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It's an email link, that's the problem. He sent me four more Crescendos today, and one has two pages of Monk speaking, without any questions. Les Tompkins seems to do the best work. He essentially lets the musicians speak for themselves, using a few different ways of doing it. He has a conference interview with the Bill Evans trio at that time, Evans, Bunker and Israel, Then a guitarists round table with Jim Hall, Barney Kesssel, George Benson and a British player, I think Ike Issacs,OSLT.

I dunno, it's a PDF, so I don't know how to send it to ORG.

I have written here before about never finding anything with DM's spoken words. A British friend of mine sent me a Crescendo PDF of a feature on DM that consists of him speaking, sans interviewer. As expected, wonderful bloke! Also, wonderful magazine- no Downbeat BS.

Dogs have also been known to cringe when they sense the presence of EVIL!

Shit, great player. RIP.

I found this quote on the IMDB: "on working with Dexter Gordon in 'Round Midnight (1986)] It was incredible. Sometimes it was difficult to bring him in front of the camera, because crossing the courtyard of the studio could last one hour. But once he was there, he was so smart, so on top of it, and so knowledgeable about the camera. I never did more than three takes with him. He was amazing. One day he didn't show up. The next day, I wanted to kill him, but he came up to me and said "Lady Bertrand, I made a huge mistake. I knew I had to come and work, but my mind was set on going to the Turkish baths. And strangely enough, I could not change my mind." And what can you say to that? You cannot scream and yell, and be angry." RIP.

Someone who has gigged there a lot, and knows SW well, told me that SW's late father owned a chain of pharmacies, so that might explain Small's situation. I think that the wiping out of small businesses in NYC started long before the current administration.

Great sound on bari. I could listen to an entire record of his without bailing. Switching to alto doesn't hurt.

I've warned you guys about Pazuzu- first he wanted to break the faith of Father Merrin and Father Demian. Now he's going after the very soul of Organissimo!

Sad to hear, He's gone to that great "Connection" in the sky. RIP, Freddie.

It's hard to believe that this was BG's only LP as a leader. He was omnipresent in the NY studios in the 50's, and has two features on Johnny Carisi's self-titled jazz workshop album; two different versions of a big band feature written for Barry entitled, "Barry's Tune". The first version had some exceptionally strong Galbraith soloing. The second version was featured on the "Into the Hot" LP, that had Gil Evans' picture on the front of it, even though he didn't write a note on the record! The second version had all the NY jazz studio heavies, Phil Woods, Clark Terry, etc...on it, and Carisi added a latin section featuring a short Phil Woods solo. A third "Barry's Tune" (this time written by Barry himself) appeared on the Jaspar album. Clarinescapade, which was a quintet feature.There's also a ton of BG on the Lonehill Jazz compilation "Hal McKusick Quartet", some 40 cuts of the leaders quartet with BG, Hinton and Osie Johnson. Finally, there's a lot of BG's work on John Benson Brooks' four movement "Alabama Concerto", considering it was written for only a quartet, without drums and very little piano (two cuts).

Another enjoyable album Jaspar is featured on that hasn't been mentioned here is Barry Galbraith's only album as a leader, "Guitar and the Wind". Jaspar plays flute and a little TS on the album. Even though he plays a little flat on flute, he gets such a full, mellow sound, that it gives a special character to the music that no other instrument or flute player would have been able to supply. The blend between the guitar and flute is out of this world. The album is about as far away from a free-blowing session as you can get, and the arrangements by Al Cohn are very effective. The familiar rhythm section of Osie Johnson and Milt Hinton is present, but instead of Hank Jones, Eddie Costa is on vibes and piano, and Urbie Green is also featured. I paid a lot of bread for the vinyl of this great LP years ago, but it's also available as a double CD set on LonehillJazz, along with Oscar Pettiford's Manhattan Jazz Septette, recorded two years before the BG record, in 1956. The only thing I like on the OP CD is "Rapid Transit", a feature for Costa's rumbling piano.

Yeah, I guess you just have to be prepared to spend every day like the night the lead actress spent in that 'documentary' "Texas Chainsaw Massacre!

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Yeah, but with the Sherman thing (I think it was Sherman, but I loaned the Lewis book to a friend and I can't check it now), this was at a one year anniversary party for the poor guy being off heroin, and what does Getz give him? A tie? a new mouthpiece, a book? No, Stanley gave him an envelope that contained a bag or two of heroin. I read somewhere that Prestige used to pay their musicians with dope.

Then there's the heartwarming story recounted by Mel Lewis in his autobiography about the time a musician was celebrating his one year anniversary of being off heroin. Stan's thoughtful present to the musician? A bag or two of heroin! Gary Burton's autobiography contains a multitude of 'touching' stories about his tenure with Getz, closing with the straw that broke the vibist's back: Stan had been using him as his road manager, taking care of a bunch of time consuming tasks. One day, Burton came across an actual statement of how much the group was being paid for their gigs. Burton realized that he was being paid something like 1/4 of what he should have been paid, and that wasn't even taking into account that he had been acting as Getz' road manager! Burton gave Getz his notice the next day...

Yeah, well speaking of Catholics, look at what you did to Father Merrin and Father Demian, Pazuzu!

I don't know what he did to Haig, but Raney became an alcoholic after working with Getz for a number of years, and Billy Bean's last major gig was with Getz. He also became an alcoholic during his time with, and as a result of working with Getz, and never left Philly for the rest of his life, living with his mother till she passed. Who knows what he did to Rene Thomas, but I recently learned that he died from an OD of heroin, not a heart attack, which I had read in Time Magazine.Maybe the heart attack was caused by the OD, but that wasn't mentioned in Time.

From reading "Death of a Bebop Wife" it seemed to come from his family's attitudes.

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Raney was Haig's little disciple when he first came to NYC, and he and Al would go on walks together. Whenever Haig would see someone he somehow knew to be Jewish, he'd drag Raney across the street to avoid them. On his own, Raney would not avoid Jews on the street.

What? Just because Al locked his wife in a room for weeks until she finished reading "Mein Kampf"? Doesn't everyone do that? And just because he'd make Jimmy Raney cross the street with him in Manhattan if he saw any Jewish people walking towards them? Isn't that standard operating procedure?

Shit, I got it confused with A Milanese Story, which John Lewis also wrote the music for... Manfred Mann also did his version of jazz for "Venus in Furs",(1969), and he and his band at the time appeared in a club scene.with the director, the evil Jess Franco playing piano in the group. James Darren starred as a jazz trumpet player who finds the corpse of a woman on a beach. The woman comes back to life, and takes revenge on her enemies.

Harry Belafonte plays a mean vibes solo in that lousy flick in a club scene.Jim Hall has a nice bluesy solo in one part of the film soundtrack.

Red Norvo and his trio featuring the great Jimmy Wyble on guitar made an appearance in "Screaming Mimi"(1958). Unfortunately Tal Farlow had left the group by then. There's only one appearance by Tal (dressed as an Indian!) in any movie or visual medium in the 50s. In the movie he just strums rhythm. I'd pay anything for the 1955 short the Norvo Trio made called "Play it Cool".