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2 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:
I wonder if Dean Martin was influenced by Frankie Laine. Hearing these videos posted above, I hear some similarities. I think Dino is a better singer than Frankie, although Dino recorded at least as much schlock as Frankie did, maybe even more so.
His family came from Sicily, so maybe he had some influence on someone like Dino. Sinatra tried to deny it all his life, but he had a Sicilian background, also. They came from the same town as my mother's side of the family, Lecara Friddi. I wonder if Laine hung out with Sinatra at all?
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2 minutes ago, JSngry said:
The real Ray Abrams had a distinctively shaped head.
I just did a search on it, and I did play in the Ray Abrams Big Band. What confused me is after RA died in 1998, they kept it going under the same name. I played with them in the 1980s. It's now a band that celebrates brooklyn jazz musicians.
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Then there's the great keyboard player Dave Stewart who played with all the different Canterbury bands, and Dave Stewart , the pianist for the Eurythmics.
There were two Black musicians (three counting Rudy Williams who lied about being the Savoy Sultans Rudy Williams) who I'm not sure who the hell they were. I recorded an album with a pianist named Al "Jabaz" Williams, who used to work for Motown, and then the jazz pianist Al Williams.
Then I played in the Ray Abrams big band, and I still don't know if he was the more well known Ray Abrams. Bernard Purdie was the drummer. Maybe someday I'll find out who was who...LOL!
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What was the story about Red Norvo wanting to get Red Mitchell in his band and mistakenly winding up with Red Callendar? Then there was Whitey Mitchell to further confuse things.
Then there was the time I played a concert at a school on LI, and I asked a teacher what his name was, and he said "Lee Konitz". He was a bass player!
Then there was a band that called themselves "Alexanders the Great" with Ray Alexander vibes and drums and Mousie Alexander Drums
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22 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:
When I was living in Beantown and getting serious again about jazz, many years after my horrible university jazz experience, I got on Charlie Banacos's waiting list, which was around 2 to 3 years at that point.
But I wanted to start studying with someone while I was waiting.
I was told that George Russell, Jr. at NEC was taking students. I thought, "Wow! I can study the Lydian Chromatic Concept with George Russell's son!" But it turned out that he was not the son of THE George Russell.
What are the odds? You have the same name, play piano, and teach at NEC!
Anyway, I never studied with him. Now I'm beginning to worry that maybe I was studying with the wrong Charlie Banacos also! 🤪
There was a George Russell jazz guitarist, too.
There was Bill Smith the clarinetist/composer and Bill Smith the jazz guitarist.
There was George Handy the great arr/composer/pianist and and the bunch of Handys already mentioned.
There were two alto sax players Vinny Dean and Chasey Dean
There was Eddie Costa and Don Costa and Johnny Costa
I used to work with Rudy Williams (cousin of Mingus) and there was the Savoy Sultans Rudy Williams, who the first Rudy Willams claimed he was, both alto sax players.
Everyone still thinks Dick Garcia was really a pseudonym for Hank Garland when he recorded in NY. It wasn't.
There was Joe Carbone (sax) John Carbone (Bass) and Joe Carbone (guitar)
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My first guitar teacher used to talk about working with him on the phone during lessons. He was always like a mysterious figure to me.
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I was listening to an interview with Danny Thompson on his time as a bass player for John Martyn and Nick Drake, and he talked about the session for "River Man". He talked about the violin section, and said that the leader of it was David McCallum. It turned out he was talking about the actor's father. He said that his son became a big actor on the American TV show, I Spy. We all know what series he meant.
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17 hours ago, Dan Gould said:
You'll need to monitor the site for updates for sure ... it sounds like only the track played in the broadcast would end up publicly available, and as an official (or is it unofficial) release, they may not make the entire thing available to the general public. You should be prepared to contact the librarian as they get thru the process which again .... years to accomplish. They will be producing a finding aide for everything ultimately catalogued.
Thanks!
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Sylvia Marlowe specialized in 20th Cent. Harpsichord music, and knocked me out with a recording of a piece by Henri Sauguet.
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10 minutes ago, Dan Gould said:
It seems from the PDF I linked to that Phil solicited college proposals, Vanderbilt made its pitch and within a month they started negotiations. What is curious to me is that from what I heard, Columbia was never considered as a location for donation. Bad blood after 50 years on the air??
