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Louie Bellson- Luigi Paolino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni
Joe Pass- Joseph Passalaqua
Joe Farrell- Joseph Carl Firrantello
My fave one, because my sister's mother-in-law knew him in Brooklyn by this name:
Terry Gibbs- Julius Gubenko
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Tony Scott- Anthony Sciacca.
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I've got to remember to celebrate the centenary for the man who said on the cover of DB, "If you want to make money in music , get into the marching band uniform business! That statement woke me up to reality.
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It even had words:
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17 hours ago, JSngry said:
Sounds like your dad saw the facts but not the truth. I guess he left that up to your mom.
It does seem weird that your dad would be more freaked of by Sarah Vaughan than Sonny Sharrock!
My dad was a weird guy. He had played guitar professionally during the Depression and the only thing he left me was a '35 D`Angelico, so he saw the evolution of the guitar from Django to Hendrix. He always had a theory that he kept repeating to me throughout his entire life: "You know, the electric guitar was the first synthesizer". So Sonny Sharrock didn't bother him; it was just more proof of his theory. He was a songwriter, too, and the thing he hated about rock music was the fact that they always used the word 'baby' in all their lyrics. It really annoyed the hell out of him! He bought me a used POS guitar synthesizer made by Ibanez for Christmas, but it couldn't track, so it was useless.
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I was pretty young when I was taken to my first jazz concert by my parents. It was at the felt Forum in NYC,and I was all excited because Kenny Burrell was on the bill, along with Sarah Vaughn and Herbie Mann. My parents seemed to be enjoying it (even when Sonny Sharrock came out dressed like a butcher, and turned his distortion up to eleven, and drove some guy running out of the place yelling out. "that's supposed to be jazz?!!!).
Then Sarah Vaughn came on last, with that relaxed way of singing she had, which carried over to her speaking voice. Immediately, my father hears that relaxed voice, and starts complaining, "She's soused!" My mother was more familiar with how she sang and said to my father that that was the way she sung. But he wouldn't let up, and after each song, he started saying things like, "She should be ashamed of herself, she's coming out in front of all these people, drunk as hell!" I didn't know what to think, I hadn't even heard her before. She had some glass she was drinking from (probably water), and my father thought she was getting more and more wasted as the concert went on.
Finally it was too much for my father. He said, "Come on, we're getting out of here! We're not going to sit here and listen to this drunk make a fool out of herself!" We took the subway and the bus to my Grandmother's house, where we stopped for dinner. My father just kept ranting about Sarah Vaughn and my mother tried to defend her, but my father pronounced his final judgement, "She' a drunk".🤣
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I'm just about finished "Unfinished Business"- The Life and Times of Danny Gatton". by Ralph Heibutzki.
Up until now, I had thought Gatton was a great Rockabilly/Country/Blues player, but his real love was jazz, and he'd play these crazy solos that would mix all four of the styles of playing in one solo. He started off playing jazz archtop guitars, but then he saw Roy Buchanan play at some club in DC, and he let it be known that he was a better player than RB, so Roy got on the mic and said "I understand we've got a guy named Danny Gatton in the audience tonight who claims to be a better guitar player than me, so why don't you come up and show everybody how great you are- onstage".
So Roy threw his Fender Telecaster at Danny, and Danny brought down the house with his playing. DG had never played a Telecaster before, but bought one after seeing Buchanan and started playing with the bridge pickup instead of the mellow neck pickup.He started playing his own version of Roy Buchanan's style, but got tired of that after a few years, and started a group with the great pedal steel guitar player, Buddy Emmons, and put out an album called "Redneck Jazz".
Another interesting jazz player in the group was a pianist who was DG's strongest influence, Dick Heintze, who later played with Roy Buchanan, but developed MS and died at the age of 42. Gatton mainly played in the Maryland/DC area, and didn't like to tour, and was known as the World's Greatest Unknown Guitar Player. He committed suicide at the age of 49,
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On 3/31/2024 at 7:12 PM, Teasing the Korean said:
Wow, great find! Thanks!
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On 3/30/2024 at 6:05 PM, Teasing the Korean said:
Sarah's 100th birthday was March 27.
I was wondering why WKCR was playing such great music that day. I got out of the car before they said anything. As usual, they were playing entire albums on the turntable before they'd say anything.
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50 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:
Here is a great tune in Esperanto. Take three minutes out of your life and listen.
Probably would have been a big hit if people just bothered to take the time to learn Esperanto. I mean, how hard can it be?
1 hour ago, JSngry said:Bernard Stollman was an advocate for Esperanto.
Maybe that was what the label was named after.
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On 3/30/2024 at 12:19 AM, felser said:
Just finished watching 'The Intruder'. Very jarring movie even now, can't imagine how it must have hit viewers in 1963. Had no idea Shatner had that in him.
Had no idea Corman had that in him, too! After he looked at the balance sheet, he said, "Back to exploitation movies".
On 3/29/2024 at 7:56 PM, JSngry said:Was the OST on ESP?
according to Anthony M. Taylor on one of the DVD commentary tracks, the screenplay was written in English and translated to Esperanto. When the sole surviving French print of the film was remastered for release, English language subtitles were created based on the original English language screenplay, not from a translation of the spoken Esperanto dialogue back into English. This results in as strange situation for a foreign language film: discrepancies between the English language subtitles and the spoken dialogue are actually due to mistranslations from English to Esperanto, not vice versa, or else reflect late changes which were not back-ported to the original English language screenplay.Is that what you meant?Helpful•231 -
18 hours ago, felser said:
Thanks,not familiar with either of those. The first one looks really good, the second, uh, "interesting", though I'll pass on it. Would like to see the first one.
