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No, that quote was from a post he made to me.I asked him where I could read about it, but he never got back to me.Maybe he's saving it for a future installment on his site. He could even be planning a bio on KH.

Sadly, just after he posted a story about Bird's birthday on Facebook, the Alto/Tenor sax player Lou Caputo suffered a fatal heart attack. I knew he had had a heart attack a long time ago, but had been doing well since then. He recorded a few albums with his own small big band, which worked a lot in NYC. He hired some great arrangers to write charts for the band, and he played lead alto and all the alto solos on them. I was used to hearing him on tenor on all the hundreds of gigs I did with him, but he was a fantastic alto player, out of the Bird/Phil Woods school: http://loucaputo.com/about/ RIP. old friend...

On the CD I bought, they had Vera Cruz, another Nascimento song that wasn't on the original LP.

The title cut is pure genius on ST's part and Deodato's arr.. And those great bass slides by Ron Carter!!!!! I was so inspired by it that I wrote a big band version of it, but I featured trombone playing ST's part, so it wouldn't be the same thing.So far, it hasn't been played, because none of the bands i play with have a percussionist, and that tune is all ST and percussion. We did an earlier version I wrote for my HS Concert Band, but just as we were getting somewhere, the percussionist (a member of the Latin Kings) took out a kid who took out his brother with a baseball bat, so he went for a little stay at Riker's Island, and never came back. But I trascribed ST's genius intro and solo (Jeepers Creepers!) and someday soon... Here's a thing on CT's Jet Set/specialty phase: https://www.ctproduced.com/the-abc-of-specialty-recording/ The writer claims that "There is a whole fascinating story about Hopkins and especially around his divorce which includes using binoculars to peep on neighbors, hitting his wife and more. One day."

Never heard him play a bad note, RIP.

It listed the tomorrow the 26th as the day of death on Wiki, and now it's today, the 25th. I hope this was a mistake. 51 years old? What is going on?

I went in there at about 3:00pm and wound up leaving after midnight! They had weird hours; I didn't know when they closed, but I felt like I went into a time warp.

Yeah, Back when I had to have it, it wasn't on CD yet, so I got it through the mail on vinyl. I transcribed the whole thing and had my HS band play it. They loved it! I never understood RW's hatred of it. I think it had to do with him playing the Rhodes on it, but it got such a great sound, and Freddie was smokin'. CTI was a great gateway drug to get those kids from the church into jazz. We did Red Clay and as much Grover and Stanley T. as they could handle. One kid was transfixed by a Grover video I brought in and said,"Man, that's what I want to do with the rest of my life."

He seemed to be fixated on bringing some great jazz artists to a wider audience by having them play material that didn't sound like straight-ahead jazz. He was even turned down by Mel Lewis for wanting to put out the first Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Band in a much different form than Mel wanted it in. CTI was built around Ron Carter as the foundation of the label, and would be built up from RC as the foundation with sidemen like Hancock and Cobham, and arrangers like Sebesky and Deodato adding strings to the horns His formula also included newer sound technology than other jazz labels, resulting in a more glossy sound than jazz records were used to being known for having. When the formula worked, which IMHO it did on one Wes cut, one Turrentine cut and the "Pure Desmond album, the results were fabulous. All three of those artists (plus Ed Bickert and Freddie Hubbard) never got such a strong,full sound out of their instruments (except Hubbard) than they did on that label. The two main controversies were the material he had Wes record, and the denunciation of the Randy Weston album by Weston himself. I liked Blue Moses, myself. RIP.

More sad news. RIP.

RIP, to an enthusiastic supporter of jazz.

Yeah, they have to get out of bed when their mommy wakes them, and go to the computer and record their 32nd youtube video hit. Hilarious stuff TTK!

Another West Coast studio player just passed, the guitarist Bill Pittman. He was 102 years old.

Martha's vocal nuances on Jimmy Mack still give my head a rush when the Vandellas come in on the second chorus. behind her. Ain't no hip-hop doin' that to me, No sir. RIP, L.D.

I played for a few years with CF in a theater gig. Very quiet man; he just drank a bottle every night, played poker, then did the gig.

Scary stuff, glad you're okay!

Ernie sounds fine on this album and the other one, but pretty weak on the "Presenting" "Checkmate" cut (a WITTCL contrafact). Everyone has off days, or it could be they didn't tune the piano. Whatever. I have a much higher opinion of him from listening to the other two LPs.

George Barrow told me Eric Dolphy told him he played OOT on the flute on purpose to imitate the sounds of the the African flutists he had heard. George knew Eric very well, and played baritone sax on "Blues and the Abstract Truth". Eric was a consummate musician, and proved he could do whatever the musical situation called for.

Not much. My Uncle had the original vinyl on Presenting Ernie Henry, and his out of tune playing on that LP made it unbearable. I'm not a stickler on OOT playing, but that one just turned me off to him. It could've been a bad reed, faulty horn or whatever. I'll check out other albums. I loaned Frank Strozier's Long Night to a sax player i worked with a lot, and he said FS played a little OOT. Strozier said he quit playing the sax because he couldn't find a good reed. Alto is a tough instrument to play in tune on.

I first heard of him as Steve Kuhn's alto sax and flute player way back on "Trance". Then I went with a keyboard player friend of his I was playing in a band with to see him with Mike Stern at Stern's 'club' 55 Grand St.and he knocked me out. I played a gig in a big band with him and then...

I just heard Nascienta Suite by Steve Slagle, and was completely blown away. I went to his website, and found he has a book out on composition and improvisation. Has anyone bought it/read it? Is it worth buying? Does he hip you to the ideas he uses in his playing? TIA

Do tell!

I did a search and came up with Mann and Hilliard, but Wikipedia said it was Schwartz. Does this mean that Wikipedia is wrong?! That means that everything I know is wrong!!!!!! Johnny Smith is the only instrumentalist I've ever heard play "By Myself". He plays it pretty up there. There must be others...

His son made one record on Muse! Check out the lineup: JONATHAN SCHWARTZ SINGS ARTHUR SCHWARTZ: Alone Together Jonathan Schwartz: vocals Harold Mabern: pianos Buser Williams: bass Ben Riley: drums Jack Wilkins: guitar Marvin Stamm: trumpet, flugelhorn The String Reunion

Add to that "Wee Small Hours" and "Then I'll Be Tired of You" and you've got quite a fantastic collection of standards. His son Jonathan used to sing them at clubs at one time. He's married to Zohra Lampert, the actress, who also does some singing, I think.