As far as the tape - assuming it exists - did this ever get broadcast? That seems to be the key factor for placing on the webpage I linked above, after digitization. I was told that for items not originally broadcast, they may go on the page, but with limits to URLs that can access (might be limited to being on campus, for example. I was told this was all being discussed with Vandy's legal department. I only know for sure that items broadcast on WKCR will get the "open to the public via the web" treatment.
As far as downloading goes, I tried to right click on the audio file and it does not give the option to save as an mp3. But when that happens all I do is run a mini plug from my audio out to my line in and record in my audio editing software to get a copy of any streamable recording of interest. I find I just have to be careful and keep other programs closed so I don't get any extraneous Windows chimes or tones during the stream because those will record too.
They definitely played a cut or two from the tape when PS was interviewing JD on the Swing show. Other than that it listed for sale on PS' website.
So I might have to go to Nashville to search for it if it's not listed in the search engine? A friend of mine went to a jazz club in Nashville, and got stopped on the street it was on, just because there were a lot of hookers there, and they thought he was looking for one! He had to explain to them he wanted to hear a pedal steel guitar player who was playing in one of the jazz clubs, and they didn't want to believe him, and gave him a hard time for about 15 minutes!
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So, Phil was selling a cassette tape of my close friend Joe Dixon's album we had recorded of a quintet with me on guitar, playing a bunch of my compositions and arrangements for something like $50 on his website. Joe, a star soloist with the Tommy Dorsey band with Sinatra and Buddy Rich (he was Joe's roommate on the road, and knocked Joe out with one punch when they had an argument), the Bunny Berrigan Band, the Stan Kenton Quintet, and many others, was also a guest on Phil's show, and they played one of my tunes on the air, with the meticulous PS pronouncing my name perfectly, something rarely done on the first try.
Anyway, what I'm getting at with that tl;dr paragraph is: Is there any way that I can purchase that tape of my tunes, or is the tape now in the custody of Vanderbilt U, and I have to trudge my way down to Nashville (like the Gene Puerling Collection at N. Texas State) to buy it?
I tried a search on their Aviary Search Engine, and that came up with nada.
38 minutes ago, Ken Dryden said:I wonder how he selected on Vanderbilt for his collection, did he attend there or have some special collection.
I will look forward to hearing any live broadcasts he had from NYC clubs or jazz festivals.
That's what we were just discussing. Sometimes it seems like there's no connection between what college winds up obtaining someone's collection, and they just get them to add prestige to the school.
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On 1/28/2024 at 8:24 PM, JSngry said:
I've never liked it and have never claimed otherwise. Ever. It's corny as fuck.i felt that way before I knew any better and the more better I knew the deeper my loathing for it.
I've never been bashful about disagreeing with Iverson, but on this one, I totally concur.
Gershwin in general...whatever. But Rhapsody In Blue...please die. Go away and never come back.
Yeah, well you never got stuck in a band where a cornball keyboard player who as Art Blakey said, 'couldn't swing if he was hanging from a rope', chose to play RIB as his featured piece EVERY NIGHT. I asked him who his fave jazz pianist was, and he said in his Bullwinkle J. Moose voice, "Why George Gershwin, of course!" He never even heard of Oscar Peterson!
That was the straw that broke this camel's back. I took some Mus. Ed. courses and that was that.
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25 minutes ago, Matthew said:
Congratulations for both teams getting into the Super Bowl, of course, I was very happy to see the 49ers get in. What I am finding strange though, and maybe this show how out of it I am -- how many people on the internet say that the games were "obviously fixed." Is that a thing now with the NFL? Teams no longer lose, but results are pre-determined? I'm use to hearing that stuff about the NBA, but now with everything now, "the fix is in." What a sad world.
It's all rooted in the one thing that California is known for, in the commercial I just heard; California Psychics.
They've got all the answers. How else to explain the 49ers comeback in the second half?- they called a California Psychic from the locker room...
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On the Tal Farlow album "Fuerst Set", the trio (Farlow, Costa and Burke) are playing Opus De Funk by Horace Silver, and Farlow quotes the horse racing bugle call, and ends on the flatted fifth instead of the normal 5th, and you can hear Eddie Costa yell in the background, "Are you serious?!"
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Eat Your animal crackers
So the children in Europe won't starve anymore.
RIP
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Oh no. Oh no. Oh no no no no no!
RIP. My sisters used to listen to her all the time.
