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Good point, but do you know what he said?

Heaven!

Don't tell me you know what he said over the mic at a 'catered affair'?

My sources say it was a guitarist named Don Roberts. They made an album together called Teddy Cohen and His Trio. They were trying to do a copy of the Red Norvo Trio sound, but the arrangements were poor, and Roberts was no Tal Farlow. TC plays nice on a few straight ahead cuts The album is re-issued under the name "New Directions", with some other material with Jimmy Raney and Hall Overton.

One of my faves! I talked to the bari sax player George Barrow on it about it when I used to work six nights a week with him playing shows. He said that Jimmy Raney used to act like a tough guy during the sessions, so nobody would bug him about his reading issues!

I'll have to listen to that Passport album again. I don't remember much of it. I don't know which keyboard he plays on the Rendell album, I just found out about it today.

Thanks, Discogs has him on an album with The Don Rendell Five- Live at the Antibes Festival 1964-68

Yes, Mealing could make anything sound good. I tried to find any jazz things that Mealing did before If, but the only thing I could come up with was a record or two that he did with Passport, which wasn't that memorable. It may have been after he left If. He became a very successful pop/rock producer. It was funny to hear how Morrissey described J.W. Hodgkinson as a "wide-eyed kid who was completely in awe of of working with these incredible jazz musicians,"

Terry's only releases now are on a British import label called Actone Records. His playing has changed since having a hand injury a number of years ago. He only plays with his thumb now, so no more of the exciting picking technique that enabled him to beat out John McLaughlin in the Melody Maker Poll for #1 Jazz Guitarist. I bought the Actone CD from the UK "Tenderly, where he has an organ trio similar to Wes Montgomery's, featuring Pete Whittaker on organ, and Don Burrell on drums. It's very good, but lacking in the excitement that he exhibited in Fall Out and If. Dick Morrissey's son described TS as reminding him of a typical London cab driver, so I don't think he associates with the younger players in the UK, who AFAICT, don't associate with him. Whatever you do, if I haven't warned you before, don't buy the recent If reunion album. The only ones left from the original group are Dave Quincy and TS, and the material is sub-standard.

Sad to say, NYC 's Public Radio (WNYC) station has been lobotomized. They had a purge that got rid of Jonathan Schwartz (Arthur Schwartz' son for goodness sake!), and Lennie Lopate ( winner of numerous National Excellence in Radio Awards, and capable of interviewing any major figure in any field intelligently, in addition to having performances by the greats of Black music- Marion Williams, numerous jazz performers, etc...), and replacing them with airheads that basically do the same program every day. The only thing left is WKCR, Columbia U's radio station, which isn't the same without Phil Schaap (less new jazz content- they play reruns of Schaap's shows instead of letting one of his competent subs have their own shows). As Thomas Pynchon would say, "Nothing but bad sh-t, and excluded middles."

Anyone recognize who the guitarist was in the picture of Bill with the Teddy Charles Trio? It was a big guy so it definitely wasn't Raney.

I'd love to read that, too, but even the website started by Phineas' son doesn't mention it. There are some PN transcriptions for sale there, though. Ebay has it for the same price as Amazon.

A friend emailed me this this morning, he said it was very good:

I did a Local 802 Musicians' Trust Fund gig with him in Manhattan, years ago. It was early in the day, so he came in with shades on and sight read the whole lead alto book They did a doc on him, and I was surprised to find out he considered himself more of a reader and blues player than a Phil Woods-type bopper. Woods was staying at JD's house when Michel Legrand called JD for the Michael's gig. JD was on the road, so PW said he could do the gig, and the rest was history. When the Lincoln Center lead alto couldn't cut the parts in a challenging book, they had to call JD to play lead, and he sight read the book perfectly. A wonderful person from all accounts. RIP, Mr. Dodgion.

Same with me. RIP

Yeah, Jim was acting up again; you know, those East Texas roots and all. But I took care of it.😁

What the heck? I had never done it. He's the one that told me people did that stuff. We were in Elementary School. I'm innocent, I tell you, innocent!!!!🤣🤣🤣

Romanian pianist inspired by Oscar Peterson at the age of eight, yet he's not playing like Oscar here: Stride. He uses Oscar's techniques, but is he using Oscar's lines? Use your ears.

RIP Great work with the Boss Brass.

Oliver Nelson, J.J. Johnson, Benny Golson, Benny Carter, Issac Hayes, Gerald Wilson and Hale smith all did Movies and TV.

Burt wrote it, but that's how VB interpreted it. The guy could play (he never seemed to go beyond Django/Les Paul), but he chose the route of the gimmick/commercial studio player. More power to him.

It's a great tune, and he starts to get into a groove at the end, but I really dislike his stupid f/x , the underwater sound , and the organ guitar. The guy was a total sell-out on his records. I knew some guys that played with him on gigs, and they said he could play, but I can't listen to his records. They used to use that song as the theme song for the Movie of the Week on channel seven way back when.

After hearing the album "Whistle Stop" by VB on You Tube, I don't even want to know that the guy exists. Corny, unmusical arrangements, playing and choice of tunes- If he were playing somewhere, I'd pull a Max Roach/ Ornette Coleman on the guy, and lay him out with one punch, and then like Max, I'd wait for him at his mansion in Westchester, and finish the job. Back then, all they had was vibrato, tremelo, and maybe a wah wah, so he probably combined them. He was an electronics wiz, so he could've invented his own thing.

You'll never hear that on a US channel. DM's best writing; it's kind of a suite.

I've done two of their songs from their first album WCAFS WDISATBJ