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Nobody wants to wear masks anymore. At the rehearsal last night, where I conducted one of my pandemic arrangements, I was the only one with a mask. I've got thirteen horns spewing out covid germs in my face and I'm not gonna wear a mask? The saxes payed it perfectly-a transcription and harmonization of a 60 bar gato solo. I was dancing around happy as a lark, and I woke up with no COVID-19- same as the last three years.

RIP, Mr. Coe.

By his last interview in DB, Puerling was sufficiently disgusted with pop music that he sounded like he was more than happy to be exiting the planet. Usually, you hear an artist being interviewed having something positive to say about current music, because they want to ingratiate themselves with their audience and sell the product they were trying to sell, but GP was finished with trying to sell anything. When I mention GP's name to musicians I play with, they have no idea who I'm talking about. Even when I post his name on a music forum, people have no idea who I'm referring to. Well, at least he'll live on at college football halftimes, when college marching bands play that nauseating marching band arrangement of his "One More Time, Chuck Corea".

I always liked that song, but I never knew it was a white singer. I don't know who I I thought he was, but RIP.

Well said! They don't give a sh-t about jazz.

We just played a big band arr. of Black Nile Tuesday night. RIP...

Whoops, Jimmy Ponder died in 2016, but maybe they could've found an old interview with him talking about Wes...

It's another one off those Gary McFarland deals, a limited time only, and it's part of a fund raiser for a Public TV station, so there are a lot of interruptions, but there are some cool photos. It's persented as Wes' son searching for the 'real' Wes Montgomery. Of course they pack in every popular guitarist they can find, Skunk Baxter, Slash, and the self-proclaimed genius of You Tube, Rick Beato. Even Sweetwater gets involved Strangely absent was Jimmy Ponder, the best Wes interpreter there ever was, IMHO. https://indianapublicmedia.org/wesmontgomery/

He was going to some gig in Jersey with another musician driving, and when they hit the toll lane DJ started shaking like mad. The next thing you know, he bolted out of the car without his trumpet and never came back. He was supposed to play the trumpet part for the Jackie Gleason Show theme, but couldn't handle the anticiipatory anxiety about the panic attacks he'd suffer from going over bridges, through tunnels or even worse, taking a plane. I don't know if he just didn't show up, or if he turned the gig down.

I never heard anything about that. 🤮 A keyboard player/composer was a close friend of his on SI, and he never said a word about that. He would describe to my friend in rapturous terms about using H. That was one of the reasons why I never hung with DJ, though he kicked it, and became an alcoholic, and then got into some religious thing to kick alcohol. I thought that maybe he used drugs to self-medicate against the panic attacks he got when he was faced with phobic situations, but my friend said it was all about the rush he got from it.

No way! I already got in enough trouble with what I said in the Raquel Welch thread (I actually received a warning on another site , and they deleted itl I deleted it on this site). If I posted this one, it could cause WWIII!

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.