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What about his great performance in "The Intruder"(1962), the only serious (non-exploitation) movie that Roger Corman ever made:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055019/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_215_act
And then there was this one, just before he got the call for Star Trek. It was the only film ever made in Esperanto!
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According to "Mr. PC" the only fault that Chambers had was bad intonation on some things.
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I couldn't believe that guy said that a cello is tuned in 4ths and a bass is tuned in 5ths. Tell him to go back to music 101- it's the other way around.
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On 3/19/2024 at 6:06 PM, JSngry said:
Vitamin D is very important, especially as we get older.
I take supplements, and have eaten two eggs every day for the last 12 years since mt mother passed.
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As far as music goes, I only post this every time this topic comes up:
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On 3/20/2024 at 3:01 PM, gmonahan said:
In the event, he proved sadly prophetic, dying at 33. What a great bassist he was!
I'm getting up to the end where he was doing a gig, and in the middle of a tune, let out a horrendous scream then threw his bass down and ran out the front door of the club.
The leader of the band asked his chick Micky, what was that all about? She said Paul had a 'veil'. He asked her what a veil was, and she said, "Paul was clairvoyant".
He asked her what that had to do with it, and she said, "Paul had seen his mother walk into the club".
He said, "So what?"
She said, "Paul's mother has been dead for several years."
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4 hours ago, Face of the Bass said:
Thanks for the info. I've dug back into the Sonny Rollins' bio, but I haven't read the Paul Chambers book yet and I really should. Years ago I nursed delusions of writing a biography of Paul Chambers. I am glad somebody actually took the time to do it.
The great thing about the book is that Chambers played with literally every artist who came to NYC during the time period you mentioned, from Tina Brooks to Wilbur Hardin, to Dave Burns to Billy Mitchell, etc...and the author gives some background on each one, and tells how they played on each cut of the albums they played on. His agreement with Miles was that he could record and gig with anyone that called him if Miles didn't have a gig with him, so he was doing one night in Chicago, followed by one night in NY followed by another night in Chicago! He told people that he wasn't going to live to be 30.
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Add National Health to that list. Wherever his brother Pye went, he would be involved. Here's my favorite flute solo of his with NH RIP, Jimmy
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1 hour ago, JSngry said:
Then there is no light?
Not on my skin.
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On 3/17/2024 at 11:20 AM, Face of the Bass said:
Wanted to tap into the hive mind here for a moment. What is the best book that covers the milieu surrounding Blue Note in the 1950s and 1960s? It could be either a book that fixates on Blue Note as a label, or a book that fixates on the style of music that Blue Note centered on, or a book that is a biography or autobiography of a particular musician. Asking because I haven't heard good things about Richard Cook's Blue Note book. Also not looking for a book that is mainly cover art or photographs. Thanks.
There are some stories in the Paul Chambers book about how the musicians loved the freedom that Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff gave them and even named some tunes they wrote with the name 'Lion' in the titles. Chambers was the only musician who cared enough about the sound that he got out of his bass in Rudy van Gelder's studio, that he'd spend hours of his precious time going there on Saturday and Sunday mornings working with Rudy about how they could get the best possible sound out of his bass on the Blue Note recordings that took place there, without asking for any pay.
Another story about PC that showed what a great person he was, besides being a great musician, was when the Miles Davis band used Sonny Stitt to replace Coltrane on a tour in Europe. They were sharing a bus with Jazz Five, a British jazz group that had the great bass player Malcolm Cecil in it. PC walked into the bus and immediately took the seat next to Cecil and after complimenting him about how great he sounded in the concert the night before, got into a deep conversation with him about topics concerning bass playing.
Stitt came aboard the bus, and almost banged his sax case on the head of one of the Jazz Five, and didn't even apologize, and then stared at Chambers and Cecil having such an intense conversation together, getting more and more upset. In Cecil's words:
'Stitt glared at me, leant down and said said ito Paul's earin a stage whisper, "What the fuck do you think you're doing sitting next to that motherfuckin' honky?
Paul looked him straight in the eyes and said calmly and quietly, "Mind your own motherfuckin' business asshole, I'll sit wherever I goddamn want. This guy's my buddy" Then he turned to me and winked and said, "Don't pay him no never mind" and picked up our conversation just where we left off as if nothing happened. Stitt's face was thunderous and he stomped off all the way to the back seat and never said another word to anyone during that journey'.
Chambers and Cecil became firm friends, and PC was responsible for encouraging Cecil to work on his bowing technique, leading Cecil to become the the principal bassist with the BBC Radio Orchestra, and later perform bass and cello conciertos as a solo bass virtuoso. He never would have gone down that path without Paul's influence and encouragement.
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23 hours ago, JSngry said:
Maybe you should just stay off the streets?
After dark, anyway.
But I only go out at night since the pandemic.
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9 hours ago, Dan Gould said:
What I was hoping for discussion on was his aversion to "telling a story" in a solo.
Pres liked that.
EA ain't Pres.
What's the significance to musicians and others?
And BTW I am pretty sure I have heard a ton of EA solos where he "gets angry" by the end.
I remember the story about Pres being asked what he thought of some musician playing some fast, technical solo, and then asking the player,
""Yes Lady, but can you sing me a song?" I always liked that one.
Jazz musician stage names
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Walter Piston used to make his living as a 'dance band' saxophone player before he went legit, so I guess he counts.
Walter Piston- Walter Pistone
Artie Shaw--Arthur Jacob Arshawsky
Joe Dixon -- Giuseppe Ischia;