Back then girl groups were the big thing everywhere. My older sister was part of a group that did a song called , "What's Wrong with Ringo?"
It was a local hit. The lyrics were something like this:
"What's wrong with Rin-go?
Why won't he sing a-long?
What's wrong with Ringo?
Etc..
Why won't he fall in love with me?
I looked it up and they weren't The Bon Bons. They just did a cover version of the Bon Bons' hit.
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he was a close friend of Bernard Herrmann's, and did films like Dr. Strangelove, Capt. Kronos Vampire hunter, The Maids
, and many other UK movies.He used a very hip drummer on he last Avengers series Does anyone know who that was? Maybe Randy Jones or someone like that?
RIP
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7 minutes ago, AllenLowe said:
thanks; knowing Larry is an absolute privilege. He is one of the best writers on music I have ever read. Glad his situation is stabilized.
oh thanks; yeah, Aaron is frightening in his level of expression. People know of him, but not enough know how brilliant he is on every level.
I read about his "meeting" with Bird in the after life. I'm glad Bird is so well dressed over there...
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47 minutes ago, AllenLowe said:
I spoke to Larry a few times during his involuntary exile. Bad situation, hopefully better now.
Hey Allen, great tenor playing at Small's! What a band. Aaron Johnson's last solo on alto was as close to perfection as anyone's going to get. He played incredible clarinet, too!
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On 1/20/2024 at 9:50 PM, GA Russell said:
I finished it tonight.
I found it kind of depressing. Murphy was the kind of guy who eschewed what seemed to him to be selling out, yet was always disappointed when someone else won the Grammy.
I learned that it was Michael Bourne who for 32 Jazz chose the tracks and compilations for their reissues of the Muse material. Apparently I share Bourne's taste (and maybe most other people do to) because I like the 32 Jazz issues better than the original Muse albums - particularly for his choosing to leave out some tracks.
Joe Fields was quoted as saying that nobody says much about Bob Weinstock because he was an unlikeable character. Fields' goal was to replicate Weinstock - Make tons of records and hang on, and then score big when you sell the company.
I found the book in the library, but I'm reading Jones' book on Donald Fagen, which is fantastic.
Maybe if MM didn't overdo his improvisations on the great songs he sang, he would've won a Grammy
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On 1/16/2024 at 8:45 PM, jlhoots said:
I will to add to the 33 viewers!!
Aaron Johnson completely killed on his last alto solo of the night! He stayed inside, and every note was perfection!
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I got a ton of wax removed from my ears last year by an ENT, and I was hoping it would make a big difference in my hearing, but when the ENT asked me if I heard the change, I had to say no. He just said, "You're probably so used to it that you don't hear the difference.
Then his nurse gave me a hearing test, and the results were I had mild hearing loss. That was a relief to me considering the thousands of gigs I played throughout my life.
I was afraid it was going to be much worse.
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1 hour ago, Coda said:
Yeah, listening to that now. Allen sounds great on tenor! The alto player's also great, but I prefer his clarinet playing to that wild Dolphyesque stuff. The rhythm section is excellent. The guitar player shreds a lot, but I can't play that fast so I can't criticize it. Very enjoyable, turn on YouTube and dig it!
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Damn, it's gonna be CJ Stroud against the Ravens next week. I like them both, but how can you not root for a guy whose mother and father helped build their own church, and the father was a football coach and a pastor who's now doing 40 years for carjacking, drug dealing etc...?
Mark Murphy book on sale
in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
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I Ifinshed This is Hip.
Jones is a jazz singer himself, so he's very critical of Murphy. He pans so many albums of MM's that I'm surprised he decided to write it at all. I've always liked the timbre of MM's voice, but hated when he would ruin my fave tunes by overdoing the scat and emotionality of his interpretations. Jones agrees with me on many of his records.
Then he gets into MM's career when he reached 40, and claimed that MM hit his stride, and produced mostly good work.
A strange anecdote involving both of his subjects, Fagen and MM involved MM trying to get the music to "Do it Again" by Steely Dan.
He called them up at their Malibu home, and they told him to come over their house.
When he got there, Becker answered the door and yelled out to Fagen, "Mark Murphy's here, Donald"
Fagen said, "Let him in, I'll get the music".
Inside were a bunch of hippies, stoned out of their minds on something or other.
Fagen walked in with the record, a pencil and a sheet of musical manuscript paper. He gave MM the paper and pencil, and told him, "I'll put on the record, go ahead".