing" by the BG BB. As soon as they heard Krupa's drum beat, they'd go nuts!

According to Pepper Adams, he got fired from Miles Davis' group, because he used to play Miles' solos along with Miles every night. In other words, Miles was playing the same solos every night when he played with him. A friend of mine saw Bill Evans play in Boston once, and sat right next to the stand, so he could hear them talking to each other. They finished a tune, and then they didn't know what to play next. Eddie Gomez said, "Gee, Bill, we just finished the last tune on your list of tunes; what do we play now?" Bill seemed dumbfounded, "I don't know Eddie; what do you think we should do?" Eddie said, "Why don't we just go back to the top of the list?" Bill said, "That's a good idea, Eddie." And that's what they did.

Thanks for posting! Is that demo of the Montgomery Bros. playing "Love For Sale" on any records or CDs?

Thanks, Pete! I bought the Manhattan Septette CD on a two CD set that included the great Barry Galbraith LP "Guitar and the Wind", which also featured Costa and Bobby Jaspar.

This reminds me, I've never been able to find the Oscar Pettiford group that Eddie Costa played in as a sideman. I know they recorded at least one song,"Taking a Chance On Love" as a trio. I know EC did that tune with Tal, and on the "Live At Newport ,1957" LP, but this was under OP's name. Anyone know what LP it came from, or if it's been re-issued on CD? TIA

Great stuff, thanks for posting! I think you meant a Dm11 in the last measure of the 6th line; you have a Bm11.

Just kidding, JETman, but I've heard a lot worse than that from some of their DJs...

But Larry, we all know from Jetman's proclamation that PS, and all those genius Ivy league student volunteers from Columbia never make mistakes, and obviously know everything about jazz. After all, it's a "college radio station". It had to be a janitor sitting in for one of the "delicate geniuses", while they were busy studying for their medical school finals...

That LP that featured the live version of "All About Rosie", "A Modern Jazz Concert", featured an attempt at integrating improvisation with extended compositions by the likes of Harold Shapero("On Green Mountain"), Russell, Giuffre, and Schuller, with improvisations by Evans, Farmer and other adventurous East Coast players back in '58. Giuffre's "Lyric Pieces for Clarinet and String Orchestra", often blurs the line between composition and improvisation. Most of the soloists on the Teddy Charles LP "Russia Goes Jazz" just play in their usual style on jazz adaptations of Russian classical pieces, but Jimmy Giuffre seems to do a vulcan mind meld with Stravinsky on "Firebird" and plays a solo that Igor himself would have grooved to...

A little known fact was that DM was featured improvising on the soundtrack to Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner". I was surprised at how retro- DM's playing was on "It's Morrisey...Man!" I expected more of a Tubby thing.

What I loved about IF was their ability to groove in time signatures other than 4/4. I bought the "Fall-Out" CD and loved it! TS was the best straight-ahead jazz guitarist in the UK back then. It was produced by his admirer Scott Walker(!) whose band TS used to direct back then. I know the McDuff LP, but haven't found it yet... I sent to the UK for TS' latest CD, "Tenderly" and was surprised to find him playing like Mullin and Wes, only with his thumb. It's very much like the Wes trio with Melvin Rhyne. I know TS had a bad accident many years ago; I hope it didn't affect his incredible plectrum technique...

Here's Dick, Terry, Dave Quincy and the boys back in 1970. Dick is doing his Rahsaan impersonation, and TS sounds like he just discovered the wah-wah.; - ) The title refers to Jack McDuff, who was in the recording studio when the LP was being recorded. I first discovered the band on their first US tour at the Fillmore East with Black Sabbath(!). I saw them next at The Gaslight, and Terry Smith just killed that night. Something's weird with this link. I'll try it again if it's wrong.

I heard that Reese Markewich LP almost 40 years ago. I never thought that would make it to CD. Markewich was a psychiatrist who played piano and flute. He wrote a few interesting books on jazz harmony which were a big influence on me ("Inside Outside"). The Morrissey things look interesting. I'd pick up any Morrissey that featured his buddy, Terry Smith, in their pre-IF days, if any exist...

Eddie Bert played up to the end, and he passed at 90. He did a lot of union work (record dates) that gave him a nice pension, so it wasn't for the money. It's what he DID... He had gotten so weak, they replaced him on one steady gig I used to do with him, because the sound was too weak. One bass player with a good pension from his day gig, kept playing gigs in his late 80s, even though he had heart failure, arthritis and CTS. His wife would carry his equipment when no one could see him, and then he'd make like he carried it when he was in sight. He got so frustrated with his hands, he got surgery for the CTS without telling his heart doctor. He got a stroke the next day that paralyzed his entire right side.

What is the source of this quote? I'm skeptical. It was from a Down Beast magazine interview. I don't know the date, but I gave up on them back in the 70s, so it might have been in the 70s. I heard they used to be a pretty good jazz magazine...

I liked Stan's quote when he got sick of playing the modern stuff he was playing in the 70s," I'm through playing that "Chick Corea and his space monkeys" music..."