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"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..."

Wow, thanks! That may be the only video of Frank Strozier available anywhere. JSngry-

I loved that movie!!! Does anyone know who the guitar player was in the club scenes? TIA

yeah, it's on the "Shining Hour" CD with Hod and Red Mitchell. I used to catch them at Gregory's whenever I had a gig in Manhattan, although Frank Luther was the regular bass player. Now I just stand outside of the Bar Next Door, and puke on people as they walk out...

As I was looking at JALC's ad in the Times Sunday, which featured a very 'trendy-looking" photo of WM and very little else, it occurred to me that JALC is really not even about jazz in the first place; it seems to be about marketing a certain type of image for well-heeled NYers. The Sondheim concert is quite consistent with this. I love the Cleo Laine Sings Sondheim LP, and have found the sheet music for the songs of his I like, but I just don't find it compelling to do instrumental versions of them. Joe Puma did "Lovely", so it can work, but they seem to be hard to divorce from the lyrics... BTW Chris, I just saw the Bill Evans feature on "Jazz Set" on youtube the other day. Was that a NY TV Show? When and what channel was it on? Great show!

I loved his earlier shit- the first two or three LPs + Nilsson Sings Newman, and the standards LP with great Gordon Jenkins arr. After that, it was all downhill... i thought his best stuff was with Geo. Tipton as his arranger/conductor. If you saw the doc., Tipton didn't even appear in it, and was only mentioned once. I researched that, and it turned out HN tried to stiff him on some of the writing credits for "The Point". Tipton was also reportedly upset about his escalating drug and alcohol use. HN had intense stagefright; never toured and only did one concert (in the UK), though he did appear on TV a few times. "Arial Ballet" was my fave.

That's the kind of chick you try not to run into until the sun is shining... I'm lucky i made it out of that one alive- the pianist wasn't as lucky; I read his obit. in DB. The last time I saw her, she was on the hood of my car, trying to kick my windshield in.